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	June 12 as Independence Day
		The celebration of independence day on June 12, on the other hand, would be a greater inspiration to the youth who would consequently recall the heroes of the revolution against Spain and their acts of sublime heroism and martyrdom.
		In the consideration of the measure, the snag was solved by the provision that with June 12 being declared Independence Day, July 4 shall be known as Republic Day.
		When I was a congressman, I formed the opinion that July 4 was not the proper independence day for Filipinos and should be changed to June 12-- the date General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the independence of the Filipinos in Kawit, Cavite, in 1898.
	www.bibingka.com /phg/documents/whyjun12.htm (1643 words)

	The Independence Day That Wasn't
		Although Filipinos generally hold the United States in high regard, many of those who have focused on the July 4 anniversary think of it as the independence day that wasn't.
		They note that the U.S. retained sovereignty over dozens of military bases, and that independence was linked to legislation passed by the U.S. Congress which was designed to insure that the Philippines would remain a virtual economic ward of the United States.
		As Americans relax around their barbecues this Independence Day, we might consider how our own forefathers would have reacted had such a provision been demanded by Britain as part of the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War.
	www.bibingka.com /phg/misc/july4not.htm (1244 words)

	War and Empire in Fourth of July Cartoons
		Protesting the Independence Day Colony: Fourth of July Symbolism in the Debate about Imperialism, a collection of Fourth of July speeches, poems, and proclamations by anti-imperialists that used Independence Day symbolism to oppose U.S. imperialism in the Philippines.
		During the colonization of the Philippines, which required a protracted war and provoked the most heated opposition within the United States, Independence Day was used to mark transitions in U.S. rule.
		In 1898 and 1899, several cartoonists incorporated fireworks representing warfare, and F. Attwood of Life magazine portrayed Uncle Sam attacking the Philippines on Independence Day (above).
	www.boondocksnet.com /gallery/4july_intro.html (1244 words)

	Holidays and Festivals - The Philippines
		Public holidays New Year's Day, Freedom Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Labor Day (May 1), Araw ng Kagitingan, Independence Day, National Heroes' Day (Aug 27), Barangay Day (Sep 11), Thanksgiving Day (Sep 21), All Saints' Day, Bonifacio Day, Christmas, Rizal Day, New Year's Eve.
		The Republic of the Philippines is in the Pacific Ocean in southeast Asia.
		The birthday of Andres Bonifacio (b.1896), who led the 1896 revolt against the Spanish.
	www.shagtown.com /days/philippines.html (119 words)

	Holidays and Festivals - The Philippines
		Public holidays New Year's Day, Freedom Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Labor Day (May 1), Araw ng Kagitingan, Independence Day, National Heroes' Day (Aug 27), Barangay Day (Sep 11), Thanksgiving Day (Sep 21), All Saints' Day, Bonifacio Day, Christmas, Rizal Day, New Year's Eve.
		The birthday of Andres Bonifacio (b.1896), who led the 1896 revolt against the Spanish.
		Each day begins with church bells to call people to dawn masses, concluding with a midnight mass on Christmas Eve.
	www.shagtown.com /days/philippines.html (119 words)

	War and Empire in Fourth of July Cartoons
		During the colonization of the Philippines, which required a protracted war and provoked the most heated opposition within the United States, Independence Day was used to mark transitions in U.S. rule.
		Protesting the Independence Day Colony: Fourth of July Symbolism in the Debate about Imperialism, a collection of Fourth of July speeches, poems, and proclamations by anti-imperialists that used Independence Day symbolism to oppose U.S. imperialism in the Philippines.
		The Philippines was eventually granted independence from the United States on July 4, 1946.
	www.boondocksnet.com /gallery/4july_intro.html (776 words)

	PHIL-AM FRIENDSHIP DAY: RENEWING BOND OF FREEDOM AND DEVELOPMENT
		In the succeeding years, the role of the Filipinos in that government expanded so that in 1916, through the Philippine Autonomy Act, known as the Jones Law, the Philippines was given considerable home rule and promised independence after the establishment of a stable government.
		Pursuant to the Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934, the Philippines became a fully self-governing Commonwealth in 1935 in preparation for complete independence after ten years.
		Manila, July 4, 2003 (STAR) The relationship between the Philippines and the United States began at the end of the 19th century, during the Spanish-American war, in which Filipino revolutionaries and American forces fought together to liberate the Philippines from colonial domination.
	www.newsflash.org /2003/05/tl/tl012107.htm (776 words)

