Dr. José P. Rizal - Juneau, AK
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A monument honoring the physician, civil rights activist, novelist, essayist, poet, and national hero of the Philippines, Dr. José P. Rizal, is located in Manila Square in downtown Juneau, AK.
Waymark Code: WMZAGT
Location: Alaska, United States
Date Posted: 10/09/2018
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In Dr.José P. Rizal was a polymath who not only practiced medicine but also wrote novels, poetry, and plays and even did sculpting. Many of his writings were on behalf of civil rights and the freedom of the Filipino people. He is the national hero of the Philippines.
A monument honoring Dr.José P. Rizal contains a bronze bust of the national hero of the Philippines mounted on a tapered block stone base containing three bronze plaques. Dr.Jose P. Rizal is depicted from the chest up. He is wearing a jacket with wide lapels, a high split collar and an ascot.
Below the bust on the tapered part of the base is a bronze plaque inscribed: Dr.Jose P. Rizal. Below is a second plaque inscribed:
THE CITY AND BOROUGH OF JUNEAU ASSEMBLY
HONORS THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF
FILIPINOS IN JUNEAU
BY NAMING THIS DOWNTOWN LOCATION
MANILA SQUARE
JUNEAU ASSEMBLY MEMBERS:
DALE ANDERSON DON ETHERIDGE, JR. JEANNIE JOHNSON KEN KOELSCH
FRANKIE PILLIFANT JIM POWELL RANDY WANAMAKER MARC WHEELER
JOHN MACKINNON, CITY MANAGER SALLY SMITH, MAYOR
FILIPINO COMMUNITY OF JUNEAU:
DANNIE LAZARO, PRESIDENT, 2002 - MORRIS CARRILLO, PRESIDENT, 2003
AUGUST 19, 2002
On the lower part of the base in a plaque with the inscription:
MANILA, THE THRIVING CAPITAL OF THE PHILIPPINES,
IS THE CENTER OF GOVERNMENT AND CULTURAL
HERITAGE, AND IS THE ECONOMIC HEART OF THE NATION.
IN 1904, ABOARD THE CABLE VESSEL "USS BURNSIDE,"
80 FILIPINOS ASSISTED THE INSTALLATION OF THE
FIRST TELEGRAPH CABLE LINKING JUNEAU AND SEATTLE.
DURING THE 1920S AND 1930S, FILIPINOS WORKED IN
SOUTHEAST FISH CANNERIES WHERE THEY WERE
REFERRED TO AS "ALASKEROS" AND LABORED
IN THE ALASKA-JUNEAU GOLD MINE.
THE FIRST FILIPINO COMMUNITY IN JUNEAU WAS
ORGANIZED IN 1929. IT WAS LATER INCORPORATED
UNDER TERRITORIAL LAW ON FEBRUARY 1, 1956.
ALL MEMBERS OF THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY
ARE GRATEFUL TO THE JUNEAU ASSEMBLY FOR
DEDICATING "MANILA SQUARE" IN THEIR HONOR.
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was born in Calamba, Philippines on June 19, 1861. He attended school in the Philippines before travelling to Spain, in 1882, to earn a medical degree from the Universidad Central de Madrid. He became leader of the reform movement of Filipino students in Spain. He contributed essays, allegories, poems, and editorials to the Spanish newspaper La Solidaridad in Barcelona espousing liberal and progressive ideas of individual rights and freedom for the Filipino people.
In 1896, a revolution erupted in the Philippines. While on route to Cuba through Spain, Rizal was arrested and imprisoned in Barcelona. He was sent to Manila, tried before a court-martial for rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy, convicted, and executed on December 30, 1896 at age thirty-five.
Works of José Rizal from his biography in Wikipedia:
Novels and essays:
Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not), novel, 1887
El Filibusterismo (sequel to Noli Me Tángere), novel, 1891
"Alin Mang Lahi" ("Whate'er the Race"), a traditional Filipino love song
The Friars and the Filipinos (Unfinished work)
"Toast to Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo", speech, 1884
The Diaries of José Rizal
Rizal's Letters a compendium of Dr. Jose Rizal's letters to his family members, Blumentritt, Fr. Pablo Pastells and other reformers
"Come se gobiernan las Filipinas" (Governing the Philippine Islands)
"Filipinas dentro de cien años" (The Philippines a Century Hence), essay, 1889–90
"La Indolencia de los Filipinos" (The indolence of Filipinos), essay, 1890
Makamisa unfinished novel
"Sa Mga Kababaihang Taga Malolos" (To the Young Women of Malolos), essay, 1889,
"Annotations to Antonio de Moragas, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas" (Events in the Philippine Islands), essay, 1889
Poetry:
"A La Juventud Filipina"
"El Canto Del Viajero"
"Briayle Crismarl"
"Canto de María Clara"
"Himno Al Trabajo"
"Felicitación"
"Kundiman"
"Me Piden Versos"
"Mi primera inspiracion"
"Mi Retiro"
"Mi Ultimo Adiós"
"Por La Educación"
"Sa Sanggol na si Jesus"
"A Mi Musa"
"Un Recuerdo A Mi Pueblo"
"A Man in Dapitan"
Plays:
El Consejo de los Dioses (The council of Gods)
Junto Al Pasig (Along the Pasig)
San Euistaquio, Mártyr (Saint Eustache, the martyr)
Sculpture:
The Triumph of Science over Death