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A soldier reads a copy of Malaya during the 1986 People Power Revolution. (Photo by Joe Galvez)

Later in the afternoon of Feb. 22, Joe received a call (he said it was from Louie Beltran of the Philippine Daily Inquirer), who asked if he had heard about a report that the forces of Armed Forces chief of staff Gen. Fabian Ver had orders to arrest dozens of opposition leaders, as well as journalists in the Mosquito or Alternative Press, and haul them off to some detention facility on an island. The two friends counseled each other to take precautions and stay in touch.

-Lourdes Molina-Fernandez

‘EDSA is not just four days in February’: A first-person account

Context is always forgotten when it comes to our yearly EDSA celebrations. It has been reduced to an old irrelevant man who at the time was desperate to be saved by the people reenacting his ‘jump’ and the assassination of Ninoy Aquino (which happened in 1983).

Where are the stories of the people dragged into the streets, some never to be seen again?

Where are the stories of the journalists jailed, harassed, and even murdered for trying to speak the truth?

Where are the stories of bravery in the face of intimidation, defiance in the face of totalitarianism?

Where are the stories of the Filipino?

let us not forget the real stories behind EDSA, the first People Power Revolution..