A warm salute to everyone who stepped forward to stop the eviction of Libros Revolucion/Revolution Books. We were able to meet the first deadline to stop the eviction by delivering a check for $2,000 today to the landlord! We have received some wonderful letters of support with the donations mailed or dropped off at the store, and we learned from the online article about the eviction in Publishers Weekly that the landlord has already received over 100 emails in support of bookstore! (see below). This shows the real potential that exists to defeat this eviction and to get Libros Revolucion on an even stronger footing, as you help spread the word and build support. And the battle continues as we need to raise another $2,000 by August 31 and $4,100 over the next four months to pay off the back rent, while we keep up with the current rent.
Your responses and generous contributions reflect the hopes and dreams of millions worldwide for a whole different future and reveal the important role of the bookstore in bringing this into being. As the new challenge and call from the Revolutionary Communist Party states, “A whole different world, a much better future, is possible. We have what we need to fight for that world, that future. It is up to us to get with it and get to the challenge of making this happen.”
We have traversed the first hurdle of stopping the eviction. We need to continue this fight to raise the rent but most importantly see this as an opportunity to further transform the bookstore so it can better serve to understand and change the world. One significant development in this battle is that in a beginning way people have also stepped forward to become monthly sustainers of the bookstore, organize fundraising projects, as well as to come in and join our all-volunteer staff, contributing their time and skills. And many new people are discovering the bookstore through all the ways that the word has gotten out about the threatened eviction.
Will you hold a fundraising dinner, bake sale, used book sale or yard sale for the bookstore in the next ten days, and let people what you’re raising money for? We can help brainstorm - call us at 213.488.1303.
The battle for this bookstore is part of initiating a whole new stage of revolution, here and around the world. Check out the statement and the orientation for spreading “The Revolution We Need…The Leadership We Have” [Read here]. As the Revolutionary Communist Party’s Constitution says, “The emancipation of humanity: this, and nothing less than this, is our goal. There is no greater cause, no greater purpose to which to dedicate our lives.”
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Donations are still urgently needed to pay the rent and outstanding balance. Come down with cash or checks made out to Libros Revolución, call us to make donations online, or send to 312 W. 8th St., LA, CA 90014; and very importantly, become a regular monthly sustainer and approach others to do the same, so the bookstore comes out of this with a greatly expanded financial and support base.