	COMMENT: Fancy of history
		And it can be a paradox that, by the way the Philippines has been conducting her friendship with the United States, June 12 as the RP Independence Day can be as much a fancy of history as is the July 4 RP-US Friendship Day.
		It restored the fervor of the Filipinos' armed struggle for independence against Spain while, at the same time, commemorating a benevolent act of a friend, the 48 years of American colonization of the Philippines.
		Ten years after, the two friends renewed their military cooperation as shown in the joint military exercises today and the US military assistance.
	www.mindanews.com /2002/07/1st/vws03diaz.html (776 words)

	Filipino-American Friendship Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally, the islands' Independence day, Araw ng Kalayaan, was on this day but Macapagal moved it to June 12, the date on which the Philippines declared independence from Spain in 1898.
		Filipino-American Friendship Day, July 4, is a day in the Philippines designated by President Diosdado Macapagal to commemorate the liberation of the islands by joint Filipino and American forces from the Japanese occupation at the end of World War II, in 1946.
		Filipino-American Friendship Day was created in its place, and coincides with the United States' July 4 Independence Day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Filipino-American_Friendship_Day (776 words)

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		The centennial year of Philippine independence begins on Jun 12, the anniversary of the day in 1898 when Filipino revolutionaries declared the birth of Asia's first republic after rising up in arms against its Spanish colonisers.
		The Philippines became fully independent after American rule on July 4, 1946 -- a day that for a long time had been marked here, many believe oddly, as 'Filipino-American Friendship Day'.
		That was the year the Americans closed down their largest overseas military bases located in the Philippines, after the Senate had voted the year before to kick the U.S. installations out.
	filipinokastila.tripod.com /anti.html (776 words)

	Philippines Holidays
		ormer president Marcos changed the Philippine Independence Day celebration from July 4, the day of independence from the United States, to June 12, the day of freedom from Spanish rule.
		ilipinos hold numerous festivals, holidays and fiestas that mark religious and historical events or traditional rituals based on nature.
		Men wear slacks and the barong tagalog, a fine shirt made out of pineapple pulp with either long or short sleeves.
	cp.settlement.org /english/philippines/holidays.html (776 words)

	Filipino Heritage Day
		After purchasing the Philippines for $20 million from Spain, the United States of America imposed their own benevolent democracy on the Philippines for the next 50 years, “granting” independence to the Philippines on July 4, 1946 under the Tydings-McDuffie Act, after nearly four years of brutal Japanese occupation.
		Due to the “special relations” between the Philippines and the United States, July 4 continues to be marked as Philippine-American Friendship Day.
		Why are we celebrating the Filipino Heritage Day on June 11, 2000?
	www.helpcity.com /faccheritageday/hert2.htm (776 words)

	BALITANG BETERANO: FACTS ABOUT THE PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE
		When the guns of war turned silent, the Philippines was ready for its promised independence.
		The Philippine Commonwealth was nearing its dream of one day, on July 4th 1946, would be the Second Philippine Republic to be proclaimed by the United States of America as a separate and independent state.
		Independence initiated a perceptible nationalist movement toward cultural freedom among the intelligentsia, and the whole citizenry.
	www.newsflash.org /2004/02/tl/tl012375.htm (776 words)

	July 4th is "Filipino American Friendship Day"
		He felt that the Fourth of July activities in the United States overshadowed the Philippine independence celebration, so he declared July 4th as “Filipino American Friendship Day” in the islands.
		Daly City is home to one of the largest Filipino populations outside of the Philippines, with over 31.5% of the city’s population being Filipino American.
		While they were freed from Spanish rule, after the Spanish-American War, the Philippines fell under the colonial rule of the United States.
	democrats.assembly.ca.gov /members/a12/oped/op122003009.htm (776 words)

	Philippine Centennial Movement of Northeast USA and Canada
		To commemorate the events that distinguished the Philippines as the first constitutional democracy in Asia, namely the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution in 1896, the declaration of Philippine Independence on June 12, 1898 and the ratification of a Philippine Constitution by the 1898 Malolos Congress in January 1899.
		Philippine Revolution: Milestone Dates is being released in commemoration of the anniversary of the death of Andres Bonifacion on November 30, now designated as National Heroes Day in the Philippines.
		This organization was formed to arouse the spirit of nationalism among the people and to work for the Philippines' independence from Spain.
	pw1.netcom.com /~pnbnyc/centenn.html (3072 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Independence (CV 22)
		Independence returned to Ulithi for long-delayed rest and replenishment 9 to 14 November, but soon got underway to operate off the Philippines on night attacks and defensive operations.
		Independence returned to Ulithi 13 March 1945 and got underway the next day for operations against Okinawa, last target in the Pacific before Japan itself.
		Japanese air counterattacks were repulsed, with Independence providing day strike groups in addition to night fighters and reconnaissance aircraft for defensive protection.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/carriers/histories/cv22-independence/cv22-independence.html (1157 words)

