Friday, October 16, 2009

Books to understand, explore and radically change the world

October 22nd, 2009: NO MORE! No More Stolen Lives!

Statement by Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

Corey Harris, a junior at Dyett High School, a star basketball player and captain of the baseball team, was the first Chicago student to be killed by gun violence this school year - shot to death on September 11. He was killed after school, shot in the back as he ran away from a man with a gun. There was no media outcry over Corey’s murder, no statement from the White House about their distress over it. Hundreds of students and adults who loved Corey attended his funeral, but there was no parade of politicians there. The name of his murderer is known by the Chicago Police Department and yet he walks the streets today, uncharged for this murder. Why? The man who executed this unarmed student was an off-duty Chicago cop.

Last year the Chicago police killed 21 people.

The death of Derrion Albert, an honor student at Fenger High School in Chicago, is also a horror for the people. On September 24, the nation was stunned by vivid images of the Fenger High School melee resulting in his death. People are agonizing over how did we get into a hellish situation where parents watch students being killed over nothing, where kids grow up haunted by images of gunfire. Everyone talks about responsibility. But who and what is responsible for this situation?

Oscar Brown Jr’s poem, “Children of Children,” includes these lines:

The children of children trapped by dark skins to stay in and play in a game no one wins
The children of children while still young and sweet are all damned and programmed for future defeat
The children of children are trapped by adults who fail them then jail them to hide the results…

It is a crime of this system that our youth internalize the message they get every day through the worthless schools and degrading conditions and brutalizing cops - the message that this system has no future for them and that they don’t even deserve a future - and then they act it out against each other. More police are not the answer, as the police murder of Corey Harris shows.

Youth need to be inspired, encouraged, organized and unleashed to stand up against and resist the conditions they face, including degradation, dehumanization and outright murder they face at the hands of the police. In the course of this, and joining with others to throw off oppression throughout the world, people can and will change themselves.

“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.” (“The Revolution We Need… The Leadership We Have,” Revolution #170, July 19, 2009)

October 22nd is the National Day of Protest to STOP Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. It is the day to begin to stand up and resist the outrage of police brutality and police murder. FIGHT BACK! WEAR BLACK!

For assembly points, go to october22.org/Assembly2007.html

Contact Carl Dix at comradecarl@hotmail.com

Check this out:

#144-cover Carl Dix: Making Revolution, Fighting
Police Brutality
Youtube / revcom.us [click here]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
40dodNHMMko

Join us this weekend to build for a powerful Oct 22nd:

Sat, Oct 17: A Taste of Soul Festival on Crenshaw Blvd. in South L.A. Meet us at Libros Revolucion at 8 am; or at 10 am at the McDonald’s on Crenshaw, just south of the 10 Fwy. Take Revolution #179 and Oct 22nd to 1,000’s at this street festival.

Sun, Oct 18: AIDS Walk L.A. - take out special issue #176 and October 22nd to middle & high school students from all over So. Calif. Meet us at 7 am at the NE corner of Melrose & San Vicente in West Hollywood or join us there any time in the morning - look for the REVOLUTION banner!

#144-cover

Posters to download:
Cover Issue #179
Back Page #179
Stolen Lives

Expressions of resistance should appear everywhere now, and building up to October 22nd.
Students & teachers: bring a speaker to your class this week or next - contact us.

And on October 22nd, organize others in your school, work or hood to wear Black in memory of those whose lives have been stolen by the police, and as a sign of resistance!

And then, bring family members and others, with banners, signs, photos of loved ones, drums, cardboard tombstones with names of those killed by police - to Crenshaw & Florence in Los Angeles for a march and rally at Leimert Park (see flyer below).

Youtube clip:at
http://www.youtube.
com/revolutiontalk
(click below)
The Youth Deserve a Better Future

PSA for October 22nd protest in L.A.

