Baltimore
Word Up For the Revolution Club!
A benefit for the Revolution Club in the battle for Justice for Freddie Gray
June 15, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
Sunday, June 21, 4-6 pm
at LitMore Center for the Literary Arts
3326 Keswick Avenue (2nd Floor)
In Hampden, off of 33rd Street)
Baltimore
Baltimore has been thrust onto the front lines of the struggle to STOP murder by police by the response of the people to the murder of Freddie Gray. Things have to go much further. All the way to convicting and jailing the cops who murdered Freddie Gray. And this fight needs to be developed as part of the struggle to STOP the horror of this system giving police a green light over and over again to brutalize and murder Black and Latino people.
From day one, the young revolutionaries of the Revolution Club left homes, jobs, etc. and have been in thick of this struggle, organizing for an actual revolution, including spreading the handbook for revolution, BAsics from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian, thousands of posters have been distributed (see right, below), and much more. They need your financial support.
Revolutionaries will be at the benefit to speak more on the mission and work of the Revolution Club.
Surprise guests: young poetic West Baltimore voices now running with the Revolution Club will share some of their poetry from the Uprising.
Poets presenting their poetry:
Rachel Alton, Not Your Typical Love Poems, Hidden Clearing Press
Alan Barysh, co-winner, City Paper Best Poem of 2015
Marcus Colasurdo, founder Gimme Shelter Productions and activist for the homeless
David Eberhardt, member of Baltimore 4 (with Father Philip Berrigan and 2 others, poured blood on draft files, 1967), prisoner rights activist
Julie Fisher, co-editor Octopus Dreams Anthology
A. J. Hayes, founder, Hidden Clearing Press
Slangston Hughes, dewMoreBaltimore - Where Art and Activism Collide
Music by:
In the Clear (Irish and traditional folk music)
Suggested donation: $5 to $10
For more information on the Revolution Club: 443-240-9972 / RevBmore@gmail.com
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