February 2, Thursday, 6:30 pm 

Author Appearance/Book Signing/Refreshments

Dorothy Roberts

author of 

Fatal Invention:

How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-first Century 

Fatal Invention is a major new work on the frontier of race and bioethics. A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, it documents the rise of a new racial politics that relies on supposedly cutting edge genetic science to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes. Robert's sounds the alarm about how this obscures deepening racial inequities in today's "post-racial society" with dangerous implications in the fields of medicine, social programs, and surveillance and control.  

  

"An eye-opening, urgent, and ultimately inspiring expose of the new racial science. Essential reading."  -Danny Glover  

Dorothy Roberts is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University School of Law and author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty.  

February 16, Thursday, 7:00 pm

Author Appearance/Book Signing/Refreshments

David Ansell, MD  

author of

COUNTY: Life, Death and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital   
Dr. David Ansell writes of the hundreds of doctors who went through the rigorous training process with him, sharing his vision of saving the world and of resurrecting a hospital on the verge of closing. COUNTY is about people, from Ansell's mentors, including the legendary Quentin Young, to the multitude of patients whom he and County's medical staff labored to diagnose and heal. It is a story about politics, from contentious union strikes to battles against "patient dumping", and public health, depicting the AIDS crisis and the opening of County's HIV/AIDS clinic, the first in the city. Finally, it is about a young man's medical education in urban America, a coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of race, segregation and poverty.  

Chief Medical Officer at Rush University Medical Center, Dr.Ansell has dedicated his career to fighting health inequity by building programs to address and eliminate these disparities. 

Michael Slate Show, 1/13/2012 - Sunsara Taylor, End Pornography & Patriarchy

Friday, 13 January 2012 11:39 Michael Slate The Michael Slate Show

As the anniversary of Roe v. Wade approaches, we hear from Sunsara Taylor on End Pornography and Patriarchy: the Enslavement and Degradation of Women, a call to action. Sunsara Taylor is a writer for Revolution Newspaper, a host of WBAI's Equal Time for Freethought, and sits on the Advisory Board of World Can't Wait.

The film she mentions about the trafficking in women is "The Whistleblower." For more information, or to get involved, see the Stop Patriarchy tumblr. See also Revolution newspaper, and Sunsara's blog.

US-Israel Threats on Iran: Danger of War Grows

January 21, Saturday 3 pm

Talk and Discussion

U.S.-Israel Threats on Iran:

Danger of War Grows

Discuss this article from Revolution newspaper by Larry Everest

How serious is the danger today of a U.S.-Israeli military attack on Iran?

What are the imperialists' nuclear concerns and their actual objectives behind threatening Iran?

How should people, especially in the US, understand and oppose a military attack on Iran which would likely result in massive loss of life and devastation?

How could opposing the US-Israeli attack be part of bringing forward a radical alternative to both imperialism and Islamic fundamentalism on a global scale?

For more background, read:

Sanctions: Not a Diplomatic Alternative to War, but Mass Murder of Civilians;
A Lesson About Liars; Who Is the REAL Aggressor in the Middle East?
And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?

                      Join the discussion of this pressing issue.

Sunday,  Jan 1,  2012, 7-10 pm
NEW YEARS DAY PARTY  
at Cabaret Space in the Wicker Park Arts Center

ALL AGES...FROM ALL WALKS...TOGETHER 

MUSIC...POETRY...SILENT AUCTION...FOOD...DRINK

Click here to download a pdf of this flyer!!
Click here to download Materials for Organizers

 

Sun,Jan 1,2012,7-10pm NEW YEARS DAY PARTY Cabaret Space @ Wicker  Park Arts Center, 2215 W North Ave, Chicago 2 & 1/2 blocks west of Damen Blue Line Stop    $10 Suggested Donation   To raise funds for the BA BusTour in 2012  BOB AVAKIAN is the revolutionary leader who has developed a new synthesis of communism. The bus tour is part of a major, multilevel campaign: BA Everywhere, Imagine The Difference It Could Make! Raising Big Money to Make BA A Point of Reference for All of Society.     To learn more and find out what you can do to support the BA bus tour in  2012, visit revcom.us. Benefit info: Revolution Books  773-489-0930 revbookschi@yahoo.com

