“GET READY, NEW YORK CITY!”

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From a member of the National Revolution Tour:

On Saturday, September 14, a packed social hall at the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew in New York City welcomed the National Get Organized for an ACTUAL Revolution Tour. Longtime supporters and those just coming into the revolution as well as people from as far away as Philadelphia and Boston came to meet, hear from, and strategize with members and volunteers with the Revolution Tour. We showed video clips of what the Tour has accomplished. The place erupted in an uproar when the U.S. flag was burned in DC in front of the White House and in San Ysidro. A lively and engaging program was framed with a speech by Noche Diaz on the stakes of this moment as well as clips from Bob Avakian excerpted from the filmed speech, Why We Need An Actual Revolution And How We Can Really Make Revolution. Also expressed in this program was the need and possibility for the Tour to utilize to a much greater extent both this film and THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO! In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America, A Better World IS Possible. Major screenings of both of these films from BA were announced, one in late September and one in October. Plans were also announced for the Revolution to be among the mass outpourings on the climate crisis, the anti-Trump “We The People” march on DC, the mass Refuse Fascism organizing meeting on September 22, and the September 23 Climate Strike, both also in Washington.

At the end of the program, everyone stayed for lively discussions and to find out more about what the Tour has learned (and what was the struggle over), what the process has been like, and how do we really get people’s heads out of their asses. People walked away excited. Someone from the Revolution Club pointed out how different this program was and how you had a real feel that the National Tour is in town and people wanting to be a part of that after they were called on to fill a need.

 

From members of the Tour, at the program:

“Now we have something that we’ve never had before, which is the real possibility to get to that different world. And so we have tools that we’re bringing out to people.”

“You saw people who were inspired by our message as well as this energy and hope that was brought out through that, but behind that hope is actually the science that BA has brought forward in making this a reality, so we can’t ignore that and I feel proud to be a part of this Tour but I also want to call on other people to join us and actually contribute to this because it’s actually needed.”

“...we’re a team of scientists and that means we’re not starting from scratch—that means building on the knowledge that we have before, just like a team of scientists curing cancer: What do they do? They go to the research that has been done already. So we have to go to the most advanced scientist that’s brought this understanding forward for how we can make a revolution, why it’s necessary in the first place, how we can actually do it, going up against this system in the belly of the beast, and then bringing into being a whole different society, who is very far-seeing, looking at the contradictions that we are going to have to face in a different society to getting on the road and keeping on the road to actually breaking down the divisions among all sections of people. And so there was a struggle to reground ourselves in this.”

 

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