Show starts at 7 pm. If you missed this powerful film in the theater be sure to come and see it at Revolution Books!
Seeking the promise of America, a young Honduran woman, Sayra, joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with a teenaged Mexican gang member, El Casper (Edgar M. Flores), who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates. Together they must rely on faith, trust and street smarts if they are to survive their increasingly perilous journey towards the hope of new lives.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Tuesday, August 31: The 40th Anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium: The oppression of Chicano people and the emancipation of humanity. -- presentation by a participant in the Moratorium
7 pm
40 years ago over 25,000 Chicanos (people of Mexican descent born or raised in the U.S.) from across the country marched down Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles to demand an end to the Vietnam War and an end to their oppression as a people.
This was the first time the Chicano people had ever come together in this kind of outpouring of protest. It came at a time when the country was being rocked by the anti-war movement, which in a span of 10 days had seen protesting students shot and killed by National Guard troops at Kent State, and by police at Jackson State; at a time when people in 100 cities rose up in rebellion after the murder of Martin Luther King; when the Black Panther Party was "ideologizing" revolution on the scene; and when revolution was part of the mix in society....
Read the paper by the RCP - The Chicano Struggle and Proletarian Revolution in the US
40 years ago over 25,000 Chicanos (people of Mexican descent born or raised in the U.S.) from across the country marched down Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles to demand an end to the Vietnam War and an end to their oppression as a people.
This was the first time the Chicano people had ever come together in this kind of outpouring of protest. It came at a time when the country was being rocked by the anti-war movement, which in a span of 10 days had seen protesting students shot and killed by National Guard troops at Kent State, and by police at Jackson State; at a time when people in 100 cities rose up in rebellion after the murder of Martin Luther King; when the Black Panther Party was "ideologizing" revolution on the scene; and when revolution was part of the mix in society....
Read the paper by the RCP - The Chicano Struggle and Proletarian Revolution in the US
Sunday, August 29, 4pm till 9pm, "Rebellious Rooftop Romp"
Fun-Raising Party for
Revolution Books
Revolution Books
"REBELLIOUS ROOFTOP ROMP III"
Potluck, open mic, dancing, live music & more
$5- 25 donation
For tickets and the location of the event, call 510-848-1196
revolutionbooks@sbcglobal.net www.revolutionbooks.org
$5- 25 donation
For tickets and the location of the event, call 510-848-1196
revolutionbooks@sbcglobal.net www.revolutionbooks.org
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Thursday, September 2: Meet the Revolution Club
7 pm --- Hang out with the Revolution Club - discuss all the big questions facing the movement for revolution. Be part of Fighting the Power and Transforming the People for Revolution.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 7 p.m. - Open Mic: Favorite Bob Avakian Quotes
Open Mic: In anticipation of BAsics, a pocket-sized book of about 100 Bob Avakian quotations to be published later this year—read your favorite passages and quotes from the works of Bob Avakian.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Tuesday August 10 at 7 pm: Report-back from Arizona Freedom Summer
On July 29, Arizona's anti-immigration law, SB1070, went into effect. Revolutionary activists from the Bay Area -- who will report back--- were part of the building resistance to the law, declaring a “No Deportations Zone” in a Phoenix barrio, demonstrating in the streets on July 29, bringing the revolution we need and the leadership we have to Phoenix and Tucson. They said: “We don’t have an immigration problem. We have a capitalism problem.”
They willl discuss how the blocking by a federal court injunction of the implementation of some provisions of the law has not stopped the fascist offensive against immigrants in Arizona. In fact, it represents very real and bitter disagreements within the ruling class over how to control and repress immigrants. They will describe what has been the effect of this law among immigrants and those who stand with them and among those who are trying to drive them out of the state. They will report on the developing fascist movement against immigrants and the raids and roundups as well as the demonstrations in the streets against SB 1070 and the developing resistance.
They will speak to the urgent need to organize resistance against these attacks as part of building a movement for revolution.
Arizona's anti-Immigrant Law is inhumane & illegitimate. Stop the fascist Attacks on Immigrants!
For more, see http://www.rwor.org/a/208/immigration-en.html
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From Arizona Freedom Summer
We are all illegals! ...
We don't gotta show no stinkin' papers!
No troops on the border!
We don't have an immigration problem.
We have a capitalism problem!
They willl discuss how the blocking by a federal court injunction of the implementation of some provisions of the law has not stopped the fascist offensive against immigrants in Arizona. In fact, it represents very real and bitter disagreements within the ruling class over how to control and repress immigrants. They will describe what has been the effect of this law among immigrants and those who stand with them and among those who are trying to drive them out of the state. They will report on the developing fascist movement against immigrants and the raids and roundups as well as the demonstrations in the streets against SB 1070 and the developing resistance.
