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DESCRIPTION:A special video presentation of "The Forbidden Book" will take place at the 
 SF Presidio Officer's Club on January 21, 2009 at 7:00 PM. The Presidio is 
 presenting a significant exhibition on the role of US imperialism in the 
 Philippines and the resistance by the Filipino people and the US 
 anti-imperialist league which included Mark Twain\n\n1/21/2009 SF Presidio 
 Slide Presentation And Discussion of The Making Of The Forbiddent Book:The 
 Philippine-American War In Political Cartoons\n\n\nThe Making of The 
 Forbidden Book: The Philippine-American War in Political 
 Cartoons\nWednesday, January 21, 2009, 7 – 8 pm\nPresidio Officers’ 
 Club\nA slide presentation by authors Abraham Ignacio and Jorge Emmanuel. A 
 book signing will follow the talk\n  
 \nhttp://www.tibolipub.com/filam/forbidnbook.htm\n\nThe Forbidden Book: 
 Color Black and White\nEdited by Abe Ignacio, Enrique De La Cruz, Jorge 
 Emmanuel\nand Helen Toribio \nISBN 1-887764-61-5, \n186 Pages, \n12 X 9 
 Full Color \n(Softbound $24.95; Case Bound $65.00)\nThe brutal war waged by 
 the United States against the Filipino people at the turn of the century 
 has been shrouded in darkness for a long time, the truth concealed from 
 generations of Americans. \n\nTHE FORBIDDEN BOOK brings that shameful 
 episode in our history out in the open, with a wonderful combination of 
 crystal-clear text and extraordinary 
 cartoons.\n\n\nhttp://www.ourownvoice.com/books/2005forbidden.shtml\n\n\n\n	\n 
 \nThe Forbidden Book: The Philippine American War in Political Cartoons\nby 
 Abe Ignacio, Enrique de la Cruz, Jorge Emmanuel, Helen Toribio\nT'Boli 
 Publishing and Distributor\nP.O. Box 347147, San Francisco\nCA 
 94134\nPhone: 415-337-5550\nE-mail: tiboli@comcast.net\n\nIn January 1900, 
 the Chicago Chronicle published a political cartoon called "The Forbidden 
 Book." It showed President William McKinley refusing to give Uncle Sam the 
 key to a padlocked book entitled "True History of the War in the 
 Philippines." Shortly thereafter, a war that saw the deployment of 127,000 
 U.S. troops to the Philippines and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of 
 Filipinos between 1899 to 1902 was relegated to the footnotes of history. 
 The authors of a new book on the Philippine American War use some 200 
 political cartoons as a means to unlock the history of that 
 war.\n\nEighty-eight colored cartoons are taken from the pages of popular 
 magazines like Puck and Judge. About 133 black-and-white political cartoons 
 are reprinted from newspapers including the San Francisco Evening Post, New 
 York World, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, New 
 Orleans Times-Democrat, Minnesota Journal, St. Louis Republic, Detroit 
 News, Denver Evening Post, Los Angeles Times, etc. as well as journals such 
 as Life, Harper's and Collier's Weekly. Twenty-seven historical photographs 
 are added to compare with the cartoons' stereotypical depictions.\n\nThe 
 Introduction discusses America's economic transformation after the Civil 
 War, Manifest Destiny, the conditions facing the "other" America (immigrant 
 labor, native Americans, Blacks, and Chinese), the Philippine Revolution 
 for independence from Spain, Cuba and the Spanish American War, the 
 decision to annex the Philippines, the start of the Philippine American 
 War, and opposition by the Anti-Imperialist League. The cartoons are 
 divided into nine major themes and introduced by essays at the beginning of 
 each chapter. The Epilogue describes how the Philippine American War came 
 to be forgotten and the aftermath of the U.S. conquest of the Philippines. 
