Friday - The Michael Slate Show - Hands Off Refuse Fascism & The Revolution Club; Defeating Kavanaugh -- On the Right Terms! + "Bisbee '17"

Received via email.  We Recommend: Friday, September 28, 2018 10 - 11 AM - PDT The Michael Slate Show KPFK 90.7 FM  |  Listen Live Website  Twitter,  Facebook

THIS WEEK:  Hands Off Refuse Fascism & The Revolution Club; Defeating Kavanaugh -- On the Right Terms! + "Bisbee '17" Drop the Charges Against Revolutionaries and Refuse Fascism Activists in Los Angeles! Los Angeles members of Refuse Fascism and the Revolution Club are facing serious charges for resisting the Trump/Pence fascist regime. Eleven people are now facing trial for blocking the 101 Freeway last November, and for speaking from the audience at a UCLA appearance of the fascist cabinet member Steve Mnuchin. We'll talk with some of the defendants about the important of their actions, the nature of the charges, and why people need to defend revolutionaries and anti-fascist resisters. For more background, read new article HERE. Sunsara Taylor: Defeating the Supreme Court Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh -- On the Right Terms We'll speak with Sunsara Taylor, writer for Revcom.us/Revolution newsaper, and co-initiator of Refuse Fascism, on why the struggle to prevent Kavanaugh from being seated must not only continue but intensify, with the correct focus—on his thoroughly fascist history and what that portends for the future of humanity. Kavanaugh has done great harm throughout his life, and if given the chance to ascend to the Supreme Court he will do far far worse. Check out the recent article on revcom.us. Bisbee '17 -- Disturbing Documentary Screening in Los Angeles Armed men go house to house rousing people from sleep, dragging them and hundreds of others to cattle cars where they are jammed in to be deported to an unknown destination. No, this is not Nazi Germany.  This is the United States of America - and this really happened on July 12, 1917 in the border town of Bisbee, Arizona. One hundred years later, the town commemorates this mind-boggling act on July 12, 2017 - documented by filmmaker Robert Greene. The film BISBEE '17 raises important questions and leaves the viewer even more inquisitive and wanting to find more meaning and answers. We'll be sitting down with Robert Greene to talk about the film and its meaning in these times. The film will open Friday, September 28 here in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Monica and the Laemmle Pasadena Playhouse.

THIS WEEK: Protest and resist the injustices of this system and organize forces FOR revolution!

Received from the Revolution Club-LA:   Thursday, September 27:   Justice For Laquan McDonald! Convict Van Dyke and Throw Him in Jail— The Whole Damn System Is GUILTY AS HELL! 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was gunned down and killed in cold blood by white Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke on October 20, 2014. Laquan was shot 16 times in 14 seconds as he walked down the middle of the street.   As the trial of murderous pig Jason Van Dyke enters the third week and the “defense phase” of the trial, now is NOT the time to be silent or “wait and see.” NOW is the time to act and draw the lines: WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? Convict Van Dyke and Throw Him in Jail! The Whole Damn System Is Guilty as Hell—and Needs to Be Overthrown!  Read fact sheet HERE. Make Thursdays “Laquan Day.” Take 16 minutes of action for the 16 shots. Hold a silent protest, organize a “die-in”, hold a speak-out, a walkout, or occupy a space for 16 minutes. Take videos and pictures and spread them on social media. Share it with us on FB/TW:@revclubchi or revclub.chi@gmail.com Noon - O.C. Protest Fullerton College's Free Speech Area, followed by a march to the intersection of Harbor Blvd. and Chapman. Like & Share on FB. 3 - 5:30 PM - L.A. Protest Protest will begin at Manual Arts High School, followed by a march to the intersection of Exposition and Vermont. Like & Share on FB. 6 - 9:30 PM - Open Mic - Break The Chains, Unleash the Fury of Women 2716 S. Vermont #8 (upstairs) Come join the Revolution Club at our organizing center for a night of culture, a night of righteous rebellion against a society and a culture which degrades, abuses, and suffocates women in a thousand different ways. Bring music, bring poetry, or just come to unleash your anger on the microphone. Come be a part of putting forward an alternative morality that rejects this putrid culture and come to a space where people can live as 'future people, people who represent a future society that we are fighting to bring into being where this shit is no more! Like & Share on FB. Sunday, September 30: 3 PM - Screening of Bob Avakian's New Talk - Why We Need An Actual Revolution and How We Can Really Make Revolution (see trailer below) 2716 S. Vermont #8 (upstairs) 6 PM - HANDS OFF REFUSE FASCISM AND AND REVOLUTION CLUB POTLUCK AND FUNDRAISER Join us at 6PM at the Revolution Club organizing center as a part of building support and mass awareness of the recent clampdown and wave of charges against Refuse Fascism activists and Revolution Club members as the Trump/Pence regime continues to undermine and destroy civil rights and liberties. Bring food, bring donations, bring lawyers & friends, bring ideas about how we can go on the offensive around these attacks. DONATE: tinyurl.com/FundTheRevolution

THIS FILM PREMIERES ONLINE OCTOBER 19! This fall there needs to be a mass movement around spreading this film. We don’t have this all figured out yet. The ways and means are there but it is going to take a movement of people going to work on this together, sharing their ideas, resources and stoking collective imagination to come up with ways to break the system’s sound barrier. Here's how to help spread it everywhere!

