This Weekend: Help Spread Revolution & Communism

Calendar of Events:

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.

Check out "Looking for Change in the National Equality March" in this week's Revolution newspaper. Watch slideshow Article and photos by Li Onesto

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)

Don't forget to change the clocks back 1 hr. Sat @midnight.

DVD Showing & Discusson: Sunday, Oct. 25th, 4 PM at Rev Books

Stopping Police Brutality
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.”

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

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]