 RADICAL
PROSE
Selected
Writings of Antonio Zumel
Published
by the Friends of Antonio Zumel
and
the First Quarter Storm Movement, 2004
Quezon
City, Philippines; 328 pages
Philippine
price: PhP350
Antonio
Zumel Foundation
c/o
Tel. +4264182; email bulatlat@asia.com
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Press Bookshop
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Kalinaw, University of the Philippines
Diliman,
Quezon City
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Bookstore
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Tel. +3722050
They
say about Radical Prose:
(The
book) speaks a lot about Tony’s transformation. Willingly, he subsumed
himself, a veteran journalist, to the anonymity of the writing collective
that included tyros. – Journalist and Bayan Muna Congressman
Satur Ocampo
He
had integrity as a writer. Great respect for facts shows in his work. He
would never put anything in his story the truth of which he had not
verified. – Nilo Nulles, a fellow journalist and Board Member,
Antonio Zumel Foundation
KP
(a nom de guerre of Antonio Zumel) as a comrade was still the same caring,
wisecracking guy who got along famously with everybody, from high
government official to janitor: Ang galing makisama (He was a good
companion). But he did try to make himself over, first and foremost by
marrying the love of his life; then by never again drinking more than a
drop; and by forcing himself to learn Filipino, eventually becoming a
fluent speaker and competent writer in the national language. – Carolina
“Bobbie” Malay, a fellow writer and journalism professor
Through
all those 12 years abroad, from 1989 to 2001, Tony served the Filipino
people and the Philippine revolution in his characteristically warm and
humane way, very effectively and with the firmest and highest of
principles, as a firm and unwavering proletarian revolutionary. Asked by a
friend and comrade who was saying he was no longer active, if he was
getting tired after all the years of struggle, he answered, “Wala nang
atrasan ito!” (There is no turning back!). – Luis Jalandoni,
head of the Negotiating Panel, National Democratic Front of the
Philippines (NDFP) based in Utrecht, The Netherlands
Antonio
Zumel epitomizes the writer who chose to bring journalism to the people,
nay, who chose to write about and for the people. But he also believed
that one has to turn the pen into a sword in order to fight tyranny and
class rule. – Bobby Tuazon, Bulatlat
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