Yesterday, we celebrated the 27th anniversary of the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution with keen awareness of the advances and deficiencies associated with our collective memory of that uprising that toppled the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
In the twilight of the Marcos regime, a voice was heard across the land.
It’s a good day to wear yellow and be seen with President Aquino.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will be closing parts of Edsa today until tomorrow to give way to activities marking the 27th anniversary of the first People Power Revolution.
More than 1,000 policemen will be deployed on Monday to secure the celebration of the 27th anniversary of the Edsa People Power revolution.
The Quezon City councilor who approved the construction of a two-story building on the historic plaza where the hero Andres Bonifacio and his fellow Katipunero sought refuge has shelved the project, following a protest by residents and members of the No More Epal Movement.
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.” You doubt that? Today is Ninoy Aquino Day, as mandated by Republic Act 9492. What does this holiday mean? Ask those below 35 years of age.
MORE than two decades have passed since the first Edsa People Power Revolt ousted the Marcos regime.
While a lot of things may have changed since the time our parents and grandparents stood up against a regime violence and corruption through the first EDSA uprising in 1986, the spirit of the People Power Revolution still remain in the hearts and minds of Filipinos who continue to seek for a better place for the new generation.
The nation may be forging on with another Aquino at the helm 26 years after the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution, but for the militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, this is not necessarily a sign of better things to come.
With over five million trees planted since its launching last year, the provincial government of Camarines Sur, through its year-old El Verde Movement, celebrated on Saturday the anniversary of the first People Power Revolution with 500,000 new trees planted.
In the company of 80-something veterans, two teenagers were feted at the anniversary of the 1986 People Power Revolution for lighting up lives in the poorest villages through a solar lamp project, which, according to them, embodies the spirit of people power.
Filipinos mark Sunday the 26th anniversary of toppling a dictator without bloodshed. That flower-in-the-gun-barrel model is refracted in Ghandi’s march to protest the Salt Tax in 1930 to Czechslovakia’s Velvet Revolution of 1988 and Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolt last year. People Power never offered a one-size-fits-all pattern. Uzbekistan’s brutal suppression of demonstrators showed that. So does [...]
