PROPAGANDA MOVEMENT

(1872 – 1892)

a literary and cultural organization (1872)◦ by Filipino émigrés who had settled in Europe.

aims ◦ to increase Spanish awareness of the needs of its

colony ◦ to propagate a closer relationship between the

colony and Spain.

Propaganda movement

-Philippine representation in the Spanish Cortes

Equal status and opportunities for both Filipinos and Spaniards especially when entering to government service

Creation of a public schoolsystem independent of the friars

Goals

Abolish◦ polo (labor service) ◦ vandala (forced sale of local products to the

government)

Guarantee ◦ basic freedoms of speech and association

Secularization of the clergy

Goals

Fathers Mariano Gomez Jose Burgos Jacinto Zamora

◦ Executed (February 17, 1872.) awakened Filipinos inspire the organization of the Propaganda

Movement.

GomBurZa

Members = “propagandists” or “reformist”

The Propaganda Movement

Filipinos exiled ->Marianes Islands in 1872 Illustrados in the Philippines Filipinos who fled to avoid punishment

Propagandists

Graciano Lopez Jaena Marcelo H. Del Pilar Jose Rizal

Prominent members

brilliant orator ◦ Wrote “Fray Botod”, “Ezperanza”

Publisher of La Solidaridad◦ Movement’s principal organ

Dec. 13, 1888 in Barcelona

Graciano Lopez Jaena

excellent writer and speaker.

◦ Caiingat Cayo”, ◦ “Dasalan at Tocsohan” ◦ “Ang Sampung Kautusan ng mga Prayle”.

M.H. Del Pilar

most outstanding propagandist. great novelist of the Propaganda Movement.

◦ Noli Me Tangere (Touch me not) in 1886 ◦ El Filibusterismo (The reign of greed) in 1891

annotated the book, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas-showed that Filipinos had developed culture

even before the Spanish occupation

Jose Rizal

The Philippines a Century Hence The Indolence of the Filipinos or La

Indolencia de Los Filipinos Letter to the Women of Malolos

Rizal’s out of the country essays

His criticisms brought up enemies was executed at Bagumbayan

◦ Dec. 30, 1896,

Rizal’s arrest marked the crucial period of the propagandists◦ La Liga Filipina collapesed◦ M.H. Del Pilar and Lopez Jaena

Died in Barcelona (1896)

The end of the Propaganda Movement

The writings by the Propaganda Movement ◦ inspired Andres Bonifacio

to establish the “Katipunan” set the Philippine revolution in place.

The end marked the beginning