CONTRIBUTION OF MEDIA TO PHILIPPINE DEMOCRACY

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contribution of media to philippine democracy
1986
Millions of unarmed Filipinos surprised the world by nonviolently overthrowing the brutal dictatorship Ferdinand Marcos, known at the time as "THE HITLER OF SOUTHEAST ASIA". They called their movement "People Power".
Beginning with the assassination in 1983 of senator Benigno Ninoy Aquino, the movement against Marcos grew rapidly. Imprisoned for 7 years by Marcos, Aquino had experienced a deep conversion in his concentrated study of Bible and Gandhi. This led him to begin advocating a nonviolent revolution against dictatorship. His subsequent martyrdom fueled the determination of many Filipinos to continue in his radical nonviolent path.
They came and met with the church leaders, peasants, labor and student leaders and community organizers. Out of these meetings came the decision to build a nonviolent movement that would oppose the dictatorship.
In 1984, the Little Sisters of Jesus,  took it upon themselves to contact Jean and Hildegard Goss-Mayr, nonviolence lectures and trainers in Europe who had worked for many years for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation in situation of revolution and war.
In order for Cory Aquino to mobilize a popular democratic movement, she needed Radio Veritas, a 24-hoour am radio station operated by the Roman Catholic Church, because it served as the primary communication platform for the democratic opposition.
With all other non-government media shut down, Aquino and her cadres used Radio Veritas to inform Filipinos of political developments and organize them for non-violent protests.
After Ninoy Aquino was assassinated, Marcos prevented social media from broadcasting news of his death, and radio veritas, the only station in the Philippines to carry news of senator Aquino's assassination.
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