Sunday, Feb.19: Disc/Plans International Women's Day and End Pornography and Patriarchy

Sunday Discussion at Revolution Books
Sunday, February 19
6:00pm

End Pornography and Patriarchy:
The Enslavement and Degradation of Women!

Abortion On Demand and Without Apology!

Fight for the Emancipation of Women All Over the World!

Discussion and Plansfor this year's International Women's Day
and beginning conversation on the Initiative to End Pornography and Patriarchy

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We are told that "equality for women has been won" and that "there are no limits to what girls can achieve." BULLSHIT!

Every 15 seconds a woman is beaten. Every day three to four women are killed by their partners. One out of four female college students will be raped or sexually assaulted while in college.

In recent years, pornography has become increasingly violent, cruel, degrading towards women; women are referred to as "cumdumpsters" and "fuckbuckets"; the "money shot" (ejaculation in a woman's face) is standard; humiliating cruelty-like violent "ass-to-mouth" penetration-is normalized, and racist bigotry is sexualized. Meanwhile, the broader culture has been pornified: pole dancing is taught at gyms, "sexting" is a national phenomenon among teens and the strip club is the accepted backdrop to "male bonding." All this is tied in with, and reinforces, the trafficking of millions of women and girls as literal chattel in the international sex industry.

This is NOT society becoming more comfortable with sex. This is society becoming saturated with the sexualized degradation of women. If you can't imagine sex without porn, you're fucked.

At the same time, a Christian fundamentalist-driven assault is imperiling abortion, birth control, real sex education and women's lives. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people who do not conform to traditional patriarchal gender and sexual norms are demonized and threatened. Abortion doctors are killed. Women who seek abortions-or even birth control-are stigmatized. 2011 saw the largest spate of legal restrictions on abortion since Roe v. Wade in 1973.

ALL THIS MUST BE STOPPED!

Fetuses are not babies. Women are not incubators. Abortion is not murder.

Women are not objects. Women are not things to be used for the sexual pleasure of men NOR are they breeders of children. WOMEN ARE HUMAN BEINGS CAPABLE OF FULL EQUALITY IN EVERY REALM!

It is long past time that this new generation stand up, reject, and RESIST this culture of rape and pornography; this culture that labels women "selfish" if they choose not to become mothers; this culture that reduces women and girls to sexualized objects while denying their full multi-dimentional humanity (including their right-as one essential part of this-to explore their sexuality without shame or stigma); this culture that demonizes and bullies LGBT people.

Our purpose is NOT to lobby for new legislation to ban pornography ("decency laws" have always served to further repress homosexuality, boundary-challenging art and scientific sex education). We oppose the criminalization of women in the sex industry. Our mission is to challenge the new generation in particular to wage fierce cultural and political resistance to wake others up and to bring forward a new culture that celebrates the full equality and liberation of women.

BA Everywhere...Imagine the Difference It Could Make! BAsics Bus Tour Update

BA Everywhere

Imagine the Difference It Could Make

BA Everywhere is a campaign aimed at raising big money to project Bob Avakian's voice and works throughout society-to make BA a household word. The campaign is reaching out to those who are deeply discontented with what is going on in the world, and stirring up discussion and debate about the problem and solution. It is challenging the conventional wisdom that this capitalist system is the best humanity can do-and bringing to life the reality that with the new synthesis of communism brought forward by BA, there is a viable vision and strategy for a radically new, and much better, society and world, and there is the leadership that is needed for the struggle toward that goal.

UPDATE

"Let's Go!"-Report from the BAsics Bus Tour

Letter from a Prisoner: "Every Page Packed With Liberating Knowledge"

Posted 2/16/2011: Raising Funds for BAsics for Prisoners-An Amazing Evening, from a Revolution supporter

Get Your BAsics: On Choices...And Radical Changes

BAsics from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian

Get Your BAsics! and send one to a prisoner too!

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C-span broadcast of Cornel West and Carl Dix "In the Age of Obama, Police Terror, Incarceration, No Jobs, Mis-education: "WHAT FUTURE FOR OUR YOUTH?"

c-span broadcast of

In the Age of Obama:
Police Terror, Incarceration, No Jobs, Mis-Education--

WHAT FUTURE FOR OUR YOUTH?

