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After the vote on Tuesday [January 16], my cell phone started beeping like crazy. I must have received close to 50 text messages that night, calling on people to wear black, calling for a noise barrage that same night at 11, and calling on people to mass at Edsa [Epifiano de Los Santos Boulevard]…By 11 a.m.,Wednesday, you could see a sea of people in black gathering… By Thursday, there must have been between 500,000 and 1,000,000 people at Edsa. The young students and young professionals were certainly in the majority, but you saw old people, the middle class, and the urban poor. Many had their children in tow, whole families. It was an unforgettable sight! The crowd would roar, “Guilty si Erap!” (“Erap is guilty!”)