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Cornel West & Carl Dix 2009 Trailer
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Join Revolution Books / Libros Revolución
at the L.A. Times Festival of Books this weekend!
University of Southern California (new venue)
Booth #888 T2 in the center of the festival
Sat., April 30th,10 AM - 6 PM; Sun., May 1st, 10 AM - 5 PM
Featuring:
 
BAsics / Lo BAsico
From the talks and writings
of Bob Avakian ($10 paperback)
"There would be no United States as we now know it today without slavery. That is a simple and basic truth."
So opens BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian.
This book, released April 5, 2011 takes you on a remarkable journey
through the brutal system that dominates the planet today to a vision of
a new and far better revolutionary world. It lays out a roadmap of how
to get there - breaking down how to understand the system we live under
and how to struggle to transform it. Full of heart and soul, science,
radical critique and revolutionary vision, BAsics is a work that a new movement for revolution can grow up around.
"There is nothing more unrealistic
than the idea of reforming this system into something that would come
anywhere near being in the interests of the great majority of people
and ultimately of humanity as a whole."
- Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity, Part II
BAsics, p. 72, #2
You can't change the world if you don't know the BAsics!
Pick up your copy of BAsics . Buy more for your friends.
Buy one for a prisoner through the
Prisoner's Revolutionary Literature Fund [here]!
Check out the NYC celebration of revolution and the possibility of
a new world - on the occasion of the publication of BAsics [here].
Photo slide show [here].
Come meet these writers at our booth:
Sat., April 30th - 2:30 - 3:30 PM: SIKIVU HUTCHINSON, will sign her new book Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars.
 
Sat., April 30th - 4 - 5 PM: DENNIS LOO will discuss his new book Globalization and the Demolition of Society to be published next month. Co-editor of Impeach the President: The Case against Bush & Cheney.
Sun., May 1st - 11 AM - 12 Noon: MICHAEL SLATE, writer for Revolution newspaper and KPFK radio host (90.7 FM - Fridays 10 - 11 AM).
 
