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width Revolution Club Chicago Burns American Flag at Jason Aldean Concert   Last night, the Revolution Club, Chicago led a protest that marched to the box office at the Tinley Park arena where Jason Aldean, who they dubbed a “MAGA moron,” was playing. There they burned not one, not two, more than three U.S. flags, one after another.    View HERE and HERE. Or go to @therevcoms.   The protest demanded:   No More Lynch Mobs in and Out of Uniform! No More Standing by While “Good Ol’ Boys” Prepare for Civil War! We Need and We Demand a Whole New Way to Live. We Need to and We ARE Organizing for a Real Revolution.   “Aldean's 'Try That In a Small Town’ isn't just a racist lynching anthem, it's a call to fascist civil war!” said Leo Pargo from the Revolution Club, Chicago.  “Aldean has said people who burn the American flag should 'Try That in a Small Town' and 'see how far you make it down the road.'  We accepted the challenge Jason!  We burned that rag right outside your concert... AND we'll do it again!  We lit the American flag on fire because this country has only ever stood for slavery, genocide and war.”   After several American flags were burned, police dressed in full riot gear called the protest “unlawful” because it was “disturbing and alarming others.”    Rafael Kadaris, of the Revcoms (revolutionary communists) responded, “I hope we disturbed these Jason Aldean fans and these police enforcers!  What's really disturbing and alarming is that Aldean's lynch mob anthem about murdering protesters and people who burn the American flag went to the top of the music charts this summer. People need to wake up to what's happening, stand up to these fascists, and get organized for revolution to get rid of the whole capitalist-imperialist system which spawned them.” Inside the concert as Aldean introduced his mega hit, two Revcoms held up a banner, “Jason Aldean is a fascist lynch mob instigator @therevcoms” (Photo here)   PLEASE DONATE to support this powerful action & challenge.  No more standing by while good ol’ boys organize for civil war and putting revolution on the map.  CAN YOU DONATE 70.00 TODAY?   $70 was the cost of the cheapest ticket to the Aldean concert that thousands attended.  MAKE YOUR STATEMENT BY  DONATING $70 (or whatever amount you can do now.) COVERAGE:   Country Music Alley Windy City Times NBC Channel 5 news News2Share Paul Street Substack Protestors burn flag outside Jason Aldean's Tinley Park concert   CRITICAL WORK TO ENGAGE:   We Are The Revcoms (Revolutionary Communists) - We Are Working For A Real Revolution And A Whole New, Emancipating Way To Live   We Need and We Demand:  A Whole New Way to Live, A Fundamentally Different System    Stay connected with Revolution Club Chicago

TODAY, September 7, 3 pm Press conference to announce the Saturday 9/9 Tinley Park Protest of Jason Aldean’s “Try It in a Small Town” Lynching Anthem,  Plaza at 37th St. & S. Langley Ave., Ida B Wells National Monument   Protest Saturday September 9: Call Out Fascist Lynch Mob Instigator Jason Aldean Join us: 6pm @ 191st & OAK PARK Ave, TINLEY PARK (passenger drop off here) Shuttle available @ Arby's In Brookside Marketplace Mall 7212 191st St.                                                                                                                   TODAY, September 7, 3 pm Press conference to announce the Saturday 9/9 Tinley Park Protest of Jason Aldean’s “Try It in a Small Town” Lynching Anthem,  Press Conferene at Plaza at 37th St. & S. Langley Ave., Ida B Wells National Monument Protest on Sat., Sept 9, 6 pm, @ 191st St. & OAK PARK Ave, TINLEY PARK (passenger drop off here) Shuttle available  @ Arby's In Brookside Marketplace Mall 7212 191st St. Jason Aldean’s mega hit, “Try That in a Small Town,” is a vicious expression of America’s lynch mob tradition. As Ida B. Wells said in a speech here in Chicago, “Our country’s national crime is lynching.”* With over 200 million views online, Aldean’s song glorifies and promotes that “national crime” again today. It gives expression to a whole move by fascists, led by but not limited to Trump and the Republicans, to bring back those “good ol’ days” of undisguised white supremacist, anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant violence and repression that Ida B. Wells devoted her life to exposing and opposing.   