People Are Awakening - Step Up the Struggle for Revolution!  BA Everywhere Van We are at an historic moment, full of great challenges and great opportunities. People are rising up and REFUSING TO ACCEPT outrages - especially the massive opposition to Zimmerman's acquittal, but also outpourings against prison torture-houses, attacks on abortion rights, massive spying, and attacks on "whistle blowers." Around the world there has been an explosion of political upheaval, drawing in millions from Turkey,  Egypt and Brazil. This "refusal to accept" must be united with, strengthened and deepened - thus changing the whole fascist trajectory that politics have been on in this country (and influencing the whole world). And through all of this people must learn that there is a liberating, revolutionary way out of these horrors - concentrated in BA's new synthesis of communism - AND be presented with many ways to become part of this movement for revolution. See Carl Dix's statement: Now's the time to stand up - We need revolution - nothing less.     This Must Be Our Foundation: Young children in Englewood Go to  REVCOM.US Everyday for Updates, Analysis and Orientation. Get into Bob Avakian, the leader of the RCP and learn about this new synthesis of communism. Watch the video of his speech "BA Speaks: Revolution - Nothing Less" and study Basics: From the Talks and Writings of Bob Avakian. Connect up with Revolution Books - 1103 N. Ashland in Chicago - (773) 489-0930. Tuesday-Sunday afternoons til 7pm.  Chicagorevolutionbooks.blogspot.com     Join and contribute to the national BA Everywhere Van Tour going out in Chicago, NYC, LA, SF. Be a part of taking out Bob Avakian's liberating revolutionary vision, captured in the film BA Speaks: Revolution Nothing Less ! and BAsics for new and older generation of revolutionaries.  Throughout this campaign work with us; learn more about BA Everywhere campaign and how it can change the political landscape and trajectory. $20.000 was raised across this country in a short time for these BA Everywhere Van Tours! Thank you from all of us on the BA Everywhere Van Tour. You are making this tour possible. Here in Chicago we protested the night of the Trayvon Martin's jury's verdict downtown and on North and Milwaukee; we've shown the film at 63rd Street Beach, 51st and King Road,  Englewood Park; Chicago &  Pulaski; joined the Stop Mass Incarceration rallies and other demonstrations.  Check out the schedule below. For more information (and to confirm hook up times and places)  call the BA Everywhere phone 312-860-8167. Now Is The Time To Act:

Thurs. (7/18)  BA Everywhere Van Tour 4:00-6:30 Grand Crossing, 71st & King Drive. Bring BA's revolutionary vision - showing Revolution - Nothing Less - to the masses on the South Side Friday (7/19) Support the Prison Hunger Strikers 3:00 - 6:00 pm.   Meet at State & Jackson and stand withthe thousands of hunger strikers in the CA prisons who are putting their lives on the line to end the torture of solitary confinement. 6:45- 7:45-9:15 pm show time. "Fruitvale Station" (movie about Oscar Grant's murder) at AMC River East 21 Theater, 322 N. Illinois St.   6:15 pm help set up the BA Everywhere Van for high visibility to theater. Sat (7/20) Justice for Trayvon Major demo 12:00 noon - downtown Chicago (Federal Bldg). One of many being called all over the country. Be part of bringing the problem (the capitalist system) and the solution (revolution) to thousands who are agonizing over how to respond to this outrage. Sun (7/21) BA Everywhere 63rd Street Beach  12 noon Bring BA's revolutionary vision - showingRevolution -  Nothing Less - to the masses on the South Side. Afternoon and early evening.   Challenge them with the historic times we are living in and being part of bringing that whole better world into being. Tues (7/23) Not One More Day In Jail for Gregory Kroger 1:30 pm at Cook County Courthouse (Courtroom 104), 5600 Old Orchard Road, Skokie, IL. Pack the courthouse and demand that Gregory spend NO MORE time in jail for the "crime" of videoing Sunsara Taylor giving a statement at the "Ethical Humanist" Society.    Fri. (7/27) Sat. (7/28) Welcome the Abortion Rights Freedom Bus All out to welcome, support and strengthen the courageous fighters who are taking the battle for abortion rights right to where it is needed most and straight up into the face of the reactionaries and Christian fascists who are trying to drive into virtual slavery.  See StopPatriarchy.org for details. Sat (8/10) Bud Billikin Parade  Save the date and plan to march in a contingent that will show the world people's anger and refusal to accept "open season" on black youth (or anyone else) and their determination to bring a world into being where all forms of oppression are ancient history.

BA Everywhere Van Tour launches Sunday

A decorated van is going out this week to impoverished communities, parks, cultural events, as well as more well-to-do areas. It will have a large screen TV and sound to show the DVD: BA Speaks REVOLUTION - NOTHING LESS! and raise money to spread BA Everywhere. You can contribute in many ways. Raise money to support the Tour! Watch the video and donate now -one day left to meet our goal!. Donate gas cards for the van. Invite us to show the DVD. If you live near where the van will be, organize a small gathering or invite us to a rec center, class or church. Take a stack of pluggers and posters and donation cans and go out and let people know that the van tour is on the road. Donate food to feed the volunteers.

