Booklaunching - U.G: An Underground Tale. The Journey of Edgar Jopson and the First Quarter Storm Generation.
Linda Nietes
Philippine Expressions Bookshop
and Remy's On Temple, an art gallery
are proud to sponsor the launching of
UG: AN UNDERGROUND TALE.
The Journey of Edgar Jopson and
the First Quarter Storm Generation
by Benjamin Pimentel
Saturday, November 18, 2006
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Remy's on Temple, an art gallery
2126 W Temple Street, Historic Filipinotown
Los Angeles, CA (West of Alvarado St.)
Reception at 6:00pm
Free to the Public but RSVP necessary.
(310) 514-9139 or email <linda_...@sbcglobal.net>
Street parking only.
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About the Book:
2006. Anvil Publishing, Philippines.
238 pages. Paperbound.
Foreword by Sen. Jovito R. Salonga and an
afterword by Gloria A. Jopson Kintanar.
At 22, Edgar Jopson, or Edjop, had everything: money,
education, national recognition. But he gave up his
life of privilege to join the underground movement -
the U.G. This book traces the unique, dramatic odyssey
of the most intriguing figure of the First Quarter
Storm and of the generationof young Filipinos who
helped shape Philippine history.
"Extremely absorbing .. This is not just the biography
of one person; it is the history of a generation." -
Journalist Jose F. Lacaba on 'The Unusual Journey of
Edgar Jopson'.
The following is an excerpt from the column of Sylvia
L Mayuga, 'Mixed Media: Facts more powerful than
fiction' which appeared on INQ7.net dated August 6,
2006.
"THE PAST weeks of war and equally deadly world
weather also brought encounters with two new books by
and for Filipinos who like diving into literature and
history's missing links for a pulse of where all this
is going.
In perfect balance, the first was a work of the
imagination – the novel "Salamanca" by Dean Francis
Alfar in the Philippines; the second was gritty
journalism--"U.G.: The Journey of Edgar Jopson and the
First Quarter Storm Generation"--by Benjamin Pimentel,
now working for the San Francisco Chronicle. Together
they prove again how truth is stranger and often more
powerful than fiction.
Author Benjie Pimentel, 42, has gone public with
Edjop's story a total of four times – first as an
article for National Midweek magazine in 1986, the
fourth anniversary of his death in 1982. Delving into
the details of such death at the hands of the
Philippine military, with the usual unspeakable traces
of extra-judicial style, creates a painful resonance
with a present under Gloria Arroyo.
Next came the book "Edjop: The Unusual Journey of
Edgar Jopson" written with the help of his widow Joy,
who put Pimentel in touch with the deep communist
underground. After two years of clandestine
interviews, mostly in Mindanao where Edjop last
operated as head of the NDF's Mindanao Commission, the
book was launched in 1989. That was the moment of
breakthrough for many untold tales, in the season of
shock over the first discovery of the mass graves of
many young comrades tortured and killed in the
internal CPP purge of suspected military deep
penetration agents in 1987.
In 1991, perhaps in response to the backlash that
gravely eroded CPP/NPA/NDF credibility, the book was
republished with a new title, "Rebolusyon : A
Generation of Struggle in the Philippines," part of
the "Voices of Resistance" series published by the
Monthly Review Press in New York. This time it had a
foreword by the late Ramsey Clark, the passionately
activist former U.S. Attorney General much loved by
the Philippine Left, and an afterword by the NDF
worthy Edicio de la Torre.
Like the second and third, the fourth version in
"U.G." adds new layers to the epic of the Philippines'
new communist movement that was born in the
politically tectonic sixties and cut its teeth in the
martial law 70s, enjoyed a phenomenal growth spurt in
the marching 80s – only to end the decade in a fateful
political misreading of the times that led to absence
at EDSA I and a new era of People Power "revolution."
