Thursday April 24, 7pm at Revolution Books: Author Greg Kot presents his new book  A special Revolution Books fund raising event  I'll Take You There:  Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March Up Freedom's Highway  I'll Take You There tells the story of Mavis Staples and the Staple Singers, major figures in the music that shaped the civil rights era. The Staples straddled a range of 20th-century popular music, fusing gospel, soul, folk and rock. Their story goes from the Southern gospel circuit to Martin Luther King, Jr. marches, to the legendary Wattstax festival, to accompanying The Band on the song "The Weight" captured in the film, The Last Waltz. We learn about Mavis' life, from her love affair with Bob Dylan to creative collaborations with Prince and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy. Kot takes us back to the beginning, to Mississippi where Roebuck "Pops" Staples grew up on the same land where his grandfather had been a slave and his his father a sharecropper. Although forbidden by his parents from playing "sinners music" (the blues), "Pops" picked up the guitar and slipped out to local juke joints to hear neighbors Charley Patton and Howlin' Wolf. Leaving Mississippi, "Pops" came to Chicago, worked in in the slaughterhouses, and found new musical influences like Sam Cooke and Mahalia Jackson in his South Chicago neighborhood.   Greg Kot is the Chicago Tribune music critic and co-host of Sound Opinions, "the world's only rock 'n' roll talk show," on national public radio, nationally syndicated out of Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ-FM 91.5. Kot's previous books include Wilco: Learning How to Die and Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music.    Revolution Books 1103 N. Ashland Ave., Chicago IL 1 block south of Blue Line Division St. "L" stop

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Abortion Rights Emergency! April 11  6 pm CDT Webcast from New York City  April 12 Protest Click here for Statement from Sunsara Taylor Host a webcast viewing party wherever you are. Go to StopPatriarchy.org  for instructions. Click on "Current Mobilizations" and then click on "Host a Webcast Party"   Abortion rights are in a state of emergency, and headed for disaster. Already, women in this country who cannot access safe abortions are attempting to self-abort by inserting sharp objects in their vaginas, taking pills, asking their boyfriends to beat them up, and more. Others are being forced to bear children they do not want. This is the future for all women if this war on women is not massively resisted and defeated.  WE MUST ACT TO STOP THIS NOW!  Forcing women to have children against their will is a form of enslavement.  Abortion On Demand and Without Apology!                                Revolution Books will also be hosting webcast party April 11 at 6 pm Webcast Speakers include: Dr. Willie Parker, award-winning doctor at the last abortion clinic in Mississippi Sunsara Taylor, writer for Revolution Newspaper (revcom.us), leader of the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride, and initiator of StopPatriarchy.org Merle Hoffman, CEO of Choices Women's Medical Center which has provided abortions and other health services to women since 1971 Donna Schaper, Reverend of Judson Memorial Church, on her abortion and women's moral agency Marge Piercy, poet, novelist, memoirist, via video message on her near-lethal illegal abortion  click for statement Bill Baird, reproductive rights pioneer who was jailed 8 times in the 60's for lecturing on abortion & birth control David Gunn, Jr., son of first abortion doctor to be assassinated via video message Testimony from: Susan Cahill, owner of the abortion clinic that was destroyed and closed on March 3rd, 2013 about how this is an attack on all women. Dr. Susan Robinson, one of the only 4 doctors in the U.S. who openly provide late-term abortions - featured in the acclaimed new documentary "After Tiller". True stories of illegal abortions before Roe v Wade. Saturday, April 12th: PROTEST!  Join in emergency protests in Seattle, New York City, Los Angeles, the Bay Area, other places or PLAN YOUR OWN NOW.   RAISE BLOODY COAT-HANGERS AND BREAK THE SHACKLES OF WOMEN'S ENSLAVEMENT. Hold silent protests at institutions behind this war on women: Crisis Pregnancy Centers (anti-abortion fake "clinics"), headquarters of GOP or Democrats who've opposed abortion, churches that mobilize anti-abortion protesters at clinics, etc. Raise bloody coat-hangers (representing the lives of women) and shackles (representing female enslavement).  After an hour of silent protest, recite a pledge to continue resisting until we have defeated and reversed these attacks and won Abortion On Demand and Without Apology! This war on women will not go away on its own and will not be stopped by politicians or the courts. We must take responsibility for resisting and defeating these attacks - the lives of women depend on what we do. The Blood of Women Is On Their Hands! Abortion On Demand and Without Apology!   *Wire coat hangers were used by many women as an instrument to self -abort when abortion was illegal. 5,000 + women in the US are estimated to have died every year from illegal, unsafe abortions before Roe v. Wade legalized abortions.

Available at Revolution Books                            $12.00 $15.00   $10.00 Important books on the battle around abortion  rights and the oppression of women

BA Everywhere planning meeting to bring Revolution to EARTH DAY April 22

The planet is burning... a global emergency is

accelerating...

 

 If you are one of those honestly confronting this global emergency and agonizing over what can be done to stop and repair the damage... (read more)

Join us at the 

BA Everywhere Campaign Meeting

Sunday April 6, 4pm 

Revolution Books 1103 N Ashland Ave

 

The world doesn't have to be this way. It needs to be radically changed  and the work Bob Avakian (BA) has done creates a new possibility at this excruciating time for humanity-- an opening for whole different future - But not enough people know about it. 

