BAsics Bus Tour Underway!

[Received in an email from the Basics Bus Tour Pilot Project, L.A.] BAsics Bus Tour  Underway! "Let's Go!" was the spirit of the first  hours of the BAsics Bus Tour two-week  pilot project.  It launched with great  fanfare in Los Angeles on Tuesday  (see below), was in Riverside Wed. and Thurs. this week, and today is in  Orange County. See next stops below. Follow the tour on their blog at basicsbustour.tumblr.com and  their Facebook page [Basics BusTour]; and on Revolution  newspaper website, revcom.us. Forward these links to e-lists,  post on Facebook, Twitter! Where the tour is going today and this weekend:  Join in and  send others!  * The BAsics Bus Tour in the OC (Orange County)! (Fri., Sat. and  Sun., Feb. 10-12) in Fullerton, Santa Ana and Anaheim; then they  will head up north [click here for schedule after Orange County]. FRIDAY, Feb. 10th, Fullerton and Anaheim  * Fullerton State University, 10 to 2 pm - the bus will be right  in the middle of campus, next to the student union! * Unitarian Universalist Church, 6:30 pm, in Anaheim, "Potlucks  for Progressives" is hosting a potluck dinner for the BAsics Bus  Tour, called "A Better World is Possible."  511 South Harbor Blvd.,  Anaheim, CA 92805. Potluck at 6:45 pm; program at 7:15 pm.  Come and share your ideas for a better world. SATURDAY, Feb. 11th, Santa Ana  * Soccer fields at Centennial Park, early morning in Santa Ana * Anti-Mall event, 11 am to 3 pm, look for the BAsics Tour bus  at this "People B4 Profit Marketplace" at El Centro Cultural de  Mexico, 313 N. Birch Street Santa Ana.  * Librería Martinez, 4 to 6 pm, spanish reading / discussion of  Lo BAsico / BAsics with the BAsics Bus Tour riders, 216 N.  Broadway (one door away from Subway on the corner), in  downtown Santa Ana. * Mariachi Vargas de Tetalitlan, at The City National Grove of  Anaheim, internationally acclaimed as the "best mariachis in the  world."  The performance begins at 8 pm.  Look for the BAsics  Bus Tour as the crowds leave from 9:30 to 10:30 pm, 2200 East  Katella Avenue  in Anaheim.   First stop:  early morning, Tues., Feb. 7th, 7th & Alvarado.    "We stayed for a couple hours, talked with a lot of people, mainly  immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and sold some  copies of Lo BAsico and BAsics. A woman who bought Lo BAsico  remarked that the Bus 'stopped me in my tracks!'"    Next was the launch celebration (with pizza), Tues., Feb. 7th, noon - at Revolution Books L.A.  "Statements from various people voiced  support for the Tour and, from different points of view, what they  thought was important about BAsics." "In the afternoon we went to Watts. Soon a very boisterous group  of Black high school youth came up and mulitiple conversations  and debates broke out as people clustered around the displays.  One youth, after firing a series of hard questions at the  revolutionaries remarked to his friends, 'This is interesting,  these people are serious.'"    "Today was a good day, the light rain that fell from time to time did not dampen our spirits. It was a good start. We felt we learned a lot. Tomorrow: Riverside."    Next Stops: * Davis (Tues., Feb. 14) * Santa Rosa (Wed., Feb. 15) * Berkeley / Oakland (Thurs., Fri. & Sat., Feb. 16-18) * Fresno (Sun. to Tues., Feb. 19-21 * Los Angeles - celebratory finale and fundraiser at Revolution Books [Back to the top] Read more coverage with photos at basicsbustour.tumblr.com. _____________________________________________ Be Part of Making This Happen: * Send an email to the tour coordinator at   BAeverywhere_LA1@yahoo.com to volunteer to help organize  a support or host committee to share ideas on the best places  the bus can go in your area, or just to find out how you can be  there when it comes to town. * Make plans with friends to print up dozens or more of your  favorite BAsics quotes and plaster them in the area before the  tour rolls into your town or campus, or find appropriate places to  hang a banner or put up a photo display.  *  Talk to a neighborhood coffee shop or recreation center and  set up a time and place for the bus riders to meet with people  who got BAsics and want to explore these ideas more fully.  *  Donate funds to make all this happen-and go to others to get  them to contribute as well.  *  People everywhere can-and should-contribute to the success  of this tour. Organize fundraisers and send the money to the address  below-and send reports to Revolution newspaper. (See  "Post-Holiday Yard Sale: Raising Money for BA Everywhere ".)  Go to revcom.us and look for frequent reports on what the bus riders  are experiencing and learning. Readers who want to be a part of the tour, to learn more, or to  provide much needed funds for this historic beginning to a national  "BA Everywhere" Bus Tour should contact the Los Angeles tour  coordinator at BAeverywhere_LA1@yahoo.com. Donations for the  tour should be sent to: Revolution Books 5726 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028 323-463-3500 Make checks out to Revolution Books; be sure to write "BAsics Bus Tour" in the subject line to earmark it for the tour. Donate online by clicking the PayPal button "Donate to the BAsics Bus Tour" at the top, right-hand corner of the blog.