PROPAGANDA MOVEMENT

THE PROPAGANDA MOVEMENT

• When Filipinos can no longer resist the abuses of the Spaniards, little
by little they started propaganda to reveal the wrong doings of both
the church and the colonial government.
• “PROPAGANDA” refers to the movement intended to inform the
Spaniards in the Peninsula of actual situations in the Philippines in
concluding half of the 19th century.
FILIPINO PROPAGANDISTS
MARCELO H. DEL PILAR
• Born in Cupang , Bulacan on August 30 , 1850, a writer,
lawyer, journalist and a free mason. His pen name was
Plaridel. Marcelo’s parents were Don Julian del Pilar, an excellent
Tagalog grammarian, speaker and poet. Dona Blasa Gatmaytan , known as Blasica.
Don Julian was three times gobernadorcillo of the pueblo of Bulacan.
• He became the Editor-in-Chief of the Propaganda newspaper La Solidaridad.
• He was also known as the Father of Freemasonry and Journalism in the
Philippines.
• Marcelo H. Del Pilar died on July 4,1896, a few days before the Cry of Pugad
Lawin.
JOSE P. RIZAL
• From Calamba Laguna, Jose was born on June 19,1861
and died on Decemeber 30, 1896 in Bagumbayan, Manila.
• Rizal published his first novel, Noli me Tangere
• Second novel was the El Filibusterismo
• He served as the leading spokesperson of the Philippine reform movement in Spain.
• He also published an annonated edition of Antonio Morga’s .
• He contributed numerous articles to the newspaper, La Solidaridad, published in Spain.
• One of Rizal’s political plans was to integrate the Philippines as a province of Spain.
• Rizal returned to the Philippines in June 26 1892.
• He founded the La Liga Filipina, in Manila.
• The Spanish authorities exiled him in Dapitan, Zamboanga Del Norte from JULY 17,1892
TO JULY 31, 1896.
 JUAN LUNA
• He was born in Badoc, Ilocos Norte on October 23,1857.
• Juan Luna was an artist and a political activist during the
Spanish colonization in the Philippines.
• Recognized as the First Filipino artist. He won gold and Silver
Medal in the 1884 Madrid Fine Arts Exposition.
• His paintings contain themes of one shouting to Spain and to
the world about the Filipino whom the Spaniards called as
Indios and that a barbarian can dominate and paint than their
Spanish colonizers.
Felix Resurrection Hidalgo
• He was born on February 21 , 1855 in Binondo Manila and
Died on March 13, 1913.
• He was also an artist
• He was also known as one of the great Filipino painters of the
late 19th century.
• He won the silver medal in the 1884 Madrid Exposition of Fine
Arts.
GRACIANO LOPEZ JAENA
• He was a native of Jaro, Ilo-Ilo and was born on December 18,1856,
he died January 20,1896 at the age of 39.
• He was also known for addressing the injustices that occurred
amongst the Filipino people.
• His first attempt at addressing problems in local society was
through a story entitled Fray Botod.
• Jaena was know to publish a number of literary works that
challenged the status quo.
• One of his most popular works included the La Solidaridad, which
was a newspaper that played a very significant part in the
propaganda movement that helped lead to the Philippine
Revolution.
MARIANO PONCE
• He was a doctor by profession and one of the leaders of
the movement that spread the idea of Philippine
independence from Spanish colonial rule.
• He wrote in the newspaper and was one among the
founders of La Solidaridad and Asociation Hispano-Filipino
• Some of his works were Efemerides Filipinas, a column on
historical events in the Philippines which appeared in La
Oceania Espanola and El Ideal.
• He also wrote Ang Wika at Lahi , a discussion on the
importance of a national language.
DR.PIO VALENZUELA
• He was the Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper of the
Katipunan entitled Kalayaan.
• He was born in Bulacan on June 11,1869 and died on April
1965.
• He was a physician and a strong revolutionary leader.
• At the age of 23, he joined the Katipunan-the organization
he believed to start the independence of the Philippines
from the Spanish rule.
• They organized the secret chamber of the society called
Camara Reina ( with Andres Bonifacio and Emilio Jacinto .
He went to Dapitan where Dr. Rizal was exiled and tried to
convince him to join the revolutionary movement they
planned.