These documents of the resolution of the UP Diliman Student Council of the College of Arts and Sciences on the barricades during the Diliman Commune of 1971 were scanned and OCRd from the original hardcopies by the late Engr. Mon Ramirez. The following quoted caption are also by Monram.

Resolution of the Student Council of the College of Arts and Sciences on the Barricades

The USC resolution, “BARRICADES ARE FINE” – RESOLUTION ENDORSING THE BARRICADES AS A FORM OF PROTEST, was sponsored by University Councilor Reynaldo B. Vea. Vea graduated magna cum laude in Mechanical Engineering, became Dean of the UP College of Engineering, MWSS Administrator and presently the president of the Mapua University.

The resolution was attested by June C. Pagaduan. She later graduated from the UP College of Medicine and is presently a professor of psychiatry in the same institution; she was an Expert Member of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture, and WHO and UNFPA expert on gender and health drafting and reviewing international and national policy documents, programs and guidelines on gender mainstreaming in health and violence against women.

It was attested by the USC Chairman, Ericson Baculinao who graduated cum laude and now the long-time, award winning bureau chief of NBC News US television.

The secretary then of the Arts and Sciences Student Council was Carol Pagaduan who later graduated cum laude and went on to the UP College of Medicine. Dr. Carol Pagaduan-Araullo is presently the BAYAN Chair.

BARRICADES ARE FINE

RESOLUTION ENDORSING THE BARRICADES AS A FORM OF PROTEST

WHEREAS, direct and intense confrontation between reactionary and progressive forces is inevitable in a semi- colonial and semi-feudal society that is fast evolving into its historical opposite, the national democratic society;

WHEREAS, the crisis over the dictated increase in the prices of oil, gasoline and other petroleum products has concretely manifested the irreconcilable enntradiction between the interests of the xmerican imperialists on the one hand and the Filipino people on the other;

WHEREAS, the local neo-colonial State, controlled by the treacherous local ruling class headed by IN,Iarcos, has once and for all exposed its servility and violent puppetry to foreign interests by its use of fascist force to suppress the democratic rights of the patriotic drivers, students and other progressive classes in the specific instance of the current transport strike;

WHEREAS, the political power that will virally put an end to foreign and feudal exploitaticn could emanate from the masses &one in their relentless protracted struggle against the forces of reaction at all levels and on all fronts;

WHEREAS, the BARRICADES arose spontaneously and immediately gained mass support as a form of .protest and as a direct exercise of people’s political power during the first wave of confrontation in the current transport strike;

WHEREAS, it was found to be effective and was subsequently employed on a larger scale, and in a more effective degree and in a conscious manner during the second wave of confrontation not only in UP but in Greater Manila as well;

WHEREAS, in the case of UP, the barricades at the University gates served as concrete manifestations of support for the active participation in the transport strike while those inside the campus assumed the function and symbol of popular resistance against fascist suppression of “academic freedom” or more precisely, of democratic rights;

WHEREAS, the barricades serve the national democratic Cultural Revolution by being dynamic and graphic manifestations of the contradictions in society and of the polarization of forces which find themselves on opposite sides of the barricades, and by being a clear clarion to all progressives and patriots to man the barricades;

WHEREAS, aside from the cultural significance of the barricades, they also have direct political value by temporarily allowing the extended exercise of democratic rights as in the establishment of the Diliman Commune;

WHEREAS, the development of objective conditions augur more and deeper crisis over oil and other conflicts between American imperialism and the broad masses of Filipinos;

WHEREAS, the development of objective conditions also augur the continuous assaults of the University as the reactionary fascist State at;:empts to physically harass the counter-university, which now serves as an iron bastion of the national democratic cultural revolution;

WHEREAS, setting up of barricades is a legitimate, effective and inevitable means of political action and protest;

WHEREAS. by previous experience, the masses of UP students can themselves say “BARRICADES ARE FINE!”

WHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, THAT THE U. P. STUDENT COUNCIL ENDORSE BARRICADES AS A FORM OF PROTEST.

(Adopted on February 13, 1971)

ATTESTED BY:

(Sgd. ) ERICSON M. BACULINAO Chairman
(Sgd.) JUNE C. PAGADUAN Secretary

SPONSORED BY: REYNALDO B. VEA. University Councilor

*RAISE A THOUSAND BARRICADES AGAINST IMPERIALIST EXPLOITATION AND INTRUSION!

*SMASH THE IMPERIALIST ECONOMIC-POLITICAL-CULTURAL BARRICADE AGAINST THE FILIPINO MASSES!