People Power Revolution

I have a friend who is Chinese but was born/raised in the Philippians and who's been in America for 20+ years (became a citizen in 2009:) she was so happy!).  Her comment about the earthquake in Japan was that it felt like the end times and I got to say that being a Christian it would be scary if that was true but I was looking forward to it.  Yay for me I say!!  Big step -Because even though when I'm speaking to people I know are Christian and all that goodness, it's just so hard for me to vocalize these things.  It's getting easier and easier though...
Anyway.
She veered into politics from that with again the same theme of the world feeling more caustic and she told me that the Wisconsin craziness (does my bio say that I live in Milwaukee?) reminded her of the People Power Revolution in the Philippians.  I immediately thought back to my post the other day about Non-Violent Resistance and this Wiki excerpt really stuck with me.

In the mid-afternoon, Radio Veritas relayed reports of Marines massing near the camps in the east and LVT-5 tanks approaching from the north and south. A contingent of Marines with tanks and armored vans, led by Brigadier General Artemio Tadiar, was stopped along Ortigas Avenue, about two kilometers from the camps, by tens of thousands of people. Nuns holding rosaries knelt in front of the tanks and men and women linked arms together to block the troops. Tadiar asked the crowds to make a clearing for them, but they did not budge. In the end, the troops retreated with no shots fired.