 Readers will find striking similarities between a U.S. war fought more than 
 a century ago and the events of today.\n\nAbout the authors: Abe Ignacio is 
 an avid collector of Filipiniana materials from the Philippine American War 
 and received his BA in ethnic studies from the University of California at 
 Berkeley. Enrique de la Cruz is professor of Asian American studies at 
 California State University at Northridge and received his doctorate in 
 philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles. Jorge Emmanuel 
 is president of a research firm and received his Ph.D. in chemical 
 engineering from the University of Michigan where he was also an associate 
 of the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies. Helen Toribio is 
 Lecturer in Asian American Studies at City College of San Francisco and San 
 Francisco State University, and received her MPA from California State 
 University at Hayward and MFA from University of San Francisco.\n\nThe 
 brutal war waged by the United States against the Filipino people at the 
 turn of the century has been shrouded in darkness for a long time, the 
 truth concealed from generations of Americans. THE FORBIDDEN BOOK brings 
 that shameful episode in our history out in the open, with a wonderful 
 combination of crystal-clear text and extraordinary cartoons. The book 
 deserves wide circulation.\n—Howard Zinn, Professor Emeritus, Boston 
 University; author of A People's History of the United States\n\nBrimming 
 with insights into the beginnings of American imperial policy overseas, 
 this book reconstructs an era that was to shape and refine U.S. 
 intervention in the modern world. Through political cartoons in an era when 
 the colonizer itself worked to hide the truth from the American people 
 about the forgotten war a century ago, this book restores for the present 
 generation a past marred by misinformation, racism, blind patriotism and 
 outright lies. A thought-provoking education about the miseducation of the 
 American people by arrogant imperial leaders whose successors never seem to 
 learn the lessons of history. A particularly relevant book which makes it 
 essential reading for the present generation of Filipinos and other 
 colonial subjects of the modern PAX AMERICANA.\n—Roland G. Simbulan, 
 Professor of Development Studies & Public Management, and Vice Chancellor, 
 University of the Philippines\n\nIn this extraordinary collection of 
 political cartoons from the period of the Philippine-American War and 
 subsequent colonization, frank visual satire and caricature vibrate with 
 'forgotten' histories from the turn of the 19th century: they link U.S. 
 imperial conquests in the Pacific to those in the Caribbean, refract 
 American perceptions of Filipinos through its devastating treatments of 
 blacks and native peoples, explicitly admit U.S. ambitions to employ not 
 only war, but education and culture, to surpass the reach and power of the 
 European empires by the end of the 20th century. These 'forbidden' images 
 are windows onto an earlier moment in the history of American empire, a 
 history in which we still live and struggle today.\n—Lisa Lowe, Professor 
 of Comparative Literature, University of California, San Diego; author of 
 Immigrant Acts.\n\n\nhttp://www.presidio.gov/calendar/war.htm\n\n\nWar and 
 Dissent: U.S. in the Philippines 1898-1915\nGoldsworthy at the Presidio 
 Exhibit\nWater+Color: California Watercolor Association 40th Annual 
 National Exhibition\nVisit Arion Press\nPage Content\nWAR AND DISSENT: U.S. 
