Calendar of Events
This Saturday, November 7, 2pm
Meet at Revolution Books to hook up with a team of people going out to neighborhoods to distribute Revolution newspaper and meet new people.
This Sunday, November 1, 4-6 pm
Discussion @ Revolution Books
RUMINATIONS AND WRANGLINGS
On the Importance of Marxist Materialism, Communism as a Science,
Meaningful Revolutionary Work, and a Life with Meaning
By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
We will discuss:
Part 11 (Revolution #175)
Further Wrangling with Meaningful RevolutionaryWork
Part 12: (Revolution #177)
The continuing importance of ideological struggle-correctly waged
Wednesday, November 11, 4-7 pm
The store will receive the special issue of Revolution newspaper on Prisons and Prisoners. Come by and pick up a copy for yourself or a bundle to distribute. This will be a two week issue. (See below)
Save the Dates:
Thursday, November 19, 7-9pm
Revolution Books will host an open house for this special issue. Join our email list if you are on it already.
Saturday/Sunday, November 21 & 22:
Revolution Books @ School of America's protest (contact us to go)
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
This Weekend: Help Spread Revolution & Communism
This Saturday, October 31, 2pm
Meet at Revolution Books to hook up with a team of people going out to neighborhoods, Gay Pride, and other festivals to spread Revolution newspaper and meet new people.
This Sunday, November 1, 11:30am
Meet at Revolution Books and join the team going to the Gay Pride parade (Civic Center to Piedmont Park) to support the day and distribute Revolution newspaper.
Sunday, November 1, No Discussion
No Discussion this Sunday. The scheduled discussion has been postponed until Sunday, November 8, 4-6 PM. We will continue Ruminations and Wranglings, by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Part 11 and Part 12
Check out this week's paper online or pick up a copy or bundle at the store (see store hours)
Friday, October 23, 2009
DVD Showing & Discusson: Sunday, Oct. 25th, 4 PM at Rev Books
and Making Revolution
“The days when this system can just keep on doing what it does to people, here and all over the world...when people are not inspired and organized to stand up against these outrages and to build up the strength to put an end to this madness...those days must be GONE. And they CAN be." ("The Revolution We Need... The Leadership We Have," Revolution #170, July 19, 2009)
We will be viewing excerpts from Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About, a film of a talk by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party. If you want to change the world, you need to know Bob Avakian.
The excerpts we will view are:
- Police: Enforcers of Oppression and Madness
- 1960’s: Racism and Oppression Challenged Head On
- Youth Deserve a Better Future
- Imagine…A New Society – Healthcare, Education, Work, Science, Etc.
October 22nd Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22nd, 2009
Contact: oct22atl@gmail.com
National Office: (888) NO BRUTALITY
RALLY AND MARCH TODAY AT 1 PM IN WOODRUFF PARK
NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST TO STOP POLICE BRUTALITY
Atlanta area college students, community activists, recent victims of police brutality and families of those killed by police will hold a rally at the south end of Woodruff Park (Peachtree and Edgewood) at 1 PM today as part of the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. A march to the Atlanta Pretrial Detention Center and speakout at the jail will be held following the rally in Woodruff Park. Rallies and marches will be held today in cities across the country.
A Georgia State University student organizer said, “We will be speaking out and wearing black in solidarity with protests around the country and in memory of lives stolen by police bullets. There is an epidemic of police brutality here in Georgia, including:
- raid at the Eagle bar last month by Atlanta Police
- killing of Erik Van Davis in Stockbridge, October 12, 2009 by Henry County Police for “attack with a hammer”
- killing of Lavonia minister Jonathan Ayers, September 1, 2009 by Stephens County Sheriffs in a botched drug sting
- killing of Barbara Baker and Penny Schwartz, July 21, 2009 by Gwinnett County Police in a “suicide by cop” which also killed the mother
- killing of Montellis Clark with 39 bullets, July 15, 2009 by Atlanta Police, including 5 shots in the back
- shooting of Tramaine Miller point blank in the face, May 5, 2009 by Atlanta Police, while he was in his car
- killing of Jerry Conner, April 3, 2009 by Richmond County Police, for wielding a 2-inch pocket knife
- death in custody of Roberto Martinez Medina, March 11, 2009 at the Stewart Detention Center
“We will also call attention to charges filed earlier this year against guards at the Fulton County Jail for brutality and the death in custody of Richard Glasco, and we will remember Kathryn Johnston killed by convicted corrupt Atlanta Police officers, and the 12 people killed by Dekalb County Police in 2006.”