They will speak to the urgent need to organize resistance against these attacks as part of building a movement for revolution.
Arizona's anti-Immigrant Law is inhumane & illegitimate. Stop the fascist Attacks on Immigrants!
For more, see http://www.rwor.org/a/208/immigration-en.html
---
From Arizona Freedom Summer
We are all illegals! ...
We don't gotta show no stinkin' papers!
No troops on the border!
We don't have an immigration problem.
We have a capitalism problem!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Sunday, August 8: Fundraising Web-a-Thon
Hosted by Annie Day, Will Reese & Sunsara Taylor
Back by popular demand and real necessity, on Sunday, August 8, the campaign around “The Revolution We Need… The Leadership We Have” will hold a second fundraising web-a-thon, from 1pm - 7 pm Pacific Standard Time, 4pm – 10pm, EST.
Every week the headlines scream out at us that we need a radically different world. Thursday, July 29th, Arizona began enforcing many parts of an unjust, immoral, and unconstitutional law that threatens the lives of immigrants. And 90,000 secret military documents that paint a devastating picture of the brutal invasion and occupation of Afghanistan were leaked from inside the U.S. military. The cop who shot Oscar Grant in the back as he was detained, lying face down on a subway platform, killing him, was convicted only of “involuntary manslaughter” showing the reality behind the “post-racial society.”
This is not the best of all possible worlds and we do not have to live this way! We are building a movement for revolution, now, and you should be a part of this.
So, start organizing your friends to watch together on Sunday August 8. Email your friends, make a donation and challenge your friends to match it and join the movement for revolution.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Tuesday, August 3 at 7 pm - Join Us for an Update on the RCP's Campaign - "The Revolution We Need...The Leadership We Have"
Join us for the push to distribute 40,000 copies of the Message & Call, The Revolution We Need...The Leadership We Have starting Saturday, July 31 and lasting until Thursday, August 5th. This is the second wave in the Campaign to distribute one million of the Message & Call this summer. We will discuss the status of the Campaign this Tuesday, August 3 and make plans for the upcoming Web-a-thon on August 8 to raise money for special projects to popularize Bob Avakian's leadership, especially the Revolution talk, and for the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund.
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."
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Monday, August 2 -- Brainstorm to Transform Revolution Books!
Fighters and dreamers! Meet up at 7 -- share your ideas!
Our store in Berkeley needs to become a place where people can meet the revolution: scientific and poetic, wrangling and visionary, alive with a defiant spirit that refuses to accept that the horrors of today’s world have to be. It is THE place at this moment where people can connect with the campaign, “The Revolution We Need, The Leadership We Have” and the movement to change the world. 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.
Based on this kind of revolution, the bookstore needs voices and literature on the many spheres of life - science, art, poetry, novels, philosophy, politics – and author readings, book debuts, film “talk backs” with directors and more, that inspire and unleash awe and wonder, that contribute in a variety of ways to “freeing the spirit from its cell” – of revolution in the world, including the world of ideas – a place where epistemology meets morality – of knowing and changing the world. The bookstore needs to get way out in the world and play an essential and vital role in shifting the political and ideological terms that predominate in society, including helping to break through the lowered sights and dearth of engagement with revolutionary communist analysis and solution.
Let’s talk frankly – the bookstore as it is today is NOT yet that kind of place. But it needs to be and CAN be – with a radical transformation of the revolutionary content, edge and feel of the bookstore. This revitalization and revolutionizing of the bookstore provides a big opportunity to bring something fresh into being that can act as a real magnet for all who yearn for a far better future for humanity.
We urgently need your input on this transformation and on ongoing fundraising! We need to raise $60,000 over the next six months from many people to renovate and transform the bookstore.
To accomplish this we need your ideas, energy, creativity, expertise and enthusiasm – we need graphic and video artists, lawyers, accountants, architects, 2.0 web designers and people with basic skills, carpenters, professors, students, basic masses, poets – fighters and dreamers all – to take up this tremendous task.
The future of this revolutionary bookstore depends on YOU!
Our store in Berkeley needs to become a place where people can meet the revolution: scientific and poetic, wrangling and visionary, alive with a defiant spirit that refuses to accept that the horrors of today’s world have to be. It is THE place at this moment where people can connect with the campaign, “The Revolution We Need, The Leadership We Have” and the movement to change the world. 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.
Based on this kind of revolution, the bookstore needs voices and literature on the many spheres of life - science, art, poetry, novels, philosophy, politics – and author readings, book debuts, film “talk backs” with directors and more, that inspire and unleash awe and wonder, that contribute in a variety of ways to “freeing the spirit from its cell” – of revolution in the world, including the world of ideas – a place where epistemology meets morality – of knowing and changing the world. The bookstore needs to get way out in the world and play an essential and vital role in shifting the political and ideological terms that predominate in society, including helping to break through the lowered sights and dearth of engagement with revolutionary communist analysis and solution.
