{"id":1165,"date":"2007-02-25T15:35:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T07:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2015-11-26T00:40:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T16:40:49","slug":"edsa-at-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/2007\/02\/25\/edsa-at-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Edsa at 21"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The reflections on the Edsa Revolution are invariably wistful<\/a>, even touching<\/a>, though some conclusions are of course, harsh<\/a>. There are those of course, for whom it was never harsh or inexorable enough<\/a>. For others, it served as an inspiration for future people power, which despite all that’s happened since can still be remembered as a high point<\/a> in many young people’s lives. A very good observation is that if people power has been defanged, it’s thanks, in no small part, to the Catholic Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet as editorials both in Manila<\/a> and in the provinces<\/a> note, people power continues to live on at least as an ideal. The PCIJ<\/a> comments on the irony of a beleaguered military facing human rights questions as it did 21 years ago.<\/p>\n

But the writing on the wall was there for everyone to see it, in Edsa<\/a> and Fort Bonifacio<\/a>, a year ago. It seems like a lifetime, since: and as if we’ve come full circle. When the President began speaking of “first world status” by 2020, it reminded me the resolution of all this -all that’s been going on since 2004- may be 13 more years in the future.
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