Speakers at the press conference will describe why this song and its popularity pose an immediate threat. Jason Aldean is coming to the Chicago area in the wake of the murder of three people by a Nazi mass shooter in a Jacksonville, FL, General Dollar store simply for being Black. A week earlier, shop owner Lauri Carlton was assassinated for flying a gay pride flag in a California “small town.” While Aldean did not directly cause those murders, he is guilty of celebrating and promoting a whole mindset that murders like these grow out of, historically AND right now. Speakers: Leo Pargo, Revolution Club Chicago, initiator of protest Rafael Kadaris, member of the National Revolution Tour, correspondent with the RNL (Revolution Nothing Less) Show Paul Street, journalist and author, most recently “This Happened Here; Amerikaners, Neo-Liberals and the Trumping of America” Tio Hardiman, CEO Violence Interrupters, host on WVON radio Fred J. McGee, musician and performer whose son, a well-known rapper, was killed by the police. Fr. Bob Bossie, SCJ Rachel Wachstein, lifelong Holocaust educator, social justice activist   The speakers will call on everyone who is sick and tired of all the racist, anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant violence to join the protest Saturday, 6 pm, 191st St.  Oak Park Ave, Tinley Park. The Revolution Club Chicago says: No More Lynch Mobs In and Out of Uniform! No More Standing by while “Good Ol’ Boys” Prepare for Civil War! We Need and We Demand a Whole New Way to Live. We Need to and We ARE Organizing for a Real Revolution!   *“Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. It represents the cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people who openly avow that there is an “unwritten law” that justifies them in putting human beings to death without complaint under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make defense, and without right of appeal.” From a speech delivered by Ida B. Wells in Chicago, 1900. We received this statement from a lifetime Holocaust educator, Rachael Wachstein, in support of the protest against Jason Aldean's event in Tinley Park Saturday 9/9 Take this to heart and join us Saturday, Sept. 9, 6 pm at 191st St.& Oak Park Ave. Contact revclubchi@gmail.com for directions, ride shares, etc. click here for Facebook event link We stand together in the face of the new American fascism to shine a light on a dangerous demagogue, Jason Aldean. He’s not the leader of a political movement nor a politician, but his words and what he stands for feed the beast of American fascism. His song, “Try That in a Small Town,” is a dog whistle for every white man who longs for the good ol’ days when gays stayed closeted or ended up dead, women were subjugated to the kitchen, and mob justice left African Americans hanging from trees across our nation. The singer performed his song in front of a courthouse located in Columbia, Tennessee, the site of a 1927 lynching and a 1946 race riot. The lyrics reference “good ol’ boys,” ready to fight criminals who disrespect cops and the American flag. In recent memory, we recall what happened when such dog whistles were made to white Christian nationalists from a national platform, “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by,” which led to increased violence in our streets and the near toppling of our democracy through a violent insurrection. As students of history, we know the terrifying results of criminalizing and dehumanizing minorities. We know that fascism leads to a fate worse than death. When we say Never Again, we mean it. We will not let fascism take root and grow in our American democracy. Not now. Not ever. Make no mistake, Jason Aldean is a fascist brute calling on other like-minded people to take up arms against anyone they deem “unAmerican”. Through his music, he normalizes hate and intolerance as American values, which they are not. The First Amendment may protect hate speech, but mobilizing a lynch mob is not protected. Rachael Wachstein is a lifetime Holocaust educator and a resident of Highland Park who organized actions against fascist policies of the Trump administration. She was present at the July 4th parade in Highland Park when well-known Trump follower Robert Crimo III allegedly shot and killed seven people.

