task force monico atienza (please, tumulong po tayo)
URGENT HELP FOR PROFESSOR MONICOATIENZA
Message: Dear Friends,
We are writing you on behalf of Prof.
Monico M. Atienza, who has been
comatose
since December 23, 2006. An undetected
mass in his throat gradually blocked
air
passage, which finally led to
successive
heart seizures.
Monico is the president of the First
Quarter Storm (FQS) Movement, an
organization of activists in the 1960s
and 1970s. In various ways, he has
continuously helped and inspired
activists of people’s organizations and
institutions, especially the youth and
students.
As a political prisoner during martial
law, Monico was heavily tortured and
held in solitary confinement.
Government intelligence claimed that he
was a ranking member of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party of the
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 the
Philippine military which claimed the
lives of two colleagues. Monico’s
health, already deteriorated by the
torture 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 cost
of hospitalization and probable
therapy.
Let us all help a great comrade, mentor
and friend.
Donations may be personally given to
Bernardita “Didith” V. de Guzman of the
First Quarter Storm Movement or
deposited to:
Bank: Bank of the Philippine Islands
Address: Diliman Branch, Quezon
City, Philippines
Account Name: Alberto S. Aguilar
Savings 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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