Forty years after the Edsa People Power revolution that restored democracy in the Philippines, the historic highway was once again filled with similar voices, chants, sentiments and hopes, but largely from a new generation echoing the story that triggered an uprising known to it only through books, testimonies and challenged historical distortions. The simple slogan...
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‘People power’ in protected lands in Sibuyan and Brooke’s Point
As though enjoying newfound freedom, some mining companies have aggressively expanded operations in the past several months, cutting down trees and carving roads deep into the Philippine forests, sometimes without permits from the authorities. Riled by the reckless disregard of the law, some local folk living in protected lands have resorted to “people power” to...
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Edsa 1: Democracy and disappointment
Feb. 22-25, 1986, were “four days that shook the world”—the words used by the late journalist and press secretary Teodoro C. Benigno to describe the history of the Edsa People Power Revolution that ousted the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The peaceful revolt was the culmination of a pent-up desire to get rid of Marcos short of...