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On Feb. 25, 2014, the 28th anniversary of the triumph of People Power at EDSA, my esteemed friend Conrad de Quiros wrote a column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer in which he raised the question, “Can an EDSA still happen today?”
The first example was the sudden and unexpected emergence of then freshman Senator Benigno S. Aquino III as the frontrunner in the 2010 presidential election. He announced his decision on the 40th day of mourning after the death of his mother, former President Corazon Aquino who came to power as an offshoot of EDSA People Power in 1986. De Quiros observed that “P-Noy wasn’t even a bleep in the presidential radar… Yet overnight, the landscape changed completely.
But there was another aspect of De Quiros’ analysis of Noynoy Aquino’s sudden and phenomenal rise. He wrote further: “…in lieu of ousting somebody… it pushed for an idea, a cause, a new president. It was spontaneous, instinctive, popular, powerful, irresistible. It captured the imagination of the nation.
Yes, Filipinos rallied to support the badly-hit communities that were ravaged most recently by super typhoon Odette in December 2021 and typhoons Rolly and Ulysses in 2020 during the pandemic. But more significant and telling was the spontaneous, unexpected emergence of community pantries that was sparked by the example of Ana Patricia Non. She set up the first community pantry on Maginhawa street in Quezon City on April 14, 2021.
The third case in point, wrote De Quiros was: “… the ‘Million People March’ held appropriately enough on
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