Monday, January 08, 2007
Prof. Monico Atienza
Dear Friends,
We are writing you on behalf of Prof.Monico M. Atienza, who has beencomatose since December 23, 2006. An undetected mass in his throatgradually blocked air passage, which finally led to successive heart seizures.
Monico is the president of the FirstQuarter Storm (FQS) Movement, anorganization of activists in the 1960sand 1970s. In various ways, he hascontinuously helped and inspired activists of people's organizationsand institutions, especially the youthand students.
As a political prisoner during martial law, Monico was heavily tortured and held in solitary confinement. Government intelligence claimed thathe was a ranking member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party ofthe Philippines and head of its National Organization Department when he was arrested in 1974. Released in 1977, he went back to the university.
As secretary-general of the militant Kabataang Makabayan (Patriotic Youth) in the late 1960s, he was among the indefatigable architects of the youth and student activism that eventually expanded to help establish today's formidable progressive mass movement in the Philippines.
In 1987, he survived an assassination attempt by a death squad of thePhilippine military which claimed the lives of two colleagues. Monico's health, already deteriorated by thetorture in 1974, all the more worsened with the injuries he sustained in the incident. A shrapnel remains imbedded in his head and a leg wound would not heal to this day.
Now confined at the Central Intensive Care Unit of the Philippine General Hospital, Monico is kept alive by a life support system. His condition remains critically stable.
Monico has no source of income other than his teaching at the university. The meager health benefits available to him are not enough to sustain the costof hospitalization and probable therapy.
Let us all help a great comrade, mentor and friend.
Donations may be personally given toBernardita "Didith" V. de Guzman of the First Quarter Storm Movement ordeposited to:
Bank: Bank of the Philippine Islands
Address: Diliman Branch, QuezonCity, Philippines Account
Name: Alberto S. AguilarSavings
Account Number: 4259-0220-91
Swift Code: BOPIPHMM
For Task Force Monico M. Atienza,
(Sgd.)Bonifacio P. Ilagan
Chair, First Quarter Storm Movement
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Ako ay isang pasaway niyang estudyante sa PI 100. Hindi ako pumapasok (lagpas na sa maximum number of absences allowed. On the average, mga 4 times a month lang ako pumapasok) at hindi nagsasubmit ng sandamakmak na papers. Hindi rin ako nag-take ng Midterms. Tapos nung magda-drop na ko ng subject, pinuntahan ko siya sa office at ayaw pirmahan ang dropping slip ko! Hindi daw siya papayag. Naniniwala raw siya na magaling akong estudyante. Gagawan daw namin ng paraan ang lahat ng na-missed ko para makahabol ako sa klase. Una, may kakulitan si Sir Atienza. Tingin ko sa kanya ay isang Lolo na may pagka-konsidor pagdating sa apo. Pero magaling siyang prof, aamin ko. Pangalawa, nahihiya naman ako dahil prof pa ang nakikiusap para wag ako mag-drop. Therefore, pinagawa niya ko ng ilang papers to make up for the 1 million papers that I missed. Nagpaka-bibo sa klase at tapos nag-take ako ng finals (yun iba kasi exempted). Final grade ko ay taraaan! 1.5!!! Mataas pa grade ko sa mga mabubuting estudyante gaya ng roommate ko na classmate ko rin nun: "Ano ba, Armine, wala ka na naman sa class kanina!".
Tawag sa akin ni Sir ay “Sisa.” Yes, ang ina nila Crispin at Basilio. He’s reminded of Sisa raw kasi kapag nakikita niya ko. Wag na natin isipin kung bakit. If I remember correctly, pinapapunta pa niya ko sa office niya para kunin ko raw yun gift niya sa akin(I bet libro ni Rizal yun). Pero nakalimutan ko. Naging email pals din kami since then. Pangarap niyang matapos ako bilang "indyinir." Wag na wag daw ako magshi-shift at malalagot daw ako sa kanya. Tuwing makakasalubong ko siya or ie-email niya ko, kinukumusta nya kung gano na lang daw ba ako kalayo mula sa pagiging "indyinir." Kaya nung nag-shift out ako ng Eng'g, nagtatago na ko sa kanya. Nahihiya kasi ako. :(
So imagine my shock when i heard about this news. Honestly, as of now, hindi ko alam kung kasalukuyan pa rin siyang lumalaban gaya noon. I'm having this gutsy feeling na bisitahin siya sa PGH, too late na kaya? Sad pa doon, wala na rin siyang malapit na kamag-anak dito. Haaay. Sad news. :(
We are writing you on behalf of Prof.Monico M. Atienza, who has beencomatose since December 23, 2006. An undetected mass in his throatgradually blocked air passage, which finally led to successive heart seizures.