	GN Online: Protest rallies mark Manila-U.S. Friendship Day
		Groups from rival leftist factions held separate programmes in front of the embassy, which was closed for the day, as the U.S. marks Independence Day on July 4, the same day people here traditionally hold the Philippines-American Friendship Day.
		Anti-U.S. activists in Manila yesterday marked Philippines-American Friendship Day by marching to the U.S. embassy and slamming Washington's perceived "hegemony" over the Philippines.
		GN Online: Protest rallies mark Manila-U.S. Friendship Day
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=56630 (1157 words)

	Presidential Proclamation No. 28
		President of the Philippines by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 30 of the Revised Administrative Code, do hereby declare Tuesday, June 12, 1962, as a special public holiday throughout the Philippines in commemoration of our people's declaration of their inherent and inalienable right to freedom and independence.
		I urge all national, provincial, city and municipal officials throughout the country to make arrangements in their respective localities for the appropriate celebration of the occasion as Philippine Independence Day.
		I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.
	www.bibingka.com /phg/documents/jun12.htm (1157 words)

	Republic of the Philippines
		General Emilio Aguinaldo, who first proclaimed Philippine Independence on June 12, 1898, was the guest of honour at the first Independence Day celebrations held on June 12, 1962.
		Magsaysay ran for the Nacionalista Party in 1953 and took two-thirds of the vote to defeat Quirino.
		Sergio Osmena became President of the Philippine Commonwealth and came ashore at Leyte with MacArthur.
	www-atdp.berkeley.edu /9931/jvillafl/republicphilippines.html (443 words)

	Philippine Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Philippine Declaration of Independence was an event on June 12, 1898 in the Philippines wherein the Filipino revolutionary forces under Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the sovereignty of the Philippine Islands from the colonial rule of Spain after the latter was defeated at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
		The event saw the unfurling of the national flag of the Philippines and the performance of the Marcha Nacional, as the country's national anthem, today known as Lupang Hinirang.
		From 1946 to 1961, Independence Day was observed on July 4, but in the name of nationalism, President Diosdado Macapagal, upon the advice of historians, reverted to the June 12 date, which up to that time had been observed as Flag Day.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Philippine_Declaration_of_Independence (356 words)

	PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, or THE PHILIPPINES - Online Information article about PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, or THE PHILIPPINES
		This monopoly lasted until the Mexican War of Independence forced the Spanish government to regard the Philippines as being in the East instead of the West.
		Owing to the nature of the country, and the hope of securing independence from a possible overthrow of the Republican party in the United States, the war was prolonged for two or three years.
		The domesticated water-buffalo is sluggish in its movements, and will not work through the heat of the day; but it is a wonderful swimmer, and makes its way through the worst quagmire with ease.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PER_PIG/PHILIPPINE_ISLANDS_or_THE_PHIL.html (356 words)

	Republic Acts of the Philippines: Encyclopedia topic
		Republic Acts are laws in the Philippines (Philippines: A republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946), created by the Congress (Congress: The legislature of the United States government) and signed by the president (president: The chief executive of a republic).
		Established most of the modern-day provinces of the Philippines (provinces of the Philippines: more facts about this subject) : Camarines Norte (Camarines Norte: camarines norte is a province of the philippines located in the bicol regions of the...
		Philippines (Philippines: A republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/republic_acts_of_the_philippines (1472 words)

	In the Philippines, major export is people - 2002-08-26
		American pop culture overwhelms the world, but nowhere quite like the Philippines, where it seems everyone wants to emigrate to the U.S. To a friend I mentioned that all Philippine flags I saw were weathered and faded, while more-popular American flags always look fresh.
		Likewise, July 4 is Filipino-American Friendship Day, a major holiday when people have barbecues, drink beer, dance and light fireworks.
		That was followed in 1946 with political independence but a culture and economy covered with American fingerprints.
	www.bizjournals.com /memphis/stories/2002/08/26/editorial3.html (1472 words)