[click here]

Sheriffs & LAPD Murder 10 Black & Latino People in 3 Months

· July 5th, Compton, l6-year-old Avery Cody, Jr., shot and killed by Sheriffs.
· July l0th, Athens, 22-year-old Woodrow Player, Jr., shot in the back & killed by Sheriffs.
· August 6th, South Central, 19-year-old Jessie Long, shot and killed by LAPD.
· August 7th, Carson, 33-year-old Ezequiel Jacobo, shot in the back and killed by Sheriffs.
· August 7th, Lynwood, 23-year-old Guillermo Saucedo, shot and killed by Sheriffs.
· August 9th, South Central, 37-year-old Oran Eugene Douglas III, shot & killed by LAPD.
· September 14th, Athens, 36-yr-old Darrick Collins, shot in the back & killed by Sheriffs.
· September l9th, Lynwood, 17-year-old Travion Richard, shot and killed by Sheriffs.
· September 20th, Compton, 27-year-old Felipe Valdovinos, shot and killed by Sheriffs.
· September 20th, Norwalk, 24-year-old Leopoldo Huizar, shot and killed by Sheriffs.

NO MORE STOLEN LIVES! THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS GUILTY

“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 Call from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA”

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October 22nd National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality,
Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation

12 noon Gather at Florence & Crenshaw;

2 p.m. March up Crenshaw
4 p.m. Rally in Leimert Park;

6 p.m. Vigil at Leimert & March through neighborhoods

Fight Back, Wear Black!

March sponsored by Oct. 22 Coalition, 323.446.7459,
or call Libros Revolucion: 213.488.1303

[This half-page flyer available at Libros Revolucion or email us for a PDF version.]

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Sunsara Taylor at West Hollywood Book Fair, Sun, Oct. 4, 11 am

Come Hear

Sunsara Taylor and Rev. Eric Lee on

“Resisting the Right-Wing Assault on Gays, Women, and Others;

and Morality to Change the World, With or Without God(s)”

Sunday, October 4, 11 am

West Hollywood Bookfair - Free
westhollywoodbookfair.org
Good Reads Pavilion, northwest side of the fair

right across from Libros Revolución booth E52

647 N. San Vicente Blvd, between Melrose & Santa Monica Blvd.

Free parking in Pacific Design Center, enter on Melrose near San Vicente

Sunsara Taylor and Rev. Eric Lee will speak on this timely & crucial panel. Rev. Lee is the president of the Los Angeles Southern Christian Leadership Conference & author of “Marriage Equality: Prop 8 - The California Divide”. Sunsara Taylor is a writer for Revolution newspaper and on speaking tour about Bob Avakian’s ”AWAY WITH ALL GODS! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World.” Both speakers have been outspoken in the face of sharp controversy.

Contact us to volunteer for a shift at or help set up our booth at the all day book fair (10 AM - 6 PM) 213.488.1303 or librosrevo@yahoo.com

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Who is Sunsara Taylor?

Sunsara is an uncompromising atheist and fighter for the liberation of women and the emancipation of all humanity. Her coverage of the rise of Christian fascism has taken her to the gates of abortion clinics across the country, to Terri Schiavo’s hospice, to inside the stadiums of the BattleCry movement to train Christian youth shock troops and led to numerous impressive verbal battles with Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and countless thoughtful interviews with reality-based radio hosts. Early to recognize and sound the alarm against the “friendly” fundamentalism being legitimated by President Obama, Taylor made national and international news for shouting out “Rick Warren is a bigot! No ‘common ground’ with bigot Rick Warren!” during Warren’s keynote sermon on MLK Day, one day before he gave the invocation for Obama’s inauguration. She has been on the frontlines of the movement for women’s abortion rights, most recently speaking widely both before and since the murder of Dr. George Tiller on abortion, morality and women’s liberation.

Ms. Taylor’s 2008-2009 speaking tour on AWAY WITH ALL GODS! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian (Insight Press, 2008), brought her to urban high schools, campus groups, and academic departments including the Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA, the Black Studies Program at Cleveland State University, and Barbara Jordan School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University.

Sunsara co-hosts WBAI (Pacifica) radio program “Equal Time for Free Thought” where she interviews cutting edge authors on the dangers of the Christian right, the oppression of women, and the importance of science, critical thinking and an unfettered search for the truth.

Sunsara Taylor’s articles have appeared in Revolution (revcom.us), TruthDig.com, TruthOut.org, Counterpunch, OnlineJournal.com, OpEdNews.com, SmirkingChimp.com, and numerous blogs.

Check out Sunsara Taylor on Youtube during her Away With All Gods! speaking tour [click here]. And [here]for Sunsara in Wichita at the clinic of Dr. Tiller, a courageous abortion provider, recently murdered by right-wing Christian fascist forces.

