[OTD] EDSA People Power Revolution

Day 4,846, 08:22 Published in Philippines Philippines by Boy Pick Up

A project of the Department of Culture, On This Day (OTD) features various significant dates in Philippine history—both in-game and in real life. If you wish to contribute, contact me through private message.


25 February 2021

Today marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution. Over two million Filipinos flooded the streets of Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA), the main thoroughfare in the National Capital Region, from 22 to 25 February 1986 to remove President Ferdinand Marcos from power after twenty-one years of tyranny. Cory Aquino, widow of Senator Ninoy Aquino (who was assassinated in 1983) and candidate in the fraudulent 1986 snap presidential election, became president after the Marcos family fled to Hawaii.

Despite being described as peaceful and bloodless, the EDSA People Power Revolution was merely the culmination of the decades-long struggle against the Marcos regime where ~70,000 were incarcerated, ~35,000 were tortured, and ~3,000 were killed. Furthermore, the Marcos family shamelessly regained their political presence in recent years through historical revisionism and the failures of every succeeding regime to address the root causes of the semi-feudal and semi-colonial nature of Philippine society.


(Hundreds of thousands of people filling up a section of Epifanio delos Santos Avenue.)


Moreover, today marks the twelfth anniversary of the first in-game congress election (2009) in the Philippines. Meanwhile, 17 February marks Resistance Day or the Fall of the Kilusan ng Makabayang Pilipino (2014), considered as the end of Filipino resistance to the Macedonian and Serbian political takeover.


(Logo of the Kilusan ng Makabayang Pilipino, the oldest political party in the Philippines until 2014.)


"Mulat, ang masa ang mesias."