Sun., May 1st: 2 - 3 PM: CHRIS HEDGES will sign his latest books at our booth, The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress and Death of the Liberal Class.
Donations
are needed for this important, but costly, weekend. The booth is
$1,150, and 2,000 of the beautiful new Revolution Books brochure costs
$300. Please contribute generously HERE (click
on the PayPal button on the upper right side of our blog) to enable the
bookstore to reach thousands of book-lovers and critical thinkers, and
not land us in the red, except politically.
Volunteers
needed all this week in preparation for and during the bookfair itself:
Help design a "mock booth" in the store, help pack the books, make
displays, donate packing materials, boxes. At the festival, help set up
and tear down the booth, pass out bookstore brochures and flyers,
join teams taking out BAsics and Revolution newspaper to the thousands at the festival. Contact us to volunteer.
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We Recommend: The Michael Slate Show
Friday, April 22, 2011, 10:00 - 11:00 AM, KPFK, 90.7 FM
Listen Live at www.kpfk.org
This week's show:
 Carl Dix, revolutionary and founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Carl will be talking about his upcoming dialogue with Cornel West, "In the Age of Obama . . . Police Terror, Incarceration, No Jobs, Mis-education: WHAT FUTURE FOR OUR YOUTH?" See below.
John Clark: on the anniversary of the BP oil spill,
a look at the real costs of oil for the Gulf region, for humanity, and
for the whole planet? John Clark is an author, activist and Professor in
Humane Letters and the Professions and Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans.
 Jon Kellam, director of The Actors' Gang
production of Molière's Tartuffe, which kicks off its 30th anniversary
season. This hilarious social satire is about a con man who schemes to
seduce the wife of an affluent merchant, marry his daughter and rob him
of his riches by claiming to be a man of religion. When it was
written it was condemned as a sacrilegious outrage by the Church and
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Exciting Volunteer Opportunities at Revolution Books!
Join Us for a Volunteers Orientation Meeting
This Sunday, April 24th, 3 pm
Join
the all-volunteer staff at Revolution Books, and be part of changing
the world! Appreciate the books that we carry? Enjoy the events that
we host? Like the conversations that are buzzing at the bookstore?
Have ideas of how to improve the bookstore and its impact?
If
your answer is YES to any of these questions, we need you to step
forward in whatever capacity you can and for whatever amount of time you
have to offer. You don't have to be an expert (none of us staff people
are), but if you see the need for this growing center for the movement
for revolution, there is a space for you. And we can only thrive with your participation.
1. Join us for a Volunteers Orientation meeting on Sunday, April 24th at 3 PM as we prepare for the Festival of Books. We're going to need a big team of people at the upcoming L.A. Times Festival of Books at USC (new venue) Sat., April 30th (10 AM - 6 PM) & Sun., May 1st (10 AM - 5 PM). We've got Booth #888 T2 in the center of the festival. It's the biggest event of the year for us, and lots of fun.
- Would you like to hand out flyers that advertise the booth and bookstore?
- Want to help with early Saturday morning set-up or post-fair Sunday packing up?
- Want to create bold and beautiful displays for BAsics: from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian, Revolution
newspaper, and other key materials? We aim to get the word out very
widely that "You can't change the world if you don't know the BAsics".
- Can you make photocopies of flyers and reprints? (saves us alot of money)
- Want to sell t-shirts at the booth, or newspapers, or books?
These are a few of the ways that we need your participation. Contact us now!
To locate USC on Yahoo! Maps or similar mapping software, you may use the intersection of Exposition Blvd and S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90089.
 2. Got
a few hours a week to give to the bookstore? Last week a young woman
told us, "I want to do something more than work at a crappy job. What
better place to volunteer than at the bookstore!" No matter what your
schedule or skill set, contact us to volunteer! You may remember that
when we opened the new bookstore we put out a call for Architects, Bookkeepers, Carpenters, and Designers,
and guess what? We met some wonderful people who have helped us with
all of these needs. Now we need to move down the alphabet, and get street teams, translators
(Spanish is our main language request - either for simultaneous
translation at events, or written translation for flyers
& newsletters), and webmasters.
Let us know how you'd like be a part of the emancipation of humanity.
*Graphic above by Eric Drooker - "Bookopolis"
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Friday, April 22, 7 pm, Commemoration
Live Like Damián García!
A beloved member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, Damián was assassinated by police agents in Los Angeles 30 years ago on April 22nd, while building for revolutionary May Day 1980. [Read more here]
Damián
was singled out because several weeks earlier he had dared to raise the
red flag of revolution on top of the Alamo - that ugly symbol of U.S.
aggression, theft of land and domination over Native Americans and Mexico.
Come commemorate his life and learn from his example. "Stop Thinking
Like Americans, Start Thinking About Humanity!" Readings and spoken
word.
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Join Us for a Revolution Books FUN-raiser:
Thurs., April 21st, 8 PM - "A Weekend with Picasso" at Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St. in downtown LA 90014
by Herbert Siguenza | Directed by Todd Salovey | Produced by The Latino Theater Company
"Siguenza was born to play Picasso!"
Acclaimed actor-writer Herbert Siguenza (of Culture Clash)
returns to Los Angeles with his first one man show. Siguenza brings
his virtuosic writing, acting and painting skills into Picasso's private
studio, "Le Californie" on the coast of France in 1957 for an intimate
and revealing weekend into the creative mind and work of one of the most
inspiring artists of modern history. Picasso's controversial and
flamboyant opinions and creations gripped the public imagination and
forever changed 20th century art history. Tickets are $10 on
Thursdays; we ask your donation of $5 to $100 extra for the bookstore.
Contact Revolution Books for an enjoyable evening to support both the
bookstore and the L.A. Theater Center.
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Sunday, April 17th, 2 PM:
Book Reading and Signing
With PAUL VON BLUM
$10 donation at the door; $5 for students/unemployed
 We are pleased to host long-time friend of Revolution Books Paul vonBlum who will discuss and sign his fascinating new memoir "A Life at the Margins: Keeping the Political Vision".
Due to the generosity of the publisher, we are offering a 10% discount on this book.
Professor von Blum is an emeritus lecturer in African American Studies and Communications at UCLA. He is the author of The Art of Social Conscience; The Critical Vision: A History of Social and Political Art in the U.S.; Stillborn
Education; Other Visions, Other Voices: Women Political Artists in LA;and Resistance, Dignity & Pride: African American Artists in Los Angeles.
Available now - special $26.95
"Paul v
 on Blum's A Life at the Margins offers a compelling narrative about a man whose life has been committed
to teaching and social justice. From his reflections about the impact
of the Holocaust on his family, to his motivations for a lifetime
commitment to the black freedom movement, and to his longstanding
struggles for fair treatment as a lecturer within the halls of academia,
Von Blum poignantly reveals the intricate connections between personal
biography and larger social issues. This book is an uplifting read
packed with important insights." --
Darnell Hunt, Professor of Sociology and Director, Ralph J. Bunche
Center for African American Studies, UCLA and co-editor, most recently,
of Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities.
"Paul
von Blum is the personification of 'Question Authority,' a credo he has
shared with over 40,000 students in such courses as 'Agitational
Communication' and 'Paul Robeson: An American Life.' His memoir -
intertwining maverick academic experience with decades of moral activism
- serves as an important slice of progressive history." -- Paul Krassner, author of Who's to Say What's Obscene: Politics, Culture and Comedy in America Today.
From the book: "I
was fired...I resolved immediately to fight this action...Almost at
once, I decided on the historically successful route of 60s style
student activism. I informed both present and former students, members
of the student government, and campus political activists about my
firing. I generated substantial support, because these students agreed
that politics played a huge role in the dismissal. A key feature of the
battle was publicity; reporters from the campus newspaper, the Daily Californian,
were prominent supporters. They ran stories about the struggle, making
a simple departmental personnel issue into a major campus
controversy."
- from Chapter 18 of A Life at the Margins - "The First Battle: Berkeley, 1972"
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