REVOLUTION BOOKS RECOMMENDS

One of the murals you'll see

To all of you who missed the May tour, here's your second chance!! 

SUNDAY, June 26, 1pm Join us for the

Pilsen Walking Mural Tour with Jose Guerrero, tour guide and Pilsen-based muralist  

Tickets $10   

call or email for reservations  773-949-4624   basicsmuraltour@yahoo.com

  

Assemble at 1pm at APO Community  Arts and Cultural Center 1438 W. 18th St.

Tickets also available at - Revolution Books, 1103 N. Ashland

 

A Benefit for the promotion of

BAsics from the talks and

writings of Bob Avakian

Pilsen is known for its huge colorful murals that depict the histories of Mexico, Pilsen  and beyond.  Jose Guerrero, a Pilsen-based muralist and our tour guide, said that the Mexican Revolution  helped revive murals because workers used them to communicate their causes. Today, Pilsen's murals are part decorative, part educational. Like the Mexican murals that preceded them, says Guerrero, "their colors help lift the spirit."

Please join us after the tour for a bite to eat at a local restaurant. We'll have a chance to discuss what we've just seen, and hear more about BAsics, including getting thousands of copies of BAsics into prisons.     (Lunch is not included in the ticket price.)

June 9, Thursday, 7pm

at Revolution Books

1103 N. Ashland Ave

JOEY MOGUL

Author Reading

“With remarkable passion Queer (In)Justice makes visible the very serious consequences of the prison industrial complex on the lives of LGBT people. It’s an important scholarly critique, an urgent call to action, and a vivid historical account of how the policing of gender and sexuality are intricately linked to race, class and power.—Beth Ritchie, Director, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago

“Queer (In)Justice is an urgently needed and essential resource for activists and scholars. Accessible and stirring, it clearly and concisely exposes how criminalization is a central issue facing queer and trans politics today. Tracing the historical and contemporary implications of mass imprisonment as a central vector of racial and gender violence, this book is a vital tool towards building a movement that challenges the policing of our very identities.”—Dean Spade, founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, assistant professor of law, Seattle University School of Law

Joey L. Mogul, partner at the People’s Law Office in Chicago and Director of the Civil Rights Clinic at DePaul University College of Law. Mogul worked to seek justice for Chicago Police torture survivors, presenting the cases to UN Committee Against Torture and the Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland. Mogul’s has represented lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in criminal and civil proceedings involving police and prisoner torture, abuse and misconduct. Mogul is also an activist with Queer to the Left and, the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights and with others to challenge the death penalty, torture by law enforcement officials and supermax conditions. Mogul is an Oberlin College graduate and earned a juris doctorate from City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law.

Endorsed by the Bisexual Queer Alliance Chicago

For more information call Revolution Books 773-489-0930 or email revbookschi@yahoo.com

Revolution Books Invites You to a Discussion of the Future OTHER SCHEDULED EVENTS VOLUNTEERS GREATLY NEEDED for events below & more Volunteers meeting Sun. May 29, 4 PM Or call 773.489.0930 or just stop by. June 4-5 Join us at Printers Row Lit Fest Dearborn & Harrison Booth #231-233 June 9, 7 PM Joey Mogul author of "Queer (In)Justice The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States" June 11-12 Used Book Sale Fundraiser for Revolution Books Donate used books! Get Into BAsics Take an exciting step into the future by joining our on-going informal discussion group at Revolution Books. We are discussing the 6 chapters of BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian. No experience needed and it's OK if you missed one of the earlier sessions. Just pull up a chair, pick one of the quotes, and say what you think about it. Wednesday, May 25 7:00 PM Discussion of Chapter 2, "A Whole New--And Far Better--World" Wednesday, June 1 7:00 PM Discussion of Chapter 3 , "Making Revolution" Wednesday, June 8 7:00 PM Discussion of Chapter 4, "Understanding the World" Wednesday, June 15 7:00 PM Discussion of Chapter 5, "Morality, Revolution And The Goal of Communism" Wednesday, June 22 7:00 PM Discussion of Chapter 6, "Revolutionary Responsibility and Leadership"