A dialogue between Cornel West and Carl Dix

Watch the C-SPAN broadcast of the December 2 dialogue between Carl Dix and Cornel West at UC Berkeley-"In the Age of Obama... Police Terror, Incarceration, No Jobs, Mis-Education: What Future for Our Youth?" 1800 turned out for this extraordinary evening.

One student called it "incredibly powerful."

A UC administrator said it was "Fantastic, the best event ever at UCB. It was well-timed with what's happened, it was intellectually challenging, emotionally touched people and relevant."

Read on.. "The Cornel West-Carl Dix Dialogue at UC Berkeley: Thousands Turn Out For Unprecedented, Transformative Evening")

Be sure to forward the link to others!

Watch the full program

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/RaceIne

Audio - full program in pieces

http://www.radioproject.org/2012/01/cornel-west-carl-dix-pursuing-justice-in-the-age-of-obama/

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Sunday, February 12, 6pm: 2.4 Million People in Prison Why?--and How the Notion of "Prison-Industrial Complex Get this Wrong?

Sunday Discussion at Revolution Books

6:00pm

Sunday, February 12

There Are 2.4 Million People in Prison in the U.S.-Why?

What Do We DO About It?

How Does the Notion of a

"Prison-Industrial Complex" Get This Wrong?

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This article is in this week's Revolution newspaper under "Ask a Communist"

The last 30 years have seen a massive and unprecedented imprisonment of millions of people in this country. To give some idea of this, there are more than eight times as many people in prison today as there were in 1970! This comes out to 2.4 million people (and that doesn't even include the 363,000 immigrants passing through "detention centers"-many of which are worse than prisons-awaiting deportation). In addition, millions more are being indirectly controlled through probation and parole. No other country on the planet even comes close to imprisoning as many people, or as high a percentage of its population.

Almost more than the sheer volume, the most fundamental aspect of this massive imprisonment has been its targeting of Black and Latino people in particular. To give some sense of this, the proportion of Black prisoners relative to whites has more than doubled in the past 40 years; and today Blacks are incarcerated at a rate seven times higher than whites. A 2007 study pointed out that "a young Black male without a high school degree has a 59 percent chance of being imprisoned before his thirty-fifth birthday."¹ Today in the U.S., more Black men are in prison, or otherwise caught up in the penal system through probation, etc. than were enslaved in 1860! read on...

If you like this article spread the link widely

Hard copy and bundles available at Revolution Books.

Special Pullout: On the occasion of Black History Month

BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian

Revolution newspaper is presenting a selection of quotes from BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian that focus on the oppression of Black people and the fight against that oppression. The struggle against the oppression of Black people is a crucial part of building the movement for revolution, which is aimed at getting rid of all oppression and exploitation and transforming society and the world as a whole.

These quotes from BAsics draw from more than 30 years of work by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. BAsics addresses a wide range of questions on revolution and human emancipation and is a handbook for a new wave of revolutionaries.

Read on...

• PDF Posters: Front | Inside | Back
• The Oppression of Black People, The Crimes of This System, and the Revolution We Need
  Revolution Special Issue now available in online and PDF booklet format

Hard copy and bundles are available at the bookstore

Be A Part of Bringing Cornel West and Carl Dix Dialogue to the Atlanta University Center

In The Age of Obama, Police Terror, Incarceration, No Jobs, Mis-education: WHAT FUTURE FOR OUR YOUTH?

A Dialogue Between

Cornel West and Carl Dix

There is a committee working on bringing this critical and urgent dialogue to the Atlanta University Center this semester. If you or your organization or academic department/instition would like to be a co-sponsor, make a much needed financial contribution, please get in touch as soon as possible.

