People empowerment

EDITORIAL

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Classes in about 200 mostly private Catholic learning institutions around the country along with state-run University of the Philippines are suspended today. The schools declared their own holiday after the Marcos administration classified Feb. 25 as a "special working holiday" to mark the 39th anniversary of the people power revolt.

School administrators have said the self-declared holiday aims to preserve the nation's memory of the 1986 people power revolt. The administrators are encouraging their students and faculty to use the one-day break to learn more about the historic events that transpired during the four-day peaceful uprising that put an end to the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos.