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 to colleges, high schools, and into the communities, 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 & updates.]

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 Thursday * May 23 * 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).

Thurs., May 2nd, 7 pm: Watch and dig into DVD clip from BA Speaks: REVOLUTION - NOTHING LESS!

May 2nd, Thursday, 7pm at Revolution Books: "The Revolutionary Potential of Those Most Oppressed Requires Scientific Leadership"   Continuing our weekly Thursday viewings of clips from the BA Speaks: REVOLUTION - NOTHING LESS!  Bob Avakian Live, followed by informal discussion. This week we're showing the section entitled "The Revolutionary Potential of Those Most Oppressed Requires Scientific Leadership." These discussions have been very thought-provoking and all are welcome.   On this planet today, there are no questions that are more important--and no answers that are more thoroughgoing--than what is spoken to in BA Speaks: REVOLUTION--NOTHING LESS! Bob Avakian Live.  And there is no person more filled with contempt for the powers-that-be and the horrific order they trumpet and enforce - nor more filled with scientific confidence in the potential of masses of people to change all that - than Bob Avakian, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.  Yard Sale for Revolution Books - Sat., May 4th Your support for Revolution Books is needed!  Contact us to volunteer and/or donate items to the yard sale.   Also, now is the time to become a Friend of Revolution Books, and make a monthly contribution to enable us to survive and thrive.  Go to revolutionbooksla.blogspot.com to sign up! Check out this recent statement from one of our wonderful Friends, and let us know why YOU support the bookstore: "I want to highly recommend Revolution Books as a first-rate bookstore specializing in progressive/radical books, magazines, and newspapers.  In addition, from time to time the bookstore has great speakers ranging from astrophysicists, nationally known cartoonists,  journalists of national and international reputations, and speakers at the cutting edge of the anti-war movement and progressive social change.  A great cure for the corporate media's cataracts which it so skillfully tries to put on our eyes.  I am proud to be a small part of it."

Proposed New Immigration Law: An Ominous Leap in Repression and the Need for Resistance "I'm 24 years old. In two months it will be two decades of living in this country illegally. I'm the youngest of five and came to the U.S. with my mother in 1993. We had nothing in Mexico and the only way we were getting through was by my father who was already in the U.S. to send us money. When we arrived two years later my father got deported. My mother worked in the fields picking tomatoes, green peppers, and strawberries so we could eat. It was still not enough. My older brother and sister, who were only 12 and 13 years old when we came to the U.S., had to give up their education and help my mother work. I can't thank them enough for their sacrifice that led to the three youngest in the family to proudly graduate with a high school diploma. I have never felt like an 'American.' To me being an American means having freedom. Free to be whatever you work hard for and always having a fair shot and not being held back by your race, gender or sexuality. In my case it's my illegal status that keeps me down and unable to better my life. To ICE I'm a criminal for being brought to this country when I was five years old."- Rene, Tampa, Florida Read the rest of the article from revcom.us here.

After the May Day Marches, Come to Revolution Books to Discuss A Question Sharply Posed:  Nat Turner or Thomas Jefferson?  Wed., May 1st, 7 PM "Slave rebellion or slave master? Do you support the oppressed rising up against the oppressive system and seeking a radically different way, even with certain errors and excesses-or do you support the oppressors, and the leaders and guardians of an outmoded oppressive order, who may talk about "inalienable rights" but bring down wanton brutality and very real terror, on masses of people, to enforce and perpetuate their system of oppression?"    Read the entire article by Bob Avakian in Revolution newspaper here and then join the discussion.

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Hot off the press! Some of the new articles at revcom.us: On the Bombing in Boston and the Aftermath: The Morality We Need Ri­os Montt on Trial in Guatemala:  A Censored Massacre Made in USA 400 Garment Workers Die in Building Collapse:  What Created the Concrete Tombs in Bangladesh? Read it!  Share it!  Spread it!

Sat., April 27th, 7 pm: The Agony & The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs

Benefit performance at Revolution Books of The Agony & the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs written by Mike Daisey Performed by Alex Lyras Sat., April 27th, 7 PM We are excited to host this dynamic solo performance which follows the trail all the way to China to investigate the factories where millions toil to make iPhones and iPads, shining a light on the very human price we pay for our high-tech toys.  You may have heard of Foxconn, the world's largest supplier of Apple products that responded to worker suicides in Shenzhen, China by putting up nets outside the buildings to catch people who jump off the roof! The New York Times called the work, "Powerful, funny and engaging... Anyone with a cell phone and a moral center should see this show.  "I feel that this type of social activist theater - the kind that indicts and incites and inspires all in the same breath - is one of the most valuable things humankind has to offer." - Alex Lyras    Tickets are available on our blog - click the PayPal button at the top right-hand corner of this page or at Revolution Books. $20 ($10 for unemployed or students with current ID).  Limited seating - buy your tickets now!   You can listen to a recent interview of Alex Lyras in the final third of The Michael Slate Show here.