Saturday, October 17, 2009
All Out for Oct. 22 Protest Police Brutality/Atlanta info
IN ATLANTA:
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22
1 PM
(Speak-Out then March to the Atlanta City Jail)
WOODRUFF PARK
( Downtown Atlanta, Edgewood & Peachtree)
FIGHT BACK - WEAR BLACK!
Contact info: oct22atl@gmail.com
Website: www.october22.org
Posters to download:
Cover Issue #179
Back Page #179
Stolen Lives
Expressions of resistance should appear everywhere now, and building up to October 22nd. Students & teachers: bring a speaker to your class this week or next - contact us. And on October 22nd, organize others in your school, work or hood to wear Black in memory of those whose lives have been stolen by the police, and as a sign of resistance! And then, bring family members and others, with banners, signs, photos of loved ones, drums, cardboard tombstones with names of those killed by police - to Woodruff Park.
For flyers email above
Discussion: Sunday, Oct. 18, 4-6pm @ Rev. Books
October 22nd, 2009: NO MORE! No More Stolen Lives!
Statement by Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
Corey Harris, a junior at Dyett High School, a star basketball player and captain of the baseball team, was the first Chicago student to be killed by gun violence this school year-shot to death on September 11. He was killed after school, shot in the back as he ran away from a man with a gun. There was no media outcry over Corey's murder, no statement from the White House about their distress over it. Hundreds of students and adults who loved Corey attended his funeral, but there was no parade of politicians there. The name of his murderer is known by the Chicago Police Department and yet he walks the streets today, uncharged for this murder. Why? The man who executed this unarmed student was an off-duty Chicago cop.
Last year the Chicago police killed 21 people.The death of Derrion Albert, an honor student at Fenger High School in Chicago, is also a horror for the people. On September 24, the nation was stunned by vivid images of the Fenger High School melee resulting in his death. People are agonizing over how did we get into a hellish situation where parents watch students being killed over nothing, where kids grow up haunted by images of gunfire. Everyone talks about responsibility. But who and what is responsible for this situation?
Oscar Brown Jr's poem,
"Children of Children," includes these lines:
The children of children trapped by dark skins to stay in and play in a game no one wins
The children of children while still young and sweet are all damned and programmed for future defeat
The children of children are trapped by adults who fail them then jail them to hide the results...
It is a crime of this system that our youth internalize the message they get every day through the worthless schools and degrading conditions and brutalizing cops-the message that this system has no future for them and that they don't even deserve a future-and then they act it out against each other. More police are not the answer, as the police murder of Corey Harris shows.
Youth need to be inspired, encouraged, organized and unleashed to stand up against and resist the conditions they face, including degradation, dehumanization and outright murder they face at the hands of the police. In the course of this, and joining with others to throw off oppression throughout the world, people can and will change themselves.
"The days when this system can just keep on doing what it does to people, here and all over the world...when people are not inspired and organized to stand up against these outrages and to build up the strength to put an end to this madness...those days must be GONE. And they CAN be." ("The Revolution We Need... The Leadership We Have," Revolution #170, July 19, 2009)
October 22nd is the National Day of Protest to STOP Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. It is the day to begin to stand up and resist the outrage of police brutality and police murder. FIGHT BACK! WEAR BLACK!
CHECK OUT CARL DIX ON YOUTUBE "Making Revolution, Fighting Police Brutality"
youtube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40dodNHMMko
Friday, October 9, 2009
Sunday, Oct. 11 4-6pm, Revolution Books Discussion
RUMINATIONS AND WRANGLINGS
On the Importance of Marxist Materialism, Communism as a Science, Meaningful Revolutionary Work, and a Life with Meaning
By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
We will discuss:
Part 11
Further Wrangling with Meaningful Revolutionary Work (online click here)
The entire talk can be found online at:
revcom.us/avakian/ruminations/BA-ruminations-en.html]
Friday, September 25, 2009
Calendar:
Sunday, September 27, 4pm:
Discussion at Revolution Books Atlanta. Join us.
