Received from Refuse Fascism- LA: Stop the Persecution and Drop the Charges Against Refuse Fascism Activists! Twelve members of Refuse Fascism face criminal charges and up to seven years in prison for non-violent political protest. Their cases which have yet to come to trial reveal a continuing pattern of coordinated governmental political surveillance, targeting, and persecution against Refuse Fascism. The political demand to Stop the Persecution and Drop the Charges Against Refuse Fascism Activists is part and parcel of the fight to stop the danger that the Trump/Pence regime presents to humanity. We call on everyone who values the right to speak critically of the government and to mobilize political protest aimed at stopping the nightmare of the Trump/Pence regime to join in demanding: STOP THE POLITICAL PERSECUTION AND DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST REFUSE FASCISM ACTIVISTS! We further call on everyone to heed the challenge and example of these courageous activists and join the movement to drive out the fascist Trump/Pence regime regime. Read much more HERE. The next major court dates: For 11 of these individuals, charges stem from two separate nonviolent civil disobedience actions which blocked traffic on the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles, and from nonviolent speech during an appearance of Steve Mnuchin at UCLA. For the other individual, Maya, charges stem from an arrest that took place after she had finished a nonviolent silent protest which lasted just 11 minutes—for 11 million undocumented immigrants—at the University of Chicago. January 10: All the UCLA defendants must appear in court. Defendants expect prosecutors to turn over discovery (police reports, any informants, etc.). January 15: Michelle Xai and Perry Hoberman must appear in court for the freeway cases. The LA city attorney is expected to formally drop the conspiracy charges against both of them. They will still be facing other charges.  1945 S Hill St, Los Angeles, CA 90007-1413 January 22: Maya must appear in Cook County criminal court, 2650 S. California Avenue (corner of West 26th Street), Chicago, Illinois. Room 207, at 9:30 am. To get involved:  323.946.1742 or SoCal@refusefascism.org Banner in the Sky at the US/Mexico Border Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 2 PM – 5 PM San Ysidro Trolley Station 700 E San Ysidro Blvd, San Diego, California 92173 Refuse Fascism is headed back to the U.S/Mexico Border, raising a 25 ft banner to the sky in different languages, and holding a 150 ft banner on the ground which reads: To the World's Migrants & All of Humanity! We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! Donate TODAY.  We will write your name on this banner! Imagine!: A Refuse Fascism 175 foot banner: To the World’s Migrants and All of Humanity ~ We REFUSE To Accept A Fascist America! Trump/Pence Must Go! The demand Trump/Pence Must Go! translated into many of the world’s languages: Hindi, Arabic, Farsi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Japanese, Korean, French, Turkish, Tamil, Vietnamese and more, including a special 25 foot banner released into the sky which reads in many languages Trump/Pence Must Go! Hundreds of people supporting and participating: contributing funds to make it all happen, joining teams holding/elevating the banner at the border, translating Trump/Pence Must Go! into your native language (or a language you know or can find out through outreach to friends, neighbors, restaurants, college language departments etc.) To get involved:  323.946.1742 or SoCal@refusefascism.org

FRIDAY - The Michael Slate Show: As a New Year Begins, We'll Talk About "The Five Stops--Why This System Can't Be Reformed," by Bob Avakian

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Friday, January 4, 2019
10 - 11 AM - PDT
The Michael Slate Show

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Bob Avakian: The Five Stops—Why This System Can't Be Reformed, From Why We Need an Actual Revolution, And How We Can Really Make Revolution As we enter a new year, people all over the world are faced with a horrible situation, with threats to humanity, and threats to the planet itself. People are looking for a way to change all this, and are confronted with many different programs. The reality is that there is only one way to deal with the system. As Bob Avakian says in the film, “...we have two choices: either, live with all this—and condemn future generations to the same, or worse, if they have a future at all—or, make revolution!” The 5 Stops represent concentrations of major social contradictions -- contradictions which are not resolvable under this system. We'll listen to Bob Avakian breaking this down in a 35-minute clip from, WHY WE NEED AN ACTUAL REVOLUTION AND HOW WE CAN REALLY MAKE REVOLUTION. This is essential listening for anyone who wants to change the world -- it will blow your mind. Join us to listen, and to share your thoughts.  Join the Conversation We'll talk with you about what you think about this, and what needs to be done. So call in with your questions and comments. Listen for the phone number -- or post your questions on Facebook or Twitter From revcom.us:   We are excited to usher in the New Year with a prepublication edition of this new work by Bob Avakian.       January 1, 2019   revcom.us/bob_avakian-breakthroughs/Bob Avakian-BREAKTHROUGHS.pdf

Community Meeting with Refuse Fascism - Sat., Dec. 22 @ Noon

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Saturday @ 12 Noon
Trinity Episcopal Church
650 N. Berendo St. LA 90004

 

 

Friends,

A growing, organized refusefascism.org in So Cal and nationally is urgently needed to mobilize at the soonest possible time thousands, then millions, in sustained protests to remove this fascist Trump/Pence regime. There is still time to the people to drive this fascist regime from power, before it consolidates - but not a lot of time. We need to get organized to do this. And you are needed.

We are rescheduling our Dec. 22 trip to the US/Mexico border to the beginning weeks of Jan 2019. Why? Because way more people need to be involved in making this action as powerful as it needs to be. And for it to be a stepping stone in the movement to drive this fascist regime from power.

