Fundraising Picnic for BA Everywhere - Sat., June 15th, 1 to 5 pm

DOWNLOAD FLYER FOR THE PICNIC (below)

Come and bring others.  Post on Facebook - spread the word! Sat., June 15th, 1:00 to 5:00 pm Fundraising Picnic for BA Everywhere Rancho Cienaga Park 5001 Rodeo Rd, LA 90016 (at MLK Blvd., parking in lot) $5 to $20 sliding scale (children $2)    Come together with people in the neighborhood and all around L.A. to share experiences and work together to be part of a fundraising campaign that can get Bob Avakian's vision and work out everywhere. Bob Avakian starts his talk, BA Speaks: REVOLUTION - NOTHING LESS! Bob Avakian Live asking, "How long must this nightmare of oppression and brutality go on?"  Because of his work, there is something WE can do about it.  It is possible to get rid of this oppression and bring into being a new and better world for humanity.  The only way that's possible is through fighting the power, and transforming the people, for revolution, nothing less. If you're fed up when thousands who make our clothes are crushed or burned to death in Bangladesh; when U.S. drones incinerate people across the planet; when women are degraded, brutalized and their fundamental right to control their own bodies is taken away; and when millions of Black and Latino youth are locked away for decades and tortured in U.S. prisons... if you wish and dream that life and the world could be another way: come to this picnic, learn more about the campaign and be part of a summer of BA Everywhere that can make a very big difference. Volunteers needed for set up, clean up, prizes for games, food and more.  Contact the BA Everywhere, LA Committee to find out what is needed, and with ways you can contribute:  (213) 304-9864 or baeverywhere_la1@yahoo.com. _____________________________________________ 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. Bob Avakian Chairman of the  Revolutionary Communist Party, USA BAsics 1:13 _______________________________________________ Flyer for picnic (2 per page): right click, download, save, print -  and distribute everywhere!

All Out for the Summer   2013 BA Everywhere   Indiegogo Fundraising   Campaign! Important - and joyous - BA Everywhere events are planned this weekend, June 14-16, in cities across the country... ...The key initiative of the summer campaign coming off these weekend events is the online fundraising initiative - on the crowd-funding platform Indiegogo - to raise the seed money for the summer plans. And the aim through those summer plans is for even bigger fundraising efforts looking forward to the fall and winter. The objective of the Indiegogo campaign is to raise $20,000 ($20K) - reaching and involving newer and growing numbers of people, in the context of a widening and deepening societal engagement with BA. [Read more]

Be part of spreading the film "BA Speaks: REVOLUTION - NOTHING LESS! Bob Avakian Live" throughout society

Welcome to the Revolution!  Coming off the Premieres, "THIS MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTION MUST NOW BECOME A REAL FORCE, POWERFULLY IMPACTING AND INFLUENCING ALL OF SOCIETY..." [Read more.]  Join revolutionary crews watching, discussing  and taking this movie, "BA Speaks: REVOLUTION - NOTHING LESS!  Bob Avakian Live" and Revolution newspaper out into the communities, at cultural events, shopping malls, meeting people, selling the DVD, creating a visual presence, organizing film showings and raising funds.  [Go to the calendar page HERE. Check back for changes and updates.]

Protest in L.A.! Monday is National Hoodie Day - We Are All Trayvon!

