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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 ...
EDSA Revolution Anniversary Evelio Javier Day , officially Governor Evelio B. Javier Day , is a special non-working public holiday in the Philippines to "commemorate the death anniversary of the late Governor Evelio B. Javier " in the four provinces that comprise Panay Island , the Philippines , specifically Antique , Capiz , Aklan , and Iloilo ...
Linking arms, the people at EDSA create a protective wall for Enrile and RAM troops as they leave Camp Aguinaldo and cross the highway to get to Crame on the other side. 2:47 PM: A car with tinted windows bearing Cory Aquino cruises alongside a Marcos loyalist column of seven tanks and two Marine battalions led by Tadiar moving on EDSA.
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 ...
February 22 – People Power Revolution (Day 1): Deputy Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos and Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, backed by members of the armed forces loyal to the former, declares coup at a press conference at Camp Aguinaldo to call upon Pres. Marcos to resign and to announce their withdrawal of ...
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 ...
From January 17 to 20, 2001, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered at Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA), the site of the original People Power Revolution. The clamor for a change in the presidency gained momentum as various sectors of Philippine society – professionals, students, artists, politicians, leftist and rightist groups ...
The holiday was created by Republic Act No. 9256, which was signed into law by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on February 25, 2004, twenty-one years after his death and eighteen years after the People Power Revolution, and was sponsored by Senate President Franklin Drilon and House Speaker Jose de Venecia. It requires an EDSA People Power ...