YOU ARE INVITED TO A COMMUNITY MEETING ON SATURDAY, DEC. 22 TO HELP PLAN OUT HOW THIS FASCIST REGIME CAN BE REMOVED FROM POWER, AND TO DIG INTO WHAT DIFFERENCE THIS JANUARY ACTION AT THE U.S/MEXICO BORDER CAN MAKE. Plans will also be made to unify growing numbers under the single demand Trump/Pence Must Go!: at the Rose Bowl Parade, the MLK Day Parade and Women’s March - all coming up in January 2019.

To get involved:  323.946.1742 or SoCal@refusefascism.org

FRIDAY - Michael Slate Show: The Migrant Caravan, Aggression of the Fascists, & the Truth of the Matter; + Invitation from The Bob Avakian Institute

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Friday, December 21, 2018
10 - 11 AM - PDT
The Michael Slate Show

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The Migrant Caravan, the Aggression of the Fascists, and the Truth of the Matter: Voices of the Migrants + the New Sanctuary Coalition A couple weeks ago, Michael Slate went to Tijuana, Mexico, to talk with the immigrants in the migrant caravan, and others, from both Mexico and the US, who were supporting them in various ways, and to report on the militarization of the border and the actions of the US military and Border Patrol. We'll hear the first of these interviews on Friday, with more to come in following weeks.  The New Sanctuary Coalition and the Sanctuary Caravan Representatives from the New Sanctuary Coalition have been at the border in San Ysidro-Tijuana standing with the migrants. They have announced plans for a Sanctuary Caravan, to spend 40 days and 40 nights at the border assisting the migrants. We'll speak with Ravi Ragbir, the Director of the New Sanctuary Coalition, andJoan Racho-Jensen, an accompaniment leader with the Coalition, who just spent three weeks at the border.  Received from The Bob Avakian Institute:

Revolution Club Holiday Party / Tamale Fundraiser

From the Revolution Club - LA: Holiday Party / Tamale Fundraiser Sunday, December 16th, 3 - 8 PM Revolution Club Organizing Center 2716 S. Vermont Ave. #8 (upstairs) Support the movement for revolution with our first tamale fundraiser! Join us for an evening of food, music, revolutionary culture and an environment full of ferment, debate, and wrangling over the state of the world and what we must do about it. For those who filled out a pre-order (see form below), this is where you will pick up your tamales. Come and chat a while, whether you've been a supporter of the revolution for some time or you're brand new to the movement!  Everyone can contribute to this vibrant process to change the whole world. You can also order your tamales by phone: 323-424-6687 DONATE: Tinyurl.com/FundTheRevolution

Also - Thursday, December 13th, 6 - 9 PM:Weekly Discussion of a Quote from BAsics  Revolution Club Organizing Center 2716 S. Vermont Ave. #8 (upstairs) We will be discussing the following quote. What do you think? Is it true? Bring your thoughts and questions. You Can't Change the World If You Don't Know the BAsics. Share this quote / Order the book Revolution Club Tamale Fundraiser Support the Movement for Revolution Order Form Green Salsa (Chicken) ____ x $2 Cheese & Jalapeno (Chicken)  ____ x $2 Black Bean (Vegan)  ____ x $2 TOTAL:  ____   $ _____ Name _________________     Phone ______________ Pick up your tamales at our Organizing Center at 2716 S. Vermont Ave., #8 (upstairs) at our holiday party December 16.  323.424.6687

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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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.

Friday: Emergency Report Back from the Border and Fundraiser

From the Revolution Club - LA: Friday, December 7th, 5 - 8 PM Revolution Club Organizing Center 2716 S. Vermont Ave. #8 (upstairs) You are invited to an emergency report back and fundraiser for the Revolution Club who has been bringing the revolution to the border. Come to this mass meeting to hear from people who were on the ground... find out why this crisis at the border is happening, why the Trump/Pence fascist regime is responding the way it is, why the Democrats refuse to oppose Trump on immigration, and what the real revolutionary solution to all this is. Thousands of migrants are amassed at the U.S./Mexico border—forcibly held on the Mexico side in an arena in Tijuana. These are people who have had to flee for their lives and livelihood because of what this system has done, devastating their home countries. On Sunday, November 25, 500 of the migrants decided on a peaceful march to the border to pressure the U.S. to speed up the asylum process. U.S. Border Patrol agents, claiming rocks were being thrown, fired tear gas canisters over the border into Mexico. Mothers were seen fleeing with small children, fearing they would die from the gas they were choking on. In this world of multiplying crises and growing horrors, there are answers, and there are solutions, but people are being systematically lied to and misled by this system’s representatives. Come to this meeting to find out the truth about what the real problem is -- and what is required of us to really end this nightmare. DONATE! tinyurl.com/FundTheRevolution

Also - Thursday, December 6th: Revolution Club Tamale Fundraiser Support the Movement for Revolution Order Form Green Salsa (Chicken) ____ x $2 Cheese & Jalapeno (Chicken)  ____ x $2 Black Bean (Vegan)  ____ x $2 TOTAL:  ____   $ _____ Name _________________     Phone ______________ Pick up your tamales at our Organizing Center at 2716 S. Vermont Ave., #8 (upstairs) at our holiday party December 16.  323.424.6687