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The Second EDSA Revolution, also known as the Second People Power Revolution, EDSA 2001, or EDSA II (pronounced EDSA Two or EDSA Dos, the Spanish word for "two"), was a political protest from January 17–20, 2001 which peacefully overthrew the government of Joseph Estrada, the thirteenth president of the Philippines. [2]
Intersection of EDSA and Taft Avenue, also known as Pasay Rotonda, the proposed site for the EDSA–Taft flyover. On April 2, 2013, then-President Benigno Aquino III gave the go-signal for the construction of a flyover at the perennially traffic-choked corner of EDSA and Taft Avenue in Pasay. [45]
Participants continue to claim that it was a genuine People Power event, a claim disputed by the participants and supporters of EDSA II. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has acknowledged the divisive nature of the two terminologies by saying in one statement that she hoped to be the president of "EDSA II and EDSA III". [8]
Kay Miriam kami: We're for Miriam Imelda Marcos: Marcos parin! (We're) still for Marcos! 1998: Joseph Estrada: Erap Para sa Mahirap: lit. Erap for the Poor Estrada campaigned himself as a candidate for poor who seeks to address poverty in the country. His campaign appealed to populism which aimed to secure votes from the masa or masses. The ...
[107] [108] In the 38th anniversary of the EDSA Revolution on February 25, 2024, the fight against charter change continued. "We are not EDSA-pwera. Because People Power was not only EDSA," the Campaign Against the Return of Marcoses and Martial Law (CARMMA) said.
People Power Coalition (PPC), formerly called "EDSA Forces", [2] was a Philippine administration-based political multi-party electoral alliance in the May 14, 2001 midterm legislative elections. The coalition was created after the EDSA Revolution of 2001 that ousted Joseph Estrada from the presidency.
People Power Revolution, known as EDSA I, of 1986; Second EDSA Revolution of January 2001; EDSA III, or May 1 riots, May 2001; EDSA Busway, a bus transit system; EDSA Shrine, erected to commemorate the 1986 revolution; site of the 2001 revolutions; EDSA station (PNR) of the Philippine National Railways; EDSA station (LRT) of the Metro Manila LRT
The National Shrine of Mary, Queen of Peace, also known as Mary, Queen of Peace Shrine, Our Lady of Peace Quasi-Parish and commonly known as the EDSA Shrine, is a small church of the Archdiocese of Manila located at the intersection of Ortigas Avenue and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) in Barangay Ugong Norte, Quezon City, Philippines.