Support the Occupy Movement! And Support The Michael Slate Show

Revolution Books / Libros Revolucion Urges You to       Stand With the Occupy Movement!      Fight the Power, and Transform the People,       for Revolution! Step forward and stand with the Occupy movement under vicious assault at Occupy Oakland and other locations. Join a Revolution team at Occupy LA (OLA) now, and in the days and nights ahead. Distribute the newspaper and help make banners. As the L.A. mayor and others talk of moving Occupy LA, and OLA has issued a statement making clear their intention to stay (see more below), be ready to protest on a moment's notice. The whole world is watching! The fresh breeze of the Occupy movement that is spreading around the world needs to become a sustained wind blowing away complacency, acquiescence, and conventional thinking, clearing ground for even broader, more determined resistance - as well as the emergence of a new, growing movement for revolution that can sweep away the horrors of imperialism and set to work creating a whole new and far better world.   Check out the coverage in  Revolution at revcom.us.   Correspond and sustain this  vital newspaper! Read "Occupy Wall Street: Showdown and Victory This is So Not Over!" [here]. And "Police Attack Occupy Oakland with massive force: over 100 arrested" [here]. Check back often for updates, alerts. [Two Occupy Oakland photos to the left:  Dave ID]     Join us at the Revolution tent at Occupy LA  on the Spring Street side, north of 1st  Street. Donate via Paypal here and  designate "to sustain the Revolution  tent occupiers and newspaper."

From the Occupy movement websites: Last night, in the reclaimed Oscar Grant Plaza and in the wake of the massive police assault on Occupy Oakland, their general assembly passed a proposal to shut down and liberate the city of Oakland on Wednesday, Nov. 2nd:  "We invite all students to walk out of school. Instead of workers going to work and students going to school, the people will converge on downtown Oakland to shut down the city...The whole world is watching Oakland. Let's show them what is possible." [Read proposal here.]  Stay tuned, as the call for a general strike can grow to other cities quickly... Occupy Wall Street (OWS) saw hundreds take to the streets last night in solidarity with Occupy Oakland. [Watch youtube here.]  And OWS is calling for nationwide vigils onight for Scott Olsen, the Iraq veteran against the war who was slammed in the head by a police projectile during the assault in Oakland and remains in critical condition. Yesterday, as Occupy Oakland was under siege, the L.A. Mayor and various city officials announced to Occupy LA that it is time to "move on."  OLA  responded with a statement that says in part, "As for a time stamp on our departure, there is none...We are resolved to continue our peaceful occupation...Occupiers across America are bravely and against great odds and obstacles exercising the right to have their voices heard in a public forum, we stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters around this nation and around the globe." Read the OLA statement [here].

"You Can't Change the World If You Don't Know the BAsics" - One very important way you can help broaden and deepen the occupy movement is to buy BAsics for yourself and buy one to be placed in the Occupy LA Library in the spirit of doing away with commodity relations!  Then anyone can read this book of quotations and short essays from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party - a work that speaks powerfully to questions of revolution and human emancipation.  A "must read" for anyone agonizing over the question of whether and how they can actually change the world in a fundamental and meaningful way.  Many at Occupy LA have told us they would love to dig into this book.  Help make that happen! Order here via Paypal - let us know if you want your name credited inside the book, or have a special message you'd like to send - and we'll place one (or more!) in the library for you. We Recommend - Received in an email: THE MICHAEL SLATE SHOW Friday, Oct. 28th,  10 to 11 AM, KPFK Radio, 90.7 FM Or Listen Live at kpfk.org  This week on The Michael Slate Show: The movement that began with Occupy Wall Street, a movement welcomed by all of us who can't stand the world as it is, has been viciously attacked. In Oakland, hundreds were arrested and many injured, including a man who lies in the hospital with serious head injuries. The importance of knowing the world and the need for the Michael Slate Show and KPFK are great at times like this.      Make your voice heard. Support KPFK and the Michael Slate Show. Call in at 818-985-5735, or go online at www.kpfk.org during the show to contribute to the Michael Slate Show. We'll be talking to CARL CHRISTMAN, writer and director of "Selling God" which we are offering as a premium. "Selling God" is a funny and fascinating look at the contemporary Evangelical movement. It offers a satirical perspective on the many absurdities that arise when religion and popular culture collide and features interviews with Dr. Noam Chomsky as well as many other scholars and religious leaders. For a contribution of $75, "Selling God" DVD.  For a contribution of $200: ▪ Selling God DVD ▪ The Magic of Reality: How We Know     What's Really True, Richard Dawkins' new book ▪ CD compilation of interviews with noted atheists.  ▪ Free tickets. If you pay with a credit card, you'll get a free    pair of theater tickets, while they last.