 IN THE PHILIPPINES 1898-1915\nOctober 22, 2008 to February 22, 2009\n\nWar 
 and Dissent:\nU.S. in the Philippines 1898-1915\nOctober 22, 2008 - 
 February 22, 2009\nWednesday to Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm\nPresidio Officers’ 
 Club\n50 Moraga Avenue\nFREE\n\n(closed Christmas Day and New Year’s 
 Day)\n\nThe Spanish-American War of 1898 -- and the Philippine War that 
 immediately followed it -- were turning points in the United States’ role 
 in the world and had a great impact on the Presidio of San Francisco. The 
 war in the Philippines also triggered strong dissent within the United 
 States as the nation changed from a republic based on the consent of the 
 governed to the possessor of a colonial empire.\n\nThis mixed media exhibit 
 of photographs, San Francisco monuments, diaries, letters, political 
 cartoons, recordings, maps, and flags looks at the Spanish-American and 
 Philippine Wars from several points of view, including Filipino points of 
 view, in nine themed galleries.\n\n \nFREE EXHIBIT PROGRAMS\nSPECIAL 
 EVENTS\n\nShadows of War Performance: The Lopez Family in the Philippines 
 1901\nThursday, December 4, 7-8 pm\nThursday, January 8, 7-8 pm\nThursday, 
 February 5, 7-8 pm\nPresidio Officers’ Club, 50 Moraga Avenue\nProduced 
 by San Francisco’s Bindlestiff Studio, this multi-media dramatic 
 production inspired by the exhibition will feature Filipino-American actors 
 and live music. \n\nFilipino Jazz Fusion Concert performed by Little Brown 
 Brother\nFriday, December 19, 7-9 pm\nPresidio Officers’ Club, 50 Moraga 
 Avenue\nRich African-American traditions of jazz and blues are at the core, 
 but there are many other influences that add flavor to the mix. There is a 
 definite worldbeat texture and attitude to the music – borrowing from the 
 indigenous Filipino music and instruments and the heavily Spanish 
 influenced traditional Filipino music of the Philippines.\n\nThe Making of 
 The Forbidden Book: The Philippine-American War in Political 
 Cartoons\nWednesday, January 21, 2009, 7 – 8 pm\nPresidio Officers’ 
 Club\nA slide presentation by authors Abraham Ignacio and Jorge Emmanuel. A 
 book signing will follow the talk.\n\n \nTEACHERS!\nPlan a field trip to 
 the Presidio to visit the exhibit with your class, or download a free War & 
 Dissent teacher resource guide at www.presidio.gov/teachers. The exhibit is 
 geared toward 8th, 10th and 11th grades and addresses the California 
 History/Social Science Standards covering imperialism and the role of the 
 U.S. as a world power in the twentieth century. The exhibit combines 
 primary documents and multimedia to analyze the racial, economic, and 
 political implications of U.S. involvement in the Philippines. Limited 
 transportation is available at no cost. For more information or to schedule 
 a visit, contact Lisa at lhillstrom@presidiotrust.gov or 
 visitwww.presidio.gov/teachers.\n\n \nRANGER WALKS\nNational Park Service 
 Rangers and Docents will lead weekly walks in the Presidio on the themes of 
 the Spanish-American War, the Philippine War, and the Buffalo Soldiers. For 
 more information or to RSVP, please call (415) 561-4323. All walks begin at 
 the Presidio Officers’ Club.\n\nSaturday, December13, Little War, Big 
 Impact, 1-2:30 pm\nSunday, December 14, Buffalo Soldiers in a Jim Crow 
 Army, 1-3 pm\nSaturday, January 10, Little War, Big Impact, 1-2:30 
 pm\nSunday, January 11, Buffalo Soldiers in a Jim Crow Army, 1-3 
 pm\nSunday, January 18, Little War, Big Impact, 1-2:30 pm\nSunday, February 
 15, Buffalo Soldiers in a Jim Crow Army, 1-3 pm\nSaturday, February 7, 
 Little War, Big Impact, 1-2:30 pm\nSunday, February 22, Little War, Big 
 Impact, 1-2:30 pm\n\n \nBE A VOLUNTEER DOCENT\nShare your enthusiasm for 
 history and the Presidio by volunteering as a gallery docent. Trainings 
 will be led by Presidio Trust Historian and Exhibit Curator Dr. Randolph 
 Delehanty. For more information, email Mira Bieler at 
 mbieler@presidiotrust.gov or call (415) 
 561-4007.\n\nhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/14/BAUL143BEH.DTL\n\nU.S. 
 war with Philippines told in Presidio exhibit\nCarl Nolte, Chronicle Staff 
 Writer\nFriday, November 14, 2008\n\nA new exhibit in one of San 
 Francisco's oldest buildings tells the story of America's nearly forgotten 
 war in the Philippines, a struggle with heroes, atrocities, tragedies, and 
 a strong anti-war movement in the United States.\n\nSan Francisco was a 
 major port of embarkation and staging area for the war, and reminders of 
 the battles in the Philippines are all over the city - including the 
 magnificent Dewey monument in Union Square commemorating the American naval 
 victory at Manila Bay in 1898.\n\n"Monuments without memories," historian 
 Randolph Delehanty calls the city's reminders of the Philippine war. He is 
 the curator of a free exhibit in the Presidio on the Philippine-American 
 War that dragged on for close to 17 years and is virtually ignored in the 
 history books.\n\n"Americans know nothing about this war," Delehanty said. 