Sunday May 22, 5pm JOIN US TO DISCUSS & STRATEGIZE $30,000 in 30 days, plus 100 new sustainers for Revolution newspaper... Changing the world with the BAsics    May 1, New York City " ... Now, we are announcing a 30-day plan-to start Monday, May 23-to raise $30,000 plus 100 new Revolution sustainers, for beginning but bold promotional plans for BAsics to have a societal impact, for covering the remaining small debt incurred in the production of April 11 and the very initial production costs to make a documentary about this event [see more below], and for the critical functioning of RCP Publications. In addition, thousands of dollars are needed now by the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund to make important initial headway in their goal to get BAsics to 2,000 prisoners." (from Revolution newspaper - read full article)  April 11 Finale - click for artist interviews   $10,000 toward a film of the event "On the Occasion of the Publication of BAsics: A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World." What was brought into being on April 11 has to reverberate beyond the walls of Harlem Stage. In a professional documentary of what this night was, footage of the performances would be interspersed with interviews of the artists who took part and people on the host committee who lent their name. These interviews could focus in on a few individuals and the development of their thinking, what Avakian's work spoke to in them, how they were changed through this and their overall thoughts on the need to celebrate revolution and the vision of a new world, including through their art.  Saturday afternoon, May 21  after the Walk for Choice Open House at Revolution Books On Saturday, 5/21, 4:30 pm following the Walk for Choice ( info below), Revolution Books hosts an Open House with coffee and snacks. We invite and encourage all participants from the Walk as well as others to join us! Come and talk about your experiences at the Walk. And share your thoughts about the battle over abortion and your ideas about the fight for women's liberation and the emancipation of humanity. Revolution Books received following announcement from Chicago World Can't Wait:  Saturday, May 21  1 pm, Daley Center Washington & Dearborn, Chicago World Can't Wait is joining Walk for Choice in Chicago and dozens of cities around the country to "mobilize the whole damn country for abortion access." Roe v Wade is becoming irrelevant as states enact tighter and tighter restrictions on abortion. These reactionaries will not relent until abortion is outlawed entirely. "Backing Down the Most All-Out these attacks. http://tinyurl.com/3zfpfag Can we accept this? NO. We're not going to give them our bodies--our lives. We're not playing this game anymore. We're not sacrificing the right to birth control, emergency contraception, or yes, abortion, for the sake of bipartisanship or anything else.  May 21, Walk for Choice, No Freedom without Reproductive Freedom. More information on Walk for Choice  Invite your friends via Facebook.

Wednesday, May 25, 7pm GET INTO BASICS   Take an exciting step into the future by joining us for the 1st session of an on-going informal discussion of BAsics, from the talks and writing of Bob Avakian. This Wednesday we'll be talking about Chapter 2, "A Whole New - and Far Better - World."    "Look at all these beautiful children who are female in the world."

REVOLUTION BOOKS RECOMMENDS

SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1pm  

 Join us for the Pilsen Walking Mural Tour 

with Jose Guerrero, tour guide and Pilsen-based muralist  

A Benefit for the promotion of

BAsics from the talks and

writings of Bob Avakian

Tickets $10  call 773-949-4624 for reservations

or email basicsmuraltour@yahoo.com

  

Meet at 1pm at 1852 W. 19th St.

in front of the National Museum of Mexican Art    

Tickets also available at - Revolution Books, 1103 N. Ashland

Please join us after the tour for a bite to eat at a local restaurant. We'll have a chance to discuss what we've just seen, and hear more about BAsics, including getting thousands of copies of BAsics into prisons.     

(Lunch is not included in the ticket price.)

