Here is the start of the Mission Statement of the Emergency Committee: An Extraordinary Crisis Requires an Extraordinary Response The People Must Act to Stop the Gulf Catastrophe THE BP OIL BLOWOUT is an environmental catastrophe, bringing great peril to ecosystems and wildlife in the Gulf and beyond, even globally. The oil gusher is still out of control and spreading. It jeopardizes communities and livelihoods. The government and British Petroleum have proven unable and unwilling to stop the disaster, protect the Gulf, or even tell the truth. The people must come together now to stop this nightmare. For the full statement and much more, see: |
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Monday July 19 at 7pm - Report back from New Orleans!
Sam, who has just returned from spending several weeks in New Orleans working with the Emergency Committee to Stop the Gulf Oil Disaster, will report on the battle from the front lines.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Tuesday, July 13 Meeting on the murder of Oscar Grant & the Mehserle Trial
7 pm
Emergency Meeting on the Mehserle Trial
Join us to discuss the verdict, the response, and where to go from here.
Read the latest article from Revolution newspaper:
INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER: UNACCEPTABLE! The Whole Damn System is GUILTY! We Demand Justice for Oscar Grant
also read our statement There are no "outsiders" in the struggle against oppression.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
July 10th San Francisco Walking Tour benefit for Put Revolution on the Map
Saturday July 10 1 pm San Francisco Walking Tour benefit for Put Revolution on the Map Come along on a walking tour through many of the social movement episodes in San Francisco history. All proceeds of this benefit walk go to Put Revolution on the Map, a program associated with Revolution Books in Berkeley. Along the way learn of the Bay Area origins of The Black Panthers, the Diggers, the United Nations, and many more earnest attempts to reshape society for the better. This two and a half hour walk, entitled "Land, Villains, and Revolutionaries" sweeps across 200 years of San Francisco social movement history, detailing how geography, land itself has played a central role in the emergence of specific solutions to social challenges. Join us at the Cable Car turnaround, Powell at Market Streets in downtown San Francisco, 1 pm on Saturday, July 10. $15 per person. All proceeds go to Put Revolution on the Map. For more information visit http://www.TheCommonsSF.org
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
June 29, Lessons from the battle for justice for Oscar Grant
Monday, June 14, 2010
Tuesday June 22 - OFFSIDE - video showing of film by Jafar Panahi
7:00 pm
Offside (Persian: آفساید ) is a 2006 Iranian film about girls who try to watch a World Cup qualifying match but are forbidden by law because of their sex. Female fans are not allowed to enter football stadiums in Iran on the grounds that there will be a high risk of violence or verbal abuse against them. The film was inspired by director Jafar Panahi's daughter, who decided to attend a game anyway. The film was shot in Iran during qualifying matches and captures the excitement of the events. Its screening was banned there, but bootleg copies of the film flooded the streets during soccer season.
On March 1, 2010 Jafar Panahi was arrested for unspecified actions against the regime. During May Panahi went on a hunger strike. Largely due to international protest, including from many artists and filmmakers, Panahi was released on May 25, 2010, on $200,000 bail. He is still charged and a trial is pending.
Watch trailer of OFFSIDE
Offside (Persian: آفساید ) is a 2006 Iranian film about girls who try to watch a World Cup qualifying match but are forbidden by law because of their sex. Female fans are not allowed to enter football stadiums in Iran on the grounds that there will be a high risk of violence or verbal abuse against them. The film was inspired by director Jafar Panahi's daughter, who decided to attend a game anyway. The film was shot in Iran during qualifying matches and captures the excitement of the events. Its screening was banned there, but bootleg copies of the film flooded the streets during soccer season.
On March 1, 2010 Jafar Panahi was arrested for unspecified actions against the regime. During May Panahi went on a hunger strike. Largely due to international protest, including from many artists and filmmakers, Panahi was released on May 25, 2010, on $200,000 bail. He is still charged and a trial is pending.
Watch trailer of OFFSIDE
Wednesday June 16 at 7 pm - Summation Meeting on the RCP's Campaign
Wednesday June 16 at 7 pm (at Revolution Books)
Summation Meeting on the RCP's Campaign
Come hear about the national summation of the last 10 day push to distribute 200,000 copies of the message, The Revolution We Need...The Leadership We Have (The first wave in the campaign to distribute one million of the Message and Call this summer.). Help make plans for the next step, including the Webathon this coming Sunday!
From the statement:
"We must spread the word to every corner of this country...giving people the means to become part of this revolutionary movement, and organizing into this movement everyone who wants to make a contribution to it, who wants to work and fight, to struggle and sacrifice, not to keep this nightmare of a world going as it is but to bring a better world into being."
