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Three commemorative sites along EDSA memorialize the People Power Revolution, put up by different organizations to commemorate different aspects of the People Power Revolution. [ 117 ] The Shrine of Mary, Queen of Peace, Our Lady of EDSA, better known as the EDSA Shrine is a small church put up in 1989 by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of ...
The People Power Revolution (also known as the EDSA Revolution and the Philippine Revolution of 1986) was a series of popular demonstrations in the Philippines that began in 1983 and culminated in 1986.
The Second EDSA Revolution, also known as the Second People Power Revolution, EDSA 2001, or EDSA II (pronounced EDSA Two or EDSA Dos, the Spanish word for "two"), was a political protest from January 17–20, 2001 which peacefully overthrew the government of Joseph Estrada, the thirteenth president of the Philippines. [2]
RAM began developing their "statements of aspirations" in February 1985, eventually developing a position paper on March 21, 1985, entitled “We Belong . . . ,” which was short for its opening statement, “We Belong to the Reform the Armed Forces Movement.” [11] The various preliminary documents leading up to this position paper were printed in a pamphlet which the RAM entitled ...
On the contrary, the EDSA people power revolution was the people's revolution." There was no immediate comment from the office of the president. Telephone calls to the law firm responsible for the ...
Marker commemorating the events of the Second EDSA Revolution. When the Second EDSA Revolution was successful in deposing President Joseph Estrada in January 2001, Cardinal Sin declared the EDSA Shrine as holy ground, crediting the Virgin Mary to the event. A marker was installed on the anniversary of the 1986 People Power Revolution ...
President Corazon Aquino declared a revolutionary government following the People Power Revolution in 1986. Following the fall of the authoritarian administration of President Ferdinand Marcos, the Philippines was praised worldwide in 1986, when the so-called bloodless revolution erupted, called the EDSA People Power Revolution. [18]
Critics of EDSA III, styled after the People Power Revolution (EDSA Revolution) and EDSA Revolution of 2001, argue that while this was a major protest, the spirit of it was unlike of the first and second protests.