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LP Report Chapter 8

The document discusses the period of activism in the Philippines from 1970-1972. It provides historical context for the rise in youth activism during this period, which was driven by both domestic and global factors. Youth movements sought political and social reforms. Some groups formed armed factions to oppose the democratic government. The period saw a rise in nationalist writings and protests by students and activists. Many young activists were imprisoned. The literary works from this period captured the rebellious and revolutionary spirit of the time.

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LP Report Chapter 8

The document discusses the period of activism in the Philippines from 1970-1972. It provides historical context for the rise in youth activism during this period, which was driven by both domestic and global factors. Youth movements sought political and social reforms. Some groups formed armed factions to oppose the democratic government. The period saw a rise in nationalist writings and protests by students and activists. Many young activists were imprisoned. The literary works from this period captured the rebellious and revolutionary spirit of the time.

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M I R A T L A WLA

ITAVCIMS
ERTRAILY ELOTORINUV
OLDOBY CALPDRAS
Chapter 8

Period of Activism
(1970-1972)
Historical background

● According to Pociano Pineda, Youth activism in 1970-1972 was due to


domestic and worldwide causes.

● Youth moved to seek reforms.

● Some believed that the democratic government is stable and that it is only
the people running the government who are at fault.

● Some believed that socialism or communism should replace democracy.


Some armed groups were formed to bring down the democratic form of
government.
Historical background

● Many young people become activists to ask for changes in the


government.

● In the expression of this desire for change, keen were the writings of
some youth who were fired with nationalism in order to emphasize the
importance of their petitions.

● Many young activists were imprisoned in military camps together with


rebel writers.

● Many books aptly record and embody these times but many of these are
not known to many and many of these writers still have to be interviewed.
A. The Seed
of Activism
● The seeds of activism resulted in the
declaration of Martial Law in 1972.

● We can, however, say that the seeds were


earlier sown from the times of Lapu-lapu,
Lakandula, and Rizal.

● The revolution against the powerful forces in


the Philippines can be said to be the monopoly
of the youth in whose veins flow the fire in
their blood.

● What Rizal said of the youth being the hope of


the Fatherland is still valid even today.
B. Period of the Bloody
Placards
● Pineda also said that this was the time when the youth once more
proved that it is not the constant evasion that shapes our race and
nationalism. There is a limit to one’s patience. It may explode like a
volcano if overstrained. Life? What avails like if one is a coward who
does not take a stand for himself and for the succeeding generations?
C. The Literary
Revolution
● The youth became completely rebellious during this period.

● Campus newspapers showed rebellious emotions.

● The once aristocratic writers developed awareness for society.

● They held pens and wrote on placards in red paint the equivalent
of the word MAKIBAKA (to dare!).
● They attacked the ills of society and politics.

● The frustrations of youth could be felt in churches and school.

● Even the priests, teachers and parents, as authorities who should be respected
became targets of the radical youth and were though of as hindrances to the
changes they sought.

● The literature of the activists reach a point where they stated boldly what
should be done to effect these changes.

● Some of those who rallied to this revolutionary form of literature were


Roland Tinio, Rogelio Mangahas, Efren Abueg, Rio Alma, and Clemente
Bautista.
Writing
During the
Period of The irreverence for the poor reached its peak
during the period of the mass revolution. It
Activism was also during this period that Bomba films
that discredited ourways as Filipinos started
to come out.
Palanca Awardees for Literature in English

Established in 1950, the Palanca Memorial Awards for


Literature had been giving cash prizes for short story,
poetry and one-act play writing as an incentive to
Filipino writers.

The prizes comes from La Tondena, Inc., the firm


founded by the late Carlos Palanca Sr.
Albertos S. Florentino’s

“Twenty Years
of Palanca
Awards.”
English Short Story
1970-1971

First Prize – “THE RITUAL” by Cirilo F.Bautista

Second Prize – “BEAST IN THE FIELDS” by Resil


Mojares

Third Prize – “CHILDREN OF THE CITY” by Amadis


Ma. Guerrero
English Short Story
1970-1971

First Prize – “THE ARCHIPELAGO” by Cirilo F. Bautista

Second Prize – “FIVE POEMS” by Wilfredo Pascua


Sanchez

Third Prize – “FROM MACTAN TO MENDIOLA” by


Frederico Licsi Espino Jr.
English One-
Act Play
1970-1971 -

First Prize

“THE GROTESQUE AMONG


US”
- Maiden Flores
English Poetry
1971-1972

First Prize – “THE TOMATO GAME” by N.V.M. Gonzales

Second Prize – “THE APOLLO CENTENNIAL” by Gregorio C. Brillantes

Third Prize – “AFTER THIS, OUR EXILE” by Elsa Martinez Coscolluela

1971-72

First Prize – “BATIK MAKER AND OTHER POEMS” by Virginia R. Moreno

Second Prize – “THE EDGE OF THE WIND” by Artemio Tadena

Third Prize – “TINIKLING (A SHEAF OF POEMS)” by Frederico Licsi Espino Jr.


1971-1972

First Prize – “GRAVE FOR BLUE FLOWER” by Jesus T. Peralta

Second Prize – “THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY” by Manuel M. Martell

Third Prize – The judges recommend that in as much as the three third prize winners
especially deserve, the prize of P 1,000.00 be divided among these three:

1. “THE BOXES” by Rolando S. Tinio

2. “NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR
COUNTRY” by Julian E. Dacanay

3. “THE RENEGADE” by Elsa Martinez Coscolluela


Writers During this Period
Jose F. Lacaba in his book DAYS OF DISQUIET, NIGHTS OF RAGE;
THE FIRST QUARTERS STORM AND RELATED EVENTS, wrote of the
tragic and tumultuous moments in our country’s history.

Student leaders thought up grandiose names for their organizations and


hence, the proliferation of acronyms likes SUCCOR, YDS, KTPD,
SAGUPA, SMP, KKK, KM, MDP, and SDK.
Writers During this Period
Lacaba’s book is truly representative of writers who were eyewitnesses to this
time “of terror and wrath.”

Other writers strove to pour out their anguish and frustrations in words
describing themselves as “gasping for the air, thirsting for the water of freedom.”
Thus, the Philippine Center for the International PEN (Poets, Essayists, and
Novelists) held a conference centering on the “writer’s lack of freedom in a
climate of fear.”.
Writers During this Period
For a day they denounced restrictions on artistic freedom and passionately led a
plea for freedom. Among the writers in this group were: Nick Joaquin, S.P.
Lopez, Gregorio Brillantes, F. Sionil Jose, Petronilo Daroy, Letty Jimenez-
Magsanoc, Mauro Avelina, and Jose W. Diokno.

People in the other media participated in this quest for freedom. Journalists Jose
Burgos Jr., Antonio Ma. Nieva, movie director Lino Brocka, art critic Anna Leah
S. de Leon were battling head – on against censorship.
Writers During this Period

They requested editors and publishers to publish the real names of writers in their
columns. It called on media to disseminate information on national interest
without partisan leanings and resolved to be united with all causes decrying
oppression and repression.
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