THE 1986 People Power or EDSA is an event all our own as it was too, for me in a personal way. Millions of Filipinos gathered at the Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA) February 22 to 25 “filling the capital’s main artery . . .and begin a new era marked by true freedom and democracy. The spirit of the movement was not contained in Manila, with pockets of dissent manifesting nationwide. It was a revolution marked by its peaceful means, led by a nation that stood united in its attainment of liberty.”

EDSA accounts in hyperlinks show how uniformly felt and regarded the “people power” movement had been. “Unarmed Filipinos surprised the world with “demonstrating in an amazing way the power of active nonviolence, the power of truth and love, similar to what was seen in the Gandhian freedom struggle in India . . .” See more at:

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