I would be talking about “Sex and Gender in COVID-19 times,” and by coincidence, the organizers set the webinar for June 19, today, which is Rizal’s birthday. This is to allow Filipinos to take a vacation and visit local tourist sites.“The NHI maintains that the observance of Rizal Day should be done on June 19, his actual date of birth. The consolidated bill, House Bill 5408, was already passed on third reading by the House of Representatives on Dec. 10, 2008.This means that it is only waiting for the Senate approval--and President Arroyo's signing--for it to take effect next year.“Jose Rizal as our national hero needs a better day for his heroism to be remembered,” said Gonzalez in a statement.“As we in the House of Representatives have done our part, I call on our senators to also approve the bill so that by next year, we will celebrate Rizal Day on June 19 and give Rizal the proper commemoration that he deserves,” Gonzalez added.Gonzalez is among the co-authors of the bill. It is also the founding anniversary of Kabataan Party, currently the only party-list representing the youth sector in the House of Representatives, with advocacies and campaigns inside and outside the halls of Batasan.On June 19, the nation would be commemorating the 148th birth anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal. Commemorating its significance on some other day would somehow lessen its meaning,” Ocampo argued in the letter. It is also the founding anniversary of Kabataan Party, currently the only party-list representing the youth sector in the House of Representatives, with advocacies and campaigns inside and outside the halls of Batasan. The latter is the date of Philippine independence from Spanish colonial rule.The observance of Rizal Day will have more impact if it is celebrated on June 19, Ocampo stressed in the letter.“Rizal’s birthday on June 19 falls close to significant days in the formation of Filipino nationhood such as the National Flag Day on May 28 and the Independence Day on June 12. Satellite celebrations will be held by different member-groups of the Celyo Rizal federation all over the nation. After the run, a youth mobilization will be held from 10 AM to 12 PM at Luneta, from where participants will embark on a march-parade around schools along Taft and Intramuros.Participants will then converge in front of the Commission on Elections by 2 PM for a closing program to call for clean and honest elections in 2010. Thus, students would be able to actively participate in the commemoration activities.Ocampo also wants to make sure that the Rizal Day should be observed regardless of which day of the week it falls on. Squeezed between Christmas and New Year holidays, the annual December 30 Rizal Day celebration does not get the spotlight that historians would want national hero Jose Rizal to have.National Historical Institute (NHI) chair Ambeth Ocampo has been seeking to move the observance of Rizal Day to June 19, which is the birthday of Rizal.“The present observance of Rizal Day on December 30 has lesser effect since people, especially students, are on their Christmas vacation,” he lamented in a September 12, 2008 letter to House committee on revision of laws vice-chair Iloilo City Rep. Raul Gonzalez Jr.Besides, Ocampo said it is “more appropriate to celebrate the birth anniversary than the death anniversary of our heroes.”Rizal was executed on December 30, 1896 by a firing squad on Bagumbayan Field (now Rizal Park) on orders of Spanish authorities. A youth concert will also be held at 6:00 in the afternoon in Quezon City.
More Impact on June 19. The others are Manila Rep. Jaime Lopez, Laguna representivatices Justin Chipeco and Maria Evita Arago, Pampanga Rep. Carmelo Lazatin, and Bulacan Rep. Ma. 245 declaring it Rizal Day and made it one of the official holidays in the Philippines.Ocampo wrote Gonzalez to express his approval to two pending bills seeking precisely to move Rizal Day observance to June 19. June 19 – Rizal celebrates his 26th birthday in Geneva, Switzerland. On June 19, the nation would be commemorating the 148th birth anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal. In full, JOSÉ PROTACIO RIZAL MERCADO Y ALONSO REALONDA (born 19 June 1861, Calamba, Philippines- died 30 December 1896, Manila, Philippines), patriot, physician and man of letters whose life and literary works were an inspiration to the Philippine nationalist movement.. Rizal was the son of a prosperous landowner and sugar planter of Chinese-Filipino descent on the island of Luzon. Howie’s references to loneliness made me think of Rizal’s exile in Dapitan, and how in many ways, the lockdown has made us all exiles, ironically in our own hometowns and homes. He was convicted of rebellion, sedition, and for supposedly forming an illegal association.It was General Emilio Aguinaldo who, in 1898, declared that December 30 of every year be a day of national mourning. Partly to encourage tourism, the government has allowed the movement of the observance of holidays that fall on Wednesdays to the following Monday. P. Rizal's 148th birth anniversary on June 19. {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}It appears your submission was successful. The observance of Rizal Day will have more impact if it is celebrated on June 19, Ocampo stressed in the letter. It was Rizal who coined the popular notion, ang kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan. On June 19, the nation would be commemorating the 148th birth anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal. Born on 19 June 1861, José Rizal is considered as the one of the greatest heroes in Philippine history, and is credited as starting the Philippine revolution against the Spanish colonisers. Central focus is its festival of events in Calamba City.