For more information, contact the Revolution Club-LA at 323.424.6687 or revclub_LA@yahoo.com DONATE SPREAD THE WORD FORWARD THIS EMAIL

Tomorrow night, 9/22 - Why We Need An Actual Revolution-- BE THERE!

Received from the Revolution Club-LA and The Bob Avakian Institute: Trailer! WHY WE NEED AN ACTUAL REVOLUTION AND HOW WE CAN REALLY MAKE REVOLUTION a speech by Bob Avakian BE THERE! *Special Preview Screening* Saturday, September 22, 6-10 pm In the park at Vermont Ave. & Exposition Blvd. Across the street from the Vermont exit of the Expo Metro Line If you have agonized about the horrors of this society, but did not know why we face all this and thought there was no way out… this speech will reveal why those outrages go on and how they can be changed. If you have thought that even if people could get together on it, revolution was not really possible up against the powerful repressive machinery we face… this speech will challenge you. If you have hungered for fundamental change, but did not know where to begin… this speech will give you the map you need and the way to connect. There has never been a speech like this on this topic before. This leader, this film, this movement has answers—answers that could lead to a whole better future for humanity… to hope on a solid scientific foundation. THIS FILM PREMIERES ONLINE OCTOBER 19! This fall there needs to be a mass movement around spreading this film. We don’t have this all figured out yet. The ways and means are there but it is going to take a movement of people going to work on this together, sharing their ideas, resources and stoking collective imagination to come up with ways to break the system’s sound barrier. Here's how to help spread it everywhere! For more information, contact the Revolution Club-LA at 323.424.6687 or revclub_LA@yahoo.com FACEBOOK EVENT DONATE SPREAD THE WORD FORWARD THIS EMAIL

Friday - The Michael Slate Show - Lawsuit Challenges Prison Censorship "The Penalty" Film on Capital Punishment

Received via email.  We Recommend: Friday, September 21, 2018 10 - 11 AM - PDT The Michael Slate Show KPFK 90.7 FM  |  Listen Live Website  Twitter,  Facebook

"The Penalty" New Doc on Capital Punishment; Lawsuit Challenges Prison Censorship Lawsuit Challenges Censorship of Blood in the Water, on Attica Prison Uprising Two Illinois prisons have censored Blood in the Water, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by historian Heather Ann Thompson about the 1971 Attica prison uprising. The Chicago-based Uptown People’s Law Center filed a lawsuit to challenge this unconstitutional and unethical censorship. We'll talk with Alan Mills, executive director of Uptown People's Law Center "The Penalty" and the Stories of Three Extraordinary People Caught up in America's Death Penalty "The Penalty," a new documentary, takes on the horror of the death penalty through three different perspectives: a woman who must confront the death penalty when her daughter is murdered, a lawyer representing condemned prisoners in Ohio, and a man exonerated and released from death row after decades in solitary confinement. These stories woven together form a powerful statement on the terrible societal impact of state-sponsored murder. We'll talk with Co-director Will Francome and Producer Laura Shacham. For more on this film, including upcoming showings, go to the website.

This SATURDAY - outdoor preview of a film: "There has never been a speech like this on this subject before..."

Received from the Revolution Club-LA:

The Revolution Club-LA and The Bob Avakian Institute invite you to a special outdoor screening of :  Saturday, September 22, 6-10 PM At the park at Vermont Ave. & Exposition Blvd.   * If you are someone who hates the outrages of the system and wants to know WHY they happen... * If you wonder whether we need a revolution and want to know if it’s really possible to go up against the power of this system and make a revolution... * If you want to act right now but don’t know how — then come to the film and invite others who feel the same. Bob Avakian shows that there is a way out of the madness, and the leadership to make that real.  After the film, we'll share thoughts and responses, and ideas about taking the film to others. For more information, contact the Revolution Club-LA at 323.424.6687 or revclub_LA@yahoo.com FACEBOOK EVENT DONATE SPREAD THE WORD FORWARD THIS EMAIL

Tuesday, Thursday & Friday - Pack the Courtroom!

