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We Recommend
Tune in on the radio, or online at kpfk.org, or listen laterby logging on to kpfk.org, click on “Audio Archives”:
The Michael Slate Show:
Friday, March 26, 10-11 am, KPFK Radio, 90.7 FM
This Week’s Show:
PZ Myers, associate biology professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris, and author of the world’s most popular science blog Pharyngula. For his monthly visit, he’ll be reporting on the just-finished 2010 Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne, Australia.
Aidge, Los Angeles Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant, and Jack Bryson, a friend of the Grant family who has been fighting for justice for Oscar. They’ll be talking about the upcoming protests at the trial of Johannes Mehserle, the cop who was videoed shooting Oscar in the back as he lay on the ground in an Oakland Bart Station, January 1, 2009. See video. The trial is scheduled for early June in Los Angeles.
Clyde Young, Revolutionary Communist Party, on the heartless and illegal banning of Revolution newspaper by authorities at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison and Menard Prison in Illinois. Read more.
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JUSTICE FOR OSCAR GRANT!
March 26, Friday, 12 noon, 210 W. Temple St., LA
Protest outside the next hearing in the criminal case against Johannes Mehserle, the Oakland BART cop who murdered 22-year old Oscar Grant – or plan an action wherever you are. Trial is set to begin June 7th.
“The days when this system can just keep on doing what it does to people, here and all over the world. . .when people are not inspired and organized to stand up against these outrages and to build up the strength to put an end to this madness. . .those days must be GONE. And they CAN be.”
– from The Revolution We Need . . .The Leadership We Have, a Message, And A Call, From the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [read here]
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April 1, Thursday, 7 pm
at Revolution Books / Libros Revolución
Gather to discuss the article, “Pelican Bay State Prison, CA, and Menard Prison, IL: Overturn the Ban of Revolution Newspaper – End the Political Censorship and Thought Control at Prisons Nationwide!” from issue #196. [Read here.]
Discuss building a mass movement to not only overturn the ban, but also geometrically spread this newspaper behind the prison walls and the words of revolutionary-minded prisoners out into society. Bring others, and bring your outrage, ideas, questions and ways you can contribute.
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Monday, March 29 & April 6, 7 pm
at Revolution Books / Libros Revolución
Hot off the Press! Pick up the new issue of Revolution newspaper. Join informal discussion of the articles, ideas for getting this newspaper to others and ways to raise funds and develop new monthly sustainers for this valuable newspaper.
Sustain Revolution newspaper! Your financial support is URGENTLY needed to enable this paper to flourish and develop, and indeed to continue its regular publication.[Read here.] Become a sustainer or donate – click [here].
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April 8, Thursday, 7 – 9:30pm
National Campus Speaking Tour at UCLA
From the Burkha to the Thong:
Everything Must, and Can, Change
WE NEED TOTAL REVOLUTION!

A talk by Sunsara Taylor
La Kretz Auditorium, UCLA
South Campus near Life Sciences & CNSI Bldgs, Parking Lot 2; Doors open and
photo display at 6:30 pm
If you are a woman, your body
is a battleground. . . [read on]
Sponsored by Critical Thinking at UCLA;
Academic Advancement Program (AAP), UCLA;
and Revolution Books / Libros Revolución
Sunsara Taylor is a writer for Revolution Newspaper, a host of WBAI’s Equal Time for Free Thought, and sits on the Advisory Board of World Can’t Wait. She has written on the rise of theocracy, wars, and repression in the U.S., led in building resistance to these crimes, and contributed to the movement for revolution to put an end to all this...[read on].
Be part of making this event happen and for more information, call: 310-210-6012, critical.thinkingucla@yahoo.com
Click here for a promotional YouTube for the tour.
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April 11, Sunday, 3 pm
at Revolution Books / Libros Revolución
Discussion of “An Historic Contradiction: Fundamentally Changing The World Without ‘Turning Out the Lights’” – letters in response to an invitation by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA for thinking on the contradiction that while capitalism-imperialism crushes lives and destroys spirits, on the other hand, the way a lot of people look at what we’re about is “Here come the communists, turn out the lights, the party’s over.” Read the letters online at revcom.us.
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Sunday,
March 28, 3 pm
at Revolution Books /
Libros RevoluciónJoin us for discussion of “There is No ‘Permanent Necessity’ for Things to Be This Way – A Radically Different and Better World Can Be Brought Into Being Through Revolution” - points made by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA in a recent exchange with other comrades. In Revolution #194 and online at revcom.us. |
| Help get ready for the LA Times Festival of Books at UCLA!Sat. & Sun., April 24 - 25,
10 AM - 6PM
Our Booth is in Zone B, #207
This is the largest book fair in the country, and every year we meet many new friends, and sell lots of revolutionary and progressive literature.
Volunteers are needed now to help get ready with booth design, layout and copying of promotional materials, choosing and ordering new books. And at the book fair itself, help with shifts throughout the day, including set-up and pack-up. You can hand out flyers at various readings, help at the booth.
Donate and fundraise to help cover costs for the $1,000 booth, materials to reach thousands of people, and new books to fill our shelves. Checks can be made out to “Libros Revolución.”
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Donate and sustain Revolution Books / Libros Revolución!
TEACHERS & PROFESSORS! A big way to help Revolution Books is to order books for your classes. Contact us for textbook order forms. We have an LAUSD vendor number for Title 1 funds. STUDENTS:
Help us contact your teachers or professors.EVERYONE: Host a fundraising party; have a bake sale or a garage sale.
Volunteer! Have an hour or two to volunteer at the bookstore or at a book tablet? Help make displays or design flyers, help us build a website!
Sustain! on a monthly basis – a key way to help the bookstore survive and expand and contribute to a new spirit and atmosphere of critical engagement, building a movement for revolution.
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