Balintawak is also a place north of
Manila, where
Andres Bonifacio began the
Philippine Revolution.
On August 26, Bonifacio
assembled the leaders and hundred of
comrades-in-arms in the hills of Balintawak north
of Manila. In an emotion-laden ceremony, the
fighters tore their residence certificates to
symbolize the termination of their loyalty to Spain
while shouting the battle cry: "Long live
Philippine independence!" The event went down
in Philippine history as the "Cry of Balintawak"
and is regarded as the starting signal for the
Philippine revolution. Today, a monument marks
this site which shows a Philippine peasant
swinging the "bolo", the national variation of the
machete.
From http://www.univie.ac.at/Voelkerkunde/apsis/aufi/rizal/har-cry.htm
shmOOnkie pOOnks' balintawak is more commonly known as baro't saya. This is from http://www.FilipinoHeritage.com:
Like their menfolk, the
female indigenes of the archipelago,
gradually covered their upper torsos
with short, sleeved collarless blouses
called baro, through the four hundred
years of colonization. And what was,
since ancient times, an all-purpose brief
wrap-around skirt - metamorphosed
into the long skirts called saya.