The Michael Slate Show, Fri., 9/18, 10 am; Upcoming Events

We Recommend - Received in an email:  THE MICHAEL SLATE SHOW Friday, Sept. 16th,  10 - 11 AM, KPFK, 90.7 FM Or Listen Live at kpfk.org This week on The Michael Slate Show:  Who are these people?  ROBERT PARRY,  of Consortium News (consortiumnews.com),  takes a look at the people in the mass media who worked to create public support for war  crimes in Iraq following 9/11, the impact they  had then, and what they are still covering up.  MAXIMILIAN FORTE on "A Victory for the  Libyan People?: The Top Ten Myths in the  War Against Libya." "Since  Colonel Gaddafi  has lost his military hold in the war against  NATO and  the insurgents/rebels/new regime, numerous talking heads  have taken to  celebrating this war as a 'success'. They believe this is  a 'victory of  the Libyan people' and that we should all be celebrating." "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," a play  based on diaries and emails of 23- year-old Rachel Corrie, killed in  2003  by an Israeli army bulldozer while trying  to prevent the destruction of a   Palestinian home in Gaza, is ending a  run at the Will Geer Theatricum  Botanicum in Topanga. SAMARA  FRAME, who gives a powerful  performance as Rachel Corrie, will join us.

Upcoming Events: Friday, Sept. 16th, 6 pm:  We're continuing a new 6-part series of discussions of BAsics from the Talks and  Writings of Bob Avakian.  Come to share your favorite quotes and your biggest dreams, with Chapter 2  "A New - And Far Better - World." "Imagine kids who actually wanted to go to school!...  Imagine if the educational system actually told them the truth..." - BAsics, 2, #7 "This is not a fantasy. These are the things that have been done in socialist societies that have existed-or they're things that, on the basis on that experience,  we have summed up and are learning more deeply  need to be done. This is all possible. It's not some  pipe dream. This is what happens when the masses  of people rise up and take control over society and  this is what waits to be done." - BAsics, Chap. 2, #9 (Author will not be present.)  Saturday, Sept. 17, 3 PM:       Continuing discussion of Birds Cannot Give Birth to Crocodiles, But  Humanity Can Soar Beyond the Horizon, Part 2 of a recent talk by Bob  Avakian. Bring your thoughts and questions about the section  beginning with, "Some Further Thoughts on the Possibility of  Revolution".  Read on-line at revcom.us, or pick up a printed copy  of the talk at the bookstore. Sunday, Sept. 18th: Join us in Santa Ana on Sunday, September 18th to take   Lo BAsico / BAsics to the Fiestas Patrias Festival on 4th Street -  \a huge Mexican Independence Day street party that goes Saturday  and Sunday from noon to 10 p.m.  Call Revolution Books for carpool  info or look for our Lo BAsico / BAsics displays at the festival.  This  is part of answering a call to "Take BAsics Into the Communities  and High Schools of the Oppressed."  Read more at revcom.us [here]. Sunday, Oct. 2nd, 10 AM - 6 PM: Volunteers needed at our booth at the West Hollywood Book Fair to  bring BAsics and the movement for revolution to this progressive  community.  West Hollywood Park, 647 N. San Vicente Blvd., West  Hollywood 90069.  Free admission.  Learn more at  westhollywoodbookfair.org.    Sunday, Oct. 9th, 3 pm: Book presentation and signing with Cal Poly Pomona sociology  professor Dennis Loo, author of the just-published Globalization  and the Demolition of Society, a robust critique of neo-liberalism.   Co-sponsored by The World Can't Wait - LA; Loo is on their  National Steering Committee.