[Received from the Stop Mass Incarceration Network -  Post on Facebook, e-lists, spread the word] We Are All TRAYVON The Whole Damn System is Guilty! 4:00pm ~ Gather & Rally at Leimert Park  (Vernon and Crenshaw) 5:00pm ~ March up Crenshaw: Join the march and  join the struggle to stop racist murders of our youth!  Monday, June 10, 2013 is National Hoodie Day! On February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin went out to buy some snacks at the nearby 7-Eleven. George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain in a small gated community in Sanford, Florida, was driving around in his SUV. Zimmerman called 911, saying Martin looked "real suspicious"-i.e., he was a young Black male, walking around in a hoodie. The 911 dispatcher told Zimmerman not to pursue the youth. But Zimmerman followed Trayvon Martin, got out of his car, and confronted him. Zimmerman was carrying a 9 mm handgun. Trayvon Martin was carrying a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. There was yelling, then a gunshot. Trayvon Martin lay face down in the grass with a fatal bullet wound to the chest. Zimmerman was taken into custody, questioned, and released. The murder of Trayvon Martin struck a deep nerve. There is a long history, and present day reality, of targets on the backs of young Black men. In the case of Trayvon Martin, people across the country said no f***ing way. It was only after six weeks of mass protest that Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder. His trial is set to start on June 10. It is crucial that people remember how they felt when this went down-and why they stepped out and into the streets-that the powers-that-be cannot get away with giving racist vigilantes a free pass to kill Black and Latino youth. The struggle is at a critical juncture-the system is pulling out all the stops to vilify the victim, Trayvon Martin, and let his killer go free. The outcome is not determined. People need to stay in the streets as George Zimmerman goes to trial, and not stop until there is justice. And we need to put an end to this. Protest (and walkout) at schools nationwide; rally in communities; wherever you are wear the sticker, post the slogan, and put up signs declaring: WE ARE ALL TRAYVON!  THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS GUILTY! Help spread the effort using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram For more information and to join in this struggle contact: Stop Mass Incarceration Network ~ 213-840-5348 StopMassIncarcerationSoCal@yahoo.com National Website: http://www.stopmassincarceration.org/

Urgent Fund Appeal to Keep the Bookstore Doors Open, and Not Just Survive, But Thrive!

Join Friends of Revolution Books Today!* Revolution Books / Libros Revolución is now facing an urgent financial situation, precisely at a time when it is needed more than ever.  If you hate the way world is, if you refuse to believe that this is the best of all possible worlds, then this is your bookstore. Revolution Books breathes a spirit of rebellion that refuses to accept that this is the way the world must be.  It is a place where people from all over the world come to engage with the biggest questions and the biggest ideas to understand how the world got this way, how it really works, and how it can be radically changed. And right now, your support is needed more than ever. This is the place where people come to engage with others who share similar concerns. From philosophy to art,  science, history, and politics. At the heart of Revolution Books is the new synthesis of communism, which has been developed by Bob Avakian.  Over the decades, he has looked deeply into the history of the communist movement so far, the great achievements as well as the shortcomings and errors, learning from them as well as bringing that together with broader achievements from other realms.  Because of that, there is a viable, visionary, and desirable alternative that is really how the world could be, and there is the critical leadership and strategic orientation to fight to make that world real. This bookstore, in line with that new synthesis, embraces both turning the world right side up, remaking the world to end all forms of exploitation and oppression, and not turning out the lights on creative, artistic and intellectual endeavor.  It actually opens that up much more fully, and not just as it is today in some pockets of the world, but really for all of humanity.  For the people who are trapped in the factories in Bangladesh, those who are sweating in the fields of California's valleys, For the people who are trapped in the factories in Bangladesh, who are sweating in the fields of California, the families killed by the U.S. drones in Pakistan, the human beings being tortured in U.S. prisons, the hunger-striking prisoners at Guantánamo as well as the 5 MILLION victims of stop and frisk in New York City.  For the people and the planet it is an emergency situation, the world is a horror and it doesn’t have to be this way.  In this critical situation RB needs to grow.  For this it needs a mass infusion of energy, funds, and commitment to this bookstore, to fight to not only to keep it open but to make sure it thrives and really gives life to the kind of movement of rebellious thinking and rebellious action that is so needed in the world today. Revolution Books is an essential space in L.A., but it is in a financial situation that requires a major infusion of energy, funds, and commitment to this bookstore, to fight to not only to keep it open but to make sure it thrives and really gives life and nourishment to the kind of movement of rebellious thinking and rebellious action that is so needed in the world today. Make Revolution Books your bookstore.  Come here to buy your books and your gifts, attend events that go on every week at RB, let others know about this bookstore.  And very importantly, become a Friend of Revolution Books*.  You'll be part of a community that can make a huge difference in the world, and can ensure that RB not only survives, but thrives.  Humanity needs revolution.    Revolution needs Revolution Books.    Revolution Books needs you! * Friends of Revolution Books is a network of monthly sustainers who are the lifeblood of the bookstore.  Donate $100, $50, as much as you can every month (minimum $25), and you'll get 10% off books, 50% off admission to major events, and most importantly, a bookstore at the center of a movement for revolution.  We need 100 Friends giving an average of $50/month to make the bookstore self-sustaining.   Join now!

