FRIDAY - Michael Slate Show: Playwright Wendy Graf, "Exit Wounds"; Bob Avakian, Why We Need an Actual Revolution & How We Can Really Make Revolution

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Friday, December 7, 2018
10 - 11 AM - PDT
The Michael Slate Show

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This week's show:

Playwright Wendy Graf on Exit Wounds What do you do with the rest of your life, when your brother/son has committed a horrific act of a school shooting? How does the fallout affect the family of the shooter years later? Can they ever live a normal life again? Is it like dropping a pebble in a brook and watching the subsequent concentric circles grow, with lifelong affects? Does one generation, never able to explain the act, hold onto their own guilt, afraid that they might miss the signs again? Do they actually see qualities of the troubled shooter in someone in the next generation, or are they projecting in hopes of early identification? Does the past dictate the present, unlocking the future? These are some of the questions asked in Exit Wounds, about three generations attempting to come to terms with their painful past. Hosted by the Interact Theatre Company. Bob Avakian, "Why We Need an Actual Revolution and How We Can Really Make Revolution." This past summer, Bob Avakian, the leader of the movement for revolution, the most radical revolutionary on the planet, who has developed a new synthesis of communism, the New Communism, gave a speech in several cities. The two-part speech gets into these two questions: Why we need an actual revolution, and How we can really make revolution. In identifying the problem facing humanity and pointing toward, and giving tremendous concrete guidance toward the real world solution, there's nothing like this speech. We'll listen to excerpts from the film.