People Power at 25: Long road to Philippine democracy

By Kate McGeown BBC News, Manila Continue reading the main story Related Stories New Philippine president sworn in Gloria Arroyo: Going, but not gone? Thousands attend Aquino funeral When Jose Dalisay watches the coverage of protest movements challenging and toppling regimes in the Middle East, it brings back strong memories. Twenty-five years ago this week he was one of hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who staged their own revolution to oust then President Ferdinand Marcos. The protesters blocked Manila’s main thoroughfare, the Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, or EDSA as it’s more commonly known, and despite repeated threats from President Marcos they refused to leave. “Almost everyone I…

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People Power at 25: Long road to Philippine democracy