Pimentel touches upon its consequences, but the focus
remains on Edjop, in whose story we find all the
elements of classic tragedy. Avoiding hagiography, the
author does justice to its unfolding – from the humble
birth of a future hero, his molding under Jesuit
influence, a Catholic campus leader's first major
street encounter with the rabidly Red Kabataang
Makabayan (Nationalist Youth), on to the crisis of
conscience that eventually made Edgar Jopson join them
all the way to the "u.g." where he eventually,
poignantly lost his life 19 days after his 34th
birthday.
Underground sources, absence of sentimentality or
overstatement, grace notes on interconnections in the
lives of young student leaders meeting again on
opposite sides of the Cold War's lethal ideological
divide – all these are woven together in clipped
journalistic style. There are many ways to skin a cat
– or recount its drowning. Reading of Edjop's capture
and killing by Nelson Estares, a fellow student leader
in the National Union of Students back in the 60s,
needs little literary embellishment to provoke horror
and pity as deeply as any Greek drama.
There's much more of the untold for the general
audience to discover in "U.G.". That's not a plug as
much as it's a lifeline. What we suffer today in this
country and elsewhere in the world is really partly
due to ignorance of what really happened other than
what the media said, or didn't, back then."
About the Author:
Benjamin Pimentel was born in Manila in 1964, grew up
in Quezon City and was educated at the Ateneo de
Manila, the University of the Philippines, Diliman and
the University of California at Berkeley. He served as
editor-in-chief of the Philippine Collegian in 1984.
He moved to the United States in 1990 and earned a
master's degree from the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School
of Journalism in 1993. He then joined the San
Francisco Chronicle, California's second largest
newspaper, covering a range of beats and stories, from
the public policy debates over race and immigration in
California in the early 1990's, the rise and fall of
Joseph Estrada, to the corporate battles in the
technology world that followed the dot-com crash. He
currently covers Silicon Valley giants
Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and Oracle.
He co-produced 'Toxic Sunset', the award-winning
documentary on the enviromental damage caused by the
U.S. bases in the Philippines, produced by the
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. His
series in the Chronicle on the same subject was named
best investigative report by the Press Club of the
East Bay in 2001. In the same year, he received the
Filipinas Magazine Achievement Award for
Communications. In September 2005, he started Kuwento
Kuwento podcasts (www.filipinopodcasts.blogspot.com),
a blog featuring interviews with Filipinos such as
hiphop artist Apl.de.Ap, journalist Glenda Gloria and
folk music artists Pendong Aban and Lolita Carbon of
Asin. He is also currently co-anchor of 'Balitang
America', a weekly news program of ABS-CBN
International's The Filipino Channel.
Pimentel lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his
wife, Mara Torres, and their sons, Paolo Lean and
Anton Diego. His email is <benpi...@gmail.com>.
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For those who will be unable to attend, we accept
orders for autographed copies. It costs $24.95 (less
10% discount if order andpayment is received by
Friday, November 17. Net $22.45), plus $1.85 sales tax
at 8.25%, plus Fedex ground shipping of $6.50. Total -
$30.80. The 10% discount will likewise be offered to
those who will attend the booklaunching.
If you wish to pay by credit card, please call it in.
Tel. (310) 514-9139, or email me your tel no and the
best time to call, and we will call you. (For
security reasons, do not send your credit info via
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<linda_...@sbcglobal.net>.
We also accept payment by check payable to Philippine
Expressions Bookshop. Mail to 2114 Trudie Drive,
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275-2006.
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This event is part of the ongoing program of
Philippine Expressions Bookshop to reach out to the
Filipino American community in Los Angeles. Our
programs are intended to increase the visibility of
the Fil Am community and to introduce to mainstream
America the creative talents of Filipinos and Filipino
Americans in literature and the arts. The programs
also create a deeper awareness for popular issues
among members of the Fil Am community.
It is the fourth in a series of launchings, and the
last for the year, to commemorate the 2006
Centennial of Filipino Immigration to America,
highlighting the current group of talented writers
who have evolved since the first group of
farmworkers arrived.