Let’s talk frankly – the bookstore as it is today is NOT yet that kind of place. But it needs to be and CAN be – with a radical transformation of the revolutionary content, edge and feel of the bookstore. This revitalization and revolutionizing of the bookstore provides a big opportunity to bring something fresh into being that can act as a real magnet for all who yearn for a far better future for humanity.
We urgently need your input on this transformation and on ongoing fundraising! We need to raise $60,000 over the next six months from many people to renovate and transform the bookstore.
To accomplish this we need your ideas, energy, creativity, expertise and enthusiasm – we need graphic and video artists, lawyers, accountants, architects, 2.0 web designers and people with basic skills, carpenters, professors, students, basic masses, poets – fighters and dreamers all – to take up this tremendous task.
The future of this revolutionary bookstore depends on YOU!
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Friday, July 30: Speak Out on the Gulf Oil Disaster
THE GULF OIL DISASTER......
100 Days of Outrage Demands 100 Actions!
Friday, July 30 at 5:30 p.m.
Speak out on corner of Shattuck & Berkeley Way, in downtown Berkeley
PROTEST - SPEAK OUT - TAKE ACTION
In Cities, Towns, Communities... Globally! The environment has no borders!
Because the o
il gusher may not be capped
Because 100-200 million gallons of oil & 2 million of dispersants still foul the Gulf
Because wetlands, shores, wild and marine life are still threatened
Because peoples' health still isn't protected
Because the truth is still not out
Because oil companies and government still want to "drill, baby, drill"...
Because we're not stopping until the well is sealed and the Gulf is healed!!
On This 100th Day, Stand up and speak out!
SPEAK OUT, COMMUNITY WITNESS, RALLY
Gather at BP's new mega-million $ site (under construction) at Shattuck Avenue and Berkeley Way, Berkeley CA (just off University Avenue)
Look for the huge construction site on Shattuck which is to be BP's new home at UC Berkeley. In 2007 over protests from much of the UC community, for just $500 million BP (British Petroleum) bought its way into UC's academic and scientific resources.
*Bring posters, banners, signs, written messages about BP's criminal responsibility for the nightmare disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
*Bring cloth streamers, drapes, electrical tape, all in BLACK, symbolizing the oil destroying ocean, human, and planetary life.
*Bring your outrage at the University of California-BP connection - your presence in protest - your friends and family - your voice to raise.
Initiated by WORLD CAN'T WAIT sf@worldcantwait.org 415-864-5153 sfbaycantwait.org
In solidarity with the EMERGENCY COMMITTEE TO STOP THE GULF OIL DISASTER stopgulfoildisaster@gmail.com | 504.644.7214 |www.stopgulfoildisaster.org
100 Days of Outrage Demands 100 Actions!
Friday, July 30 at 5:30 p.m.
Speak out on corner of Shattuck & Berkeley Way, in downtown Berkeley
PROTEST - SPEAK OUT - TAKE ACTION
In Cities, Towns, Communities... Globally! The environment has no borders!
Because the o
il gusher may not be cappedBecause 100-200 million gallons of oil & 2 million of dispersants still foul the Gulf
Because wetlands, shores, wild and marine life are still threatened
Because peoples' health still isn't protected
Because the truth is still not out
Because oil companies and government still want to "drill, baby, drill"...
Because we're not stopping until the well is sealed and the Gulf is healed!!
On This 100th Day, Stand up and speak out!
SPEAK OUT, COMMUNITY WITNESS, RALLY
Gather at BP's new mega-million $ site (under construction) at Shattuck Avenue and Berkeley Way, Berkeley CA (just off University Avenue)
Look for the huge construction site on Shattuck which is to be BP's new home at UC Berkeley. In 2007 over protests from much of the UC community, for just $500 million BP (British Petroleum) bought its way into UC's academic and scientific resources.
*Bring posters, banners, signs, written messages about BP's criminal responsibility for the nightmare disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
*Bring cloth streamers, drapes, electrical tape, all in BLACK, symbolizing the oil destroying ocean, human, and planetary life.
*Bring your outrage at the University of California-BP connection - your presence in protest - your friends and family - your voice to raise.
Initiated by WORLD CAN'T WAIT sf@worldcantwait.org 415-864-5153 sfbaycantwait.org
In solidarity with the EMERGENCY COMMITTEE TO STOP THE GULF OIL DISASTER stopgulfoildisaster@gmail.com | 504.644.7214 |www.stopgulfoildisaster.org
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