VERA Files
Nakaukit na sa kasaysayan ng Pilipinas ang mga litrato ng EDSA People Power Revolution na kuha ng batikang photojournalist na si Bullit Marquez.
Para sa ika-21 episode ng What The F?! Podcast, binalikan ni Bullit ang kwento ng apat na araw niyang coverage noong Pebrero 1986.
By LUZ RIMBAN
THE NATION is celebrating the landmark EDSA People Power Revolution, but Philippine history might have run a different course had deposed president Ferdinand Marcos only addressed the question of succession early enough.
EDSA, from my perspective as then editor-in-chief of the “Mosquito Press” pioneer Ang Pahayagang Malaya of Joe Burgos Jr., broke in the early afternoon of Feb. 22, 1986 when I received a phone call from Malaya’s Malacanang reporter, Butch Fernandez, who said he had heard the distinct “ting-ting-ting” of the teletype machine that receives wire-agency news feed at the Palace press room, indicating an urgent, big development.
By ARIEL SEBELLINO
FOR four days in February 25 years ago, Filipinos enthralled freedom-loving people all over the world when they stalled military tanks with nothing but rosaries and roses and the determination to win back the freedom taken from them by a strongman who ruled the country for more than 20 years.
By LUZ RIMBAN
BANGUED, Abra—Most Filipinos may have forgotten what the original People Power Revolution was all about, but the spirit of EDSA lives on every day in this mountainous northern Luzon province.
By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES
THE 1986 People Power Revolution, also known as EDSA 1, is memorable to Filipinos who have experienced living under the Marcos dictatorship. But what does this historic event mean to young people who belong to the post-EDSA I generation?