What You Can Do

Contribute to the BAsics Bus Tour. This tour will not happen without your financial support. You can contribute online with a credit card at thebobavakianinstitute.org. Checks or money orders can be made payable to The Bob Avakian Institute or The BA Institute and mailed to 1016 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60607. Right now, contributions to The BA Institute can only be solicited and accepted from residents of the following states: California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Wyoming. If you are interested but in a different state, contributions can be made payable to RCP Publications at revcom.us or sent to PO Box 3486, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 60654. Please be aware that The Bob Avakian Institute is not tax exempt and donations made to it are not tax deductible.
Follow the bus tour at basicsbustour.tumblr.com. They'll be doing regular reporting, with photos and video from the tour. Stay tuned.
Send your own message of support to the bus tour and to the people the tour will be meeting… send a video (throw on dark glasses and a hoodie… so you and others can remain anonymous and in support of the struggle for justice for Trayvon Martin), email baeverywhere@gmail.com.
Tell your friends about this tour – ask them to contribute, post the tour participants' reports, videos and photos via email, Twitter or other social networks.
Volunteer in other ways! Write to baeverywhere@gmail.com if you can help with media work (including research) and video editing or have ideas on other ways you want to contribute.

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Friday, May 18: Plan a celebration in unity with the major kickoff event in Atlanta. Have a fundraising open house at Revolution Books or a house party.

Tuesday, May 22: A video statement from the tour will be released online. Pull together friends and tune in for a very special opportunity to hear first-hand about the progress of the tour thus far, what the volunteers on the tour are learning and what the response has been up to that point. Invite people to your homes for this, have a special gathering in a community center, church, neighborhood barber shop or restaurant. Coming together in this way, people will also be given another opportunity to contribute… this time to the next leg of the tour, which those on the tour will also be fundraising for. Stay tuned to basicsbustour.tumblr.com for details.

Memorial Day weekend: Have a picnic or join with others at their picnics… help the bus tour meet its final goals of selling BAsics, raising funds for the next leg of the tour and hearing from the tour participants' final experiences as this leg of the tour comes to a close. For those already planning family picnics, ask if the revolutionaries can come through and do a fund pitch or sell raffle tickets. Head out to the parks with Revolution newspaper, BAsics, clips from Avakian's Revolution talk and video clips from the bus tour's travels.

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