2.

Read the issue of La Solidaridad and make a reflection paper by analyzing the
aims stated therein.

They must go out and speak for the illiterate and enslaved in a country
where the populace is deeply patriotic. Consequently, a publication was employed to
promote social and political transformation. An article outlining the goals of a
propaganda movement that united Filipino Liberals and Ilustrados was published on
February 15, 1889. La Solidaridad, a movement seen as a fundamental right of a
country devoid of democracy and its people, came together to highlight the injustices
experienced by Filipinos under the Spanish colonial authority. The propaganda's goals
were to fight for suppression, oppose dominance, and reach an agreement on political
and social progress. The dissemination of liberal ideas and information was intended to
heighten awareness and appeal to prejudice. Not a desire for independence, but rather
for equality, incited the intellectuals of the Philippines. Equally important was the idea
that by disclosing problems in order to find solutions, a reasonable democracy would
emerge. They are all hailed as our modest heroes, as was stressed. Because the
Spaniards established their culture and own rules towards us, our country resisted
colonial rule, friarocracy, and the injustice of political freedom, but the possession of
their firm principles is distorting, it's for their influence and integrity. On the other hand,
studying our history would most likely awaken our unconscious being to play a role in
helping our current state embrace its acquired freedom from our reformists. The press's
power is now concreted as a path to truth and justice in the pursuit of connection and
ideas that make solutions - a means to freedom.
2. Read the issue of La Solidaridad and make a reflection paper by analyzing the
aims stated therein.

The contributors of the La Solidaridad are:

Dr. José Rizal (LaongLaan and Dimasalang)
Marcelo H. Del Pilar (Plaridel)
Graciano Lopez Jaena (Diego Laura)
Antonio Luna (Taga-Ilog)
Mariano Ponce (Tignalang, Kalipulako,
Naning)
Jose Maria Panganiban (Jomapa)
Dominador Gomez (Ramiro Franco)
Other members
Dr. Pedro Paterno
Antonio Maria Regidor
Isabelo delos Reyes
Eduardo de Lete
José Alejandrino
Juan Luna
Miguel Moran
Felix Hidalgo
Pedro Serrano
Haris Rataban International members
La Solidaridad (The Solidarity) was an organization created in Spain on December 13,
1888. Composed of Filipino liberals exiled in 1872 and students attending Europe’s
universities, the organization aimed to increase Spanish awareness of the needs of its
colony, the Philippines, and to propagate a closer relationship between the Philippines
and Spain.
Headed by Galicano Apacible, it also issued a newspaper of the same name which was
published in Barcelona, Spain on February 15, 1889. It was edited by Graciano López
Jaena and later on by Marcelo H. Del Pilar.[2] The social, cultural, and economic
conditions of the colonial Philippines were published in La Solidaridad. Speeches of the
Spanish liberals about the Philippines were also featured in the newspaper.
La Solidaridad was established to express the goal of the Propaganda Movement
towards achieving assimilation with Spain. The first issue of La Solidaridad came out on
February 15, 1889. A fortnightly and a bi-weekly newspaper, La Solidaridad serves as
the principal organ of the Reform Movement in Spain.
Comite de Propaganda in the Philippines funded the publication of the La Solidaridad.
The editorship for the newspaper was first offered to José Rizal. However, he refused
because during that time he was annotating Antonio de Morga’s Sucesos de las Islas
Filipinas in London. After Rizal, Graciano López Jaena was offered the editorship of La
Solidaridad and he accepted.
On April 25, 1889, La Solidaridad published the letter entitled “The aspirations of the
Filipinos”, which was written by the Asociación Hispano-Filipina de Madrid (English:
Hispanic Filipino Association of Madrid). It pursued desires for:Representation in the
Cortes, Abolition of censure, An expressed and definite prohibition of the existing
practices of exiling residents by purely administrative order, and without a writ of
execution from the courts of justice.
On December 15, 1889, Marcelo H. Del Pilar replaced Graciano Lopez Jaena as the
editor of La Solidaridad. Under his editorship, the aims of the newspaper expanded and
drew the attention on politicians and even Spanish ministers. Using propaganda, it
pursued desires for:
That the Philippines be a province of Spain,
Filipino priests instead of Spanish friars — Augustinians, Dominicans, and Franciscans
— in parishes and remote sitios,
Freedom of assembly and speech,
Equal rights before the law (for both Filipino and Spanish plaintiffs).
After years of publication from 1889 to 1895, funding of the La Solidaridad became
scarce. Comite de Propaganda’s contribution to the newspaper stopped and del Pilar
funded the newspaper almost on his own. Penniless in Spain, del Pilar stopped the
publication of La Solidaridad on November 15, 1895, with 7 volumes and 160
issues.farewell editorial, he said :
Facing the obstacles that the reactionary persecutions bring in opposition to the
circulation of this newspaper in the Philippines, we have to suspend our publication for
some time. Nowadays, when there are ways to curb difficulties, we will not stop working
to overcome them. We are persuaded that no sacrifices are too little to win the rights
and the liberty of a nation that is oppressed by slavery. We work within the law and thus
will we continue publishing this newspaper whether here or abroad, depending on the
exigencies of the fight wherein Filipino reactionaries have come to impress upon all
Filipinos that in its soul there beats some sentiment of dignity and shame. Whether here
or abroad, we will continue developing our program b