Monico is the president of the FirstQuarter Storm (FQS) Movement, anorganization of activists in the 1960sand 1970s. In various ways, he hascontinuously helped and inspired activists of people's organizationsand institutions, especially the youthand students.
As a political prisoner during martial law, Monico was heavily tortured and held in solitary confinement. Government intelligence claimed thathe was a ranking member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party ofthe Philippines and head of its National Organization Department when he was arrested in 1974. Released in 1977, he went back to the university.
As secretary-general of the militant Kabataang Makabayan (Patriotic Youth) in the late 1960s, he was among the indefatigable architects of the youth and student activism that eventually expanded to help establish today's formidable progressive mass movement in the Philippines.
In 1987, he survived an assassination attempt by a death squad of thePhilippine military which claimed the lives of two colleagues. Monico's health, already deteriorated by thetorture in 1974, all the more worsened with the injuries he sustained in the incident. A shrapnel remains imbedded in his head and a leg wound would not heal to this day.
Now confined at the Central Intensive Care Unit of the Philippine General Hospital, Monico is kept alive by a life support system. His condition remains critically stable.
Monico has no source of income other than his teaching at the university. The meager health benefits available to him are not enough to sustain the costof hospitalization and probable therapy.
Let us all help a great comrade, mentor and friend.
Donations may be personally given toBernardita "Didith" V. de Guzman of the First Quarter Storm Movement ordeposited to:
Bank: Bank of the Philippine Islands
Address: Diliman Branch, QuezonCity, Philippines Account
Name: Alberto S. AguilarSavings
Account Number: 4259-0220-91
Swift Code: BOPIPHMM
For Task Force Monico M. Atienza,
(Sgd.)Bonifacio P. Ilagan
Chair, First Quarter Storm Movement
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Ako ay isang pasaway niyang estudyante sa PI 100. Hindi ako pumapasok (lagpas na sa maximum number of absences allowed. On the average, mga 4 times a month lang ako pumapasok) at hindi nagsasubmit ng sandamakmak na papers. Hindi rin ako nag-take ng Midterms. Tapos nung magda-drop na ko ng subject, pinuntahan ko siya sa office at ayaw pirmahan ang dropping slip ko! Hindi daw siya papayag. Naniniwala raw siya na magaling akong estudyante. Gagawan daw namin ng paraan ang lahat ng na-missed ko para makahabol ako sa klase. Una, may kakulitan si Sir Atienza. Tingin ko sa kanya ay isang Lolo na may pagka-konsidor pagdating sa apo. Pero magaling siyang prof, aamin ko. Pangalawa, nahihiya naman ako dahil prof pa ang nakikiusap para wag ako mag-drop. Therefore, pinagawa niya ko ng ilang papers to make up for the 1 million papers that I missed. Nagpaka-bibo sa klase at tapos nag-take ako ng finals (yun iba kasi exempted). Final grade ko ay taraaan! 1.5!!! Mataas pa grade ko sa mga mabubuting estudyante gaya ng roommate ko na classmate ko rin nun: "Ano ba, Armine, wala ka na naman sa class kanina!".
Tawag sa akin ni Sir ay “Sisa.” Yes, ang ina nila Crispin at Basilio. He’s reminded of Sisa raw kasi kapag nakikita niya ko. Wag na natin isipin kung bakit. If I remember correctly, pinapapunta pa niya ko sa office niya para kunin ko raw yun gift niya sa akin(I bet libro ni Rizal yun). Pero nakalimutan ko. Naging email pals din kami since then. Pangarap niyang matapos ako bilang "indyinir." Wag na wag daw ako magshi-shift at malalagot daw ako sa kanya. Tuwing makakasalubong ko siya or ie-email niya ko, kinukumusta nya kung gano na lang daw ba ako kalayo mula sa pagiging "indyinir." Kaya nung nag-shift out ako ng Eng'g, nagtatago na ko sa kanya. Nahihiya kasi ako. :(
So imagine my shock when i heard about this news. Honestly, as of now, hindi ko alam kung kasalukuyan pa rin siyang lumalaban gaya noon. I'm having this gutsy feeling na bisitahin siya sa PGH, too late na kaya? Sad pa doon, wala na rin siyang malapit na kamag-anak dito. Haaay. Sad news. :(
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