REVOLUTION BOOKS will be CLOSED
Please join us at the Chicago premiere of the film, Saturday March 28.
"Revolution & Religion, The Fight for Emancipation and The Role of Religion,a dialogue between Cornel West and Bob Avakian
screening at 3 PM at the Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th (just east of Cottage Grove) in Hyde Park. Watch the trailer below
We will reopen on Sunday, March 29, for our regular hours, 2 PM to 5 PM.
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Friday, March 27, 2015
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
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Sunday, March 22, 2015
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March 28, Saturday 3-7 pm
Premiere Screening and Online Launch of the High-Quality Film
Revolution and Religion
The Fight for Emancipation
and the Role of Religion
-- A Dialogue Between
Cornel West & Bob Avakian
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Wed, March 18 - Friday, March 27
Join us in carrying out the revcom.us call to "Seize the Time: Into the Streets and Out to the People:"
"Right now, making these two things-the online launch and premieres of the film of the Dialogue (Bob Avakian and Cornel West, REVOLUTION AND RELIGION; The Fight for Emancipation and the Role of Religion) and #ShutdownA14 - really big is the major way to act on the while situation. And again, wha
t we do maters-and at a time this, it is magnified."Right now, we call on everyone reading this to give as much time and effort and ideas as you
possibly can to
massively flyer, get out posters, work social media, break into regular
media, and in one way or another get people informed about and organized
to be part of both these crucial efforts. (Read article at Revcom.us and also "4 Points on Organizing for the Premiers").
INITIAL SCHEDULE FOR CHICAGO - Click here for the plans through Sunday 3/22. . Some details are still being worked out. For this to work, people need to regularly call the phone numbers listed below with your ideas and to get more details and additions. You can also email revbookschi@yahoo.com |
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Saturday March 21, 6pm
Fundraiser Hosted by Stop Mass Incarceration Network Chicago Wicker Park Lutheran Church 1500 N Hoyne Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60622
Stolen Lives Fundraising Dinner
$20 general admission, $10 for students and unemployed
A fundraising dinner to honor families whose loved ones were killed by police. Funds raised will contribute to the thousands of dollars needed to spread the word and organize people into action for April 14th.
With only a few days left to get out to friends, families and others who can be invited to this special evening to honor the Stolen Lives Families. The quote below, from the letter by a student, captures the essence and power this event can have to people.
“As the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, and other activists, prepare for a national day of action against police brutality on April 14th, we face many challenges, but all of them pale in comparison to the hardship and loss that you have endured, and whenever we find our motivation and resolve waning, it is to you that our thoughts turn -- not only how each of you has lost something precious and irrecoverable, not only how you never saw any justice done for that loss, but how you still struggle against intimidation and repression every day to raise your voice on behalf of the loved ones that were stolen from you.”
Our charge is to celebrating these voices, raise funds and building support for A14. What follows is a basic out line (which can be adjusted) but can give us an overview on what needs to be done to have the most successful dinner/program possible. Please get in touch with me if there are questions or adjustments that need to be made or others who want to volunteer. I will be calling to make sure we are all on the same page and if there more ideas from all of you. Jessie 773-329-5014
STOP POLICE MURDER. #ShutDownA14
RSVP Jessie Davis 773-329-5014
Stop Mass Incarceration Network - Chicago
stopmassincarcerationchicago@gmail.com * (312) 933-9586
@StopMassIncChi
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Sunday, March 15, 2015
Hear Carl Dix Today, Sunday March 15 2pm,
"Police Terror, The Savage Oppression of Black People and The Revolutionary Way to End All These Horrors"
March 15,
2-4 pm
Kleo Center
119 E. Garfield (55th Street)
Carl Dix,
long-time revolutionary leader and the co-founder of Stop Mass
Incarceration with Cornel West, is in Madison right now at a rally of
hundreds of high school students protesting the police murder of Tony
Robinson. CNN is covering it live. This outpouring of defiant outrage is
exactly what's needed in Madison and everywhere, today and on April 14.
See the SMIN national website
What Should April 14 look like? Like Madison on March 9 and today!
Carl will talk about "Police Terror, The Savage Oppression of Black
People and The Revolutionary Way to End All These Horrors". And he will
talk about the national plan for April 14, the day to Shut Down Business
As Usual to re-seize the initiative to STOP the police murder of Black
and Brown people and the whole genocidal program of mass incarceration.
At this moment when the powers-that-be are trying to shut down the
resistance that rose up so powerfully last fall, Carl's revolutionary
message can be an important key to unlock the anger, determination, and
desire to end the abuses that continued to beat strongly in the hearts
of the many thousands who stood up and many more who were jolted awake
by the uprising about the constant terror and demeaning of Black people.
For more information contact:
Revolution Books
(773) 489-0930
Saturday, March 14, 2015
"Women of the Black Chicago Renaissance"
presented by Brian Dolinar, editor
Saturday, March 14, 2 PM
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Author Presentation and Reading
Saturday, March 14, 2pm
Revolution Books
Revolution Books is excited to welcome back Brian on the occasion of the publication in paperback of his groundbreaking book, The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers. He will present on
the women of the literary and cultural movement known as the "Black
Chicago Renaisance" in the 1930s. Drawing from his book, he will
highlight African American women such as dancer Katherine Dunham and
poet & novelist Margaret Walker who worked on the Illinois Writers'
Project, as part of the WPA established by President Roosevelt. He will
also talk about the group of women who first recovered the history of
Chicago's Black founder, Jean Baptist Point Du Sable. This event is free
and we will pass the hat to keep Revolution Books growing.
