Launching: A Tour to Organize for REVOLUTION; FRIDAY - The Michael Slate Show: Featuring "Hype Man" cast

From revcom.us.  Excerpts from one of the meetings to launch The Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour:

Here's how to donate: https://www.paypal.com/donate/…

Launching: A Tour to Organize for REVOLUTION

Received via email.  We Recommend: Friday, March 1, 2019 10 - 11 AM - PDT The Michael Slate Show KPFK 90.7 FM  |  Listen Live Website  Twitter,  Facebook This week's show: Support The Michael Slate Show These are times like none of us have lived through. The dangers and challenges faced by humanity are unprecedented, and hopes for a future that we would want to live in can seem like a faint sliver of light.  These are times when actually understanding the world as it is, without illusion or despair, is crucial. The Michael Slate Show presents an understanding grounded in a scientific framework. This is the kind of program you need to engage with, share and support. And KPFK is a station, a precious resource, that needs to thrive. This can only happen with your support. KPFK is in the middle of its Winter Fund Drive. Call in and show your support. Call 818-985-5735 during the show, or go online at kpfk.org.  The West Coast Premiere of Hype Man, at the Fountain Theatre We'll sit down with Chad Addison, Matthew Hancock and Clarissa Thibeaux, the three actors in the play Hype Man, having its West Coast premiere at the Fountain Theatre. We'll be offering tickets to the play as part of the fund drive. Hype man Verb has been backing up front-man rapper Pinnacle since they were kids. Then beat maker Peep One joined the group. Now just as they are on the verge of making it big on national TV, a police shooting of a Black teen shakes the band to its core, forcing them to confront questions of race, gender, privilege and when to use artistic expression as an act of social protest. Social injustice, the genocidal police murder of Black people, racial identity, gender inequity, career ambition and friendship converge — and collide — in Hype Man. Hype Man is the third in Goodwin’s series of “break beat” plays about hip-hop in America and the way that hip-hop has affected our personal relationships, dreams and aspirations, and politics.

Organizing Tour for An ACTUAL Revolution: You Think You’re Woke... But You’re Sleepwalking Through A Nightmare

From revcom.us.  We Recommend:

 