 "This is not another exhibit about the Civil War."\n\nDelehanty's exhibit, 
 "War and Dissent," fills nine galleries at the Presidio's Officers' Club, a 
 building that dates to the days when the Spanish ruled not only the 
 Philippines, but California as well.\n\nThe war started with a glorious 
 victory over the Spanish fleet on May 1, 1898, when Commodore George Dewey 
 gave a laconic order to the captain of the cruiser Olympia. "You may fire 
 when ready, Gridley." Dewey said. Gridley did and the Spanish fleet in the 
 Philippines was annihilated.\n\nThe Olympia was built at a San Francisco 
 shipyard, and the monument to Dewey's famous victory is the centerpiece of 
 Union Square. The Spanish-American War also helped make the United States a 
 power in the Pacific - and produced an economic boom in San 
 Francisco.\n\nThe colonial yoke\n\nIt began with the aim of helping rebels 
 in Cuba free themselves from what was described as the cruel Spanish 
 colonial yoke. But while President William McKinley backed giving Cuba its 
 independence, he decided that the United States should keep the Philippines 
 for itself. The other spoils of the Spanish-American War: Puerto Rico and 
 Guam.\n\nThe Filipinos resisted trading one colonial master for another. 
 After a tense standoff between the American army of occupation and Filipino 
 insurgents, shooting broke out near Manila, and a long and bitter war 
 followed.\n\nIt began as a setpiece war, with armies facing each other, and 
 then evolved into a guerrilla struggle all over the Philippines. It didn't 
 end until 1915, when Muslims in the southern Philippines finally gave 
 up.\n\nMore than 4,300 U.S. troops died in the war, about the same number 
 who have died in the war in Iraq. Filipino forces lost an estimated 16,000 
 to 20,000. There were many more civilian deaths.\n\nSan Francisco was a 
 center of the war effort. American troops, mostly volunteers and later some 
 Regular Army soldiers, came to San Francisco to be trained and shipped to 
 the Philippines - at first to fight the Spanish and occupy the islands. 
 Later, they fought the Filipinos.\n\nThe troops lived in tent cities in 
 what is now the city's Richmond District. The Presidio, says Delehanty, was 
 transformed into a major military post. More than 100,000 U.S. soldiers 
 served in the Philippine war.\n\nOne of them, Sgt. Hiram Harlow of the 51st 
 Iowa Volunteers, was shipped to San Francisco and later to the Philippines, 
 where he saw combat against Filipino insurgent troops.\n\nHe kept a diary. 
 Years later, his grandson, Allan Harlan, who lives in Sacramento, found the 
 diary and 80-year-old photographs. He wrote to Presidio historians. "He 
 wanted to know why his grandfather had been in the Philippines," Delehanty 
 said.\n\nSgt. Harlow's old pictures - showing American troops moving in a 
 skirmish line, scenes from villages and towns, soldiers and rebels - are 
 the heart of the exhibition.\n\nThere are also excerpts from a book about 
 the Lopez family, wealthy Filipino planters who had conflicting views about 
 the war with the United States.\n\nSome of the family's men were rebel army 
 officers, and some urged cooperation with the Americans. "It was a complex 
 war," Delehanty said.\n\nThere were heroes: Frederick Funston, an American 
 general, captured Emilio Auguinaldo, the Philippine president, by a 
 combination of guile and bravery. There was tragedy: the infant Philippine 
 republic was torn by internal divisions, which led to its defeat.\n\nThere 
 were also atrocities. Some were committed by Filipino troops when the war 
 went into a guerrilla stage, but others were committed by American forces 
 determined to fight guerrilla tactics. Anti-war forces seized on the 
 atrocities to make a point that the war was a battle unworthy of American 
 principles.\n\nOne congressional hearing heard evidence about American use 
 of torture, including a method called "the water cure."\n\nThe most 
 infamous incident involved an order by U.S. Army Gen. Jacob Smith to a 
 Marine officer. He told him to make the island of Samar "a howling 
 wilderness."\n\n"I want no prisoners," Smith said. "I wish you to kill and 
 burn and the more you kill and burn the better it will please me. I want 
 all persons killed who are capable of bearing arms."\n\nBy this, Smith 
 said, he meant all males over the age of 10.\n\nThese reports from a 
 long-ago war sound familiar, and so does the reaction in the United 
 States.\n\nThe anti-war movement\n\nOne whole gallery in the exhibit is 
 full of material from the anti-war and anti-annexation movement in America. 
