“WHAT TO THE SLAVE
IS YOUR FOURTH OF JULY?”

July 4th Picnics— Building the Revolutionary Struggle Against All Forms of Slavery Today—And Raising Funds to Get the Word Out On Revolutionary Leader Bob Avakian (BA) Everywhere

 

July 4 Weekend Revolutionary Events

Come one!
Come all!

In 1852, the escaped slave and freedom fighter Frederick Douglass gave a powerful, historic speech condemning the hypocrisy of America. Douglass exposed how the vaunted “greatest democracy in the world” had built its wealth on the enslavement of Africans and their descendants, and called for the abolition of this slavery.

Today, 162 years later, chattel slavery is no longer the law of the land (though millions worldwide are still enslaved, in ways that indirectly and often directly feed into and benefit the American empire). Yet today...

From those millions of Black and Latino youth put in a pipeline to prison the hour they are born... to the women who, even if they do not find themselves among the millions and even billions directly trafficked or raped or brutalized or denied the rights to abortion and birth control still suffer the consequences of those practices and like all women must every day walk a gauntlet of potential abuse and danger...

From the immigrants, here and around the world, driven by a desperate need to work to risk their lives in the deserts and oceans to then live in the shadows for the “chance” to be bitterly exploited... to the billions overall, whose very lives are funneled into amassing huge wealth for the imperialists while they themselves scrape for survival...

From those who suffer the horrors of America’s invasions, proxy wars, and drone strikes... to the way in which humanity as a whole faces an environmental catastrophe for which capitalism, in its mad pursuit for profit, has no other recourse but to make it worse...

...for all these, and for those whose hearts beat in empathy with them, America’s July 4th boasts are still nothing but mockery and hypocrisy. July 4th this year must NOT be a holiday to celebrate their revolution but a time to seize to build for the REVOLUTION we need now, at the earliest possible time, to get rid of their instruments of power and bring in a whole new world, free of all forms of slavery, all exploitation, and all the rotten institutions and ideas that go with the system of capitalism and prop it up.

This July 4th, come to a picnic to raise funds to get the word out on the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian (BA). Bob Avakian has taken the theory of revolutionary communism to a new level and has developed a way to actually overcome this madness. And, BA provides the practical leadership to the vanguard of the revolution we need, the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.

In commemoration of Douglass’ speech—and in recognition of the fact that, as BA writes in BAsics, “There would be no United States as we know it today without slavery. That is a simple and basic truth.”—these picnics and other activities will raise two slogans:

WHAT TO A SLAVE IS YOUR FOURTH OF JULY?
WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT SLAVERY IN ANY FORM!

Along with the food, fun and culture that will be provided, you will be able to actively engage with why we need a revolution, with what BA has brought forward in relation to that, and with how we actually prepare the ground, prepare the people and prepare the vanguard TO get ready for the time when millions can be led to go for revolution, all-out, with a real chance to win. You will be able to find out about the BA Everywhere campaign, as well as crucially important struggles that are being waged to end the mass incarceration of Black and Latino people, and to end the degradation and oppression of women.

Who should come to these 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!

 

To find out more about tickets, OR about how you can help:

New York

Sunday, July 6, 2-6 pm.
Backyard patio of New Amsterdam Music Association (NAMA) 107 West 130th Street.
Barbecue, picnic, music, film, award presentations, and more.
Tickets: $10 each. Sliding scale. $50 patron tickets.
Info: 347-835-8656 or BA.EverywhereNYC@gmail.com; Revolution Club NYC, 917-501-0354; Revolution Books, NYC, 212-691-3345

Los Angeles
Saturday, July 5, 12 noon-5 pm.
Rancho Cienega Park, Testimonials, culture, games, food, displays, community—everything that makes for a good time, infused with the content of the whole new world to which people aspire, and for which we are fighting. $10/plate; sliding scale.
Info: 213-304-9864

San Francisco Bay Area
Friday, July 4, 2-6 pm.
Mosswood Park, 3612 Webster Street, Oakland.
Picnic to raise funds for the BA Everywhere Campaign.
Info: 510-848-1196

Atlanta
Friday, July 4, 1-5 pm.
Grant Park. Look for our tent with banners and displays! Bring a dish to share, frisbees, testimonials, or music.
Info: 770-861-3339 or revbooksatl@hotmail.com

Houston
Friday, July 4, 4 pm.
Our Park, 2506 Alabama, Houston, TX 77004 (next to the SHAPE Community Center at Live Oak and Alabama).
Info: revolutionhtown@yahoo.com or 832-865-0408

Cleveland
Friday, July 4, 1-5 pm
Join us at Edgewater Park, lower level by beach walkway. Look for the canopy with the big red flag. Food, Fun, Culture.
Youth, unemployed, low income- $5 or bring a dish to share; employed- $10; families- $15.
Tickets and info: Revolution Books 216.932.2543 www.revbookscle.org

Chicago
Sunday, July 6, 2-6 pm.
63rd Street Beach. Picnic-look for the red flag.
$5 donation.

Honolulu, HI
Friday, July 4, 11 am-2 pm.
Old Stadium Park (corner of Isenberg & King).
Info:  808-944-3106

Boston-Cambridge
Friday, July 4, 12 noon.
Join Revolution Books at the Charles River in Cambridge. Food, music, speak-out. Look for the red flag at our tent.
Info: 617-492-5443.

Greensboro, NC
Friday, July 4, 6 pm.
Cookout and program with culture and testimonials featuring those who have been impacted by mass incarceration.
Info: baeverywherenc@yahoo.com.

Detroit
Friday, July 4, 2-6 pm
Picnic (bring a dish), BELLE ISLE,
east of Playscape on Central Ave.
For more information: Revolution Books, 313-204-2906, rbodetroit@yahoo.com.