To you who are fed up with this society and “solutions” that are no solution... To you who are angry and defiant and want to see an end to the white supremacy, the patriarchy and its many forms of gender oppression, the persecution of immigrants, the imperialist wars and occupations and threats, and the capitalist plunder and destruction of the environment—an end to all, or any, of the horrible forms of oppression and exploitation that define and intertwine with this capitalist-imperialist society... To you who seek not justice for yourself or even just your own people, but the Emancipation of ALL Humanity... To you who hate the fascism of Trump and Pence, but see through “vote for me and I’ll set you free” and any road that just makes the present horrors a little more tolerable for some within the U.S., while people around the world suffer even more... To you who choke on “I’m woke,” “I’m good,” “No worries” when the world is being torn asunder and who have no patience for the putrid morals and relations of this culture... To each and every person who senses that none of these horrors will be solved by this dog eat dog capitalist/imperialist system and that something radical—a real revolution—is needed... even as you have a thousand questions as to what that revolution would look like and whether it is even possible: There Is a Way Out of This Madness! “Let’s get down to basics: We need a revolution. Anything else, in the final analysis, is bullshit.” —Bob Avakian We are constantly told, openly and by implication, that there is no alternative to the present order. But that is wrong! There is a scientific approach that makes clear this madness is unnecessary and indicates the potential pathways for change. There is an actual plan for a radically different—and radically better—society, on the road to wiping out all exploitation and oppression, and emancipating humanity. There is a strategy to draw forward the millions and millions needed to make that happen. There is the leadership, in Bob Avakian (BA), the architect of the new communism and the leader of the revolution. These are great strengths on the people’s side. But, what is now missing and urgently needed is YOU—to get with, support, and become an organized part of the revolution. There is a project to put this revolution before millions and organize thousands into it. That project is the Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour—starting out in Los Angeles in March and going around the country for the rest of the year. We’re going to boldly bring forward that science, strategy, and leadership for revolution and go right up against all the bullshit—the outmoded, petty, self-deceiving, and self-seeking bullshit that just ends up perpetuating the outrages of today. But that’s not all. There’s no revolution without organization. We’re going to work: organizing for a revolution—enough now of everyone in “their lane,” with eyeballs glued to their screens. We’re gonna go everywhere, from the hard streets to the suburbs, from the hardscrabble rural areas to the campuses, and to wherever people are creating the new or debating the future. We’ll be giving people the concrete ways and means to support, contribute to, and join this revolution, in many different ways, big and small—with ideas and with practical involvement, with support and with questions and criticisms. The tour will go far and wide, spreading and showing the film of the historic 2018 speech by Bob Avakian, Why We Need An Actual Revolution And How We Can Really Make Revolution, that deeply answers the two questions in its title. And, the tour will get out the pamphlet, HOW WE CAN WIN—How We Can Really Make Revolution, which concisely lays out the principles for how we get from the situation we are in today to actually winning an actual revolution. Busting the People Out of Mental Shackles We’ll call out the dead-end paths and mental shackles: The identity politics and all the similar rationales that end up with people looking out for themselves or their group, while the system grinds on, taking lives and crushing spirits, and dividing those who should oppose it; The religions that preach reconciliation and serve to keep minds away from confronting and changing reality as it really is; The entrepreneurialism—whether “legit,” gangsta, or NGO-style—that keeps everyone locked in the destructive, horrific capitalist present; The phony “socialism” that raises people’s hopes but only aims at repackaging and dividing up the spoils of U.S. domination of the world. And we will definitely take on complicity with the Democratic Party, which poses as “the only alternative.” When in fact: The Republican Party Is Fascist The Democratic Party Is Also a Machine of Massive War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity This System CANNOT Be Reformed—It MUST Be Overthrown! We Need an Actual Revolution The tour will IMPACT everywhere it goes—opening up debate, stirring up controversy, shaking up society so that people no longer feel they have to accept the unacceptable and adjust to injustice, and instead are inspired to get organized for a revolution to change everything. The tour will work with the Revolution Clubs where they exist and help form new ones where they don’t. The tour will connect with people protesting and resisting this system’s crimes, especially those that concentrate the deep conflicts of this system. Stepping to people with revolution straight up, and coming from that place, we’ll unite in fighting injustice and oppression, and we’ll struggle with them to see the need and possibility for revolution. This is what it means to Fight the Power, and Transform the People, for Revolution. The tour and the Revolution Clubs are where you learn about the revolution while leading—contributing to building vanguard organization necessary to lead a revolution. The tour kicks off in March in Los Angeles and Southern California. Your participation and your support are needed to start, sustain, popularize, and defend the tour. What You Can Do NOW DONATE: Without hype, absent fundamental change, without revolution, the future of humanity and the planet hangs in the balance. This tour cannot be sustained without your contribution. Become a MONTHLY SUSTAINER and make it possible to keep the tour on the move through the rest of the year. People are pouring their money into politicians of the Democratic Party—who are nothing but war criminals or war criminals-in-training, competing to be commander in chief or representatives of this bloody empire. Make a Profound Difference and DONATE to the possibility of something that could get beyond this horror and radically change the whole world. Learn about this tour. Go to www.revcom.us to view the speech by Bob Avakian and to learn more about the tour, the movement for revolution, Bob Avakian, and the new communism. Get onboard. Go to revcom.us to see ways you can spread the word, get with the tour, and get organized. A Radically Different and Better World IS Possible! Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour  Donate to The Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour:   Download and share

FRIDAY - The Michael Slate Show: Sarah Roark on Standing up to Fascism. Plus, Support The Michael Slate Show and KPFK

Received via email.  We Recommend:

Friday, February 15, 2019
10 - 11 AM - PDT
The Michael Slate Show

KPFK 90.7 FM  |  Listen Live
Website 
Twitter,  Facebook

---

This week's show:

As we prepare for this week's show, the world is on edge. Trump has declared his right to invoke a State of Emergency, a declaration which would only incidentally allow him to appropriate money for a fascist border wall. As previous guests on The Michael Slate Show have noted, he would also be giving himself the power to freeze bank accounts, turn off internet websites, and mobilize the armed force of the US if too many people object. All this is occurring in a world facing the destruction of life on an unprecedented scale because of a climate catastrophe which edges closer every year, with impacts and effects that anyone can see. And no government is doing anything near what's necessary. And these are not the only problems people face. There are the genocidal murders and demonization of Black and Brown people, the full-on ethnic cleansing of immigrants, and the incarceration - including children - in concentration camps, assaults on the rights of women, and endless wars. The Michael Slate Show brings you the truth about what's going on, about the situation we face, about why this system is the way it is and why it can't be reformed. It's where you hear the voice of Bob Avakian, talking about Why We Need an Actual Revolution and How We Can Really Make Revolution. All this is why you need The Michael Slate Show, and the independent, fearless voice of KPFK -- and why you need to support it. Sarah Roark on Standing up to Fascism At the beginning of the show, we'll hear from Sarah Roark, a contributing editor to RefuseFascism.org. She recently wrote, "Everybody Knows Trump’s Wall is Based on Lies…But How Many of Us Will Stand up to Fascism?" We'll talk with her about Trump, the border wall, and what people have to do. We'll be offering a thank-you gift, The End of Ice,by Dahr Jamail for a donation of $120 or more Dahr Jamail's The End of Ice is a look at the dangerously changed and changing world we face as the result of the accelerating impacts of climate change -- and the devastating effect on billions of people and thousands of other species. New on revcom.us:  “You Think You’re Woke... But You’re Sleepwalking Through A Nightmare — This System Cannot Be Reformed, It Must Be Overthrown!” The Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour To you who are fed up with this society and “solutions” that are no solution... To you who are angry and defiant and want to see an end to the white supremacy, the patriarchy and its many forms of gender oppression, the persecution of immigrants, the imperialist wars and occupations and threats, and the capitalist plunder and destruction of the environment—an end to all, or any, of the horrible forms of oppression and exploitation that define and intertwine with this capitalist-imperialist society... To you who seek not justice for yourself or even just your own people, but the Emancipation of ALL Humanity... To you who hate the fascism of Trump and Pence, but see through “vote for me and I’ll set you free” and any road that just makes the present horrors a little more tolerable for some within the U.S., while people around the world suffer even more... To you who choke on “I’m woke,” “I’m good,” “No worries” when the world is being torn asunder and who have no patience for the putrid morals and relations of this culture... To each and every person who senses that none of these horrors will be solved by this dog eat dog capitalist/imperialist system and that something radical—a real revolution—is needed... even as you have a thousand questions as to what that revolution would look like and whether it is even possible: There Is a Way Out of This Madness! “Let’s get down to basics: We need a revolution. Anything else, in the final analysis, is bullshit.” —Bob Avakian Read the entire statement online, download and share Organizing Meeting for the Tour Saturday, February 23 @ 3 PM Revolution Club Organizing Center 2716 S. Vermont Ave Unit 8 (323) 424-6687  revclub_la@yahoo.com AND: “The Arc of the Moral Universe Is Long, but It Bends Towards Justice.” Bullshit. This System Has Enslaved, Brutalized, Tortured and Betrayed Black People for 400 Years! We Need an ACTUAL Revolution to Emancipate ALL Humanity! February 11, 2019 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us “There is the potential for something of unprecedented beauty to arise out of unspeakable ugliness: Black people playing a crucial role in putting an end, at long last, to this system which has, for so long, not just exploited but dehumanized, terrorized and tormented them in a thousand ways—putting an end to this in the only way it can be done—by fighting to emancipate humanity, to put an end to the long night in which human society has been divided into masters and slaves, and the masses of humanity have been lashed, beaten, raped, slaughtered, shackled and shrouded in ignorance and misery.” – Bob Avakian, leader of the revolution The Most Important and Urgent Truth Demonstrated by the History of Black People in America From the Revolution Club, NYC (@NYCRevClub) If ever a history brings out in vivid color that where there is oppression, there will be resistance, it is the history of Black people in America: a history of over 400 years of the most vicious, brutal and cruel oppression, from slavery, through Jim Crow lynchings and segregation, to today’s mass incarceration, police murder and brutality, with an open white supremacist back in the White House... and a history of heroic resistance and rebellion that has rocked this system on its heels and inspired people the world over, from slave rebellions to the Civil Rights Movement and Black Liberation struggles to today's fights against police terror and mass incarceration. If it was just a question of courage, of determination, and of sacrifice, Black people, and many oppressed people all over the world, would be liberated by now. But the most important and urgent truth demonstrated by this history is this: “[W]ithout the necessary scientific theory and leadership, the struggle of the oppressed will be contained, and remain confined, within the system which is the source of oppression, and the horrors to which the masses are subjected will go on, and on.” Read the whole statement

