The Michael Slate Show: Dr. Aziz Huq, Muslim Ban; Karen Greenberg, Children's Guantanamo; What to the Slave is Your 4th of July?; The Crucible

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This Week: This week: --Dr. Aziz Huq, The Travel Ban and Some of the Worst Decisions in History --Karen J. Greenberg, Trump's Children's Guantanamo --Bob Avakian on Frederick Douglass and the 4th of July --Arthur Miller's The Crucible The Travel Ban and the Supreme Court: The logic they used to uphold the travel ban would justify Japanese internment camps. Dr. Aziz Huq joins us to talk about the US Supreme Court decision to uphold Trump's anti-Muslim travel ban. He notes the echoes of past unjust decisions, like the approval of concentration camps for Japanese Americans, and the infamous Plessy v. Fergusondecision that legalized generations of Jim Crow segregation. Aziz Huq is the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School.  How the Torture Camp of Guantanamo Set the Stage for the Children's Camps Being Built at the Border Karen J. Greenberg recently wrote "Trump’s Border: Gitmo for Kids," about the incarceration of immigrant children in prison camps on US military bases. She talked about comparisons to Nazi Germany, and noted, "If you wanted to see where their ravaging really began, you needed to look elsewhere (which, surprisingly enough, no one has)—specifically, to those who created the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility." Karen J. Greenberg is director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. "What to the slave is your fourth of July? From the past to the present." We'll hear Bob Avakian in a clip from "Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About," a film of a talk by Bob Avakian given in 2003 in the United States. Bob Avakian is the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party and the architect of a whole new framework of human emancipation, the new synthesis of communism, which is popularly referred to as the "new communism."  Arthur Miller's The Crucible, a Powerful Play for the Era of Trump We'll sit down with actors Christopher W. Jones and Melora Marshall, who are appearing in The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, at the Theatricum Botanicum. The Crucible draws a parallel between the Salem witch hunts of 1692 and McCarthyism -- and it is just as relevant today. It shows a world where people are hounded by a mob of accusers, and executed by the authorities, while too few stood up against them.

Into the Streets!    From Refuse Fascism: STOP Terrorizing Immigrants and Refugees! Demonstrate Saturday July 7   Take to the streets in cities and towns nationwide TO  DEMAND:   This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!   Children torn from parents… concentration camps for tens or hundreds of thousands… threats to bypass judicial process… The assault on immigrants is the linchpin and battering ram of a whole fascist program: * The Muslim Ban. * White supremacy and terror. * Environmental deregulation as the planet burns. * Open misogyny and theocratic restrictions on abortion and even birth control. * Stripping away rights recently won by LGTBQ people. * 8 million on the verge of starvation in Yemen due to U.S. backed war. * Threats of nuclear annihilation. This is an American Fascism: “Trump/Pence regime’s ‘Make America Great Again’ is a 21st century fascist program of Manifest Destiny – ‘America First’ – wrapped in the flag and Mike Pence’s Bible taken literally, with a program of white supremacy, misogyny, and xenophobia.” ENOUGH. Basta Ya!   Read more at RefuseFascism.org Saturday, June 30, 11 AM - 2 PM Families Belong Together: Freedom for Immigrants Los Angeles City Hall To Join with Refuse Fascism Contingent meet 10:00 am. the Metro Red Line Station Civic Center at Grand Park.  OR   July 4: Anti 4th of July Fundraiser: America was NEVER Great BBQ Wednesday, July 4, 11 AM - 6 PM Exposition Park, Vermont and Exposition AMERICA, the land of the thief and home of the slave now runs roughshod over the whole planet, so why should anyone celebrate its birth? Humanity needs a world without what this goddamn county stands for! Read more/Join the Facebook event

