EDSA Through Their Eyes: Women and the Work of Telling the People Power I

EDSA through their eyes: Women and the work of telling the People Power I

By Martha TeodoroBulatlat.com MANILA — In February 1986, a Filipina columnist in Michigan was watching her nation on TV. Another, a journalist, was hiding from the police in Bacolod City and writing stories in her brain before dictating them over the phone. In 1985, Melinda Quintos de Jesus left the Philippines to go to the United States for a fellowship. When the crisis started, she was watching the chaos from a dormitory lounge, transfixed to …

Statement of the UP Diliman University Council on the 40th Anniversary of the EDSA People Power uprising - University of the Philippines Diliman

Forty years ago, from February 22 to 25, 1986, more than a million Filipinos asserted a simple and enduring democratic truth: sovereignty resides in the people. The EDSA People Power uprising ended a dictatorship sustained by repression, patronage, and fear, thereby restoring democratic space that had been forcibly closed. The post Statement of the UP Diliman University Council on the 40th Anniversary of the EDSA People Power uprising appeared f…