	Tinig.com - Ang Tinig ng Bagong Salinlahi
		"The Philippine-American friendship day is one of the biggest lies of the history of the country," Palatino pointed out, adding, "The friendship of the US and the Philippines is not between two equal brothers but more like that of a spotted hyena and a rabbit in the wild."
		The historical error was corrected in the early Sixties, when then-President Diosdado Macapagal, father of the current President, declared June 12 as the official Philippine Independence Day and July 4, which is also the US Independence Day, as Philippine-American Friendship Day.
		TWO SENATORS belonging to the "Magnificent 12" who cast the historic vote in 1991 opposing the extension of the presence of the United States' military installations in the country, joined militant groups in marking July 4, Filipino-American Friendship Day, in calling for the protection of the country's interests from foreign intrusion and domination.
	www.tinig.com /v33/v33bl_cd.html (1472 words)

	FACES - Press Releases - Solidarity Statements on RP-US Friendship Day from FACES and PTFBC
		We recognize the contradictions inherent in celebrating Filipino-American Friendship Day while the United States callously refuses to remedy the toxic contamination left behind at Clark and Subic.
		Even as independence celebrations take place here in the United States, we are mindful of the people who may not be Americans and may live thousand of miles away but whose lives are greatly impacted by the actions of our country.
		Today is the 2nd death anniversary of Rogelio Palo, 7, the Amerasian boy who died of leukemia in Olongapo City on the eve of Fil-Am Friendship Day 2000.
	www.facessolutions.net /news/pressreleases/rp-usfriendshipday.html (1472 words)

	IMEE MARCOS WANTS RP-US FRIENDSHIP DAY SCRAPPED
		The Marcos daughter further accused the Americans of "exploiting Filipinos by passing one-sided economic treaties like parity rights, making the Philippines dependent on the Americans long after it gained independence."
		"Our historians must point out that July 4 is the Americans’ Independence Day, and never really signified friendship between our two nations," she suggested, insisting that an independent nation like ours has "no business" commemorating others’ "days of glory."
		Marcos’ anti-US statement was issued yesterday, the day her mother, former first lady Imelda Marcos, celebrated her 75th birthday.
	www.newsflash.org /2004/02/hl/hl100598.htm (1472 words)

	Macapagal declares 1st Manila-Spain friendship day - Jun. 30, 2003
		The Philippines declared independence from Spain in 1898 and since then, most Filipino scholars have focused on the unfair and sometimes brutal aspects of Spain's 400-year rule of the islands.
		PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Monday declared the first annual Philippines-Spanish friendship day to mark warmer relations with the former colonial power.
		Macapagal declares 1st Manila-Spain friendship day - Jun. 30, 2003
	www.inq7.net /brk/2003/jun/30/brkpol_7-1.htm (1472 words)

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		In the early 60’s, President Diosdado Macapagal, on the urgings of the Filipino nationalists, declared June 12 - the original date of Gen. Aguinaldo’s declaration of independence - as Araw ng Kalayaan or Day of Freedom.
		The Daly City-Quezon City Fil-Am Friendship Celebration is a commemoration of this bond between the Philippines and the United States that was forged in war and continues to be strengthened in peace.
		Programs were held on both days where a combination of the Philippine and American culture were displayed.
	www.filamcenter.com /DalyCity (1472 words)

	Gary Leupp: The Philippines As Second Front in US's Global War
		Later police suggested that the tourist's German companion may have shot him, or the attacker may have been a bandit of the indigenous Aeta people.) On the same day, a U.S. MC-130 special operations cargo plane taking part in joint exercises in the northern Philippines was damaged by small-arms fire.
		The U.S. backed a series of vicious regimes after the Philippines' independence, most notably that of Ferdinand Marcos.
		Nevertheless, the "war on terrorism" must find some new venue, and the Philippines may be, as Newsweek suggests, the "least complicated" available.
	www.counterpunch.org /leupp2.html (1472 words)

	Anti-Imperialists March in Philippine 'Independence' Day Parade
		NEW YORK, NY, 4 June 2000--An energetic group of anti-imperialists and progressives marched in the Philippine 'Independence' Day parade today.
		Looking forward, Roy continued, "We encourage our solidarity friends to take up the issue of the Philippines as one of their issues and to work with us to learn more about the situation in the Philippines.
		The Philippine Forum-led contingent came dressed as Katipuneros, members of the revolutionary Katipunan organization secretly founded by Andres Bonifacio in 1892 to wage a war of national liberation from Spain.
	www.nispop.org /pid.html (600 words)

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