Today in the Revolution - Getting Ready for Saturday, June 30

From revcom.us: Today in the Revolution June 26, 2018 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us HOW WE CAN WIN—How We Can Really Make Revolution says, "Thousands need to get organized into the ranks of the revolution now, while millions are being influenced in favor of this revolution." Be part of those thousands across the country. Check here every day. Spread these on social media. Join in with the Revolution Clubs on the ground and on social media. Report back with your thoughts, responses and suggestions at revolution.reports@yahoo.com. June 26, 2018 1. Watch this video and share all over Bob Avakian, "Why do people come here from all over the world?" (full chapter): https://youtu.be/Fod8SAcv0do Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Instagram 2. See People Prevent Chicago’s Swinest From Arresting Revolution Club Fighters—and let others know about it revolution club chi@revclubchi See full video of #Chicago police again attacking .@revclubchi. This time they singled out revolutionaries in a march against caging & terrorizing immigrant families. This time people stepped forward & pigs were forced to back off!#LetOurChildrenGo#ReuniteFamiliesNow From HOW WE CAN WIN—How We Can Really Make Revolution: While awaiting the necessary conditions to go all-out for revolution, we need to hasten this and actively carry out the “3 Prepares”: Prepare the Ground, Prepare the People, and Prepare the Vanguard—Get Ready for the Time When Millions Can Be Led to Go for Revolution, All-Out, With a Real Chance to Win. We need to Fight the Power, and Transform the People, for Revolution—protest and resist the injustices and atrocities of this system, and win people to defy and repudiate this putrid system and its ways of thinking, and to take up the outlook and values, and the strategy and program of the revolution, build up the forces for this revolution, and defeat the attempts of the ruling powers to crush the revolution and its leadership. With every “jolt” in society—every crisis, every new outrage, where many people question and resist what they normally accept—we need to seize on this to advance the revolution and expand its organized forces. We need to oppose and disrupt the moves of the ruling powers to isolate, “encircle,” brutalize, mass incarcerate and murderously repress the people who have the hardest life under this system and who most need this revolution. We need to “encircle” them—by bringing forth wave upon wave of people rising up in determined opposition to this system. 3. Call on people to be part of Revolution Club Contingents on Saturday's parades Download this graphic for use all over Graphic with New York info Graphic with Chicago info Graphic with San Francisco info DONATE GENEROUSLY to the Revolution Club-LA HERE.

Come Out to Anti-July 4 "America Was NEVER Great" Fundraising Picnic

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PROTESTS MUST CONTINUE AND GROW:TURN UP THE HEAT – STAY IN THE STREETS! Today and beyond...

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PROTESTS MUST CONTINUE AND GROW: TURN UP THE HEAT – STAY IN THE STREETS! June 21, 2018 by Refuse Fascism Share180 Tweet In Los Angeles: Three protests on Saturday, June 23: NO MILITARY CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR REFUGEES! - Trump/Pence MUST GO! 2 - 5 PM @ Metropolitan Detention Center, Los Angeles 535 N Alameda St, Los Angeles, California 90012 * * * * * Creating a “Tent City” at ICE Field Office - LA   9 AM @ 300 N Los Angeles St * * * * * Keep Families Together: Protest Rally and Toy Drive 10 AM - 12 Noon @ Wilshire Federal Building 11000 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90024   In the Name of Humanity: STOP Terrorizing Immigrant Children — Reunite Families, Let Them Stay, Set Them Free! This Nightmare Must End: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! Everyone with a conscience must act in every way they can to stop the fascist nightmare of racist terror, brutality, inhumanity, xenophobia, and heartless cruelty against immigrants and the regime that is threatening the future itself. Protests must continue and GROW among all sections of the people. Now is a time for DETERMINATION. Support and join those whose conscience and political conviction compels them to put themselves on the line in nonviolent civil disobedience, in occupations, in acts of conscience. Unite All Who Can Be United. Speak. Mobilize. Act. There is a way to stop what the Trump/Pence Regime is doing: * We Demand: This Nightmare Must End: THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! * Why? In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! Say it, Recognize it, Act on it Now to prevent far greater horrors. Trump/Pence regime’s “Make America Great Again” is a 21st century fascist program of Manifest Destiny – “America First” – wrapped in the flag and Mike Pence’s Bible taken literally, with a program of white supremacy, misogyny, and xenophobia. From the Refuse Fascism Call to Action If you agree that a regime that tears children from parents and locks them in cages must be stopped in its tracks and not allowed to determine the future… If you believe that women and LGBTQ people are full human beings who must not be slammed backwards and deprived of their rights… If you refuse to accept the resurrection of lynch mobs and racist terror… If you will not stand by as Trump/Pence threaten the people of the world with war, torture and even nuclear annihilation, as they pour gasoline on the fire of global climate change and endanger the planet itself… THEN JOIN WITH REFUSEFASCISM.ORG. SIGN AND SPREAD THE CALL TO ACTION. ORGANIZE AND TAKE TO THE STREETS TO BUILD THE STRENGTH AND UNITY TO DEMAND THAT THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME BE REMOVED FROM POWER. THIS IS THE ONLY REASONABLE DEMAND. MILLIONS ACTING TOGETHER COULD MAKE IT HAPPEN. WE PLEDGE that we will not stand aside while there is still a chance to stop a regime that imperils humanity and the earth itself. Join us. Let’s stand together with conviction and courage, overcoming fear and uncertainty, to struggle with all we’ve got to demand: The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go. #TrumpPenceMustGo | RefuseFascism.org | @RefuseFascism Printable PDF ACT Right NOW Right now, act up… speak out… mobilize! Join in civil disobedience actions… go to ICE Detention Centers and wage determined, defiant protest like they are in Portland. Occupy a public space… do guerilla art… confront public officials who are collaborating with what is going on. Find & share events here. Everywhere you go to or organize, SPREAD THIS DEMAND with signs and banners and organize others: STOP Terrorizing Immigrant children. Set the Families Free! This nightmare must end! The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go  Print up signs here or make your with the demands stop terrorizing children and immigrants & Trump/Pence Must Go!; and add “RefuseFascism.org.” Read and sign the Refuse Fascism Call to Action, print it, get it out everywhere, spread it on social media and get it to everyone who can’t sleep, and donate to the organization organizing to drive OUT this regime Deepen your understanding of what we’re facing and how to solve it by watching this film of a speech by Bob Avakian “THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! In The Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America: A Better World IS Possible! If you or someone you know has special professional skills, connections, an influencer or someone with financial resources –  throw in with everything you’ve got! Connect with Refuse Fascism here. Study and share these Indictments of the crimes of the Trump/Pence regime. Join or start a chapter of Refuse Fascism, or partner your group with it.