Summation Meeting on the RCP's Campaign
Come hear about the national summation of the last 10 day push to distribute 200,000 copies of the message, The Revolution We Need...The Leadership We Have (The first wave in the campaign to distribute one million of the Message and Call this summer.). Help make plans for the next step, including the Webathon this coming Sunday!
From the statement:
"We must spread the word to every corner of this country...giving people the means to become part of this revolutionary movement, and organizing into this movement everyone who wants to make a contribution to it, who wants to work and fight, to struggle and sacrifice, not to keep this nightmare of a world going as it is but to bring a better world into being."
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Tuesday June 15 Dinner & Discussion: Revolutionary Eye on Iran
6:45 pm Iranian Dinner celebrating one year of courageous uprising in Iran $10-20 (benefit for
Revolution Books)
7:30 pm Discussion: Revolutionary Eye on Iran
If you want revolution—in fact, if you are at all concerned about the course of events on the
planet right now—you need to keep your eye on Iran. Iran is a hotspot—a point where both
moves to war and possibilities for revolution could come to a boil. There are three major levels to what is going on there that we need to understand:
1. What Is Going On Inside Iran
2. The International Setting
3. The Revolutionary Movement
Nobody can say where all this will end. What we can say is that there is both great danger and
very great potential here—and a great need to build a movement FOR REVOLUTION that is
internationalist in its outlook and actions.
Read Revolutionary Eye on Iran
Revolution Books)
7:30 pm Discussion: Revolutionary Eye on Iran
If you want revolution—in fact, if you are at all concerned about the course of events on the
planet right now—you need to keep your eye on Iran. Iran is a hotspot—a point where both
moves to war and possibilities for revolution could come to a boil. There are three major levels to what is going on there that we need to understand:
1. What Is Going On Inside Iran
2. The International Setting
3. The Revolutionary Movement
Nobody can say where all this will end. What we can say is that there is both great danger and
very great potential here—and a great need to build a movement FOR REVOLUTION that is
internationalist in its outlook and actions.
Read Revolutionary Eye on Iran
June 12, Saturday --Rebellious Rooftop Romp - 4-8 pm
REVOLUTION BOOKS REBELLIOUS ROOFTOP ROMP
FUN-RAISING FOR REVOLUTION BOOKS
Saturday, June 12, From 4pm till 8pm
Pot Luck… Bring Your Favorite Dish and/or Drinks
Dancing, Free Dance Lessons and More…
DOWNTOWN BERKELEY
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE BAY IN BEAUTIFUL ROOFTOP SETTING
SUGGESTED DONATION AT DOOR $5--$25
For more info and the address of the event, call REVOLUTION BOOKS at 510-848-1196
or email revolutionbooks@sbcglobal.net
Your financial support is urgently needed and will make it possible for Revolution Books to continue to sponsor forums and author readings and to greatly expand our collection of new and thought-provoking books.
Revolution Books is part of building a movement for revolution,
that is scientific and poetic, wrangling and visionary: it is alive with a defiant spirit that refuses to accept that the horrors of today’s world have to be.
At the heart of Revolution Books is the cutting-edge work of Bob Avakian, whose new synthesis of communism envisions a radically new society that is overcoming all of the oppression of the current world while giving great scope to intellectual work, ferment and dissent as integral to the complete emancipation of humanity.
We have an extensive collection of books on history and political theory, novels and poetry, atheism and science, geopolitics and philosophy. Check out the weekly discussions, author readings, open-mic, film screenings and major forums.
FUN-RAISING FOR REVOLUTION BOOKS
Saturday, June 12, From 4pm till 8pm
Pot Luck… Bring Your Favorite Dish and/or Drinks
Dancing, Free Dance Lessons and More…
DOWNTOWN BERKELEY
PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE BAY IN BEAUTIFUL ROOFTOP SETTING
SUGGESTED DONATION AT DOOR $5--$25
For more info and the address of the event, call REVOLUTION BOOKS at 510-848-1196
or email revolutionbooks@sbcglobal.net
Your financial support is urgently needed and will make it possible for Revolution Books to continue to sponsor forums and author readings and to greatly expand our collection of new and thought-provoking books.
Revolution Books is part of building a movement for revolution,
that is scientific and poetic, wrangling and visionary: it is alive with a defiant spirit that refuses to accept that the horrors of today’s world have to be.
At the heart of Revolution Books is the cutting-edge work of Bob Avakian, whose new synthesis of communism envisions a radically new society that is overcoming all of the oppression of the current world while giving great scope to intellectual work, ferment and dissent as integral to the complete emancipation of humanity.