Sunsara Taylor will also be speaking at this Atheist Alliance International Conference workshop:

‘Common Ground’ Is Killing Ground:

Abortion, Morality and Christian Fascism

in the Age of Obama

Friday, Oct. 2nd, 5 PM

Burbank Airport Marriott & Convention Center

(Conference registration required to hear presentations)

Many expected that the Obama administration marked the end of the influence of Christian fascism in this country. In reality, his presidency began with an invocation by biblical-literalist Rick Warren and has seen a resurgence of bigoted Christian fundamentalists efforts to reshape this country through legal (banning gay marriage) as well as extra-legal (assassinating an abortion doctor) means. Why has this movement continued so tenaciously? Why does seeking “common ground” with these forces only demobilize secular and progressive people and unleash the worst in bigoted fundamentalism? How do we counter this politically, practically, and with a far better secular morality?

Sunsara Taylor will speak to these questions drawing on the powerful analysis of Bob Avakian’s “AWAY WITH ALL GODS! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World.”

FLASH: Not at the conference? Tune in to hear Sunsara on the “Dogma Free America” panel via live conference podcast Friday, Oct. 2nd at 11 AM.

Volunteer at Libros Revolución / Revolution Books booth at this major 3-day atheist convention (Fri-Sun., Oct. 2-4). Contact us at 213.488.1303 or librosrevo@yahoo.com

Available at the LIBROS REVOLUCION or at our booth at the above events:

AWAY WITH ALL GODS!

Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World

by Bob Avakian

English and Spanish editions

[Read here] for a letter to Revolution newspaper summing up an important book release evemt, ”Celebrating the Publication in Spanish of Away With All Gods!” at Librería Martínez Books and Art Gallery in Santa Ana, CA.

English: $14.95 Spanish: $12.95

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Monday, September 28, 2009

Watch Raymond Lotta on YouTube speaking on

“The Rape of the Congo and Your Cellphone” Click HERE.

Get a glimpse of this amazing speaker and analysis.

Get this YouTube into the mass societal debates over

health care, the economy, is Obama a communist.
Get it posted on facebook and blogs and then join the debate!

Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story” has thrown, as Michael Moore puts it, the first salvo to begin a discussion on capitalism and why it has to go.

Michael Moore does not propose a solution and in fact states he has not even read Marx. He may not be a communist, but we are! And if this movie moved you to want to know more, to get into a critical debate about the future of humanity, human nature, and the fact that there is actually a real, viable and desirable alternative - COMMUNISM - then you need to tune in to an incredible evening with Maoist political economist and communist Raymond Lotta. (See below.)

[Post on Facebook, MySpace, forward to e-lists, help spread the word]

September 29, Tuesday, 7:30 pm EDT

4:30 pm PDT and then continuously all evening. Don’t miss it!

See below or go to revolutionbooksnyc.org for how to logon

for a $20 donation and do your own webcast.
UPDATE: two viewings at LIBROS REVOLUCION at 4:30 and at 7:30 pm

LIVE WEBCAST FUNDRAISER FOR REVOLUTION BOOKS WITH

RAYMOND LOTTA

Behind the World Economic Crisis:

System Failure & The Need for Revolution

* Want to know why the problem is not that the banks are too big to fail but that capitalism is too big a failure for world humanity?

* Want to know why no one in their right mind should want to rescue or reform this exploitative and plundering system. . .and why only socialism can solve problems like racism, health care, and the environment?

Then it’s time you tune in and log on to a special Revolution Books webcast to hear an analysis no one else is making.

This interactive, live webcast is a fund-raiser for Revolution Books in New York City. To sign up to participate on line, go to revolutionbooksnyc.org and use the PayPal button or your credit card, enter “Webinar” in the description field and “20.00″ in the unit price field. Beginning on Monday, September 28, 6 pm, instructions on how to logon will be sent via e-mail to those who have registered by that time. People will be able to pay and register up until the beginning of the webcast. For those registering after 6 pm on Monday, September 28, logon information will be sent via e-mail every few hours to new registrants.

If you miss the webcast at 7:30 pm EDT or 4:30 pm PDT, it will air continuously after that for six times during the evening.