"Ruminations and Wranglings: On the Importance of Marxist Materialism, Communism as a Science, Meaningful Revolutionary Work, and a Life with Meaning" by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA - Available in Revolution newspaper #174 Part 10 (online here) or pick up a copy in the store. The entire talk can be found online at www.revcom.us/avakian/ruminations/BA-ruminations-en.html
Tuesday, September 29, 7:30pm: Live Webcast with Raymond Lotta, "Behind the World Economic Crisis: System Failure and the Need for Revolution. (See Below)
Thursday, October 1, 6:30pm: Carl Dix kicks off his speaking tour at Clark Atlanta University "From Buffalo Soldier to Revolutionary Communist." (See Below)
Tuesday, September 28, 7:30 EDT
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Thursday, 10/1 Carl Dix @ Clark Atlanta University
(Help build this event, post on facebook, MySpace, Twitter, email lists)
Carl Dix "From Buffalo Soldier to Revolutionary Communist"
Thomas Cole Science and Research Center Auditorium
Sponsored by: Political Science Department Clark Atlanta University, Groove Phi Groove Ma'at chapter
From the Buffalo Soldiers, former slaves who were sent off to fight in the "Indian Wars," to Vietnam in the 60's, to Iraq and Afghanistan today, there is a long legacy of Black youth fighting in America's wars. Carl Dix is coming to Atlanta University Center as part of a campus speaking tour to deliver an urgent message to today's youth, and everyone else interested in justice:
DON'T BE A BUFFALO SOLDIER-
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are still about keeping the American empire in effect, not about expanding freedom and democracy, despite Obama's "re-branding" effort. Don't go off and kill people in other countries to expand the stranglehold of the same system that oppresses Black people in this country and people all over the world.
Carl is also issuing a challenge - he challenges anyone in the ROTC or theAmerican Legion or the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who thinks the war inAfghanistan is any good, to come out and argue that position.
And Carl is talking about a solution - Revolution.
All the problems people face around the world and here in this country stem from the way this capitalist system operates, chasing after profit for a few. We can solve all those problems by getting rid of this system through revolution, and going on to build a whole new world in place of this messed up one.
This system offers no future for youth, but the revolution does!
Contact info: nobuffalosoldier@yahoo.com
CARL DIX is a longtime revolutionary activist and a spokesperson for the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. Carl was one of the Fort Lewis 6 - six GI's who refused orders to go to Vietnam in 1970. Carl served 2 years in Leavenworth Military Penitentiary for this stand. He was a co-founder of the Oct 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality in 1996. Carl coordinated the Katrina hearings of the Bush Crimes Commission in 2006. He recently participated in a dialogue with Cornel West on the theme of "The Ascendancy of Obama ...and The Continued Need for Resistance and Liberation."*Interview with Carl Dix, Friday, September,18, 9pm, Comcast Cable, channel 23.
*YouTube promo for the event: Spread the link! (View the promo below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ03EIBgTwI
What you can do to help:
Post the info on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Text
Pick up flyers at the Revolution Books table on James Brawley, Thursdays, 11-5
Announce in your classes, pass out and post flyers
Ask your professor to give extra credit for going to the event
Looking for Graphic Artists to design flyers, if interested please contact us!
Contact us for help or other ideas nobuffalosoldier@yahoo.com
Upcoming Promo Event for Carl Dix at Clark Atlanta University
DVD Screening
Wednesday, September 23, 7pm
Georgia State University Student Center, Sinclair Suite
The Ascendancy of Obama:
and the Continued Need for Resistance and Liberation A Dialogue between: Cornel West and Carl Dix
Carl Dix will be present at this video screening for a question-and-answer session afterwards with the audience. This event is part of building for a speaking tour by Carl Dix entitled From Buffalo Soldier to Revolutionary Communist, which will be coming to Atlanta on October 1st at Clark Atlanta University (in the Thomas Cole Science & Research Center Auditorium at 6:30pm). We want to plan and promote these events very broadly, please help spread the word and contact us to get involved!
Hosted by: Revolution Club at Georgia State University
contact info: RevClubGSU@gmail.com 404-4372417 search for club on Facebook
