EDSA(People Power Revolution )

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 EDSA REVOLUTION

"People Power Revolution" is also tagged as the "EDSA Revolution","Bloodless Revolution"and "1986 Philippine Revolution".Despite the presence of tank-riding soldiers and big guns, not a single shot was fired.Thus,People Power Revolution was the first nonviolent,bloodless revolution that ever took place.It was not only in 1986 that there had been a mass gathering on EDSA.There was another massive gathering in which media commonly tags as EDSA 2 (EDSA DOS)on January 20001,which ousted then-President Joseph Estrada.Since Ninoy's assassination,yellow has been the color of the revolution.
Did you know that yellow is not really the favorite color of the late President Corazon Aquino?According to her interview in TIME,her favorite color was actually red.It was only when some friends suggested the song "Tie A Yellow Ribbon"for Ninoy's homecoming that she developed a fancy for the color.


In 1986 million of unarmed filipinos surprised the world by nonviolent overthrowing the brutal dictator Ferdinand Marcos,known at the time as "the Hitler of Southeast Asia".They called their movement "people power",demonstrating in an amazing way the power of active nonviolence,the power of truth and love, similar to what was seen in the gandhian freedom struggle in India and civil rights movement in the United States.

BLOODLESS REVOLUTION

Ferdinand Marcos ruled the philippine for two decades,using his position to amass a personal fortune.When Benigno Aquino-Marco's key political rival-was assassinated in 1983,cross-class opposition to the regime erupted.Marcos agreed to hold elections in 1986.Aquino's widow, Cory,ran against Marcos;no one was surprised when Marcos rigged the election.Millions responded,forming a human barricade between Marco's troops and the officers.Civil resisters encouraged the advancing soldiers to defect, After several days, the majority of troops joined the opposition movement.With no sanctioning power left,Marcos fled,and Aquino assumed the presidency.


YELLOW REVOLUTION

The term "Yellow Revolution"has been used to describe both the political revolution in the Philippines that took place between 1983 and 1986 and the dynamic increase in oilseed production India which began in 1986.It is also referred to as the Yellow Revolution due to the presence of yellow ribbons during the demonstrations following the assassination of Filipino senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino,Jr.It was widely seen as a victory of the people against the 20 years running authorian,repressive regime of then president Ferdinand Marcos,and made news headlines as "the revolution that surprised the world". The oversize color photograph shows a sea of people, many of them wearing yellow shirts and caps, waving yellow flags and banners, and in the foreground stands a woman in yellow dress, facing and addressing the crowd.The woman is Mrs. Corazon Aquino, and the occasion was the Thanksgiving Mass at Luneta Park to celebrate the triumph of the 1986 "People Power"Revolution in the Philippines.The color yellow came to represent the moderate forces in the struggle against the Marcos dictatorship and for the restoration of democracy.