The speed of vehicles traversing EDSA declined in the days before Christmas due to the sheer volume of cars using Metro Manila’s main highway, a Metropolitan Manila Development Authority official said yesterday.
SunStar THIRTY-FIVE years ago, a major historical event unfolded in the lives of the Filipino people.
Unfortunately, today, the young do not seem to have any idea what that was all abouts. It looks that there is a lapse in our historical transfer and the political transparency so that those who came after Edsa will have a sense of history.
I remember then, 35 years ago, the tension that was in our country when a sea of people filled Edsa and stopped the tanks from advancing, and that a prayer vigil has been organized by the religious. How the people power toppled a dictatorial government that continued to perpetuate a government that deceived the people.
SunStar February 25, 2021 “IT HAS been 35 years since Edsa 1986 and yet things have remained the same.” I begin with this statement because this speaks volumes for those who were never supportive of People Power since it happened. This is also the statement of a generation that lives in its own relatively comfortable bubble that has been made to believe that Edsa is meaningless, and People Power a myth. For people of today who enjoy freedom to its relative extent, liberty is like inherited wealth. It is depleting and yet the heirs continue their mindless spending. Worse, they are aware of the existence of the wealth, but they deny the fact that it is not the product of their toil but merely inherited. Sometimes I am made to think that some Filipinos are either forgetful or ungrateful.