| When civil society becomes political (Philippine Daily Inquirer) |
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| Friday, 10 October 2008 15:55 | |||
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MANILA, Philippines—We do not know when exactly the term “civil society” first entered the vocabulary of Philippine politics. But sometime in the early 1980s, just before the EDSA People Power I uprising, it gradually replaced the awkward phrase “cause-oriented organizations.”
Posted originally: 2008-10-10 15:55:17
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