Contact information: cornelcarlatl@yahoo.com

Make a financial contribution:
Checks can be sent to Revolution Books, P.O. Box 5333, Atlanta, 31107
In memo write: Cornel/Carl Dialogue

Media Coverage from the UC Berkeley Event

c-span broadcast: Race, Inequality, and Student Activism
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/302979-1

The Daily Californian
Cornel West, Carl Dix speak at UC Berkeley about social

Revolution newspaper
Thousands Turn Out For Unprecedented, Transformative Evening

"Carl Dix and Cornel West tonight... Even from the 99th overflow room, this is so incredibly powerful." Tweet

"Fantastic, the best event ever at UCB. It was well-timed with what's happened, it was intellectually challenging, emotionally touched people and relevant."
UC Administrator

"Students emailed their lives will never be the same."
UC Professor

Get Your BAsics from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian--Available as an e-book

BAsics from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian

Get Your BAsics! and send one to a prisoner too!

Available at the Revolution Books $10

online: amazon.com

Available as an e-book

For Kindle, amazon.com

For Nook, barnesandnoble.com

For iBooks, search in iTunes store

Search for Full Title of Book $5.99

Carl Dix on WRFG Thursday on "Tips For Tebow" by Bob Avakian and Discuss on Sunday

Carl Dix

WRFG, 89.3 FM

Thurday, February 2 at 12 Noon-1pm

on

"Tips for Tim Tebow"

by Bob Avakian

Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

Adam Shapiro, host of "Current Events" on WRFG, 89.3 FM will interview Carl Dix, one of the founders of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, about Bob Avakian's new article on "Tebow-Mania." Listen in at 89.3 FM or on the web at wrfg.org.

The last half hour of the show is a call in format for your comments and questions.

The phone number is 404-523-8989.

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This will also be the topic of our discussion at

Revolution Books on Sunday, February 5, 6:00pm -7:30pm

TIPS FOR TIM TEBOW

By Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

DOWNLOAD POSTER OF THIS ARTICLE (PDF, 17x22")

Tim Tebow, quarterback for the Denver Broncos in the National Football League, is being widely, and seemingly endlessly, promoted-as an icon not only in the realm of sports but much more broadly. I have followed sports, including football, for many decades now, and I cannot recall ever witnessing anything like this. In a highly orchestrated and concentrated campaign, Tebow is being held up as a "worker of miracles" on the football field but, more than that, as a "role model" and moral standard-bearer.

This hype around Tebow is completely and strikingly out of proportion to any demonstrated ability or actual accomplishments on Tebow's part, in terms of performance as a professional football quarterback. If you have been paying attention not only to the arena of sports but to things more broadly in this society and the world, you should be able to quickly guess why this is: Tim Tebow is a religious fanatic-of the Christian fundamentalist variety-who aggressively promotes his medieval views and values in a way that is obviously considered useful by significant sections of the powers-that-be in the U.S. read on...

Additional Article in this week's Revolution

TIM TEBOW AND THE "TUCK RULE"

by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

Editors' Note: The following is part of a major interview that was recently conducted with Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. Given its timeliness, this part of the interview is being published now (see also the article in this issue, "Tips for Tim Tebow," written by Bob Avakian to accompany this excerpt from the interview). We are looking forward to publication, in the near future, of other parts of this interview, and the interview in its entirety.

Read on...

Book Special: AWAY WITH ALL GODS! by Bob Avakian

Book Special Sale: $10

Bringing a revolutionary communist voice to the current discourse about god, atheism, and morality, Bob Avakian's Away With All Gods demystifies religious belief and examines how, even in its most progressive interpretations, religion stands in the way of the emancipation of humanity. Available at Revolution Books Atlanta

Sat. February 4: National Day of Mass Action to Stop a U.S. War on Iran!

In Atlanta:

4:30-5:30pm

Outside CNN, downtown

Marietta and Centennial Olympic Park Dr.

The danger of a U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is escalating rapidly. The U.S. and its allies are ramping up their all-around assault on Iran, including new crippling sanctions, and openly threatening to attack. Ground is being laid daily in the headlines and statements by politicians of every stripe in mainstream U.S. politics calling for aggression against Iran-all justified by unsubstantiated assertions that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. read on...

Any military attack or war on Iran would be a huge crime that would likely result in many, many killed and wounded along with enormous devastation. People, especially in the U.S., have to say-loudly, clearly, and actively-NO!

Meet up with Revolution Books: Meet at the bookstore at 3:00 to make signs and go together, or just meet at the demonstration.