We have an extensive collection of books on history and political theory, novels and poetry, atheism and science, geopolitics and philosophy. Check out the weekly discussions, author readings, open-mic, film screenings and major forums.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Thursday June 3: Speak out and MARCH Against Israeli Massacre 4 pm--
Revolutionary Protest against Israeli massacre
Thursday, June 3
4pm Speak-out at Powell and Market, San Francisco
5pm March to the Israeli consulate
Look around at the world we live in: a capitalist oil disaster in the Gulf, fascism in Arizona, cold-blooded police murder of 7 year old Ayana Stanley-Jones, escalating war and torture in Afghanistan, and now, another outrageous massacre by Israel to enforce their horrific and criminal strangulation of Gaza. Enough is enough!
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 World does NOT have to be this way.
Ethnic cleansing has no right to exist! Oppression and exploitation... no right to exist! U.S. imperialism and their strategic attack dog, the state of Israel... no right to exist!
If you are disgusted by Israel... if you are heartsick about the state of planet... if you want to fight this shit... then you need to be there! If you can imagine a world without borders and divisions between peoples, where one nation doesn't rule over and dominate others, then be part of making that world, that future real.
-Revolution Club, Bay Area
"Fight the power, transform the people, for revolution!"
"Humanity needs revolution and communism."
Thursday, June 3
4pm Speak-out at Powell and Market, San Francisco
5pm March to the Israeli consulate
Look around at the world we live in: a capitalist oil disaster in the Gulf, fascism in Arizona, cold-blooded police murder of 7 year old Ayana Stanley-Jones, escalating war and torture in Afghanistan, and now, another outrageous massacre by Israel to enforce their horrific and criminal strangulation of Gaza. Enough is enough!
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 World does NOT have to be this way.
Ethnic cleansing has no right to exist! Oppression and exploitation... no right to exist! U.S. imperialism and their strategic attack dog, the state of Israel... no right to exist!
If you are disgusted by Israel... if you are heartsick about the state of planet... if you want to fight this shit... then you need to be there! If you can imagine a world without borders and divisions between peoples, where one nation doesn't rule over and dominate others, then be part of making that world, that future real.
-Revolution Club, Bay Area
"Fight the power, transform the people, for revolution!"
"Humanity needs revolution and communism."
Thursday June 3: Report Back on RCP Conference - The Revolution We Need...The Leadership We Have
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 7PM
The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA has undertaken an historic campaign - THE REVOLUTION WE NEED...THE LEADERSHIP WE HAVE... - as the crucial step right now to build a movement for revolution in this country, and to bring forward a new stage of communist revolution in the world. Last weekend, conferences were held to discuss how to prepare for taking this campaign to a whole other level.
As the Call in the Revolution newspaper for people to participate in the conferences last weekend put it,
People need to hear and see that things DON'T have to be this way. They need to hear about revolution. And they need to know there is a Party that is building a movement for revolution. That is what this campaign is about. We aim to make known to millions the goal and character of this revolution, communist revolution, as it has been revitalized and reconceived by Bob Avakian; to make the leader of this revolution a household word; and through all this to forge a core of dedicated fighters who are going to advocate for this revolution and make it a driving dynamic force in society and the world.
Join us for a report back on this conference, to get into bold and exciting plans off the conference, and to become part of this, starting now. The first step starts on Friday which marks the beginning of ten days of distributing 200,000 copies across the country of "The Revolution We Need . . . The Leadership We Have,"a Message and Call from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.
Come and be part of forging plans, organizing teams, brainstorming about places and events throughout Northern California where this statement needs to appear over the next 10 days. Your ideas, creativity, energy and struggle - your participation - is needed.
Check out the the Message and Call upon which this campaign is based at:
http://revcom.us/quick/170en.php#a0
The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA has undertaken an historic campaign - THE REVOLUTION WE NEED...THE LEADERSHIP WE HAVE... - as the crucial step right now to build a movement for revolution in this country, and to bring forward a new stage of communist revolution in the world. Last weekend, conferences were held to discuss how to prepare for taking this campaign to a whole other level.
As the Call in the Revolution newspaper for people to participate in the conferences last weekend put it,
People need to hear and see that things DON'T have to be this way. They need to hear about revolution. And they need to know there is a Party that is building a movement for revolution. That is what this campaign is about. We aim to make known to millions the goal and character of this revolution, communist revolution, as it has been revitalized and reconceived by Bob Avakian; to make the leader of this revolution a household word; and through all this to forge a core of dedicated fighters who are going to advocate for this revolution and make it a driving dynamic force in society and the world.
Join us for a report back on this conference, to get into bold and exciting plans off the conference, and to become part of this, starting now. The first step starts on Friday which marks the beginning of ten days of distributing 200,000 copies across the country of "The Revolution We Need . . . The Leadership We Have,"a Message and Call from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.
Come and be part of forging plans, organizing teams, brainstorming about places and events throughout Northern California where this statement needs to appear over the next 10 days. Your ideas, creativity, energy and struggle - your participation - is needed.
Check out the the Message and Call upon which this campaign is based at:
http://revcom.us/quick/170en.php#a0
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