MUSIC...POETRY...SILENT AUCTION...FOOD...DRINK Come to a party on New Year's Day... one of many around the country this holiday season to raise money for the national effort to fund the BA bus tour in 2012. Imagine a bus with eye-catching decorations touring the nation, spreading revolution and Bob Avakian's voice to those hungry for it. People on a mission rolling through community centers, schools, and colleges, from mountains to valleys, inner cities and suburbs to rural areas. Showing the film of Bob Avakian's talk Revolution:Why It's Necessary,Why It's Possible, What It's All About in classrooms and community centers. Getting Avakian's memoir and other key works out all over the country. Reaching the youth, visiting the Occupy encampments, taking a week in an inner city. "The BA bus is coming to your town." So, bring your friends, relax and recuperate, start the New Year with a purpose. Meet new people for a night of fun, as we all come together to create a liberated space to celebrate and make the BA bus tour a reality in 2012. Together, we will make a difference!

Tuesday, December 20, 7pm at Revolution Books Discussion of:   A REFLECTION ON THE "OCCUPY" MOVEMENT:  AN INSPIRING BEGINNING...AND THE NEED TO GO FURTHER  By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA The Occupy protests have raised the hopes of millions in this country and worldwide. Profound discontent with the inequality and injustice in this society has burst to the surface. The atmosphere and discourse in society is changing, and millions are thinking about and asking big questions about the ways things are-and whether and how a different future would be possible. Over the last few weeks, this movement has been repressed in what appear to be coordinated attacks to savagely evict encampment after encampment across the country. This movement stands at a crossroads-in the largest sense. Where to now? What is the essence of this crossroads and how are we to understand it? What direction should this movement take? And with what understanding and orientation? How will the injustice and inequality this movement is targeting actually be overcome? What kind of leadership is needed to bring that about?   Bob Avakian addresses these questions and more in "A Reflection on the 'Occupy' Movement: An Inspiring Beginning... and the Need to Go Further." It is critically important to read, distribute and deeply discuss this statement. And let the ferment and debate spread and heighten in every corner of society. PDF's of BA's Reflection are below; these can and should be downloaded, printed and broadly distributed far and wide... not only to those in the movement, but to all those who have been awakened and touched by these actions. Get this Reflection out to all those who have been spurred to think about the nature and state of this society and to consider how to bring into being a far better world and future. And forward to Revolution correspondence about your experience and discussions!   8.5x11 B&W Flyer (PDF)  11x17 Poster (PDF)

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April 2011 marked the release of BAsics, a book by Bob Avakian, the revolutionary leader who has developed a new synthesis of communism. This book of quotations and essays speaks to essential questions of revolution and human emancipation. On this occasion, a range of artists, musicians, dancers and actors from a diversity of perspectives came together in a unique cultural event to celebrate revolution and the vision of a new world. 

   

This film will tell the story of what those artists did and why they did it. It will bring a taste of the remarkable connection between these artists and the hundreds in the audience that night.

For everyone who has dreamed of a different and better world or wondered how art and culture can be part of creating it, this is a film that needs to be seen.   

But it won't be made without your support.

View a clip of the film at  www.indiegogo.com/basicsevent 

 

Fred Lonberg-Holm plays cello and other things when he can get away with it. He writes and organizes the Lightbox Orchestra. Currently "leading" the Valentine Trio and a member of... The Vandermark 5, Joe Mcphee Survival Unit III, The Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, and more... has played sessions with Simon Joyner, Wilco, Will Oldham, Daniel Givens, Chris Mills, L'Altra, Califone, Paul Duncan, Freakwater and more...

Tomeka Reid, jazz cellist. From the Chicago Tribune: "A remarkably versatile player, Reid last year conducted the Great Black Music Ensemble at Millennium Park in a serenely expressive homage to saxophonist Fred Anderson. Earlier this month, she led the new Hear in Now Trio at the Chicago Jazz Festival in luminous scores that merged jazz, classical and experimental techniques.

Benefit for the production and release of the upcoming full length film of the April 11 Harlem celebration of the release of BAsics from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian. Expected film release will be late this winter. Be part of something that can be a source of great inspiration, enabling imagination to take flight with revolution and envisioning a whole other way the world can be.   

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