REPORT Period of Activism 1970 To 1972

PERIOD OF
ACTIVISM
(1970 TO 1972)
MEMBERS:
MIRANDA, RONALD B. JR.
PEREZ, CARLVY JOHN
CHRISTIAN VINZ T. MALUNES
CONSULTADO, SALVADOR G. JR
MARTIAL LAW
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
• • According to Ponciano Pineda, youth activism in 1970-72 was

due to domestic and worldwide causes. Activism is connected
with the history of our Filipino youth. Because of the ills of
society, the youth moved to seek reforms. Some continued to
believe 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.
Many young people became 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. As early as this period of history we can say that many of
those writers who were imprisoned were true nationalists and heroes of their
time.
• 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.
We just leave to scholars and researchers the giving of credit where credit is
due.
THE SEED ACTIVISM
• The seeds of activism resulted in the

declaration of Martial Law in 1972. We can,
however, say that he 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.
PERIOD OF 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?
THE LITERARY REVOLUTION
• • The youth became completely rebellious during this period. This was proven not only
in the bloody demonstrations and in the sidewalk expressions but also in literature.
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. Any establishment became the symbol of the ills that had to be changed. 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 reached 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

Rolando Tinio, Rogelio Mangahas, Efren Abueg, Rio Alma, and Clemente
Bautista.
WRITING DURING THE PERIOD OF ACTIVISM
• The irreverence for the poor reached its peak during this period of the mass
revolution. It was also during this period that Bomba films that discredit our ways 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 come from La Tondena, Inc., the firm founded by the late
Carlos Palanca Sr. For the list of winners from 1950-51 to 1960-70, we recommended
Alberto S. Florentino’s “Twenty Years of Palanca Awards.”)
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PERIOD OF

• • According to Ponciano Pineda, youth activism in 1970-72 was

• Many young activists were imprisoned in military camps together with

• The seeds of activism resulted in the

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

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