'If it's possible, I want another Edsa to take place now'

NANAY MAMENG, a laundrywoman, has not given up. Now a 77-year-old grandmother, she is angry that the lives of the poor remain unchanged despite all the political upheavals the country has undergone. She was at Edsa in 1986, as she was in other rallies against Marcos in previous years. She was also in Edsa 2 and in many rallies before and after that as well. For decades now, Nanay Mameng has lived in a clapboard shack in the depths of the Leveriza slum, just a 10-minute walk from Manila's tourist district. Despite ill health, she goes to rallies whenever she can, fighting for a better world that she fears she may never see.

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