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Raymond Lotta is a revolutionary intellectual who takes as his foundation Bob Avakian’s new synthesis. He has written extensively on China during and after the Cultural Revolution, playing a major role in elucidating the actual thinking of Mao. In writings, talks, and YouTubes, he has fought to spread the truth-and refute the lies–about communist revolution in the Soviet Union in 1917-1956 and in China in 1949-1976 (www.thisiscommunism.org). Lotta has also done major work on political economy, including America in Decline and the series Shifts and Faultlines in the World Economy (www.revcom.us).

Listen to Raymond Lotta on YouTube: “Everything You’ve Been Told About Communism is Wrong” at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms99-Nj81I

Come to a webcast viewing party in L.A. at

Libros Revolución, Sept 29, Tues, 4:30 & 7:30 pm PDT

Live Interactive Q&A for 4:30 pm viewing only

$20 donation - fundraiser for Revolution Books New York
Parking discounted in lots on Hill Street after 4 pm

Street parking free after 7 pm

Events like this are the mission of Revolution Books, New York, and this is why it is important to contribute to the store at this time.

Every day, people are told that radical and revolutionary alternatives are unworkable and undesirable. Communism and socialism are ruled out of the dominant discourse. The political imagination is stunted, sights lowered, and people are taught to think that capitalism / imperialism is the only and best way the world could be.

The work of Revolution Books is critical to lifting the lid on this.

No place else can people find and wrestle with the books, with theory that reveals how the world could be. Today there is the technology and productive capacity to meet the basic needs of all the world’s people-with the potential for a whole different cooperative world.

Revolution Books is not about learning to survive on shrinking ground, accepting the status quo and holding on for dear life. Revolution Books is part of contributing to a new spirit and atmosphere of critical engagement, putting revolution back into the larger societal conversation.

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Spread the word through e-lists, Facebook, etc. And let us know if you would like to help work on making this important talk get out to as many people as possible.

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

REVOLUTION Talk Live Online!

LIVE STARTING, 9.1.09:

www.revolutiontalk.net

Watch the entire film of Bob Avakian’s historic talk, “Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About,” online atwww.revolutiontalk.net along with selected clips at www.vimeo.com/revolutiontalkor www.vimeo.com/charlarevolucion for Spanish.

Help put this before thousands.

Here are 5 immediate ways to spread the revolution

1. Embedthe clips or the full film onto your blog, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter…

2. Watchit in your dorm room or living room with friends

3. Donateat revolutiontalk.netto spread this further. Anything you can give will enable promotion and advertising in these critical few weeks. If you want to see this voice and these talks reach further into society, contribute TODAY.

4. Downloadthe promotional materials (posters, cards, stickers) from revolutiontalk.netand get them up in your dorm rooms, housing projects, local coffee shops….

5. Talkwith your friends about taking this up - anyone you know who hates the way the world is and are hungering to understand it and be part of changing it radically.

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In 2003 Bob Avakian delivered this historic talk in the United States. This is a wide-ranging revolutionary journey. It breaks down the very nature of the society we live in and how humanity has come to a time where a radically different society is possible. He lays it all out in a nine-hour speech-and then goes into three hours of question-and-answer dialogue with the audiences. It’s all there - full of heart and soul, humor and seriousness.

There is nothing online like THIS: nothing that gets at these questions as deeply, thoroughly and truthfully as this. Millions of people are searching for the truth, and watching videos, short and long. Some of these give part of the answer; but some of them - including some of the most popular - give people bullshit answers, pointing people in the wrong direction and spreading poison. Here, and all over the world, people need to see Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About.

And YOU are needed to spread this.

Get with and be part of launching the Revolution film online.

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Friday, August 28, 2009

Urgent Update in Eviction Battle

Books to understand, explore and radically change the world

Do you have good quality, almost new or new books? Donate them to Libros Revolución .

We know there’s a treasure house of books out there on people’s bookshelves and closets–the hidden histories of the Soviet and Chinese revolutions, memoirs from the 60s Black liberation and women’s movements, out-of-print chronicles of struggles in Africa, Latin America, Asia… art books, novels, poetry…

Bring them to Libros
Revolución and we will get them back in circulation to the people who yearn for a different future. And you will help keep this revolutionary bookstore open.