 Opposition to the war was formidable, both on the grounds that the United 
 States should not be a colonial power and outrage over the conduct of the 
 war by U.S. forces in the Philippines.\n\nAmong the foes were Mark Twain, 
 San Francisco columnist Ambrose Bierce, David Starr Jordan, the president 
 of Stanford University, and Andrew Carnegie, the industrialist.\n\n"We have 
 crushed and deceived a confiding people," Mark Twain wrote. "We have turned 
 against the weak and friendless who trusted us, we have stamped out a just 
 and intelligent and well-ordered republic ... we have debouched America's 
 honor."\n\nThe Democrats ran on an anti-war plank in the election of 1900, 
 denouncing annexation of the Philippines in "an unnecessary war" that 
 sacrificed American lives and placed the United States in the "un-American 
 position of crushing with military force the efforts of our former allies 
 to achieve liberty and self-government."\n\nBut the turn of the 19th 
 century was the high tide of colonialism. The United States won the war 
 after a long struggle, kept the Philippines, and poured resources into the 
 islands and promised eventual independence.\n\nThe United States lost the 
 Philippines again after the Japanese invasion in World War II, but nearly 
 all the Filipino people stayed loyal to the American cause until American 
 forces returned in 1944.\n\nThe United States granted Philippine 
 independence on July 4, 1946, but the Philippine government now celebrates 
 June 12 as its independence day, in honor of the 1898 declaration of 
 independence that led to war with the United States.\n\nWhat might have 
 happened had the anti-war side won in the United States, and the first 
 Philippine republic not been crushed by the United States?\n\n"I don't 
 know," Delehanty said. "I'm a historian, not a soothsayer. I can only tell 
 you what did happen."\n\n\n\n\n'War and Dissent'\n\nThe exhibit "War and 
 Dissent," on the Philippine-American War, is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 
 Wednesday through Sunday through February at the Officers' Club in the 
 Presidio. Free admission.\n\nIn addition, at 7 p.m. Thursday , Bindlestiff 
 Studio, a local theater group, presents a dramatic production on the Lopez 
 family in the Philippines during the Philippine-American War. The program 
 will be repeated Dec. 4 and Jan. 8.\n\nThe National Park Service is 
 offering walks in the Presidio to see sites from the Philippine-American 
 War this Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday. Call (415) 561-4323 for 
 information.\n\nE-mail Carl Nolte at cnolte@sfchronicle.com.\n\n\nShadows 
 of War Performance: The Lopez Family in the Philippines 1901\nFour Thursday 
 Performances from 7 to 8 pm: November 6, December 4, January 8, and 
 February 5.\nPresidio Officers’ Club\nProduced by San Francisco’s 
 Bindlestiff Studio, this multi-media dramatic production inspired by the 
 exhibition will feature Filipino-American actors and live music. \n.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/12/24/18556367.php
SUMMARY:SF Presidio Slide Presentation & Discussion:  The Philippine-American War in Political Cartoons
LOCATION:Presidio Officers’ Club\n50 Moraga Avenue\nSan Francisco\n
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