1. EDSA ( People Power Revolution). The People Power Revolution lasted from 1983 to 1986. During a radio broadcast of Radyo Veritas, Cardinal Sin encouraged the Filipinos to help end the regime of the president Ferdinand Marcos.
A major protest took place along EDSA from February 22-25, 1986 involving two million Filipinos from different sectors. These include civilians, political parties, the military, and these sectors. The radio broadcast helped change the course of history. Without it, Filipinos would no have been moved into action.
2. EDSA Dos. This is also known as the 2001 EDSA Revolution, happened during January 17-21,2001. It was also fueled after 11 prosecutes of then President Joseph Estrada walked out of the impeachment trial. As a result, The crowd in EDSA grew over the course of a few days through text brigades. Like the first People Power Revolution, EDSA Dos would not have been successful without the text brigades.
3. Million People March. This is a series of protests that mainly took place in Luneta Park from August 22 to 26, 2013. There were also several demonstration that happened around the key cities in the Philippines and some locations overseas. It was to condemn the misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund(PDAF). Though dubbed as the Million People March, the number of total attendees was only around 400,00. Despite that, it was still considered a success and clearly demonstrated how powerful social media campaigns are. The organizers and promoters of the Million People March used Facebook and Change.org as their medium.
4. Yolanda People Finder. Recent storms in the Philippine history gave birth to the People finder database powered by Google. During typhoon Yolanda, the People Finder was a vital tool for people across the globe to track the situation of their relatives. This proved to be successful and is now adapted by more organizations to help people track relatives during calamity.
Change.org
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Change.org is dubbed as the "world's platform for change"
where anyone form the online community can create a petition and ask others to sign it. During the past time petitions are only done through signing a paper, usually done by a group asking for signature via travel. Change.org gives access to more people by allowing the online community to affix their digital signatures on a petition.
Change.org's mission is to help people around the world create change they want to see. For years, Change.org hosted several petitions that help solve the following problems: economic problems, criminal's injustice, abuse of human rights, lack of education, environmental concerns, animal abuse, human health concerns, and world hunger.
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