Full Description
A Time to Rise is an intimate look into the workings of the KDP, the only revolutionary organization that emerged in the Filipino American community during the politically turbulent 1970s and '80s. Overcoming cultural and class differences, members of the KDP banded together in a single national organization to mobilize their community into civil rights and antiwar movements in the United States and in the fight for democracy and national liberation in the Philippines and elsewhere.
These personal accounts document recruitment, organizing, and training in the KDP. More than two-thirds of the stories are by women, reflecting the powerful role they played in the organization and its leadership. Also included are chapters on the struggle for justice for murdered KDP and union leaders Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes. These memoirs offer political insights and inspiring examples of personal courage that will resonate today.
A Time to Rise was made possible in part by a grant from 4Culture's Heritage Program.
Contents
Foreword / Augusto F. Espiritu
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Snapshot—The Life and Times of the KDP / Rene Ciria Cruz
Part One Beginnings
1. To Teach the Masses a Love for Bach, Chopin, and Beethoven / Therese R. Rodriguez
2. "Who Is Marshall Law?" / Jeanette Gandionco Lazam
3. How My Life Changed / Romy Garcia
4. What's in a Name? / Christine Araneta
5. Running Away to Life / Estella Habal
6. A Little Red Book / David Della
7. Not the Usual Path / Bo Apostol (as told to his daughter
Rebecca Apostol)
8. The Accident / Dale Borgeson
9. In the Name of Love / Maribel Salomon
10. Different Roads Home / Velma Veloria
Part Two In the Thick of the Struggle
1. The Birth of a KDP Chapter / Dale Borgeson
2. No Aloha for Marcos / Sorcy Apostol
3. Between the Personal and the Political / Estella Habal
4. Transfer to Paradise . . . Not! / Walter Yonn
5. Hitting the High Notes / Gil Mangaoang
6. Fighting US Imperialism with a Master's Degree / Cindy Domingo
7. Infiltrating the World Bank / Jon Melegrito
8. Moving to Gotham / Lourdes Marzan
9. Defending Nurses—I'd Do It Again / Esther Hipol Simpson
10. They Won't Know What Hit Them / Elaine Elinson
11. Working the Corridors of Power / Odette Polintan
12. A Cultural Gypsy / Ermena Vinluan
13. "Is This What You Call Democracy?" / Jeanette Gandionco Lazam
14. Why Me? / Amado David
15. In the Armed Struggle / Ka Linda
Part Three The Test of Fire
1. The Fall / Alonzo Glenn Suson
2. The Terrible Blow / Dale Borgeson
3. Initiation from Hell / Emily Van Bronkhorst
4. A Day I'll Live with for the Rest of My Life / David Della
5. A Memory of Strong Women / Lillian Galedo
6. How Do I Size a Bulletproof Vest? / Kris Melroe
7. We Had Already Lost Too Much to Turn Back /Terri Mast
8. A Night in Camelot / Michael Withey
9. Long Road to Justice / Cindy Domingo
10. Defeating the Marcoses in a Court of Law / Jim Douglas
Part Four Looking Back
1. Revolutionary Baby / Rebecca Apostol
2. Scooby Doo: Growing Up with the KDP / Silahis M. Taverna
3. One February Night in San Francisco / Fely Villasin
4. I Have Not Stopped Dreaming / Estella Habal
5. Deep Horizon / Gil Mangaoang
6. No Regrets / Edwin Batongbacal
Afterword / Rene Ciria Cruz
Appendix I: List of Abbreviations
Appendix II: Ang Aktibista, "Orientation to Philippine Support Work in the Current Period"
Appendix III: KDP Activism Timeline / Compiled by Helen Toribio
Suggested Reading
Index