Sunday, September 6,
12 noon at
Echo Park

Join us for a fundraising Labor Day Weekend Picnic for REVOLUTION newspaper and LIBROS REVOLUCION

Come and bring others to celebrate The Revolution We Need…The Leadership We Have!

Music, spoken word, program starts at 2 pm. $10 a plate, sliding scale for unemployed.

(Echo Park - Park Ave. east of Glendale Blvd. in L.A., off the 101 Fwy north at Glendale Blvd.)

Call us at 213.488.1303 to find out about the next Planning meeting.

Libros Revolución / Revolution Books -
Flooded But Not Deterred!

Revolución, and deliver or send them along with statements expressing why you support the bookstore. Don’t have alot in your pockets? Get creative! One friend is donating his hair styling skills to raise funds. At a time when we’re putting revolution and the indispensable leadership of Bob Avakian on the map and forging cores of people who are determined to bring into being a communist world, Libros Revolución is needed more than ever. In the midst of this eviction battle, we’ve met old and new friends of Libros, and are thrilled that through emails and press coverage some people are discovering this bookstore and this revolutionary movement for the first time. Yesterday, however, we encountered a new challenge when the store was flooded by the boiler next door, resulting in water-damaged books and other materials. Today when we met with the landlord to discuss an extension to raise the next $2,000 - due Aug. 31 - because of disrupted business and damages, he refused to take any responsibility, and told us if we didn’t meet the deadline, he would commence new eviction proceedings. This means we have only 5 days to raise $2,000, so we are calling on everyone reading this to donate generously. Make checks payable to Libros Revolución, and deliver or send them along with statements expressing why you support the bookstore. Don’t have alot in your pockets? Get creative! One friend is donating his hair styling skills to raise funds.

It is no exaggeration to say that the future is at stake. And Libros Revolución provides a glimpse into that future, and helps pave the way.

More than a bookstore, it is a center of revolutionary ferment - a crucible where a re-envisioned revolutionary communism interacts and mixes it up with all the streams of progressive, radical, and revolutionary intellectual life. It’s a place to engage the whole world. So give all you can to enable Libros Revolución to continue to play this role.

Thursday, August 27, 7pm at Libros Revolución

Join us for a bilingual discussion of the editorial, “Online Launch Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About,” from Issue #173, and Appearing Online 9.1.09 revolutiontalk.net from Issue #174.

Get with and be part of launching the Revolution film online!

We must spread the word to every corner of this country. . . giving people the means to become part of this revolutionary movement, and organizing into this movement everyone who wants to make a contribution to it, who wants to work and fight, to struggle and sacrifice, not to keep this nightmare of a world going as it is but to bring a better world into being.

- “The Revolution We Need. . .The Leadership We Have, Revolution #170, July 19, 2009

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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Partial Victory - The Fight Goes On

Partial Victory - The Fight Goes On
to Stop the Eviction of Libros Revolucion / Revolution Books

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.

A few of the emails that have been sent to the landlord: “If this were Jamba Juice, a Starbucks, even a Barnes and Nobel I would not be writing you. I am writing you as someone who wants to see diversity of thoughts and culture in this city and someone who knows first hand the difficulties involved in maintaining an alternative resource.”
- A.

“In these difficult economic times with independent bookstores diminishing in the shadow of corporate bookstore chains it is vitally important that everything be done to save Libros Revolucion…We hope that you will stand up for this fine bookstore and its devoted clientele by making it possible for Libros Revolucion to continue to serve the community. They are a beacon of light.” - C & D

From H. to his listserve:

“…Put simply, my friends, attending an event at Libros Revolucion, or even just visiting the store, changes your chemistry. You can thumb through rare works of political thought, and literally FEEL their ideas in the very air around you. Libros is no academic ivory tower, but a PEOPLE’S UNIVERSITY WITHOUT WALLS! …I am asking everyone who receives this letter to join with me in sending as generous an emergency donation as you can, and then consider being a vital sustainer of this pillar of uncensored learning. We can win this fight, and stop this injustice in its tracks.”

And we were inspired by this news today: A high school student is organizing a bake sale for Libros Revolucion at a shopping center and will be asking her grandmother and others to donate baked goods (this student doesn’t know how to cook, so is asking those who do.)

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Monday, August 10, 2009

Larry the Penguin Searches for the Meaning of Life - Book Signing

[Post on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter; send out to email lists]

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.)