BAsics Radio Ad on Power 106 to Reach Millions of Youth

Power 106 (105.9) FM radio ad times Friday, 10/21/11 and Saturday, 10/22/11: 

Friday, 10/21/11:

AM ad times:   1:15, 2:46 a.m.
PM ad times:  4:16, 7:46, 10:16 p.m

 

Saturday, 10/22/11:

AM ad times:  12:18, 1:46, 2:47 a.m.

PM ad times:  8:18, 9:45, 10:45, 11:45 p.m.

The quote from Bob Avakian, "An Appeal to Those the System Has Cast Off" from Basics 3:16,  will reach  a million youth this week in ads on Power 106 in Los Angeles - just as a new wind of resistance is undeniably coming to the fore - from the Wall Streets of cities throughout the country...in the deeply expressed anger  everywhere over the execution of Troy Davis...from the prisons where over 12,000 courageously joined in hungers strikes throughout the California prison system...and on October 22nd when thousands will take to the streets from the neighborhoods and the occupations to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation." 

Take a listen here, get your copy of Basics now and think deeply about the difference this book can make in making this revolution, the Real Revolution, a reality.

The Ad will also run Wednesday through Friday this week on Front Page (KJLH 102.3), which airs 4:00am to 6:00am Monday through Friday and is  one of the most popular talk shows in the Black community. 

Spread this news everywhere!

Sat., October. 22nd - National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality!

We received an email from the Oct. 22nd Coalition, L.A. and we   encourage you to check out details on their national website here: Saturday, October 22nd, 2011  National Day of Protest to STOP POLICE BRUTALITY, REPRESSION, AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF A GENERATION WEAR BLACK!       1 PM - Gather at Pershing Square       (Downtown L.A., 5th and Hill - Red Line Station)      2 PM - March      4 PM - Rally at MacArthur Park      (6th and Alvarado - Red Line Station)  Download, print and distribute this 2-sided flyer  and sticker (below) far and wide! We also encourage people to read these articles from   Revolution newspaper:  Interview with Carl Dix about October 22, 2011  Time to Intensify Outpouring of Resistance [here] October 22, 2011 National Day of Protest to  Stop Police Brutality, Repression,  and the Criminalization of a Generation               "A Fight for the Future, the Struggle  for a Different World" An epidemic of police murder and beatings, courts of injustice, mass imprisonment, the demonization of Black and Latino youth... All this is not just still going on. It's getting WORSE. With no justice in sight. With no sign this system is gonna put the brakes on any of this without determined struggle by the people. Read entire article here.



Voices of Those Cast Off by the System

Voices of those... cast off by the system Pick up this special issue of   Revolution newspaper and join in discussion of the powerful letters  and contributions. Be part of  making plans for its wide  distribution throughout society. From this special issue: "Revolution issued a call in August to our readers to  respond to the 3:16 quote from BAsics, from the talks  and writings of Bob Avakian, "An Appeal to Those the the System Has Cast Off" [read here].  We received many  responses written by those the system has cast off,  as well as from many others. In this issue we are  featuring responses from prisoners, an ex-prisoner  and high school students in an oppressed community.  We were able to run a small number of these  responses into the print edition of Revolution, and  many more are being reprinted here [online at  revcom.us]. We will be publishing more responses in  future print editions of Revolution. We've made every  effort to preserve the voices of those who have written  to us, making changes only in cases when not doing so might be confusing to the reader, or to protect the  privacy of the authors." FROM PRISONERS      FROM HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS  FROM OTHERS

