Ellecer “Budit” Carlos is spokesperson of the “In Defence of Human Rights and Dignity Movement” or (iDEFEND) and the campaigns and advocacy officer of the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA), iDEFEND’s lead convener.
What appeared to have been a people's revolution was in fact a revolution of the bourgeois, hijacked by élites. Another elite simply took the place of Marcos and his cronies.