Tues., 5/22: TUNE IN to the BAsicsBusTour.Tumblr.com

Tues., 5/22: TUNE IN to a special video and announcement at  BAsicsBusTour.Tumblr.com You'll hear first-hand and in some depth about the progress of the Tour thus far, what the volunteers are learning and what the response has been up to this point. This is an opportunity for you to come together where you live, bringing in people in your neighborhood, people you know, etc.  Gather in people's homes or a local community center, church, barber shop, housing project's rec room or restaurant. Be part of a multitude of collective and informal gatherings across the country. Stay tuned for the the special update and announcement video to be uploaded Monday night.  Share this widely online especially Tuesday, 5/22.  Let us know your plans - and what you think of the video when you see it.  Tues., 5/22, 7 PM:  Viewing of video and announcement at Revolution Books, 5726 Hollywood Blvd., come and bring others! Pick up posters, stickers and other materials to get up and out as part of building the movement for revolution. Read: Building on the Momentum of the BAsics Bus Tour [here].  What YOU Can Do: * Contribute to the BAsics Bus Tour. (Click here); * Tell your friends about the Tour (start Tues., 5/22, watching the special video on the tour blog together); * Pull together a group of friends and find creative ways to raise money together; * Make banners with BAsics 1:13  (see whole quote below), and circulate them for signatures...take pictures and send these to baeverywhere@gmail.com; * Send your own or a group message of support; * Volunteer! All kinds of assistance are needed, including help with press work and Internet promotions, and much more. Write to baeverywhere@gmail.com [Read more]  Sun., 5/27, 12 to 5 pm:  Join in a Fundraising BBQ in Griffith Park for BA Everywhere - Imagine the Difference It Could Make!  $10 per plate Volunteers needed - organize food, games, prizes.  Invite others - tickets available at the bookstore. South side of the park, Los Feliz entrance, just north of Franklin & Western, follow the signs.  We Are All Trayvon - The Whole Damn System Is Guilty! MAKE JUNE 5th A DAY OF JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON '   Volunteer to plan L.A. actions. Read [here].

ANNOUNCING: the *BA Everywhere* Twitter  feed!  See for yourself by clicking here:    @baeverywhere<http://twitter.com/baeverywhere >  Follow the BAsics Bus Tour and get updates on the whole mass  campaign, BA Everywhere... Imagine the Difference It  Could Make. Find  out how you and your friends can participate.  Join in spreading this widely:   ReTweet and ask others to follow it.

Special Screening of "A Better Life" With Actors Jose Julian and Bobby Soto

[Post on Facebook, Twitter, websites, send to e-lists, spread the word]        Join Us for a Special Screening of      "A Better Life"      Sunday, May 20th, 3 PM   with Actors  José Julián and  Bobby Soto* for post-screening  Q&A $10 at the door             At a time when the criminalization of immigrants is intensifying, this          beautiful film follows an undocumented Mexican gardener [Oscar-         nominated Demián Bichir] with dreams of a better life, struggling to          raise his teenaged son while living in the shadows of Los Angeles. * We are happy to announce that actors JOSE JULIAN and BOBBY  SOTO, who play the  son and his best friend respectively, will join us  for discussion after the screening.        A Better Life - Official Trailer

