Come One! Come All! to the July 4th Picnics Hosted by BA Everywhere!
June 23, 2014 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
Come One! Come All! to the July 4th picnics hosted by BA Everywhere! At a time when the powers-that-be will be waving the American flag and rallying people to celebrate the founding of this ugly social order which oppresses people the world over, BA Everywhere, a campaign to raise big money to project the vision and works of Bob Avakian throughout society is raising these slogans:
WHAT TO A SLAVE IS YOUR FOURTH OF JULY?
WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT SLAVERY IN ANY FORM!
Now is the time to build on what has been accomplished in the campaign so far and to break the campaign out even more broadly into society. Now is the time for BA Everywhere to reach out very, very broadly to people from all walks of life—into the neighborhoods and communities of those who catch hell every day in this society, among students, artists, professionals—and invite and unite one and all to these “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” picnics as we fight to carry through on the goals to raise big funds to get BA Everywhere. An important focus of this campaign is the 1000 years—$1000 project which aims to make the hundreds and thousands of years suffered in the hellhole prisons of this country count for bringing into being a radically new world. It matters if hundreds of people nationwide come to these picnics; they will be kicking off a whole summer of intense efforts leading into fall 2014. Let’s make these picnics major.
“Who should come to, participate in, and/or help build these weekend celebrations? EVERYONE WHO HATES THE MODERN-DAY FORMS OF ENSLAVEMENT THAT CHAIN PEOPLE DOWN, AND HUNGERS FOR A BETTER WORLD... EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO SEE A REAL FUTURE FOR OUR YOUTH... EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS ON WHAT CAN BE DONE TO BRING THAT WORLD, AND THAT FUTURE, INTO BEING!” (From "A Call for Major Events on July 4th Weekend: 'WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS YOUR FOURTH OF JULY?'")
Come one, come all!
People who hate the world as it is, and who long for a way out of this madness, should be there mixing it up with people who are outraged by the massive incarceration of Black and Latino people, especially youth, and are moving to resist this crime against humanity. People whose loved ones have been murdered by the police should be sharing their life experience with those who are horrified by the detention of tens of thousands of children seeking to escape lives of grinding poverty and violence in Central America. Fighters against the degradation of women and those who are right now moving to take up the demand that the right to abortion should be defended and extended must be there interacting with people who look out at the world and see how the billions who fight ferociously just to survive another day, and want to see an end to this horror. And engaging with those who agonize over the ongoing destruction of the planet and are determined to act to change this.
We refuse to accept slavery in any form!
These revolutionary picnics will be a coming together of many, many people from all corners of society. They will be a time to have some fun, for there to be testimonials, culture, games and more. These picnics should be full of lively discussion and wrangling where people get together and talk about the world we could bring into being and how to do that. They will be a time for those who are just learning about this revolution to hang with those who are actively involved in building this movement and comrades from the RCP. They will be a time to build community, as people from the ghettos and barrios wrangle with academics and artists about the revolution. And as people are having a great time, they can not only find out about what BA has brought forward and the campaign to get BA Everywhere, but the battle to stop mass incarceration and the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride (led by Stop Patriarchy), as well as other fronts of struggle people are waging. People can talk about how all these struggles are all related and can work together to call into question the legitimacy of this whole set-up, and be a part of building the movement for revolution and bringing forward a revolutionary current in society. And people should be able to get materials and find out how to get involved in all these different struggles.
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