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People Power Revolution: Jumar L. Vidal
People Power Revolution: Jumar L. Vidal
For many foreigners, the nearly bloodless EDSA Revolution was seen as
a historic triumph. But Filipinos saw themselves shedding centuries of shameful
legacies of successfully fighting back against centuries of colonial control and
governmental cruelty . For the first time, poor Filipinos and rich Filipinos,
Communists and Church leaders, classes which would never have associated in
the past, gathered together in national unity and put their lives at stake to fight for
a common cause.
The peaceful EDSA Revolution was able to achieve two things. The
prevention of violence breaking out between the divided Armed Forces of the
Philippines, and
the stepping-down from power by Ferdinand Marcos as he accepted that he had
indeed lost the 1986 Philippine Presidential Elections to Cory Aquino. All over the
world, people rejoiced and congratulated Filipinos they know.
Jumar L. Vidal
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