See below what CORNEL WEST, CHARLES PERSON  (one of the orginal Freedom Riders), RICHARD BROWN   (former Black Panther) and others are   saying about the BAsics Bus Tour, why they are  supporting it, and calling on others to do the same:      You are invited     Friday, May 18th, 4 to 7 pm     Come and bring others to a Launch Party      for the BAsics Bus Tour       at Revolution Books      Be part of national launch parties for an audacious  group of volunteers departing May 18th from Atlanta,  Georgia, who will be taking revolution right into the  heart of the deep south.  "The BAsics Bus" will be  bringing the work of Bob Avakian (BA) and his new  book BAsics right into what Avakian has called the  "Bible belt" & "lynching belt."  Speaking to people's  raw outrage and their deep hopes, the tour will bring  a fresh wind of the possibility of a whole new world. We'll watch a video from the bus tour, a clip from the  Revolution Talk by Bob Avakian on Emmett Till and the  Jim Crow, sign a banner to send to the bus tour and more.   Donate [here], be part of the national send-off parties,  and follow the BAsics bus tour daily on their blog:  basicsbustour.tumblr.com.   From the bus tour blog: CHARLES PERSON, one of the 13 original Freedom Riders stopped  by for a meet-and-greet with all the Basics Bus Tour volunteers  last night! There was a great discussion among Charles and the  volunteers, they talked a lot on how to sum up the movements  of the 1960s and going forward today.  See more photos on the blog... "First thing, I am only not part of this BAsics Bus Tour because my  health issues will not allow it. Otherwise, I would have my seat  reserved on the bus. I hate that I am going to miss this, because  when I think about it, it reminds me about the beginning of the Black  Panther Party: the enthusiasm and determination of being a significant part of a great movement to change things in this country. Participating  in and being a significant part of change is addictive-once you have  experienced it, you'll do anything to get that feeling again-because it  is not an irrelevant act. It is being part of a conscious movement to  make change-and when you do that it develops you as a human being  and a true fighter for the rights of all people. I won't be there physically  but my revolutionary spirit travels with the tour.  All Power to the People!  And, Fuck the Police!"            RICHARD BROWN - Former Black Panther    [Watch and share this on YouTube] Cornel West supports the BAsics Bus Tour "I wanna put in my strong endorsement of this freedom bus... Courageous  brothers and sisters going down to the gut-bucket South. The old Jim Crow  senior, still the Jim Crow junior, of course. Whole lot of lynching used be  going on in the past, still police brutality taking place, unemployment and  underemployment taking place. Dilapidated housing in place, disgraceful  school system's in place... Revolutionary Communist Party bearing witness  in a serious kind of way. And I just want to let folk know... I'm behind what  they're doing... keeping track of the injustice here in the state. Keep track  of the freedom bus-the Avakian bus!"                         CORNEL WEST Read other statements of support [here].        DONATE to the BAsics Bus Tour!  basicsbustour.tumblr.com/donate

BAsics Bus Tour Launching Friday From Atlanta, Georgia!

The BAsics Bus Tour is getting ready to hit the road in the South.  Next week volunteers from Los Angeles to New York will stream into Atlanta.  They will be traveling there on the money donated for this tour all across the country.  Some will be taking greetings that were created and signed in the communities they're coming in from.  They'll be representing something much bigger than themselves.  As one volunteer put it: "This is a great opportunity to expand and widen the movement for revolution, as well as to let many more people know about BA [Bob Avakian] and the revolution...the fact that this vision was brought to them and that they know that there are people who really WANT TO DEDICATE THEIR LIVES to change the world, that already makes a difference in the political atmosphere of the country." Go all out this week - call everyone you know, talk with them about contributing, talk with them about ways they can help and ask for a statement of support... get word of this out on the Net... talk with all those you know who live in this region who can help in different ways - with financial contributions, food, housing, other forms of support. Talk with someone at Revolution Books about your ideas or write to baeverywhere@gmail.com. This will not happen without you - without your hopes, your aspirations, your support, your energy and creativity riding on this BAsics Bus Tour, being a part of making it happen.  Let's go!  [Read whole article]    ___________________________________ JOIN US!  Twelve Ways That YOU Can Be Part of Building the Movement for Revolution - Right Now.  Flier * Palm Card ( front and back ).  ___________________________________ Volunteer at Revolution Books LA any day this week and through the weekend - for an hour or two - to phonebank, help spread this on social networks and in many other ways - to involve many in this historic undertaking and turn all eyes to the launching in Atlanta, Georgia and the whole route of this tour!  Follow the tour on basicsbustour.tumblr.com.  Sample phone-banking script and other materials [here].  Come and bring others to a LAUNCH PARTY for BAsics Bus Tour: Friday, May 18, 4 to 7 pm - Launch party - watching the launch from Atlanta, Georgia on this day!  Come celebrate, bring others, bring donations - to Revolution Books, LA. Tuesday, May 22nd - stay tuned - live broadcast from the BAsics Bus Tour - come and watch the broadcast from Revolution Books - or organize your own gathering at your campus, home, work, neighborhood cafe (time TBA). Sunday, May 27th, 12 noon to 5 pm - Fundraising BBQ for the BAsics Bus Tour - sponsored by Revolution Books - at Griffith Park, Los Feliz entrance (just north of Franklin & Western Ave. Volunteers needed for set up, clean up, take a shift at the BBQ!    BAsics Bus Tour Fundraising Letter - donate now and use this letter with others: "The BAsics bus tour is getting ready to leave from Atlanta, heading to the south in mid-May. After its successful pilot launch in California a couple months ago, the BAsics bus is heading out to make an even bigger impact. $20,000 is needed to make it happen. I am writing to you now to ask for your support." [Read more] _______________   How to contribute: Online donations with a credit card can be made at thebobavakianinstitute.org   Checks or money orders can be made payable to The Bob Avakian Institute or The BA Institute and mailed to 1016 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60607. Right now, contributions can only be solicited and accepted from residents of the following states: California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, New York, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Wyoming. If you are interested but in a different state or want to contribute online, contributions can be made payable to RCP Publications at revcom.us or sent to PO Box 3486, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 60654. Please be aware that The Bob Avakian Institute is not tax exempt and donations made to it are not tax deductible. One special goal that you can be part of is raising funds for THIS week: 20,000 palm cards distributed with the quote from Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:13:  "No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that."

