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The KM protests ranged from 50,000 to 100,000 in number per weekly mass action. embassy, protesters vandalized, burned, and damaged the embassy lobby resulting in a strong protest from the U.S.

At the presidential palace, activists rammed the gate with a fire truck and once the gate broke and gave way, the activists charged into the palace grounds tossing rocks, pillboxes and Molotov cocktails. KM members protested in front of Congress, throwing a coffin, a stuffed alligator, and stones at Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos after his State of the Nation Address. The event was popularly known as the First Quarter Storm.ĭuring the First Quarter Storm in 1970, the line between leftist activists and communists became increasingly blurred, as a significant number of Kabataang Makabayan ('KM') advanced activists joined the Communist Party also founded by Jose Maria Sison. Violent protesting continued over the next few years until the declaration of martial law in 1972.

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Second term įerdinand Marcos, president from 1965 to 1986.Īt one point, student activists took over the Diliman campus of the University of the Philippines and declared it a free commune, which lasted for a while before the government dissolved it. As the war was proving to be unpopular among Filipinos, Marcos ordered the withdrawal of the PHILCAG in November 1969. Under intense pressure from US President Lyndon Johnson, Marcos sent a Filipino noncombatant military force to the Republic of Vietnam in 1966, under the Philippine Civic Action Group (PHILCAG). ĭuring the Vietnam War, Marcos strongly opposed sending military forces to Vietnam. These were prescient comments in the light of events that would happen in the following decade. warned that Marcos was on the road to establishing 'a garrison state' by 'ballooning the armed forces budget', saddling the defense establishment with 'overstaying generals' and 'militarizing our civilian government offices'. His first term was marked with increased industrialization and the construction of nationwide infrastructure, including the creation of the North Luzon Expressway and the continuation of the Maharlika Highway (Pan-Philippine Highway). In 1965, Ferdinand Marcos won the presidential election and became the 10th president of the Philippines. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson during a visit to the United States. Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos with Lyndon B.

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