Join the Tour for a few hours or a whole day and evening! Here are the times and places you can join in. For more information (and to confirm hook up times and places) call the BA Everywhere phone 312-860-8167.

Sunday, July 14

Big mass mobilization to protest of outrageous Zimmerman verdict downtown at Daley Center and then to 63^rd Street beach.  

Monday, July 15

Take BAE to Englewood 4-8 pm. Meet at either Revolution Books at 2 pm

or McDonalds, 70 E. Garfield Blvd. (55^th St.) between Wabash and Michigan, 1.5 blks west of the Green line CTA station, at 4 pm

Tuesday, July 16

11:30 am - 1 pm Bring BA into the protest against the anti-abortion fanatics. 

Art Institute on Michigan Ave. 

 4pm-8pm: West Humboldt Park neighborhood. Meet inside the Burger King at Chicago and Pulaski at 4pm. Having the BAE phone on the van. 312-860-8167.  

WEDNESDAY, July 17

Cook County Courthouse and Jail. 8:30 am. 26^th and California.

 4pm-8pm: Grand Crossing Neighborhood- Where to hook up: Brown Sugar Bakery on 328 E 75^th, 1.5 blocks West of King Drive.

THURSDAY JULY 18

Call for information on morning or early afternoon tour stops.

4:30pm-6:30pm: Wicker Park North and Damen L stop.  

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY

to be announced 

Announcement received from BA Everywhere, Chicago Committee

Going All Out to Raise $20,000 by Monday

      

There are only a few more days to meet the goal of raising $20,000 for getting out the BA Everywhere Summer Campaign. Watch the film clip here or go to igg.me/at/BAEverywhere-Summer2013. Make plans to reach out to everyone you know who could donate this weekend.

This campaign fills an enormous need of people around the world rising in struggle, those who are agonizing over outrageous injustices. It's bringing to them that there is a radically different way the world could be through revolution - bringing them Bob Avakian and his work. It's involving them in raising funds so that BA will indeed be known everywhere.

BA Speaks: REVOLUTION-NOTHING LESS! Bob Avakian Live Summer Van Tours!

Join us Sunday, July 14, as we kick off the Chicago BA Speaks: Revolution-Nothing Less! Bob Avakian Live Summer Van Tour. We'll be taking our decorated van and large flat screen, DVD player and sound system to the beaches on the south side spreading our message - The world doesn't have to be this way. Get with Bob Avakian.  Learn about this movement for revolution and it's leader. Become part of it as you learn more.

Meet at Revolution Books at 1:30, (1103 N. Ashland Ave). We will decorate cars and caravan to the beach together. Or catch us at 63^rd Street beach at 3pm.

Our plan for the week includes going to the Cook County Jail in the mornings, down town mid day and to the South and West sides from  4-8 pm Monday through Wednesday. Call 312-860-8167 to volunteer for any of these locations - a couple hours or a whole day. 

Saturday, July 13, 6:30-9 pm

The BAEverywhere Committee invites you to come between 6:30  & 9 pm to  Revolution Books Saturday evening to help finalize plans and decorations for the next day launching of the van tour.

For more information: Contact BA Everywhere Chicago at BAEinchicago@yahoo.com or call 312 860-8167.

Justice for Trayvon Martin & the California Prisoners' Hunger Strike:    How They Are Connected and What We Must Do toEND the Slow Genocide of Mass Incarceration Demand Justice for Trayvon Martin:  When Jury Goes Out: 5 pm Daley Plaza Washington and Dearborn    Day of the Verdict: 5 pm Daley Plaza, Washington and Dearborn (if the verdict is announced before 5 pm) ------------------------------  Emergency Community Action Meeting Friday July 12, 2013 - 7 pm unless we're out protesting the Zimmerman verdict at Revolution Books 1103 N. Ashland, Chicago, 60622 Nationwide and worldwide attention is riveted on the trial of George Zimmerman - the vigilante wannabe-cop who murdered Trayvon Martin. As a recent article in Revolution Newspaper put it: "Right now, American society-with the whole world increasingly taking notice-is polarizing. Two sides are lining up-one upholding the right of the Trayvon Martins of this world to live and flourish and, if they are attacked, to have justice... and the other upholding the supposed rights of people like George Zimmerman to kill people like Trayvon with impunity." We cannot allow them to get away with okaying this modern-day lynching and putting a target on the backs of young Black and Latino men, further criminalizing and demonizing another generation. On July 8, 2013, over 30,000 prisoners in over 2/3 of California's prisons began a hunger strike - putting their lives on the line to demand an end to the systematic torture they face on a daily basis through long-term solitary confinement. Prisoners in several other states joined them. 2.3 million people are in prison in the U.S. 80,000 prisoners are held in solitary confinement - under conditions that are torture under international law. Join us for an Emergency Community Action Meeting to dig into how the murder of Trayvon Martin and the torture in solitary confinement in U.S. prisons are connected as two aspects of the slow genocide of mass incarceration - and what must we do to END it. Bring your ideas on what actions we can plan to demand justice for Trayvon and how we can support the prisoners on hunger strike - and to END the mass incarceration and criminalization of millions of our youth. Stop Mass Incarceration Network   National Day of Action!   Solidarity with California Prisoners' Hunger Strike Friday July 19, 2013 Save the Date, details to be announced Stop Mass Incarceration Network - Chicago stopmassincarcerationchicago@gmail.com * (312) 933-9586 www.facebook.com/SMINChicago  stopmassincarceration.org The Stop Mass Incarceration Network is a project of the Alliance for Global Justice, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The Stop Mass Incarceration Network is building a movement to stop the injustice of mass incarceration and police brutality; and theacially biased policies and practices of the police, the courts and the U.S. legal system; and to support of prisoners and the formerly incarcerated. We call on all to join.