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Protest Saturday September 9: Call Out Fascist Lynch Mob Instigator Jason Aldean Join us: 6pm @ 191st & OAK PARK BLVD, TINLEY PARK (passenger drop off here) Shuttle Available @ Arby's In Brookside Mall Brookside Marketplace Mall 7212 191 st The Revcoms in Chicago are calling this out, live and in person when Aldean comes to Tinley Park, IL on September 9. Join us! Revolution Club Chicago (312) 804-9121 revclub.chi@gmail.com follow us @revclubchi Jason Aldean's mega hit "Try That in A Small Town" is a vicious celebration of America's lynch mob tradition and a fascist call for a new civil war. It is an expression of a whole move by fascists, led by but not limited to Trump and the Republicans, to bring back the "good ol' days" of undisguised white supremacist, anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ+ and antiimmigrant violence and repression. Jason Aldean at the Maury County Courthouse, site of his video and the 1927 lynching of Henry Choate Days after a Nazi racist mass shooter murdered 3 Black people in Jacksonville, Florida and a week after the assassination of shop owner Lauri Carlton for flying a gay pride flag in a California "small town, Jason Aldean is coming to spew his Klan-loving poison in Chicago, out at Tinley Park. NO! While Aldean didn't directly cause those murders, he is guilty of celebrating and promoting a whole mindset that murders like those grow out of historically AND right now. Where will YOU stand? The Revcoms say: No More Lynch Mobs in and out of Uniform! No More Standing by While "Good Ol' Boys" Prepare for Civil War! We Need and We Demand a Whole New way to Live. We Need to and We ARE Organizing for a Real Revolution. — We call on EVERYONE who is sick and tired of all the racist, anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant hatred and violence to join us in protest Saturday September 9th in Tinley Park more from revcom.us  FASCIST COUNTRY MUSIC STAR RALLIES MILLIONS WITH RACIST LYNCHING SONG What Are YOU Going To Do? July 24, 2023 revcom.us Last week, the popular country music singing MAGA fascist Jason Aldean released a video for his song Try That In A Small Town—a white supremacist call for violent retribution against flag-burners, protesters against police murder and “criminals.” The video has gotten 15 million views on YouTube, and hit #1 on the U.S. iTunes chart.  The song and video have caused a shitstorm of controversy—it was pulled from the Country Music TV, and hordes of fascists jumped to Aldean's defense. But while many good people are criticizing Aldean's racism and violent threats, they are ignoring the actual danger of what this song—and the movement it is rallying—concentrates. In A Declaration, A Call To Get Organized Now For A Real Revolution, we—the revcoms, revolutionary communists—wrote:: These days there is a lot of talk about another civil war, especially from fascists, in government and the broader society, who think they could just carry out a one-sided slaughter of those they hate, including Black people and other people of color, “illegal immigrants,” “uppity women” and those who don’t conform to “traditional” sexual and gender relations and “norms.” This situation needs to be radically changed, to where there are masses of people prepared to defeat these fascists and to do so as part of getting rid of this whole system, which has bred these fascists, along with all the other horrors it continually perpetrates. “Good Ol’ Boys Raised Right” and Lynchings This is an anthem for the aggressive and violent assertion of white American manhood. It's a call to arms—to the millions of Christian fascist MAGA thugs who are organizing now to violently enforce their program of theocratic, white supremacist, woman hating, anti-LGBTQ, America first terror. A few nights ago, at a packed concert in Cincinnati, in his intro to this song, Aldean said, “I love my country, I love my family and I'll do ANYTHING to protect that, I can tell you that right now.”  If anyone wants to pretend this doesn't mean violence and terror, you are deluding yourselves. And this isn't far off. All this could come to a head with the looming presidential election in November 2024, if not before.  An election which these fascists have already said will be illegitimate unless they win.  (read the entire article) Stay connected with Revolution Club Chicago

Tell Chicago Defender Charities "Let the Revolution Club March" Tell Chicago Defender Charities they are wrong to kick us out of the Bud Billiken Parade. Read our appeal to them and their response to us. Send your statements supporting the Revolution Club marching to: AAnderson@defendercharities.org Info@defendercharities.org Call Defender Charities at: (773) 536-3710 Revolution Club Chicago’s response to the denial to march in the Bud Billekin Parade 2023 by Chicago Defender Charities  To: Chicago Defender Charities Board From: Revolution Club Chicago In June you approved our presence in the Bud Billiken Parade. Last week when we were about to learn our position in the parade, we were told you decided we were no longer welcome in the parade-- that our presence was not suitable for a back to school parade and would make your relations with CPD difficult because the revolutionaries tore an American flag. It’s true that police were offended while the response of the crowd was positive. That flag is a symbol of slavery, genocide, and war. Jill Scott the music