Editing Ferdinand Marcos (section)

===First Quarter Storm===
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By the time Marcos gave his State of the Nation Address on January 26, 1970, [[Demonstration (people)|demonstrations]], [[protest]]s, and marches had broken out. Moderate and radical student groups  became the protests' driving force, which lasted until the end of the university semester in March 1970, and came to be known as the "[[First Quarter Storm]]".<ref name="Manila, My Manila">{{cite book|title=Manila, My Manila|publisher=Vera-Reyes, Inc.|year=1990|author=Joaquin, Nick}}</ref><ref name="marcosMartialLawNeverAgain" />

During Marcos's address, the moderate National Union of Students of the Philippines organized a protest in front of Congress and invited student groups to join them. Some protesting students harangued Marcos as he and Imelda left the Congress building, throwing a coffin, a stuffed alligator, and stones at them.<ref name="InquirerRememberingFQS">{{Cite news |url=https://globalnation.inquirer.net/118130/remembering-the-first-quarter-storm |title=Remembering the First Quarter Storm |last=Rodis |first=Rodel |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |access-date=November 27, 2018 |archive-date=January 31, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131131959/http://globalnation.inquirer.net/118130/remembering-the-first-quarter-storm/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

The next major protest took place on January 30 in front of the presidential palace.<ref name="Newsbreak">{{Cite news |url=https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/51292-timeline-first-quarter-storm |title=Timeline: First Quarter Storm |last=Santos |first=Reynaldo Jr. |date=February 27, 2014 |work=Rappler |access-date=November 27, 2018 |archive-date=November 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127110629/https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/51292-timeline-first-quarter-storm |url-status=live}}</ref> Activists rammed through the gate with a fire truck and charged the Palace grounds tossing rocks, pillboxes, and [[Molotov cocktails]]. At least two activists were confirmed dead and several were injured by the police.

Five more major protests took place around Manila before March 17, 1970 – what some media accounts later branded the "7 deadly protests of the First Quarter Storm".<ref name="7DeadlyProtests">{{Cite news |last=Dacanay |first=Barbara Mae Naredo |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/spotlight/02/24/20/the-7-deadly-protests-of-the-first-quarter-storm |title=The 7 deadly protests of the First Quarter Storm |date=February 24, 2020 |work=ABS CBN News and Public Affairs |access-date=February 28, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200228094412/https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/spotlight/02/24/20/the-7-deadly-protests-of-the-first-quarter-storm |archive-date=February 28, 2020}}</ref> This included rallies on February 12; a February 18 rally that proceeded to the US Embassy where they set fire to the lobby;<ref name="Lacaba 1982 11–45, 157–178" /> a "Second People's Congress" demonstration on February 26; a "People's March" on March 3; and the Second "People's March" on March 17.<ref name="7DeadlyProtests" />

The protests ranged from 50,000 to 100,000 people.<ref name="ndfp.org">{{cite web|date=November 29, 2014|title=Historic role and contributions of Kabataang Makabayan » NDFP|url=http://www.ndfp.org/historic-role-and-contributions-of-kabataang-makabayan/|access-date=December 6, 2016|archive-date=August 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802164002/http://www.ndfp.org/historic-role-and-contributions-of-kabataang-makabayan/|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=Partisan source|date=June 2020}} Students had declared a week-long boycott of classes and instead met to organize rallies.<ref name="Lacaba 1982 11–45, 157–178" />

Violent dispersals of protests radicalized Filipino students against the Marcos administration.<ref name="Rodis" />{{better source needed|date=June 2020}}