As Sage once said, once you extinguish hope, you create desperation. EDSA People Power was about a country reclaiming hope and keeping desperation at bay. The dark days of dictatorship pushed the whole country towards a sense of desperation and helplessness, but finding collective strength and inspiration as a people prepared to stake their own lives and future for the sake of democracy in 1986, People Power became an embodiment of a nation’s hope and a return to its higher self.
As we commemorate EDSA 24 years later in a critical juncture in our history, we are called yet again to rise against widespread abuse of power, unabated corruption, dehumanizing poverty, and the cynical sense of creeping desperation. The 2010 elections represent more than democratic electoral exercise, but a return, more fundamentally, to the very people-powered spirit of EDSA.
It is time to return to the goodness and excellence of being Filipino, to fight the evil that threatens the very fabric of our democracy and country’s future, and believe yet again as we did in 1986 that love of country is what will ultimately offer us our country’s deliverance and spirit of greatness.
by Neric Acosta
Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:20 administrator
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