Celebrate May 1st, 2012!

 

Celebrate May 1st 2012 

Internationalism - The Whole World Comes First!   BAsics 5:8

On May 1st, let's fight for and promote, live and celebrate a vision of internationalism, revolution, a whole new and far better world... and the vision, strategy and revolutionary communist leadership we have to get there:

Tuesday, May 1:  !0 am - come to Revolution Books for some orientation for the day (5726 Hollywood Blvd., just west of Wilton) and then go together to the protests; or Join the Internationalist Contingent at the May Day marches - look for the banner: INTERNATIONALISM - THE WHOLE WORLD COMES FIRST!, meet at Olympic & Broadway in downtown L.A. at 12 noon for the immigrant rights march, or 6th & Main, downtown L.A. at 2:30 pm for the Occupy convergence.

BA Everywhere - Imagine the Difference It Could Make

 

"May Day is the revolutionary holiday when people come together all over this tortured planet and declare their determination to fight for a world fit for human beings, a world free of all forms of exploitation and oppression, without slavery in any form.

"This May 1 takes place at a time when people have begun to raise their heads-the upheavals in the Arab nations, the Occupy movements, and now what has been unearthed by the murder of Trayvon Martin-but the revolutionary communist vision, movement and leadership of Bob Avakian is still not widely known. The BA Everywhere campaign is a very dynamic initiative to change all that, to make the vision and works of BA a powerful material force in the world-and we are aiming to make a major advance forward in this campaign to raise big money to get BA into all corners of society in the four days especially on May 1st. People are raising their heads in struggle-and they badly need the communist vision and strategy, and the leadership of BA and the Revolutionary Communist Party.

"On this holiday on which people all over the world celebrate revolution, we're going to get the most thoroughly internationalist vision and leadership that exists out to thousands, and actively engage hundreds and hundreds in learning about it and wrangling with it. BA has built on the internationalist foundations laid by Karl Marx and, based on the experience of the first wave of communist revolutions and continued wrangling with new developments in the world, strengthened those foundations and taken that understanding further. The quotes in this issue give a sense of that. Let's get these quotes way out there-and get into them yourselves. And go deeper into the readings from which they are drawn...

Connect With and Contribute to This BA Everywhere! Campaign

"Whatever you can do and wherever you are, you can make your time, effort and energies count! Your creativity, participation and support is needed to make a truly big difference in the world right now."  As part of the BA Everywhere campaign, a BAsics Bus Tour is launching from Atlanta, Georgia headed for the deep south in early May.  Read more about it [here].  Donate and help raise funds towards the $20,000 needed for the tour.  Contribute towards sponsoring a rider for two weeks ($1,400 per participant is needed).  All of us together across the country can accomplish this, if you and many others are joining in.

 

Donate to the BAsics Bus Tour and the BA Everywhere! campaign - see the PayPal button in the top right-hand corner.

Read more [here] about 12 ways you can join the movement for revolution right now!

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