Sun., June 2nd Organizing Conference - 1 to 5 pm; Graduation With a REAL Future

Come to an Organizing Conference, Sunday, June 2nd

Summer 2013: Taking BA Everywhere,

Raising Funds and Making a Difference

Watching BA Speaks: Revolution - Nothing Less! on DVD near a community college, New York City

Revolution Books, LA

Sun., June 2nd, 1:00 to 5:00 pm 

5726 Hollywood Blvd., LA 90028

To all who are fed up-who just can't look the other way when thousands who make our clothes are crushed or burned to death in Bangladesh; when U.S. drones incinerate people across the planet; when women are degraded, brutalized and their fundamental right to control their own bodies is taken away; and when millions of Black and Latino youth are locked away for decades and tortured in U.S. prisons ... to all who wish and dream that life and the world could be another way, there is a campaign for you to take up this summer that will make a very big difference. 

Read the whole call . . .

Contact the BA Everywhere Committee, L.A.: 

BAEverywhere_LA1@yahoo.com or 213-304-9864.

For more information about the BA Everywhere campaign go to revcom.us [here].

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Thurs., May 30th, 7 pm at Revolution Books:

Watch and dig into Chapter 4 of BA Speaks: REVOLUTION -NOTHING LESS! Bob Avakian Live. 

Continuing weekly viewings of clips from the DVD, followed by informal discussion. This week we'll focus on Disk 2, Chapter 4. "A Radically Different and Far Better World is Possible." Bring your thoughts, questions, ideas. 

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Graduation With a REAL Future: With graduation season upon us, are you looking for something meaningful to do with your graduation and your life?  Here's a great idea, from a high school graduation in L.A. last year, where a fifth of the graduates wore a button with the quote from 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." - Bob Avakian, Chairman of the  Revolutionary Communist Party, USA" - BAsics, 1:13 [Read the article from last year on revcom.us, here]   Get a bunch of  these  buttons -  and plan  your own  graduation  with a real future!  $1 each, or  $10  for 50 (bulk rate for  grads). DONATE so grads can get these buttons.  And come to this Sunday's conference at Revolution Books (see above) to plan a whole summer of taking BA everywhere, raising funds and making a difference.

Mon., May 20th: Cornel West and Carl Dix Dialogue: Mass Incarceration + Silence = Genocide: Act to STOP It Now!

[Post on Facebook, Twitter, send to e-lists-spread the word!] Mass Incarceration + Silence = Genocide:   Act to STOP It Now! A Dialogue between CORNEL WEST  and CARL DIX  Watch and spread this call from Noche Diaz + Jamel Mims Forward this NOW to anyone you know in or near New York:  Monday * May 20 * 7:30 PM  The Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew 263 W. 86th Street (between Broadway and West End Ave.) Admission: Premium $100 includes DVD of earlier Cornel West /  Carl Dix Dialogue / General $20 / Low income, student $10  ____________________________________________________ And in Los Angeles, we will be showing a   videotaped version of this dialogue,   followed by discussion and plans Revolution Books, LA Tuesday* May 28 * 7:00 PM  5726 Hollywood Blvd., LA 90028 323-463-3500 For more info on the NYC event, contact Revolution Books NYC  (212) 691-3345, revbooksnyc@yahoo.com or the Stop Mass Incarceration Network at (347) 979-SMIN (7646), stopmassincarceration@gmail.com.

Sun., May 19th, 2 PM: Ngugi Wa Thiong'o at Revolution Books

Spread the word!  Pick up these palm cards and flyers at the  bookstore to distribute at campuses, libraries, coffee shops, etc.   Forward this email widely (use blue "Forward Email" link at  bottom).  Get your tickets online via the PayPal button in the  top, right-hand corner of this page. $100 Benefit ticket includes autographed book. $250 Membership ticket includes autographed book + one-year membership to Friends of Revolution Books (you'll get 10% off future book purchases for the year and this invaluable center for the movement for revolution).