The Publishers Association of the Philippines, Inc. (PAPI) will hold a colloquium to honor a hero, Graciano Lopez Jaena. It has called on the country’s community journalists to join the "second wave of the propaganda movement to liberate the Filipinos from economic bondage."The colloquium, scheduled on December 16, 2006 at 2 p.m. at the Bohol Tropics Hotel in Tagbilaran City, will be in commemoration of the hero’s 150th birth anniversary.
It will be a fitting tribute to the foremost Filipino journalist and will be a strategic convergence of publishers, editors, columnists, radio TV broadcasters, commentators, and other communicators, including writers, book authors and campus journalists.
Juan P. Dayang, PAPI president, said the colloquium on the great Filipino propagandist will usher in the three-day 11th National Press Congress scheduled from December 16 to 19, 2006.
According to Dayang, while the first Propaganda Movement advocated freedom from foreign colonial oppression, there remains an urgent need to mount a second wave of propaganda movement for economic liberation.
In a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Historical Institute (NHI), PAPI committed to undertake the colloquium project and spearhead the publicity drive for the 150th birth anniversary of Lopez Jaena.
NHI is the state agency tasked to coordinate inter-agency efforts to honor Lopez Jaena and his life and works under Administrative Order No. 153 issued by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on June 5, 2006.
A fiery orator and journalist who was born in Jaro, Iloilo City on December 18, 1856, Lopez-Jaena was part of the triumvirate that led the propaganda movement against the Spanish colonial rule in the 1890s. Dr. Jose P. Rizal and Marcelo H. del Pilar were the two others.
Dayang said Graciano Lopez-Jaena’s legacy is now even more relevant as the country braces for an economic take-off.
PAPI’s 11th National Press Congress banners the theme "Media and Tourism: Partners for Progress."
Through its regional media summits and its annual press congress, PAPI has focused on activities designed to help spur countryside economic development, while addressing other crucial issues and concerns.
In addition to mainstream tourism, medical tourism, historical and cultural tourism, PAPI has embarked on a new media thrust to help lure foreign investors, tourists and balikbayans to visit the Philippines. /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
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