CRY OF

BALINTAWAK
 The Cry of Balintawak

• Also known for “The Cry of Pugad Lawin

and the Birth of the Revolution”
• The Philippine Revolution against over
three centuries of Spanish domination
began with Andres Bonifacio, leader of
Katipunan, a liberalist movement that
sought independence for the Philippines
from Spanish colonial rule.
• The Katipunan was an offshoot from Jose
Rizal’s La Liga Filipina, a movement that
sought to bring about political reform in the
colonial government of the Spanish. Rizal
had been deported just after his organization
was formed with their first meeting.
• Bonifacio and others lost all hope of any
peaceful reform being brought about by La
Liga Filipina.
• They concentrated their efforts into the
Katipunan to bring about a revolution with the
use of violence and arms.
• The organization consisted of both male
and female supporters, including
Bonifacio’s wife, who led the female action.
• After some time, a series of arrests of
Katipuneros in Manila followed and several
Filipinos were jailed or imprisoned.
• Jose Rizal was executed later at the old
Bagumbayan field on December 30.
• With the hunt for Katipunan members still ongoing,
Manila had become a dangerous place for them. As
many as five hundred arrests had been made and
many fled the city for fear of been captured, tortured
or killed.
• Bonifacio was not amongst those captured, however
he and many others escaped to Pugadlawin, and in a
meeting at the house of Juan Ramos of August 23,
1896 , Bonifacio urged his followers to tear into pieces
their cedulas (residence certificates) as a sign of
revolt against the Spanish government.
• The men, highly motivated by the
killings and arrest of their
members in Manila, tore up the
documents and let out the cry “
Long Live the Philippines”, which
is known as the Cry of
Pugadlawin in Philippine History”.
 Is it Cry of
Pugadlawin or Cry
of Balintawak?
• Concludes that the “Cry of Pugad
Lawin” is an invented story, the
reconstructs the events in
Balintawak when Andres
Bonifacio’s Katipuneros
assembled in Pook Kangkong
from 22 to 26 August 1896.
 What did the
Cedula signify?
• The cedula is a reminder of Spain’s
tyranny against Filipinos who where
branded as “indios” during the
invaders’ 300-year rule. It’s a piece of
paper that symbolizes the spaniards’
oppression and tearing the same
means the start of our fight for
freedom and independence.
Where did the Cry
of Rebellion takes
place?
• The accounts (Milagros Guerrero,
Emmanuel Encarnacion and
Ramon Villegas) say that the
Katipunan held a meeting on
August 26, 1896 at the home of
Tandang Sora’s barn in Gulod,
Barangay Balat Quezon City.