Manila, Philippines. 25th February, 2016. Filipino protesters attempting to march to EDSA Shrine push back policemen during a protest on the 30th anniversary of the People Power Revolution, which commemorates the fall of the dictatorship of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, in Mandaluyong City, east of Manila, Philippines. Protesters say that little has changed since the People Power Revolution, saying that it ."toppled a dictator but reinstalled a succession of pro-US, anti-people regimes of the elite Credit: PACIFIC PRESS/Alamy Live News
Filipino protesters attempting to march to EDSA Shrine push back policemen during a protest on the 30th anniversary of the People Power Revolution, which commemorates the fall of the dictatorship of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, in Mandaluyong City, east of Manila, Philippines. Protesters say that little has changed since the People Power Revolution, saying that it ..."toppled a dictator but reinstalled a succession of pro-US, anti-people regimes of the elite," and that it was "...reduced to spectacle during the Corazon “Cory†Aquino After 30 years It is now a hollow ritual under the regime of her son, Benigno “Noynoy†Aquino III." The People Power Revolution, also called EDSA 1 after the national highway where protesters converged after the snap election between former president Corazon Cojuangco Aquino and strongman Ferdinand Marcos was put to a halt, was a bloodless citizens' uprising that ousted the late strongman in February 25, 1986. (Photo by Richard James M. Mendoza / Pacific Press)
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