Books, RevolutionNewspaper and DVD's to check out at Revolution Books $15.00 $15.00. $18.00 $10.00. $1.00.

Not One More Day In Jail for Gregory Koger!

We received the following announcement from the Ad Hoc Committee for Reason and urge everyone reading this to share it and come out on July 23:

A court hearing has been set for 1:30 pm on Tuesday, July 23, 2013, where the State will move to put Gregory Koger in jail to serve the remainder of his 300 day sentence for peacefully videotaping a statement against censorship at a public meeting of the “Ethical” Humanist Society of Chicago (EHSC) on Sunday, November 1, 2009.

Join us!
When: July 23, 2013 at 1:30PM
Where: Cook County Courthouse – Courtroom 104, 5600 Old Orchard Rd  Skokie, IL

Neither the Court nor the Cook County State’s Attorney has responded to the Post-Conviction Relief Petition that Gregory’s legal team filed in March. This Petition exposed the lies at the heart of the false charges against him and provides documentary evidence (suppressed by the judge at trial) of the perjured testimony and prosecutorial misconduct that laid the basis for his conviction – and demands that his wrongful conviction and outrageous sentence  be overturned. For more details, see www.dropthecharges.net

In his youth, Gregory spent years in solitary confinement while in prison. He transformed himself and has dedicated his life since his release to opposing injustice and struggling for a liberated world for all humanity. Gregory’s legal team will vigorously oppose any attempt to put him back in jail.

We call on you to come out to stand with Gregory and demand:
Not One More Day In Jail for Gregory Koger!

Ad Hoc Commitee for Reason • www.dropthecharges.net •adhoc4reason@gmail.com

Join BA Everywhere for Pizza-Film Clip-Discuss & Brainstorm

Announcement received from BA Everywhere, Chicago Committee Sunday July 7th, 4-7 PM Pizza - Film Clip -  Discuss, Brainstorm and Make Plans  at Revolution Books 1103 N. Ashland Ave.   The BA Everywhere Campaign invites you to come to Revolution Books, Sunday, July 7, to watch a clip from the film, BA Speaks: REVOLUTION-NOTHING LESS! An informal discussion of the film clip will follow. Then let's brainstorm about what will it take for many more people to get involved, raise funds, and get this out and spread it throughout society. We'll eat pizza, get organized and make plans. Summer 2013: the world is swirling with sharp contradictions - from the trial of wannabe cop George Zimmerman who murdered Trayvon Martin; to the prisoner hunger strikes in Guantanamo and the prisons of California; to the struggle against taking away the right to abortion in states across the US; to Edward Snowden's revelations of massive government spying; to the uprisings of the people in Turkey and Brazil - In this roiling situation, bringing BA's analysis of the SOURCE of all these problem and... of the SOLUTION...the way out of this madness and the leadership to get there - can be a galvanizing factor, raising people's sights, spurring people forward. (Go to BA Everywhere Indiegogo page. Watch the short introductory video). The BA Everywhere campaign matters. Imagine the difference it would make if people knew about and engaged a whole better way the world could be. Whether major funds are raised to do this is decisive. Go to BA Everywhere Indiegogo page. Share it with others. Bring your friends and your best creative ideas on Sunday. We will also be brainstorming and making plans for the mid-July BA Everywhere Van Tours. Contact BA Everywhere Chicago at BAEinchicago@yahoo.com or call 312 860-8167.

Urgent Appeal!

Dennis Loo, Ph.D., a sociologist and author of Globalization and the Demolition of Society, made this matching funds challenge to teachers and professors in response to the Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to launch the BA Everywhere Summer 2013: Making a Difference, Changing the World!  

Will you meet Dr. Loo's challenge and answer this call?  

Professor Calls on Educators Who "Want to See a Different World" to Match His Donation to "BA Everywhere Summer 2013