The problem with EDSA
Luis Teodoro for TODAY newspaper
25 February 2005
They called it a revolution--those who define revolution as any sudden change which EDSA 1 was indeed was. In EDSA 1 the people overthrew Ferdinand Marcos.... But overthrowing a tyrant was only the first step; social change was the hard part that should have come after. The second, however, can only be achieved if the first step involved the overthrow not only of one man or one family or one dynasty, but an entire class, and its replacement by another.
Time to ask what went wrong with EDSA
Alejandro Lichauco for The Daily Tribune Online
It's time--for both the administration and opposition alike as well as civil society and the church--to ask just what went wrong with Edsa, because something very wrong obviously happened to it. And unless we get to the bottom of just what went wrong, we shall never get to the bottom of just what is happening to us....
13 years after EDSA revolution:
Lost revolt awaits new spark from below
Felipe Miranda
21 February 1999
As had happened so often in the history of most nations, collaborationist Philippine elites thought it best to undertake a politics of restoration where their primacy would be guaranteed rather than to assist in the building of a new and, for the historically privileged, a problematic, even outrightly perilous democratic regime. Most leaders of the 1986 revolt understandably settled on the reassuring shores of oligarchic history rather than embark on the uncharted, revolutionary seas searching for the proverbial terra incognita, a conceivably democratic national destiny.
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