Edsa 25th Silver Anniversary : Was it worth it?
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February 25 declared a special holiday for schools
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Noynoy Aquino, a modern liberal
For the many who have enthusiastically supported or joined EDSA II, myself among them, the final push was almost certainly the failure of the constitutional process (the remedy of impeachment) to hold then President Estrada accountable for charges of multiple impeachment offenses. (President–elect...
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Against a non-partisan People Power
Speaking at the ceremony commemorating the 24th anniversary of the People Power Revolution, our hardworking and prayerful President, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, bemoaned the “partisanship” that the notion of “people power” has acquired through the years, and arrogated unto herself...
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May 10, a New Revolution, says Mar Roxas
“It is our revolution. This is our revolution: for true freedom, true justice and true progress. It is our People Power Revolution for everything that our great country can be. “Give us back our freedom. Give us back our dignity as free men, and leave us to make the best we can of our country. This…
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People Power and Elite Democracy in the Philippines
Today is 24th anniversary (February 25) of the fourth and final day of the so-called “People Power Revolution”. Though, in my opinion, the four-day revolution is no revolution at all but rather an uprising since it never change the Philippine society and it remain as it was before 1972 or during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.
About two years ago, I took a Political Science paper about Nationalism and Democracy in Southeast Asia. One of the requirements was to write a research paper about a political event in a country of my choice. Of course, as a Filipino, I choose the Philippines and picked the “People Power Uprising”.
Here is the question I came up with: How did the success of the people’s power uprising help change Philippine society? Did the uprising help return the political power to the traditional elites?…
