Edgar jopson biography
- At the time, Edgar “Edjop” Jopson, was a senior college student of Mechanical Engineering at the Ateneo de Manila University.
- Edgar Jopson or Edjop (September 1, 1948 – September 21, 1982), was a Filipino activist and active member of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
- Edgardo Gil Mirasol Jopson, more popularly known as Edgar Jopson or Edjop, was a Filipino activist and active member of the Communist Party of the Philippines during the reign of former President.
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Book Review: The Story of a Life
My generation couldn’t just leave, then, but we had the providential fortune of witnessing the historical people-power revolt in the mid-1980s. The generation before mine had the tumultuous First Quarter Storm, the massive student unrest that rocked the nation on the eve of authoritarian rule in the early 1970s. The youths of those “days of disquiet and nights of rage” fled – to the mountains to join a guerrilla army, or to the underground, U.G. as it was called, for a movement of subversion.
If a millennial were to read about the life of Edgar Jopson, he or she might find it so very odd that a young man, short but fashionable, schooled by the Jesuits but radical in intellectual pursuits, loyal to a childhood love but married to a communist goal, had gone to such an extreme in an era where action and patience were the mode. Social media could have made it a ton easier, but that would probably have made him less of a hero.
To the young ones of today, Edjop – his diminutive name – could be explained in the way that Rey was told about Luke Skyw
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Edgar Gil Mirasol Jopson, known by most people as ‘Edjop’, was born on the 1st of September 1948 in Sampaloc, Manila. He was acknowledged to be the most notable student of the Telly Zulueta Kindergarten in Malate, Manila, and the high school valedictorian of Ateneo High School class of ‘66 that went on to deliver his valedictorian speech about manifesting one’s dreams and utilizing this to better serve the country and its people; “We will not just dream our goal in life without doing anything about it. We shall develop all our talents, and gifts to the fullest, in order to serve you, our neighbor, and our country, to the best of our abilities.” Edjop later died for his words.
Edjop was the president of the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) and the Ateneo Student Council. He studied BS Management Engineering and finished the five-year course in four years and graduated Cum Laude in April 1970. By virtue of the words of Fr. Raul Bonoan, Jesuit educator, Edjop represents “brilliance of mind, academic excellence, fresh and vibrant leadership”. Edjop then enrolled h
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Rebolusyon: A Generation of Struggle in the Philippines
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-85345-823-4
1991
In 1969, Ferdinand Marcos won a second term as president, in one of the dirtiest campaigns in Philippine history. That same year, Edgar Jopson was elected president of the National Union of Students of the Philippines, in a campaign to keep the Communists out of the student movement. Thirteen years later Jopson was gunned down by the military during a raid on an underground safe house. He was by then one of the most wanted people in the country, with a price on his head, a leading Communist Party cadre and member of the urban underground. Jopson was an unusual individual, and his story is a fascinating one. Yet his experiences were those of a generation of student radicals that came of age in the 1970s, and galvanized a country to action in the 1980s. Thus this book is not just the biography of one person, it is the history of a generation.
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