People Power Revolution Archives

EDSA at 37: A peaceful revolution in photos

By JOSE PAOLO S. DELA CRUZ If Instagram and Facebook were already a thing 37 years ago, then these are probably the images that would have flooded everybody's timelines from from Feb. 22 to 25. For on these days, millions of Filipinos gathered in EDSA to change history. And with…

Edsa at 36: Four days of pure ‘People Power’

By Alex Y. Vergara and Jose Paolo S. Dela Cruz As we celebrate the 36th anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution, PeopleAsia readers share their memories of the four-day revolution that toppled a dictator and restored democracy in the Philippines. The iconic 'Laban' sign of the People's Power Revolution…

Ninoy: In the eye of memory

BY MAX V. SOLIVEN Max V. Soliven was founding publisher of The Philippine STAR as well as PeopleAsia magazine. Soliven and the late Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino were arrested and thrown into the same prison after martial law was declared on Sept. 21, 1972. On the 38th anniversary of Ninoy's…

#EDSA35

Editor's Note: This article was originally published in the Philippine STAR's Feb 25, 2021 issue and on Philstarlife.com. If the 1986 EDSA people power revolution — the three-day people power revolt that put an end to a 20-year totalitarian regime — were a human being, he/she, at 35, would have settled…

Does EDSA still matter?

By JOANNE RAE RAMIREZ Of course it does. It was an exercise in freedom and democracy that was a tribute to humanity and its basic desire to live free, unchained from the shackles of totalitarian rule. EDSA showed political science experts around the world that a peaceful revolution is doable.…