Role of ICT in EDSA(People Power Revolution)

The People Power Revolution in the Philippines

                          

In 1986 millions of unarmed Filipinos surprised the world by non-violently overthrowing the brutal dictator Ferdinand Marcos, known at the time as "the hitler Southeast Asia". They called their movement "people power', demonstrating in an amazing way the power of active non violence, the power of truth and love, similar to what was seen in the Gandhian freedom struggle in India and the civil rights movements in the united states.

In order for Cory Aquino to mobilize a popular democratic movement, she needed Radio Veritas, a 24 hrs AM radio station operated by the Roman Catholic Church, because it served as the primary communication platform for the democratic opposition. With all other non-government  media shut down. Aquino and her cadres used radio veritas to inform Filipinos political developments and organize them for nonviolent protests, after Ninoy Aquino assassinated, marcos prevented local media from broadcasting news of his death, and Radio Veritas, the only station in the Philippines to carry news of senator Acquino's assassination, galuanized the two million supporters to come to his funeral. According to former President of the University of the Philippines Francisco Nemenzo, "without radio veritas it would have been difficult, if not impossible to mobilize millions of people in a matter of hours".

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