Received in an email from World Can't Wait:  This Friday, Oct. 7th: L. A. ACTIONS Protesting TEN YEARS of  U.S. War & Occupation of Afghanistan  "...On October 6th and 7th, 2011, the world must know that  there's a section of people in this country who are determined  that we will not allow these wars to continue in our name."  "Think about this decade of war and torture. Understand that on the current trajectory there is no end in sight.  Think of the world you would want yourself and others across  this planet to live in. And express those thoughts - by being in the  streets and on the campuses protesting in Los Angeles area on  Friday, October 7, by unleashing a crescendo of creative  opposition, by expressing yourself in song, in poetry, in art, in  whatever form you can." In Los Angeles, Friday October 7th  three events  taking place:   1) A Call To Action! Stop the Wars! Fund Jobs-ICUJP  9:00 AM Interfaith Gathering at La Placita Church, Olvera Street, 535 North Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015  9:45 AM March to Downtown Federal Building  10:30 AM Rally and Civil Disobedience  World Can't Wait will be there - dress and look for Orange. 2) LA Protest and Die-In on the 10th Anniversary of the  Afghanistan War - ANSWER L.A. 4:30pm - 7pm, Westwood Federal Building. 3) Discussion on the 10 years of U.S. Occupation in  Afghanistan and AFghanistan Resistance.  RAWA member, Reena, interviewed via Live Video Stream by Sonali Kodhatkar. Surviving the Longest War, Live video stream from Pakistan,  Webcast live @ afghanswomensmission.org; 7:00 pm - Pasadena City College, Creveling Lounge. Open to the Public, Free entrance.  Info: 626.676.7884 ______________________________________________ We received the following in an email from the CA Prison Hunger Strike Action Network: Dramatic Readings from Prisoners Letters  UCLA - Eating Area, North Campus (Near Campbell Hall) Thurs., Oct. 6th 10 am to 3 pm  Support the Unprecedented California  Prisoner Hunger Strike! Stop Torture in the the California SHU's!    "On Thursday, October 6, an all day interactive site at UCLA will provide a SPACE for students and professors, actors and artists, family members of those locked up in the SHU's, and others, including the religious, legal, human and civil rights community, to read 'letters from the hellholes of prison' and give VOICE to the prisoners..." "...Many of the letters take up questions of morality, religion, science and the arts, and politics and have been received by Revolution newspaper and the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund (PRLF) which provides Revolution newspaper and other revolutionary literature to prisoners."

Book Signing & Discussion With DENNIS LOO, Sun., Oct. 9th, 3 PM

Book Signing and  Discussion with DENNIS LOO  Sun., Oct. 9th, 3 PM  $5-10 donations at door Join us to hear Prof. DENNIS LOO  speak on his newly-published book,   Globalization and the Demolition  of Society, a fundamental challenge to  the free marketers and a primer for a  radically different future.  $27.95 hard cover In this wide-ranging, in-depth and timely book, Dennis Loo shows  why free market fundamentalism and unrestrained individualism -  also known as neoliberalism - represents "the most dangerous  movement in history."  From his book: "The worst and most  alarming news here...is not that 9/11 was an inside job, a grand  conspiracy hatched within the highest US government echelons.  It is instead that 9/11 and other disasters such as the BP  Deepwater Horizon catastrophe are due to the normal and  ordinary workings of capitalism, and specifically neoliberal  policies." Read excerpts from the book on Larkmead Press  website [here] Dennis Loo is a Professor of Sociology  at Cal Poly Pomona and a National  Steering Committee Member of the  World Can't Wait.  He is the recipient  of a number of awards - the Alfred R.  Lindesmith Award from the Society for  the Study of Social Problems, Project  Censored's Award, and The Nation  Magazine's "Most Valuable Campaign"  award.  His previous book was Impeach  the President: the Case Against Bush  and Cheney (New York: Seven Stories  Press, 2006) that he co-authored and         co-edited with Peter Phillips.  "In contrast to that philosophical framework that denies  it's possible to determine what's objectively true, Dr. Loo  argues that it is necessary, and possible, to understand  and confront what is objectively true, an important  distinction if we want to act to change the world.  That  in itself is a huge contribution.  And that's only the first  book within his book.' "Dr. Loo tackles the underlying why and how of these  outrages which I call systematic crimes. If enough  people read this book, it could help change the course of  history."                    - Debra Sweet, Director of World Can't Wait                         Co-hosted by World Can't Wait  and Revolution Books

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Sat. Oct. 1st - Occupy LA - Join Us at City Hall - Noon til ?

Join Revolution Books at Occupy L.A. Saturday, October 1st, Noon City Hall - 1st & Spring Streets Revolution Books / Libros Revolucion will be bringing  revolutionary literature to the righteous occupation of City  Hall.  Join us in getting out BAsics from the Talks and  Writings of Bob Avakian andRevolution newspaper.   "Fight the Power, and Transform the People, for Revolution!" Sat., Oct. 1st - 6 PM: Join in informal discussion of BAsics at Occupy LA.  Let's  dig into this handbook for revolution. From email received from OccupyLA: "Occupy LA begins  this Saturday, Oct. 1st!  We are Occupying LA in solidarity  with Occupy Wall St. (a Peaceful Occupation). Starting at  10:00 am in Pershing Square, marching to City Hall."  Bring tents, sleeping bags, food, supplies, friends . Go to occupylosangeles.org On Twitter: #occupyla

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