artist understands this and recently did her own rendition of the star spangled banner that brought to life the actual meaning of the flag: “Oh, say, can you see, by the blood in the streets, that this place doesn’t smile on you, colored child. Whose blood built this place with sweat and their hands. But you’ll die in this place and your memory erased.” Do you officials of the Bud Billiken parade really want to allow the police to censor the parade and dictate what can and cannot be said about the "land of the thief and home of the slave?" Do you really want to do the dirty work oft he CPD, who murdered Darius Pinex, Michael Westley, Dakota Bright, Harith Augustus, Laquan MacDonald, Adam Toledo, Reginald Clay, and so many others? Affirmative action is gone, voting rights are being violated and that is just the beginning. Masses of people FOUGHT for these rights. We intend to defend the rights people have won and still have right now while we organize people for a revolution that would bring in a whole new dimension of freedom and rights of the people. What you are keeping out of the parade is precisely what schoolchildren need to be exposed to -- the reality of this country and the way to get free, through revolution. Right now is a time when the fascists like the Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis are white washing the true horror that Black people have suffered from slavery up to today. DeSantis recently said that Black people benefitted from slavery. He wants this outrageous lie in school books! This white washing is being taken up by other states. And don’t think for a minute that they won’t try that here despite Governor Pritzker signing a law that prohibits book banning. The fascists in and out office have direction and momentum and are determined to pervade every institution, especially education! That momentum is what was demonstrated by the “thousands of threats received” when the action in question “went viral.” If anything those threats should make you WANT the Revolution Club marching in the parade to show that you will not be intimidated! Who are these police, anyway? The enforcers of a system of exploitation, degradation, and oppression. And who is the Revolution Club, the revcoms? People organizing for a revolution to get rid of exploitation, degradation and oppression, and to bring forward the emancipation of humanity. Read We Need And We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live, A Fundamentally Different System and see what we're fighting for. Rescind your decision blocking the Revolution Club from marching in the parade.   Below is the response from the Board of Defender Charities that runs the Bud Billiken Parade “Hello Revolution Club Chicago As you may know I spoke to one of your representatives regarding you being declined the opportunity to participate in the Bud Billiken Parade. In the 2019 parade. The Revolution Club of Chicago participated. They were yelling and shouting out to the crowd in an aggressive manner. They were uncooperative and disrespectful when engaging with parade official and organizers. There was an incident on thep arade route were member of The Revolution Club of Chicago encouraged our childrent o rip an American flag. This was captured on video and went viral on the internet. The Chicago Defender Charities received several very real threats from right wings extremist groups to harm those children and to hurt parade participants. Those actions were irresponsible and but thousands of people who participate in our parade in harms way just spread “Your Agenda,” and not the one of the parade or those innocent children. Our decision is specifically based on the behavior of the Revolution Club of Chicago. The Bud Billiken™ Parade is for Parade [sic] is for children. It’s purpose is to provide entertainment and recreation for them and their families. Charities reserves the right to deny permission to participate in the Bud Billiken™ Parade or After Parade Activities to any individual, group, company or organization that does not fully comply with our rules, the mission of this organization. Inconclusion, the Bud Billiken Parade and Festival is not the time or place for political or social agendas. It’s a celebration of culture a black excellence, and or opportunity to promote education within our community. About 70 % of the organization/Corporations that participate we work with 365 days of the year not just on parade day. Best regards READ: We Need And We Demand:A Whole New Way to Live, A Fundamentally Different System and see what we're fighting for!! Stay connected with Revolution Club Chicago

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The Full Extent of Police Brutality and Murder in This Country Is Being Massively Under-Reported and Covered Up Revolution| From a Reader | July 24, 2023 The police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020 triggered an unprecedented, beautiful uprising of people across the U.S. (and reverberating around the world). It was a global expression of outrage at the degradation, brutality, and murder by America’s pigs and the systematic oppression of Black and other people of color. Since then, various researchers have been examining data that reveal the number of killings by the police in this country is being greatly under-reported by the authorities. In addition, because there is no national data compiled on non-fatal shootings or other injuries at the hands of the