FRIDAY - The Michael Slate Show: Dahr Jamail, The End of Ice; "Paradise" Play with Director Vicangelo Bulluck + More

Received via email.  We Recommend:

 

Friday, February 8, 2019
10 - 11 AM - PDT
The Michael Slate Show

KPFK 90.7 FM  |  Listen Live
Website 
Twitter,  Facebook

---

This week's show:

Trump and the Danger of Emergency Powers Dahr Jamail on The End of Ice Dahr Jamail's The End of Ice is a look at the dangerously changed and changing world we face as the result of the accelerating impacts of climate change -- and the devastating effect on billions of people and thousands of other species. Journalist and author Dahr Jamial has visited “hot spots” around the world in a global quest to discover how we will cope with catastrophic climate change After nearly a decade overseas as an unembedded war reporter, Dahr Jamail returned to the US to renew his passion for mountaineering, only to find that the slopes he had once climbed have been irrevocably changed by climate disruption. In response, he embarked on a journey to the geographical front lines of this crisis—from Alaska to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, via the Amazon rainforest—in order to discover the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss of ice. Dahr Jamail is the author of Climate Disruption Dispatches at TruthOut.org.  Paradise at the Odyssey Theatre We'll sit down with Vicangelo Bulluck, the director of the West Coast premiere of Paradise by Laura Maria Censabella. Medalion Rahimi  plays a gifted Yemeni-American high school senior at a poorly rated school in the South Bronx, and Jeff Marlow  plays her disillusioned biology teacher. The two form an unlikely scientific partnership in the hope of securing her a scholarship — but when conflicts arise over differences in culture, religion and the boundaries of mentorship, the clash becomes a test of character for both. The play is produced by Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, and is a visiting production at the Odyssey Theatre.   And More . . .

Join the Revolution Club: BAsics Discussion; Imagine! A Radically Different Educational System; Movie Nite/Fundraiser

Thursday, February 7th, 6 - 9 PM Discussion of the Above Quote from BAsics  Revolution Club Organizing Center 2716 S. Vermont Ave. #8 (upstairs)   BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian is a selection of quotations and short essays—it really is the handbook for revolution. Each quote concentrates the scientific method that people need to understand and transform reality. Really digging into these quotes is a big way of how we see training people to lead and strengthening and expanding the solid core of the movement for revolution.   You Can't Change the World If You Don't Know the BAsics The section on Education begins on page 31 at revcom.us/SocialistConstitution. "Let's talk about education. Imagine kids who actually wanted to go to school! Imagine if they weren't degraded and insulted all the time and treated as if they couldn't possibility learn anything or have any important ideas. Imagine if the educational system actually told them the truth and helped them to understand about the world and history and nature and society. Imagine if it actually helped them to think critically to challenge everything. Yes the teachers, and yes even the party and its leaders. What if the educational system drew the kids in along with the teachers and staff and said this is a whole new society, a new world - what are your ideas about how this could all be done better? Imagine if the education combined practical things with theory so the things they were studying and learning, they would go out in society and talk to people who did those things. Or, instead of casting the old people off, like useless garbage, they invite the old people in to talk about the horrors of the old society and their experience,and what the new society means to them, and have them have an exchange with these kids in the schools. And have the students learn practical knowledge as well as studying theory, learning science and grappling with philosophy. The same in science. Right now science often scares people. It's intimidating. You're taught that you can't possibly understand these things. That it's all mysterious. It's not the scientists' fault. Or at least not mainly. It's the kind of society we have and the way in which they want people to be divided into different classes, groups and castes so that some people use their minds and other people can only use their bodies or just waste away, or die fighting in a war. Imagine if science were bought to everybody and made the exciting thing it is for everybody. Struggling to investigate and learn about the world and the way it works and all the different things both here on earth and in the far - what the religious people call the heavens. Imagine if here in the realm of science the scientists got together with the "ordinary people" - with the students in the schools, with the workers in workplaces, and talked to them about science, drew them into scientific experiments and investigation got their ideas and found out the questions they wanted to know about the world, then worked out ways of people uniting together and cooperating to develop experiments and investigation in science that pursued these things. Imagine if science, like education and all these other parts of society, actually were serving to transform a society to get rid of oppression, exploitation and inequality and to help the people throughout the world wage a revolutionary struggle to do the same." BAsics 2:7 —Bob Avakian Donate: tinyurl.com/FundTheRevolution