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.

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.

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!

Spread the Word

The Revolution We
Need. . .The
Leadership We Have

Read this full message

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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Friday, August 7, 2009

Papa West in Leimert Park: REVOLUTION DVD Showing Sat, Aug 8, 7 pm

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Sat, Aug. 8th, 7 pm
Screening of

REVOLUTION: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About

a film of a talk by Bob Avakian

Followed by a discussion with Clyde Young of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.

At Papa West Dinner Club
4336 Degnan Place
Leimert Park, L.A. (near Crenshaw & Vernon)

In 2003, Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, delivered an historic talk in the United States. This talk, followed by questions and answers, is a wide-ranging revolutionary journey, covering many topics. It breaks down the very nature of the society we live in and how humanity has come to a time where a radically different society is possible.

Bob Avakian is a creative and wide-ranging thinker who maintains a profound sense of the actual struggles, trends and sentiments among the masses, the movements of opposition, and society broadly. And he is the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, which is seriously setting its sight on the seizure of power right within the U.S. itself, and the revolutionary transformation of society as part of the world proletarian revolution. He will take you on a journey that can change your life.

Get this DVD of this Talk by Bob Avakian at this event for $20, or $25 for the DVD plus a 10-week subscription to Revolution newspaper (revcom.us).

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” via an emotion-packed and entertaining fantasy featuring engaging characters, biting satire…and the author’s unique and scientifically supported view of reality.

The book dares to ask the question, “Is it true just because most penguins believe it?” Generating lots of controversy and excitement, it 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.)

August 10, Monday, 7 - 9 pm- Hot off the press! Pick up the new issue of REVOLUTION newspaper, informally discuss key articles, bring your questions and help make plans for wide distribution. At Libros Revolución/Revolution Books. (Street parking free weeknights after 7 pm).

August 13, Thursday, 6 PM - Spread Revolution at the monthly Downtown ArtWalk. Meet at Libros Revolución or call to find out our table location.

Spread the Word

The Revolution We Need
. . .The Leadership We Have

Read this full message 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 in bringing forward a revolutionary movement now, if YOU help spread this special issue everywhere.

Take out this message on your own, or with your crew in your neighborhood, school, work; or find places like bookstores, cafes, libraries 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 Saturday, Aug 8th as different teams take this special message out to people in the Crenshaw / Leimert Park area, as well as to youth at the Rock the Bells concert in Devore, CA (San Bernardino). Come to an orientation and planning meeting this Friday, Aug 7th at 7 pm at Libros; and/or join us at Libros on Saturday to go out:

Sat. 8 am at Libros to go to Rock the Bells.

Sat. 12 noon at Libros to go to the Crenshaw / Leimert Park area. (Note: this is a time change from email sent out.)

Email or call if you are interested in either team.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

The Revolution We Need . . . The Leadership We Have

The Revolution We Need…
The Leadership We Have

A Message, And A Call, From The

Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

This Is NOT The Best of All Possible Worlds. . .

And We Do NOT Have to Live This Way

Come to Libros to pick up and discuss this statement and the campaign around it. Get involved in the movement for revolution!

“The land of the free, and the home of the brave.” “The leader of the free world.” That’s what they always say about this country. But this is a Big Lie.

The truth is that we live under a system that, from the start in this country, built up its wealth and power by enslaving

millions of Black people, stealing land from Indians and Mexicans through war and genocide, and working many people, including children, literally to death. It is by such murderous means that this system has expanded “from sea to shining sea” across this continent-and around the whole world.

[Read the whole statement here]

Join us this Sunday, July 26:
1) Hollywood Farmers Market (9 AM - 1 PM) Look for our booth near Ivar, between Hollywood & Sunset.
2) Watts - meet at Libros Revolucion at 2 PM.

Call or email us to join a team in the LA garment district, the West side, in the Crenshaw / Inglewood area and more. 213.488.1303
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Get a bundle of this special issue of Revolution to distribute: 20 for $5, 50 for $10, 100 for $20. Get stacks of this special issue to libraries, barber shops, cafes, schools, restaurants, etc. Let us know where you will take responsibility to make sure this gets out, so we can mark it on a large map at the bookstore the places in Southern California where this message and call is being distributed.
Bundles of special issue #170 also available at:
Headline Records (7706 Melrose, LA)
No Regrets in Long Beach
Smiley’s in Carson
Sugar Shack in Lennox.