Join the Revolution Club at the BET Music Awards - Today & Tomorrow

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The Revolution Club - LA is going to the BET Music Awards
to agitate, agitate, agitate, and
organize, organize, organize forces
for an actual revolution.

Meet Friday, June 22 & Saturday, June 23
@ 2 PM

Revolution Club Organizing Center
2716 S Vermont Ave, #8 (upstairs)
(just south of Adams Blvd., near USC)

If you can't make it at 2 PM, catch up with us later by calling the Revolution Club at 323.424.6687.

Click here to support Revolution Club, Los Angeles - A Fundraiser to Change Everything by A J Revclub_la@yahoo.com Follow on social media:  @revclub_la Read and share: Trump’s Promise Is Worse Than Worthless Step Up the Struggle Against This Fascist Immigration Policy June 21, 2018 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order that he claimed would solve the problem of the heartless separation of immigrant children who were arrested for the “crime” of fleeing murder and starvation. Early online coverage in places like the New York Times immediately began claiming that “Trump has caved,” and basically signaled that the struggle had been won. Trump has NOT caved, and the struggle is far from over. All this order does is say that “the policy of this Administration to maintain family unity, including by detaining alien families together where appropriate and consistent with law and available resources.” This is barely a concession at all—that from here on out, the Administration will try to unjustly imprison families together rather than apart (though that depends on “available resources”). Read the whole article HERE.   Print this and get out at protests against attacks on immigrants (PDF): As Children Are Being Ripped Away From Their Parents and Tortured on the Border… WE NEED AN ACTUAL REVOLUTION! AND WE NEED YOU TO BE PART OF IT!

Michael Slate Show: Shireen Al-Adeimi, Attack on Yemen Threatens Mass Starvation; Bob Avakian, A Radically Different and Far Better World Is Possible

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This week:   - Shireen Al-Adeimi, US-Backed Attack on Yemen Threatens Mass Starvation; - Bob Avakian, A Radically Different and Far Better World Is Possible U.S.-Backed Coalition Using Starvation as a Weapon in Yemen Many people in the US are unaware of the crisis in Yemen which is reaching genocidal proportions. We'll speak with writer and activist Shireen Al-Adeimi about the US-backed attack on Yemen’s port city of Hudayda, and its deadly consequences for the people of Yemen, who are already suffering disease and starvation from years of US-Saudi attacks. For the last three years the U.S. and its allies have bombed, starved, and sickened millions of children, forcing tens of thousands of parents to watch them die before their eyes. Now these criminals are deliberately cutting off the meager food aid in Yemen that has been keeping millions of hungry, sick, and malnourished children—and millions of adults—alive. Shireen Al-Adeimi is a Yemeni student who just completed her doctorate at Harvard University and has been writing and speaking about the situation in Yemen.  Bob Avakian, A Radically Different and Far Better World Is Possible At a time when many people are agonizing about, and protesting the inhumanity and brutality of the Trump/Pence fascist regime, we're going to hear part of a talk by Bob Avakian, speaking of why the world is the way it is, and of the kind of world that humanity can actually achieve. We'll hear an excerpt from "BA Speaks: Revolution - Nothing Less!" a film from a series of talks Bob Avakian gave in the Fall of 2012. This excerpt includes, A Radically Different and Far Better World Is Possible, We Need Revolution to Overcome all Oppressive Divisions, We Need a Real Revolution, Not Better Democracy Under This System, Socialism is Three Things, and Above all, Socialism Is a Transition to Communism. Bob Avakian is the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party and the architect of a whole new framework of human emancipation, the new synthesis of communism, which is popularly referred to as the "new communism."