Info on national events: worldcantwait.net

BA Everywhere...Imagine the Difference It Could Make!

BAsics Bus Tour Departing from LA on February 7th

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This bus tour is part of the campaign to get BA's Vision and Works Everywhere. $7,000 has been raised nationally and it will make it possible for the tour to begin in a few short weeks. (Atlanta contributed $400 from our New Year fundraising party)

Picture this scene:

A bus rolls up to the entrance of a local college or into a high school parking lot. Or it pulls into the center of town and sets up big displays. Or maybe it appears at a club where the youth hang out or a neighborhood church where progressive people go. Or a homeless encampment of people driven into the hidden corners of society because they no longer have anywhere to live, or a place where farmworkers gather before heading out to another day of field work under the pounding hot California sun.

But this is no typical bus...

Read the whole article, the needs of the tour, and the schedule read on..

Thanks to everyone in Atlanta who attended and/or contributed in many ways to the bus tour thru our New Year Party!

Funds are still needed! If you weren't able to attend and would like to make a financial contribution or would like to contribute again to this exciting endeavor...

Send checks to Revolution Books, 5726 Hollywood Blvd., LA, CA 90028. Write BAsics Bus Tour on the memo line.

You can donate through Pay-Pal on the bookstore's website, revolutionbooks.org. Send us an email at revolutionbooks@sbcglobal.net telling us your donation is for the bus tour.

Discussion Jan. 29: U.S.-Israel Assault on Iran Escalates: Danger of War Grows

Discussion at Revolution Books

Sunday, January 29

6:00 pm

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The danger of a U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is escalating rapidly. The U.S. and its allies are ramping up their all-around assault on Iran, including new crippling sanctions, and openly threatening to attack. Ground is being laid daily in the headlines and statements by politicians of every stripe in mainstream U.S. politics calling for aggression against Iran-all justified by unsubstantiated assertions that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons.

Whether or not Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons technology (and there is no proof they are), this U.S. imperialist narrative and framework is an outrageous effort to turn reality upside down-the reality of which of the clashing oppressive forces in the region is the dominant threatening oppressor and bully.

read on...

Background Reading

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Part 2 * More on the Aims of the Bush Regime-and on the Consequences * Israel and Its "Special Role" in Relation to U.S. Imperialism * The Danger of War Against Iran Click here

This edited version of a talk by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA is from the fall 2006 and still very pertinent today.

@ Revolution Books Sunday, January 22 @ 6pm: DVD Abortion, Morality, and the Liberation of Women

Join Us on Roe v. Wade day, the 39th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision which legalized the right to abortion in this country. Today, this right hangs by a thread.

Join us to watch a very important and thought provoking dvd of a discussion that took place at Revolution Books in NYC between Dr. Susan Wicklund, a courageous abortion provider and author of the book called, "This Common Secret: My Journey As An Abortion Provider", and Sunsara Taylor, writer for Revolution newspaper.

Discussion to follow. Your thoughts and even disagreements are welcome.

Both the DVD and Dr. Wicklund's book are available at Revolution Books Atlanta

January 22, 2012: Stand Up for Abortion and Birth Control

This week's Revolution

IT IS TIME!

January 22 and 23, on the 39th anniversary of the Roe V. Wade Supreme Court Decision which legalized abortion, come to DC to:

Stand up for Abortion and Birth Control

39 years after women won the right to abortion, this fundamental right is hanging by a thread.

• Nearly 90% of U.S. counties have no abortion provider.
• 2011 saw the greatest number of restrictions passed at the state level - parental notification laws, mandatory waiting periods, gestational bans, etc. - restricting this access even further.
• Doctors who provide abortions are hunted, terrorized and killed.
• And the stigma and shame cast on women who get abortions is greater than ever.

But that is not all.

read on...

ABORTION ON DEMAND AND WITHOUT APOLOGY!

Fetuses are not babies.

Abortion is not murder.

Women are not incubators.

A woman who cannot decide for herself when and whether to have a child is not free. Forced motherhood is female enslavement. And when women - half of humanity - are not free, then no one is free.

Pick up a hard copy of the newspaper or a bundle to distribute at the bookstore, check hours above.