EDSA People Power Revolution is one of the most historical events in the Philippines. The revolution which already sealed in the Filipinos mind and heart. In that era, many Filipinos have lost their lives fighting for their rights and stopping the violence and crimes that had happened after the declaration of martial law by Ferdinand Marcos. Filipinos reunited to removed Marcos out of his seat.
Millions of unarmed Filipinos used the ICT for a nonviolent revolution. The nuns of Philippines have called for help and contacted Europeans who have work for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) for the situation happening in the Philippines. Filipinos with the students, church leaders, peasants, labor, and community organizers have come up to the idea and decide to have a nonviolent movement that would oppose the dictatorship after having a meeting.
Corazon Aquino used the Radio Veritas to inform the fellow Filipinos about the movement. Radio Veritas is the only media that served as the primary communication platform for the democratic opposition after the shutdown of non-government media shutdown. They used Veritas to inform Filipinos of political development and organized them for nonviolent protests. The assassination of Ninoy Aquino should be a secret because Marcos have prevent different local media from broadcasting about it but Radio Veritas had informed millions of supporters of Ninoy galvanizing them to come to his funeral.
Francisco Nemenzo, a former president of the University of the Philippines said that without Radio Veritas, It would have been impossible or difficult to mobilize millions of people in a matter of hours.
This only shows that ICT helped us in every event to unite as one. Throughout the recent history, the Philippines has changed and this would have not happened if were not because of ICT.
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