Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: the revolution diffused
An eruption of protests and violence — molotov cocktails and gunfire — in the streets of Manila, launched the heady, charged days of January to March 1970.
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Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: People’s Marches and the end of the FQS
Prevented from gathering in Miranda, the mass dissent turned to marches, but by the end of its third month, with no clear political goal, the storm blew itself out.
Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: the People’s Congresses of February
Mass social outrage began to take organized political form, as protestors repeatedly gathered en masse at Plaza Miranda over the course of February 1970 for a series of “People’s Congresses.”
Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: January 30 — Battle of Mendiola
January 31 witnessed the bloody nightlong battle, fought with molotov cocktails and gunfire, for control of Mendiola.
Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: January 26 — “On the trembling edge of Revolution”
The brutal police crackdown on the protests staged outside the legislature during Marcos’ State of the Nation address set off the social upheaval of the First Quarter Storm.