Download a full color poster of this statement to post and distribute [click here]. Or a shortened version of the statement as a flyer to print and distribute [1-page version] [2-page version] at high schools, colleges, concerts, on buses, wherever large numbers of people are gathered, to supplement the full statement in Revolution newspaper. Read the shortened version yourself out loud on buses or in cafes, on radio stations, in classrooms and in other creative ways to get the word out. Or download an MP3 recording of an audio reading of the statement to play at street-corner gatherings, on the airwaves, in coffee shops or classes [click here], then scroll down to “Audio of statement (MP3).”

Collect donations: Ask people for donations for the special issue and for the efforts to popularize it everywhere. Donating is an important way people can participate in this revolutionary movement. Also, develop fundraising projects so materials can be printed up, banners prepared, promotionals developed and distributed.

Send in correspondence: Drop us an email or call to let us know your plans, how many flyers and newspapers you have been able to distribute, where, response and questions people have, amount of funds raised, and what you are learning.

Get a crew together or join a team: Volunteer to take out this special issue on teams, at booktables and events, help make displays, do promotionals, donate and put on fundraisers to help spread this message far and wide! Check our blog for places and times to hook up and suggested buslines to flyer.

Contribute your services and materials: Legal, artistic, graphic, web, fundraising and others; making copies of flyers and promotionals, reams of paper and supplies. Contribute ideas and suggestions.

Now Available at Libros Revolución:

Demarcations is an online theoretical journal promoting the perspectives of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. Its inaugural issue features an extended and highly important polemic against the political philosophy of Alain Badiou, the prominent French philosopher whose work has attracted attention in many progressive and radical circles.

Also available online at revcom.us - click here..

Libros is open Tues-Sunday from 12 noon to 8 pm

Monday, July 27,
7-9 PM

Come pick up the new issue of Revolution and join in initial discussion of its contents and plans for distribution.

Tues., July 28,
7-9 PM
Screening of key parts of Revolution DVD and discussion.

Contribute your ideas, suggestions,
services and talents - legal, artistic, web, graphics and others. Donate to help spread the word.

Volunteer at the bookstore.

Some suggested bus lines to distribute to:

30, 33, 53, 68, 70, 81, 108, 110, 111, 204, 207, 210, 251, 287, 720.

A Riveting Exchange:

The Ascendency of Obama. . .and the Continued Need for Resistance & Liberation: A Dialogue between Cornel West and Carl Dix

Click here to hear the July 14 dialogue on revcom.us website - scroll down to locate and click. Spread the word. Everyone should hear this.

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Libros Recommends
Check out these Youtube videos posted on revcom.us:

Response to Obama’s “No Excuses” speech at NAACP convention by Carl Dix (Part 1 / Part 2)

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Monday, July 20, 2009

Cornel West & Carl Dix on Amy Goodman’s KPFK show

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Libros Revolución recommends:

Listen to CORNEL WEST and CARL DIX interviewed on Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!” Wed, July 22nd (towards the last half of the show) on KPFK, 90.7 FM radio.

Spread the word and listen! Go online to kpfk.org, “Audio Archives” to 7/22/09, Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now!

This interview is coming off of the the ground-breaking dialogue between CORNEL WEST and CARL DIX on “The Ascendancy of Obama. . .and the Continued Need for Resistance and Liberation” held in New York City this past Tuesday, July 14.

You can watch minimally edited video of the dialogue on revcom.us, scroll down to the video image of Cornel West and Carl Dix. Or listen to the whole audio of the dialogue posted at revcom.us by clicking here.

And you can watch this 3-minute youtube video announcement of the July 14 dialogue from Carl Dix.

CORNEL WEST is one of America’s most provocative public intellectuals and has been a champion for racial justice since childhood. His writing, speaking, and teaching weave together the traditions of the black Baptist Church, progressive politics, and jazz. The New York Times has praised his “ferocious moral vision.” Dr. West currently teaches at Princeton University.

CARL DIX is a longtime revolutionary activist and a spokesperson for the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. Carl was one of the Fort Lewis 6 - six GI’s who refused orders to go to Vietnam in 1970. Carl served 2 years in Leavenworth Military Penitentiary for this stand.

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