police, the full extent of the threat, and use, of force and violence by police as the cornerstone of maintaining this system is being hidden from view. A report published in October 2021 in the British medical journal Lancet found: "The number of people killed by police officers in the U.S. has been massively under-reported in official statistics over the past four decades, with an additional 17,000 deaths over that period, according to our new research." The researchers in the Lancet report compared data from the official U.S. National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to three nongovernmental open-source databases on fatal police violence over the 40-year study period (1980-2019). They found that there were more than 30,000 police killings over those four decades—17,000 more than reported by NVSS. That means over those 40 years, police killings were under-reported by 55.5 percent. How is this possible? “The same government responsible for this violence is also responsible for reporting on it” The researchers' review of decades of data found many of the police killings are “misclassified” because the person responsible for certifying the cause of death “fails to mention police involvement”—by accident or design—in describing “how the injury occurred.” This happens most often when the victim is Black or Hispanic. Over the same 40-year period, Black people were estimated to be 3.5 times more likely to die from police violence than whites. However, the more sinister cause the researchers found was the “conflicts of interest” within the death investigation system that “dis-incentivise” (discourage) the medical examiners and coroners who certify from indicating police involvement. In many cases the medical examiners and coroners are embedded within police departments. Besides those willingly covering up to protect the pigs and the system they work for, a survey of National Association of Medical Examiners members in 2011 found that 22 percent of respondents reported having been pressured by an elected official or appointee to change cause or manner of death on a certificate. As one of the co-authors of the Lancet report put it, “The same government responsible for this violence is also responsible for reporting on it.” The online database Mapping Police Violence found that based on data from multiple sources, police killed at least 1,201 people in 2022. Black people were 26 percent of those killed by police that year despite being only 13 percent of the population. More people were killed by police in 2022 than any other year in the past decade. (97 percent of people killed by police in 2022 were killed by police shootings. Tasers, physical force, and being hit by police vehicles accounted for most other deaths.) They found that 59 percent of the police killings in 2022—685 deaths—began as traffic stops, police responses to mental health crises, or situations where the person was not reportedly threatening anyone with a gun. Black people were not only more likely than white people to be killed by police but also more likely to be unarmed, and less likely to be threatening someone when killed by police. Yet in only 11 of these 1201 cases—one percent—were the cops who did the killings charged with a crime. Finish reading this entire article here and also find the reference sources utilized in this article. VIDEO | Carl Dix Speaks On the Police Murder of Jarrell Garris in New Rochelle, New York We have received this video statement from Carl Dix, co-founder of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, that speaks urgently to the police murder of Jarrell Garris, a Black man killed in New Rochelle, New York. His alleged offense? For eating a banana and some grapes! The link to this statement is here. Carl wants to hear from you about what you think about this murder, and what the Revcoms have to say it. @Carl_Dix Donate to support the continued publication of RiseUp! eNewsletter Tax-deductible contributions accepted, and checks should be made payable to the "StopMassIncarcerationNetwork/Alliance for Global Justice" and sent to this address: Stop Mass Incarceration Network, P.O. Box 941 Knickerbocker Station, New York, New York 10002-0900

The RNL - Revolution, Nothing Less! - Show Ep. 156! NOTE: Premieres FRIDAY, 5pm PT, 7pm CT, 8pm ET YOUTUBE.COM/THEREVCOMS   FEATURING * Andy Zee on this rare time when revolution is more possible * Bob Avakian on the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic * Biden sends Cluster Bombs to Ukraine: an imperialist WAR CRIME * Annie Day on Tommy Tuberville & splits in the military + more! Tune in and donate  to the Revcoms’ Fundraising Livestream: Sunday 7/16 4pm CT $100,000 to Put REVOLUTION on the Map in 2023!   Watch Party with REVOLUTION CLUB Chicago at Revolution Club Organizing Center Doors Open 3 pm - Livestream  4pm 312.804.9121 1857 E 71st Street, Chicago Watch ONLINE at youtube.com/therevcoms Invite your friends/family and create your own watch party!!!  In the Name of the People...  In the Name of Humanity...  WE DECLARE AND WE DEMAND: The Existing Capitalist-Imperialist System And  Institutions Of Government In This Country Must  Be Abolished And Dismantled—And Replaced  By A New, Socialist System Based On The  CONSTITUTION FOR THE NEW SOCIALIST REPUBLIC IN NORTH AMERICA youtube.com/therevcoms Revcom.us—where you go to scientifically understand and radically change the world... Go to www.revcom.us every day. Stay connected...