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"Women of the Du Sable Memorial Society, 1933."
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Brian Dolinar is a scholar of African American literature and culture from the Depression era. He is editor of
The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers (University of Illinois Press, 2013), and author of
The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation (University
Press of Mississippi, 2012). He has taught history and African American
Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His writings
have appeared in African American Review, Langston Hughes
Review, Southern Quarterly, and Studies in American Humor.
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The Negro in Illinois, The WPA Papers
A unique chronicling of African American history, The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers was
originally produced during the 1930's Depression era by the Illinois
Writers' Project, a program of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
under President Roosevelt. Headed by Harlem Renaissance poet Arna
Bontemps and white proletarian writer Jack Conroy, The Negro in Illinois employed major Black writers in Chicago during the 1930s, including Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, and Katherine Dunham. Doing interviews and scouring
old newspapers and courthouse records, the writers told the story of
the African American experience in Illinois. They wrote about music, the
movement to abolish slavery, sports and housing, from the beginnings of
slavery to the Great Migration. After Roosevelt pulled the plug on the
project in 1942, most of the writings went unpublished for more than
half a century...until now.
Revolution Books
1103 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago IL
1 block south of Blue Line Division St. "L" stop
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
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March 28, Saturday 3-7 pm
Premiere Screening and Online Launch of the High-Quality Film
Revolution and Religion
The Fight for Emancipation
and the Role of Religion
-- A Dialogue Between
Cornel West & Bob Avakian
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Friday, March 6, 2015
Celebrate
International Women's Day 2015
with Revolution Books and the Revolution Club
Sunday, March 8
3 PM to ?
at Revolution Books, 1103 N. Ashland
(Remember: Daylight Savings
begins March 8)
Join us as we come together for poetry, song,
music, a film clip ( from the dialogue between Cornel West and Bob
Avakian) and food. We need to "bring forward a tidal wave of powerful
revolutionary struggle to put an END to all forms of enslavement,
degradation, abuse, and oppression of women. And to do this as a central
and driving element of the revolution needed to emancipate all of
humanity." read "Get Ready for International Women's Day 2015
WANTED TO PARTICIPATE: Poets and musicians.
Bring an appetizer or dessert, if you can.
Call Revolution Books at 773-489-0930.
Break the Chains! Unleash the Fury of Women
as a
Mighty Force
for Revolution!
Fight for the Liberation of Women Here and All Over the World!
Women are not bitches, hos, punching bags, sex objects, or breeders. Women are FULL HUMAN BEINGS!!
"Women of the Black Chicago Renaissance"
presented by Brian Dolinar, editor
Saturday, March 14, 2 PM
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Author Presentation and Reading
Saturday, March 14, 2pm
Revolution Books
Revolution Books is excited to welcome back Brian on the occasion of the publication in paperback of his groundbreaking book, The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers. He will present on
the women of the literary and cultural movement known as the "Black
Chicago Renaisance" in the 1930s. Drawing from his book, he will
highlight African American women such as dancer Katherine Dunham and
poet & novelist Margaret Walker who worked on the Illinois Writers'
Project, as part of the WPA established by President Roosevelt. He will
also talk about the group of women who first recovered the history of
Chicago's Black founder, Jean Baptist Point Du Sable. This event is free
and we will pass the hat to keep Revolution Books growing.
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"Women of the Du Sable Memorial Society, 1933."
|
Brian Dolinar is a scholar of African American literature and culture from the Depression era. He is editor of
The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers (University of Illinois Press, 2013), and author of
The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation (University
Press of Mississippi, 2012). He has taught history and African American
Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His writings
have appeared in African American Review, Langston Hughes
Review, Southern Quarterly, and Studies in American Humor.
____________________
The Negro in Illinois, The WPA Papers
A unique chronicling of African American history, The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers was
originally produced during the 1930's Depression era by the Illinois
Writers' Project, a program of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
under President Roosevelt. Headed by Harlem Renaissance poet Arna
Bontemps and white proletarian writer Jack Conroy, The Negro in Illinois employed major Black writers in Chicago during the 1930s, including Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, and Katherine Dunham. Doing interviews and scouring
old newspapers and courthouse records, the writers told the story of
the African American experience in Illinois. They wrote about music, the
movement to abolish slavery, sports and housing, from the beginnings of
slavery to the Great Migration. After Roosevelt pulled the plug on the
project in 1942, most of the writings went unpublished for more than
half a century...until now.
Revolution Books
1103 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago IL
1 block south of Blue Line Division St. "L" stop
Monday, March 2, 2015
March 28, Saturday 3-7 pm
Premiere Screening and Online Launch
of the High-Quality Film
Revolution and Religion
The Fight for Emancipation
and the Role of Religion
-- A Dialogue Between
Cornel West & Bob Avakian
Doors open at 2:30 pm
Reception follows at 7:15 pm
Logan Center for the Arts
915 E. 60th Street
(1 block east of Cottage Grove in Hyde Park)
$20 / $10 Low Income / $50 &100 Premium
For tickets or more information contact:
Chicago BA Everywhere Committee
(312) 860-8167
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