BA Everywhere will be going out to meet with as many people as possible about donating to the campaign - bringing out why nothing less than revolution has a chance of really stopping environmental devastation.

Bring your ideas on how to make this campaign ring out though out society - on campuses among students and professors, among environmentalists and all kinds of other  people who need to know there is a viable, radical future

On April 22, people everywhere on the globe will mark Earth Day, and the "BA Everywhere... Imagine the Difference It Could Make" campaign will be there

Material that can be used in the BA Everywhere efforts in April can be found at revcom.us. These include: the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America; the special issue of Revolution on the environment, State of EMERGENCY! The Plunder of Our Planet, The Environmental Catastrophe & The Real Revolutionary Solution; and the excerpt from BA's Revolution Talk titled "Not fit caretakers of the earth." And these are all framed around the palm card with this quote from BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian:

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. (BAsics 1:29)

BA Everywhere Committee 312 860-8167

baeverywhereinchicago@gmail.com

Sunday March 30 4pm BA Speaks: REVOLUTION-NOTHING LESS!

Expressions like these are commonplace after people watch the film, BA Speaks: REVOLUTION-NOTHING LESS! Bob Avakian Live. Join us to watch an extended excerpt (2 hours) followed by discussion. Sunday, March 30, 4pm at Revolution Books Here's what Bob Avakian (BA) will be speaking about in this film excerpt: * How Long Must This Nightmare of Oppression &     Brutality Go On?     * Not God, Not "Unchanging Human Nature," Not    Conspiracy ... A Scientific Approach to    Understanding Reality * Why Things Are the Way They Are...    They Have Not Always Been This Way...    They Can Be Radically Changed  As one of the filmmakers said, "Yes, this is a film, but that is not its essence. This is a daring, substantive, scientific summoning to revolution. 6+ hours that can change how you see the world and what you do with the rest of your life. Is this hype? No."  Further film showings to be announced.

Received from the Bob Avakian Everywhere (BAE) Committee

Sunday, March 16, 4pm You are needed BA Everywhere Meeting To discuss, plan and prepare for: March 27-30: National Fundraising Weekend for BA Everywhere!  WHY? Because the people need to know there is a radically better way the world could be. WHY? Because people need to experience:  "BA Speaks: REVOLUTION -- NOTHING LESS!" Each month this year, the BA Everywhere campaign will sponsor a nationally coordinated weekend of focused fundraising and popularizing of revolutionary leader Bob Avakian. This will be an important way the campaign can begin to develop momentum and raise really big funds in 2014 to make BA and the new synthesis, a vision, framework and strategy for a radically new society that he has developed, known throughout society. Each month will have themes and financial goals aimed at consistent and ongoing work aimed to lead to leaps and advances over the course of the year. The first focused weekend, March 27-30 (Thurs-Sun) is concentrating on popularizing the film "BA Speaks: REVOLUTION-NOTHING LESS! Bob Avakian Live". We need to reach out to and involve many people - especially in high schools and on campuses, but also with prominents, professionals, youth, and activists in diverse and creative ways. Bring ideas of artists, social media, media and publicity contacts for example. Your ideas and creativity are needed. For more information go to http://revcom.us/a/332/spring-into-ba-everywhere-a-plan-to-make-a-leap-in-changing-the-world-en.html andhttp://revcom.us/a/331/march-27-30-national-fundraising-for-BA-everywhere-en.html. BA Everywhere Committee 312 860-8167baeverywhereinchicago@gmail.com

Stop the War  on Women!   Stand Up       Speak Out             Protest                   March! Sat March 8 Noon  International Women's Day    Starts at: Holy Name Cathedral    735 N. State St, Chicago    Followed by a march (bring signs!)   · Abortion on Demand and Without Apology!          · End Pornography and Patriarchy:          The Enslavement & Degradation of Women!             · Fight for the Liberation of Women All Over the World!   Abortion rights are in a state of emergency! 203 new restrictions to abortion were passed in the last three years. Five states have only one abortion clinic left. Anti-woman bigots harass women at abortion clinics across the country. 97% of rural counties have no abortion providers. Upcoming court rulings threaten to close dozens more clinics nationwide. Forcing women to have children against their will is a form of enslavement!  Meanwhile, women are slammed backwards in every realm: from the mainstreaming of violent and degrading pornography to the global epidemic of rape, from a culture that celebrates pimping to the shaming of women who choose to have sex outside of marriage, and from the sexual enslavement of millions of women and girls in the sex industry to the widespread celebration of Pope Francis while he has changed nothing of church doctrine that enslaves and humiliates women and LGBT people.    Take to the streets this International Women's Day. Through our public resistance we will expose the illegitimacy of this whole war on women and put the woman-haters on notice that we will not sit silently by. We will express our outrage and bring alive a culture of defiance and liberation. We will wake up and rally forth many thousands more, refusing to stop until we win.                         The future of women is at stake. Which side are YOU on?   Get involved: 773.501.6355 ChicagoStopPatriarchy@gmail.com  Stop Patriarchy XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXSSSSSSX