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Book Party for “Larry the Penguin Searches for the Meaning of Life” with author CHARLES W. BELSER
Sat, Aug 15, 3 PM at Libros Revolución
 This unusual book challenges widely-held notions about death, religion/superstition, magical belief systems vs.critical thinking, morality, and the validity of so-called “sacred texts” with biting satire…and the author’s unique and scientifically supported view of reality. It dares to ask the question, “Is it true just because most penguins believe it?”
Generating lots of controversy and excitement, this book is for thinking adults who aren’t afraid to question their own deeply-held religious beliefs. Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, has added this to his personal library.
Join us for a provocative and fun conversation and book signing.
Check out larrythepenguin.com. And check out an interesting interview with the author last month on Michael Slate’s KPFK show at: www.redfuture.com.
(Street parking free after 3 pm on Saturdays.)
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Libros Recommends:
Listen to “Beneath the Surface” with Michael Slate every Tuesday on KPFK radio, 90.7 FM, from 5 to 6 pm.
Received in an email from Michael Slate:
THIS WEEK’S GUESTS:
Kendrick Frazier, editor of Science Under Siege: Defending Science, Exposing Pseudoscience, a new anthology of some of the best thinking and writing in opposition to the society wide assault on science and critical thinking. Kendrick Frazier, longtime editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, describes this assault as one of the most dangerous in modern times. Frazier has gathered together works from some of the most provocative and insightful authors on the subject in this anthology and the result is a remarkable and powerful counterattack.
Deidrie Henry and Thomas Silcott, currently appearing in Athol Fugard’s Coming Home, at the Fountain Theatre.
Ten years after she left to pursue a singing career in Cape Town, Veronica Jonkers (Deidrie Henry) comes home to her beloved grandfather’s farm and the village of her youth. Carrying a heart filled with disappointment, she returns determined to plant the seeds of a new life for her young son. Wrote one critic: “It is achingly beautiful, exposing life in contemporary South Africa through the unforgettable love of a mother and her child, and the promise of a new world.”
Coming Home is Fugard’s first sequel, continuing the story he began in Valley Song, his first post-apartheid play, in which Veronica left to follow her dreams in the big city. In Coming Home, Fugard confronts the hard truths of contemporary life in his homeland while also celebrating the unquenchable power of hope.
“As the years have passed,” Fugard recently said in an interview, “I have seen the dreams start to wither. It just seems to me, at this moment in South Africa’s history, I needed to follow up and take a look at that big dream that we had.” More info and tickets.
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If you miss this show, or want to hear it again or download it, go to www.kpfk.org, and click on “Audio Archives” on the left. You have to scroll down through a number of shows to the correct date and time.
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August 10, Monday 7 to 9 pm - Come to Libros to pick up a powerful, new, 2-week issue of Revolution newspaper, now posted at revcom.us.
August 13, Thursday, 6 PM - Spread Revolution at the monthly Downtown ArtWalk. Meet at Libros Revolución or call to find out our table location.
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Announcing new store hours:
Libros Revolución / Revolution Books will be open 11 am to 7 pm, Tuesdays through Sundays, beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, August 11.
Drop in to check to out Revolution newspaper; the works of Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA; and other literature and art.
Engage over the necessity and possibility of a whole new world, and hook up with the growing revolutionary movement to get there. Let us know your thoughts and questions, and volunteer!
Donate and sustain Libros to keep this independent, all-volunteer store open and help spread it’s influence throughout society.
This is the only bookstore in Southern California that is all about revolution, and enabling people from all walks of life to understand, explore and radically change the world!
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and let us know what you think of it.
Check out the editorial in Issue #170, Spread the Word for what difference it will make if you help spread this special issue everywhere.
Take out this message on your own, or with friends in your neighborhood, on buses, at school or work; or find places like cafes, youth centers, barber shops that will carry and distribute copies of this statement.
Organize your own Revolution DVD showing - contact us to have a speaker at your showing for question and answer and discussion afterwards.
Or join us as different teams take this special message out to people all over the Southern California area.
Friday, August 14, 10 am: meet at Libros to join us in taking this statement and new issue of Revolution / Revolución to our immigrant brothers and sisters at the U.S. / Mexico border!
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