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The Second EDSA Revolution, also known as the Second People Power Revolution, EDSA 2001, or EDSA II (pronounced EDSA Two or EDSA Dos ), was a political protest from January 17–20, 2001 which peacefully overthrew the government of Joseph Estrada, the thirteenth president of the Philippines. [ 2] Following allegations of corruption against ...
Philippine History and Government (Second ed.). Phoenix Publishing House, Inc. ISBN 971-06-1894-6. Mendoza, Amado, '"People Power" in the Philippines, 1983–86', in Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash (eds.), Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
The May 1 riots, [ 2] or EDSA III (pronounced as EDSA Three or EDSA Tres, the Spanish word for "three"), were protests sparked by the arrest of newly deposed president Joseph Estrada of the Philippines from April 25 to May 1, 2001. The protest was held for seven days on a major highway in Metro Manila, Epifanio de los Santos Avenue ( EDSA ...
Journalism during the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines —a fourteen year period between the declaration of Martial Law in September 1972 until the People Power Revolution in February 1986—was heavily restricted under the dictatorial rule of President Ferdinand Marcos in order to suppress political opposition and prevent criticism of ...
Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, commonly referred to by its acronym EDSA (Tagalog:), is a limited-access circumferential highway around Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. It passes through 6 of Metro Manila 's 17 local government units or cities, namely, from north to south, Caloocan , Quezon City , San Juan , Mandaluyong , Makati ...
Fall of Marcos regime (1965–86); start of Fifth Republic. The People Power Revolution (also known as the EDSA Revolution and the Philippine Revolution of 1986) was a series of popular demonstrations in the Philippines that began in 1983 and culminated in 1986. The methods used amounted to a sustained campaign of civil resistance against ...
EDSA Shrine. / 14.59222°N 121.05861°E / 14.59222; 121.05861. The Shrine of Mary, Queen of Peace, Our Lady of EDSA, or more popularly, the EDSA Shrine is a small church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila located at the intersection of Ortigas Avenue and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) in Barangay Ugong Norte, Quezon City.
The dictatorship of 10th Philippine president Ferdinand E. Marcos in the 1970s and 1980s is historically remembered for its record of human rights abuses, [ 1][ 2] particularly targeting political opponents, student activists, [ 3] journalists, religious workers, farmers, and others who fought against his dictatorship.