Mayor Binay, Gloria Arroyo differently see ‘new people power’ at work

February 27, 2008

President Arroyo and opposition stalwart, Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay, two leaders from the so-called opposite sides of the political fence, are seeing two kinds and differently motivated “people power” moves arising with the recent national events that have unfurled, particularly over the new controversy of the allegedly highly anomalous, multi-

million dollar National Broadband Network (NBN) deal involving the government and Chinese firm ZTE Corp.

Binay, president of the United Opposition, said a new kind of “people power” has already started, with “new faces” from the Church, youth and business groups “playing very active roles in the movement for truth and accountability in government.”

Binay also cited the noise barrages, concerts, truth forums, text brigades, music videos and other innovative ways being employed by the various sectors tn enlighten the people on the raging issues.

“We should see power not as an event, but as a process,” Binay, an Edsa 1986 veteran, said yesterday, a day after civil society groups and people’s organization staged several protest assemblies to mark the 22nd anniversary of the February 1986 Edsa Revolution.