Planning session June 3, Sunday 2 pm 

Humanity Needs Revolution

Printers Row 2011.

Revolution Books Needs You NOW 

BE A PART OF REVOLUTION BOOKS AT 

PRINTERS ROW LIT FEST JUNE-9-10

The Biggest Literary Festival in the Midwest 

FRIENDS:

YOU are needed. Be a part of the planning and creation of the Revolution Books Printers Row Lit Fest table and displays. Bring your ideas, passion, and creativity to the bookstore planning and work session.

Revolution Books needs to expand out into the literary and cultural community, draw more book lovers and authors into engagement about why the world is the way it is and the possibility of a radically different way the world could be. Strategize with us about changing the atmosphere at the Printers Row gathering of many thousands where this question of what future for youth becomes what people are thinking & talking about.

Special appearences at Revolution Books table by Kevin Gosztola, author of Truth and Consequences: The U.S. vs. Bradley Manning and a volunteer reporting on theBAsics Bus Tour in the deep south. Time to be announced.

Chicago Memorial Day picnic 

A supporter of Revolution Books designed and built a mobile display case. It was part of way to showcase the BAsics Bus Tour and other important works of Bob Avakian. The Memorial Day picnic was a perfect time to bring it out on the street and see what people’s response was to it.  People dug it, and it kind of broke away from the standard book table. The setup had been done the night before, we just opened it up and we had all the key works of the BAsics Bus Tour and enlarged photos of high school students signing a banner they sent to Atlanta. We had take-home organizer bags wrapped with the centerfold of “What people are saying” and designed for people to take out pluggers of BAsics 1:13,  copies of the “Twelve Ways That YOU Can Be Part of Building the Movement for Revolution – Right Now”, Revolution newspapers and  the sampler DVD of the Revolution talk, enabling many more people to become a part of spreading the Bus Tour campaign and the quotes of Bob Avakian.

MEMORIAL DAY BARBEQUE Fundraiser for BAsics Bus Tour:  May 28, Monday, 2 -5pm  $5/plate WICKER PARK 1425 N. Damen St. 1 block south of Damen Blue Line stop MAP  south east corner of park- look for Red Flag     Come hear a volunteer report back from Atlanta and the deep South     Join us for a day of good food, stimulating conversation, entertainment, and lots of fun. Meat eaters and vegetarians will find plenty to eat at this barbeque.   Be a part of making  this a really memorable day!    VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO WORK ON:    -Food Committee-Games-Entertainment-Music Call the volunteer co-ordinator to be part of this: 312-860-8167   A Message from Carl Dix and the BAsics Bus Tour   Follow the BAsics Bus Tour at basicsbustour.tumblr.com. Getting Ready for the BAsics Bus Tour - From a correspondent.  Interview: Going Out Boldly and Broadly to Raise Funds for the Bus Tour  What People Are Saying (Updated 5/14/2012)  For fundraising materials, including phone banking tips and scripts, the Bus Tour budget, sample fund letters, and informational pieces, go to "Basics Bus Tour Fundraising Materials" on the BA Everywhere page.  Video Message of Support from Cornel West for the BAsics Bus Tour to Atlanta     "No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that." BAsics 1:3  Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

Revolution #270, May 27, 2012  Building on the Momentum of the BAsics Bus Tour     By the end of May, the BAsics Bus Tour will have made its way deep into the South... making BA and his leadership known to many thousands. Hundreds will have signed the BAsics 1:13 banners, sending messages, especially to the people of Sanford, Florida, where Trayvon Martin was murdered. Thousands of dollars still need to be raised to support the BAsics Bus Tour and, as we do this, let's prepare to get out this same message all over the country in the following weeks, building on the momentum of this bus tour and raising money and laying the basis for the next leg of the tour. And as we do this, let's draw people into getting into BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian and connect them to the whole movement to make this known everywhere. (read more) Ride with the BAsics Bus Tour. Follow it at basicsbustour.tumblr.com and twitter.com/baeverywhere. Get updates on the whole mass campaign, BA Everywhere... Imagine the Difference It Could Make. Find  out how you and your friends can participate. Join in spreading this widely: ReTweet and ask others to follow it.

 Open House for 

The BAsics Bus Tour:

Next Stop-Atlanta

May 19, Saturday 3-5 pm

 

Drop by Revolution Books for an informal gathering to sign banners, drop off statements of support  and donate money for taking revolution to the heart of the South. Pick up BA Everywhere pluggers and palm cards and Revolution Newspapers to broadly draw people into the movement who are captivated by this bold tour in many way.

Or pull together a group of friends and  family. Tell them about the tour - ask them to find creative ways to donate and hold fund raising events and to send group messages of support to the Bus volunteers that can be shared with people in the South. Turn them on to all the ways they can be part of building this historic BAsics Bus Tour wherever you are! 

NATO War Criminals Summit
in Chicago May 20-21   

Two futures are posed, two radically different worlds. One future, a horror of oppression for the people of the world and a threat to the very life of Earth, enforced by the massive military might of the capitalist/imperialists will be on display at the NATO summit Sunday and Monday

 May 20-21. 

The other is a liberating future, where there is no more oppression, no more countries, no more domination of any group by any other group, a society where people look out for the common good of all people and the life and ecosystems on the planet itself. But that requires a revolution.   Because of the work Bob Avakian is doing, we have a vision and a strategy for revolution.

People in the U.S. and around the world need to know that and know right now that the BA Everywhere campaign is fighting to bring this to people and to organize them into this movement for revolution here in the belly of the of the beast.  

  

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

May 16, Wednesday, 7 pm  Author Kevin Gosztola Presents for the first  time his new book  Truth and Consequences:   The U.S. vs. Bradley Manning JUST ADDED!!!  DAVID ROVICS WILL PERFORM BEFORE TONIGHTS EVENT Songs of Social Significance This event is part of a number of important activities in the week leading up to the NATO Summit.    Kevin Gosztola is a writer for "The Dissenter" at Firedoglake, who regularly covers WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, transparency, whistleblowing and other various civil liberties issues. In 2011, he served as an intern for The Nation Magazine and worked closely with Greg Mitchell, helping him to maintain his daily WikiLeaks blog. He also helped Mitchell produce The Age of WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning: Truth and Consequences.

BAsics Bus Tour: Next Stop-Atlanta and Beyond

from REVOLUTION newspaper #268     The BAsics Bus Tour: Next Stop-Atlanta and Beyond     The BAsics Bus Tour is getting ready to hit the road in the South. Next week volunteers from Los Angeles to New York will stream into Atlanta. They will be traveling there on the money donated for this tour all across the country. Some will be taking greetings that were created and signed in the communities they’re coming in from. They’ll be representing something much bigger than themselves. As one volunteer put it: “This is a great opportunity to expand and widen the movement for revolution, as well as to let many more people know about BA and the revolution...the fact that this vision was brought to them and that they know that there are people who really WANT TO DEDICATE THEIR LIVES to change the world, that already makes a difference in the political atmosphere of the country.” (read more)