   

May Day  Celebration May 1, Sunday 6-8 pm Join us after the May Day march for an evening of celebration including music, poetry, and food. Celebration begins at 6pm, program at 7pm.  2pm: Join the Revolution contingent in the May Day immigrant rights march. Look for the big red flag at Washington St.  and Ashland Ave. in Union Park.    On May 1st, 2011...  May 1st is the holiday of the international proletariat, a day to boldly put forward our aims of revolution and communism. It is time to both celebrate and to step back, to take stock and to lift our sights even further. A time of struggle and of celebration.  (read more) Internationalism-The Whole World Comes First Celebrate Revolutionary May 1st, 2011      "If you can conceive of a world without America-without everything America stands for and everything it does in the world-then you've already taken great strides and begun to get at least a glimpse of a whole new world. If you can envision a world without any imperialism, exploitation, oppression-and the whole philosophy that rationalizes it-a world without division into classes or even different nations, and all the narrow-minded, selfish, outmoded ideas that uphold this; if you can envision all this, then you have the basis for proletarian internationalism. And once you have raised your sights to all this, how could you not feel compelled to take an active part in the world historic struggle to realize it; why would you want to lover your sights to anything less? From the new book, BAsics, from the Writings and Talks of Bob Avakian, "A Worldwide System of Exploitation and Oppression," Ch. 1, #3

May Day Book Recommendations     "This system and those who rule over it are not capable of carrying out economic development to meet the needs of the people now, while balancing that with the needs of future generations and requirements of safeguarding the environment. They care nothing for the rich diversity of the earth and its species, for the treasures this contains, except when and where they can turn this into profit for themselves.... These people are not fit to be the caretakers of the earth."  From BAsics, from the Talks and Writings of Bob Avakian, "A Worldwide System of Exploitation and Oppression," Ch. 1, #29 Order BAsics online now or pick up at Rrevolution Books. 20% discount on all environmental titles Friday through Sunday.  Earth Day Book Recommendations A SEA IN FLAMES by Carl Safina Award–winning oceanographer and conservationist Carl Safina offers an impassioned, on the ground chronicle of the 2010 Gulf oil blowout that surpassed Exxon-Valdez to rank as the worst in history. He breaks down the political and corporate causes and the environmental effects of the spill: the bedding together of government and Big Oil that produced the perfect storm of deregulation and drilling incentive.           State of EMERGENCY! The Plunder of Our Planet, The Environmental Catastrophe & The Real Revolutionary Solution (Special Issue on the Environment) Under socialism, the rules of commodity production—of profit first, of expand or die—no longer set the terms and framework for what is possible and desirable to produce. This will be an incredibly liberating step. For the first time, it becomes possible to organize and coordinate production in a planned and rational way.(read on) eaarth by Bill McKibben McKibben is probably one of the very few to steer us into the the direction of thinking that we can't restore the old Planet Earth. Thinking that driving hybrid cars and taking shorter showers will restore the ice caps in the Arctic is unrealistic. We need a major overhaul of our infrastructure and our logic to even adapt on this New Earth we created. It's no longer enough to admit that global warming is real and to want to adjust a few things in our daily lives - we must realize that our daily lives are gone in the way we've known them. NUCLEAR POWER IS NOT THE ANSWER by HELEN CALDICOTT Never one to mince words, renowned physician and activist Caldicott presents exhaustive evidence to refute the now-resurgent claim that nuclear power is the solution to global warming. Eschewing hyperbole and speculation, Caldicott diligently presents the facts about the grave problems attendant on nuclear power. ...So numerous and so severe are the problems Caldicott precisely records and clearly interprets that, as it stands today, nuclear power would appear to be a costly, dangerous, even ludicrous technology. Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill by Antonia Juhasz Black Tide is the only book to tell this story through the perspective of people on all sides of the catastrophe, from those who lost their lives, loved ones, and livelihoods to those who made the policies that set the devastating event in motion, those who cut the corners that put corporate profits over people and the environment, and those who have committed their lives to ensuring that such an event is never repeated. Dramatic and compelling, Black Tide exposes the human failings and human cost of the largest oil disaster in American history and how it could easily happen again. CONSTITUTION For The New Socialist Republic In North America (Draft Proposal) From the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA In the development of the socialist economy, and in the overall functioning of the government, within the New Socialist Republic in North America and in its international relations, not only must the fundamental orientation and principles of proletarian internationalism be consistently adhered to and applied, but his has special and urgent relevance with regard to the environment. ARTICLE I Section 2:7A

On the Occasion of the Publication of BAsics:  A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World   An Evening of Music, Visual Art, Poetry and Readings    Monday, April 11, Harlem Stage, NYC  FINALE Read about it! See Photo Slideshow! What Are People Saying? PDF of Centerfold