On November 15th people filled the nave of the Riverside Church in New York City to capacity to witness the dialogue between Cornel West and Bob Avakian on the topic of Revolution and Religion : The Fight For Emancipation and the Role of Religion. Check back here very soon for more coverage and broadcast schedule.
Rebroadcast of the Livestream—Watch here!
November 20, 2014
An Historic Dialogue: Cornel West and Bob Avakian Enlighten and Challenge in Dark Times
November 16, 2014
Biographies of Cornel West & Bob Avakian
More on the Dialogue
Cornel West: ". . . You're going to hear agreement & disagreement... transgression & convergence... most importantly, you're going to hear two brothers who are for real..."
Download 60-second audio PSA of Cornel West's message
THREE REASONS
WHY YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS THE NOV 15 DIALOGUE
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To the Youth Who This System Has Cast Off: This Dialogue Is for You
"Legendary freedom fighter and long distance runner..." Bob Avakian 1969, 1979 and 2003 (7:44 video)
A Challenge to Match Funds
From Ferguson & St. Louis: “We’re doing a fundraiser so we can take folks to New York City to . . . open their eyes to what’s really going on"
DARREN WILSON MUST BE INDICTED!
THERE MUST BE JUSTICE!
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Cornel West and Carl Dix, Co-founders of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network Say:
Get Ready to Respond to Grand Jury Decisions and Be in the House for the November 15 Dialogue Between Cornel West and Bob Avakian
Day —Evidence of murder piles up, but still the cop who killed Michael Brown is not indicted and is walking free! We demand justice!
Go here for more on the struggle for justice in Ferguson
Also in this issue
From A World to Win News Service:
Mexico: Struggle builds for the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students
Interview with Science Writer David Quammen
Ebola, Poverty, and Absence of Decent Healthcare in West Africa
Protest at Chicago Police Headquarters:
An Outpouring of Rage
Inspired by people rising up in Ferguson, a broad array of families of victims of police murder joined together for a powerful protest on November 5 to demand justice.
Indict, Convict, Send the Killer Cop to Jail.
The Whole Damn System Is Guilty As Hell.
Of Continuing Interest
You Have a Chance to See “The Jimi Hendrix of Revolution.” Live.
Stop the Lies and Slanders:
Bob Avakian and the RCP Are the Exact Opposite of a "Cult"!
Where We Are in the Revolution— Right NOW
Where We Are In The Revolution—RIGHT NOW
Part 2: Going All Out To Change Everything
Setting the Record Straight:
The Real Role of the Revolutionary Communist Party in the Struggle vs. Police Repression
Why You Absolutely Need a Vanguard Party to Make Revolution
by Lenny Wolff
Take to the Streets When the Ferguson Grand Jury Announces Its Decision
IF THE MURDERING PIG WALKS, AMERIKKKA MUST BE BROUGHT TO A HALT!
by Carl Dix
November 17, 2014
When the Grand Jury Decision is Announced: Protest actions around the country
From Efia Nwangaza to NPR: Give Carl Dix Opportunity to Answer the Red-baiting
November 20, 2014
Nixon’s State of Emergency: Illegitimate and Outrageous
November 17, 2014
DARREN WILSON MUST BE INDICTED!
THERE MUST BE JUSTICE!
Go here for more on the struggle for justice for Michael Brown
St. Louis: Dramatic die-in marks 100 days of injustice and struggle
November 17, 2014
To those who experienced the dialogue between
Cornel West and Bob Avakian
Continue the Dialogue, Learn More About the Revolution, Get Involved in the Movement...
November 15
Thursday November 13!
FULL PAGE AD FOR the CORNEL WEST & BOB AVAKIAN DIALOGUE
in the NEW YORK TIMES page 11
The Indiegogo campaign overreached its goal at $31,360. The Dialogue was a major success. Funds are still needed—to publicize the streaming video of this event widely in society and to produce a professional film for this to reach even greater audiences across the country and around the world, and to cover the full cost of the New York Times ad that appeared before the Dialogue. CONTRIBUTE GENEROUSLY
A Must-See Film!
You can't change the world if you don't know the BAsics.
BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian is a book of quotations and short essays that speaks powerfully to questions of revolution and human emancipation.
At the beginning of 2012, an in-depth interview with Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, was conducted over a period of several days by A. Brooks, a younger-generation revolutionary who has been inspired by the leadership and body of work of Bob Avakian and the new synthesis of communism this has brought forward.
Click the cover to read, print, or download a PDF of the interview.
Want to know how BA's new synthesis of communism would apply to organizing a new society?
From the New York Amsterdam News:
A dialogue between Dr. Cornel West and communist leader Bob Avakian
November 13
by Herb Boyd
"A dialogue between Dr. Cornel West, one of the nation’s foremost public intellectuals, and Bob Avakian, the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, on the issue of “Revolution and Religion,” is sure to be as lively as it is provocative...."
Letter to the Defiant Ones: The November 15th Dialogue Is For You
November 13, 2014
Leaflet taken out to high school students in Harlem
November 12
11/12/14: Carl Dix Discusses the REVOLUTION AND RELIGION Dialogue with Paul DeRienzo on Manhattan Public Access
Cornel West & Bob Avakian Dialogue will be simulcast in LONDON, LOS ANGELES and SF BAY AREA, CA.
The Dialogue Between Cornel West and Bob Avakian—
THIS IS FOR YOU!
November 11
A flier distributed in the projects in Harlem
What People Are Saying
(Updated Nov 12)
See what author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, criminal defense attorney Jed Stone, Nicholas Heyward (Father of Nicholas Heyward, Jr. murdered by New York Police Dept. in 1994), Alice Walker and others are saying about the Dialogue...
See posted statements here
Two Days With the Volunteers: Harriet Tubman, “America’s Top Chef,” and Getting A Whole Lot More ORGANIZED
November 7, 2014
New Reports on Building the Dialogue
Updated November 13, 2014
New Reports on Building the Movement for Revolution
Updated September 1, 2014
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