The will to protest

Others will also gather, driven by similar convictions.

- Annie Perez

Some will demand accountability for public funds. Others will speak against a system so decayed that wrongdoing has become normalized, almost expected. Over time, this rotting system has eaten away at our collective conscience, dulling outrage and replacing it with resignation. What was once unacceptable slowly becomes routine. History reminds us that resignation is not permanent. EDSA itself was born from fatigue. It was the fatigue from silence, from fear, from abuse of power. People did not gather because it was convenient; they gathered because it was necessary.