Keeping EDSA alive
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Keeping EDSA alive
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On the 35th anniversary of people power, groups say no to Duterte’s tyranny
On the 35th anniversary of people power, groups say no to Duterte’s tyranny
"Now more than ever, we must not only forget: we must assert our right to fight back — to defy and resist this unbridled and worsening assault on human rights and democracy.”
This Week on People’s History: 1986 People Power Uprising
This Week on People’s History: 1986 People Power Uprising
In this episode, Bulatlat looks back at the first People Up Rising that ousted the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
Different perspectives on the 1986 Edsa uprising
Different perspectives on the 1986 Edsa uprising
How do you regard today’s observance of the peaceful people’s uprising that led to the ouster of the Marcos martial law dictatorship in February 1986? Three separate activities mark this year’s observance: each one representing a different perspective of those...
EDSA 1986: The revolution that wasn’t
EDSA 1986: The revolution that wasn’t
“Low key” is how this year’s commemoration of the February 1986 civilian-military uprising known as EDSA 1 is being described by the Duterte regime. There will be none of the “Salubungan” (the meeting of the key leaders of the mutiny and defecting police and...
Letter to a grandson on ‘people power’ and revolutionary change
Letter to a grandson on ‘people power’ and revolutionary change
Dear Grandson, I thought I would write to you and try to explain what EDSA I was all about. The idea came up with all the recent talk about how your parents’ generation does not understand, much less appreciate, what happened thirty years ago, at the “people power”...
#EDSA30 | Not all millennials support the return of the Marcoses
#EDSA30 | Not all millennials support the return of the Marcoses
“We are here today because we believe that the struggle of Filipinos during that time did not end. As youth, we have a role to continue that not only for our future but for the next generation as well.”
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