The Bookshop is a Coral Sponsor of the Centennial
Celebration which was initiated by the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington, DC. as part of their Asian
Pacific American Program.
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Once again, thank you for your support of our Bookshop
which is dedicated to Filipino Americans in search of
their roots. 2006 marks our 22nd year of service to
the Filipino Community in North America.
Maraming Salamat po sa inyong lahat. Mabuhay !
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Linda Maria Nietes
Philippine Expressions Bookshop
The Mail Order Bookshop dedicated to
Filipino Americans in search of their roots.
2114 Trudie Drive
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275-2006, USA
Tel 310/ 514-9139 FAX 310/ 514-3485
e.mail: linda_...@sbcglobal.net
2006 marks our 22nd year of service to the
Filipino community in North America.
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Even if others will not
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Von Totanes
i sent a reply to your email about the catalog a week or two ago. did
you get it?
von
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do unto others what you would have others do unto OTHERS =)
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http://filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com/
jocelyn garalde
hi to all,
i have one concern here, we usually use pencil in our entries to our accession book. Is this practice is just fine or would it be better to use ball pen? I would appreciate very much for your advise. Thanks
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Bulaong, Rosal
The better question is do we still keep an accession record where we
have to enter each title, author, etc. You can have the alternative of
not keeping an accession notebook.
The purpose for the accession book is to know how many books the library
has acquired so far and what is your last number used. So if you have a
record of the last number used at a certain date you can know the count
your books whenever you are asked.
jocelyn garalde
Thank you ma'am for your advise. My library is not yet automated, we do keep accession record where we have to enter title, author, etc.
We used pencil in writing entries. Ched officer visited recently and asked why do we used pencil and not ballpen in the writing entries in the accession book. I used to work from other libraries nearby (Ilocos Norte) and I observed ma'am that they use pencil in writing the same. In our case here where digitazation of library is still under negotiation, I will asked again if it is advisable to use pencil in writing since it is pencil is most often used in the library. In the post conference of CHED, one of their remarks was the use of pencil in writing entries in the accession book.
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> Subject: [FilipinoLibrarians] Re: Booklaunching - U.G: An Underground Tale. The Journey of Edgar Jopson and the First Quarter Storm Generation.
> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:05:59 +0800
> From: rbul...@uap.edu.ph
> To: FilipinoL...@googlegroups.com
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MPL
Common reason why pencil is preferred, because it can be erased easily.
Maybe their reason of asking you is -lead are easy to fade and sooner
or later you might be not read what you have written in your record.
But of all question, why that. I wonder what you answered when they
questioned you.
just my two cents...
Bulaong, Rosal
address...
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Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 5:09 PM
To: Filipino Librarians
Subject: [FilipinoLibrarians] Re: Booklaunching - U.G: An Underground
Tale. The Journey of Edgar Jopson and the First Quarter Storm
Generation.
jocelyn garalde
MPL,
I of course answered them the same reason that it can be easily erased if mistakes occur, aside from being practiced in the library
but the CHED offical remarked, "the school cannot afford to buy ballpen". This is only minor as far as their main purpose to check my book collections and the year of recency is concerned. The administartion is very supportive naman, my collections are updated in all discipline. Thanks by the way, I thought writing pencil in the accession book is not advisable.
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> From: alyn...@gmail.com
> To: FilipinoL...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: [FilipinoLibrarians] Re: Booklaunching - U.G: An Underground Tale. The Journey of Edgar Jopson and the First Quarter Storm Generation.
> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:08:34 -0800
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>
> It's your own preference if you use pencil or ballpen, I suppose.
>
> Common reason why pencil is preferred, because it can be erased easily.
> Maybe their reason of asking you is -lead are easy to fade and sooner
> or later you might be not read what you have written in your record.
>
> But of all question, why that. I wonder what you answered when they
> questioned you.
>
> just my two cents...
>
>
> >
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