Received from the Revolution Club - LA and Refuse Fascism - LA:

Stand With & Support for the #Freeway9 & UCLA Protesters Pack the Court Rooms and Demand the Charges Be Dropped! Tuesday, Thursday & Friday, Sept. 18, 20 & 21, 2018 In Los Angeles, City Attorney Michael Feuer is currently criminally prosecuting 11 people for participating in or supporting such meaningful and much needed political protests against the Trump/Pence regime for its real crimes against humanity, including political protests which have been seen by millions. Tues. Sept 18 & Thurs. Sept 20, 8:30 - 11 AM Metropolitan Courthouse 1945 S. Hill St., Dept. 60 (Washington & Hill, near the Metro Blue Line) Join & Share on FB. Friday, September 21, 8 - 11 AM Airport Courthouse 11701 S. La Cienega Blvd. LA 90045 The first out of 5 defendants will be in court this Friday, September 21 at the Airport Courthouse. Join us in packing the court room & demanding the city attorney to drop all charges against ALL defendants. The multiple misdemeanor charges stem from two actions on the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles and from arrests originating from a public challenge to the fascist Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin at UCLA. All these actions were sounding the alarm about a fascist regime, and aimed to build a movement to drive out the regime. --> Call the LA City Attorney at 213-978-8100 to demand ALL the charges against ALL defendants be dropped --> Invite the defendants to speak in your school class, or to your organization, group, association or union. --> Donate funds to help with legal expenses and to help notify millions of these cases and promote the demand to DROP THE CHARGES!  (donate.refusefascism.org/RefuseFascismSoCal)Join and share on FB. PLUS:  Listen to Andy Zee, co-initiator of RefuseFascism.org and spokesperson for Revolution Books, on The Michael Slate Show.

Friday - The Michael Slate Show w/ Andy Zee: Trump is unhinged & his whole regime is a danger to humanity

Received via email.  We Recommend:   Friday, September 14, 2018 10 - 11 AM - PDT The Michael Slate Show KPFK 90.7 FM  |  Listen Live Website  Twitter,  Facebook

This Week:   ANDY ZEE: Trump is unhinged and his whole regime is a danger to humanity. Millions feel this. The question is posed: will people act to stop it, and how? Now is the time to mobilize to demand: THIS NIGHTMARE MUST END: THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! Andy Zee, a co-initiator of Refuse Fascism and spokesperson for Revolution Books, recently gave a talk to a conference call of organizers of Refuse Fascism. He'll join us to talk about what's going on with the Trump/Pence fascist regime in the wake of the new book by Bob Woodward, the Anonymous op-ed, the McCain funerals, and more. And he'll address the question, Will people act—will Refuse Fascism lead? He'll also talk about the call from the leadership of Refuse Fascism for protests this weekend.  AND we'll be taking listener calls. In Los Angeles: L.A. Protest & Demand: The Trump/Pence Regime Must GO! Saturday September 15 at 1 PM – 5 PM Hollywood & Highland It’s True And You Know It: Trump IS Unhinged, And His Whole Regime IS A Danger To Humanity. We Must Not Wait to Act. IN THE STREETS! Join the Facebook Event

Save the Date! Outdoor Screening of Brand-New Talk by BA - Sat., 9/22

Received from the Revolution Club - LA:     SAVE THE DATE:Saturday, September 22nd, 6-10 PM
Exposition Park at Vermont & Exposition

Outdoor Screening of the New Talk from Bob Avakian
Why We Need an Actual Revolution and How We Can Really Make Revolution

READ MORE at revcom.us.

SPREAD THE WORD:  https://www.facebook.com/events/282536415903071/
DONATE: tinyurl.com/FundTheRevolution

Friday - The Michael Slate Show: Looming Threat of Kavanaugh w/ Sunsara Taylor; Plus, Water Defenders Resist Bayou Bridge Pipeline w/ Jen Marlowe

Received via email.  We Recommend:   Friday, September 7, 2018 10 - 11 AM - PDT The Michael Slate Show KPFK 90.7 FM  |  Listen Live Website  Twitter,  Facebook

This Week:   The Looming Threat of #Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court with Sunsara Taylor. Plus, Water Defenders Resist Bayou Bridge Pipeline with Journalist Jen Marlowe Sunsara Taylor on The Looming Threat of the Confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Why People Must Stand Up Now to Stop It, and Why We Need a Real Revolution The Trump/Pence regime has already done shocking damage, from Trump’s Muslim Ban to his open encouragement of murderous white supremacists and Nazis; from his flippant threats of nuclear annihilation to his vile misogyny, threats against the media, and even tearing immigrant children from parents. Now, with the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the Trump/Pence regime is poised to impose an extreme and long-lasting transformation of the highest court in this country—a major leap in the consolidation of fascism. This must be stopped! Sunsara Taylor, writer for revcom.us/Revolution Newspaper, and a co-initiator of Refuse Fascism, joins us to talk about the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings: the danger Kavanaugh represents, the determined and righteous protest, inside and outside the hearing room, the role of the Democrats, and the kind of resistance we need.  Water Protectors Resist the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Jen Marlowe, award-winning author/documentary filmmaker/playwright and human  rights activist, has been reporting on the struggle to stop the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Louisiana. This is the last segment of the Dakota Access Pipeline, with all its danger to nearby residents, and to life on the planet. The activists are part of the L'Eau Est La Vie ("Water Is Life") camp, in Rayne, Louisiana. They have faced repression from the pipeline developer, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), from local authorities, and from local authorities "moonlighting" for ETP. They have responded with determination and creativity.  Recommended: Protest the Appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court! Friday Sep 7, 11 AM – 2 PM Pershing Square station 500 S Hill St, Los Angeles 90013 Join the Facebook Event