Revolution Books, New York City
New York City, Revolution Books
HOURS: Tues-Thurs-Fri-Sat-Sun 12-6 pm
LOCATION: 437 Malcolm X Blvd (at 132nd St) (2/3 train to 135th St)
New York, NY 10037
CONTACT: 212-691-3345
revbooksnyc@yahoo.com
revolutionbooksnyc.org
Revolution Books, Berkeley
Berkeley Revolution Books
HOURS: Tues-Fri 12:30-7pm; Sat & Sun 1:00-6pm
LOCATION: 2444 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
CONTACT: 510-848-1196
revolutionbooksberkeley@gmail.com
www.revolutionbooks.org
New York Events
437 Malcolm X Blvd (at 132nd St) (2/3 train to 135th St)
New York, NY 10037
Poets Against Fascism
Thursday, April 10, 7-9pm
Join us for an inspirational evening of poetry readings by a variety of artists!
Look, we're facing a full-out fascist regime. Openly hateful... undisguisedly repressive... hellbent on remaking society and the world in its ugly fascist image.
The revolutionary leader Bob Avakian has stated:
"This is a time for reaching out to all the others who feel the same outrage at Trump/MAGA fascism-- a time for collective actions and self-sacrificing struggle for the greater good: the greater good of defeating this fascism." Time is short, and the stakes are high.
On April 10th, these poets will be sounding the call through their art, passion, and conviction:
IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY, WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!
NIKKI KRAMER - writer, visual artist, and art event coordinator. She lives in Brooklyn, creates zines and chapbooks and hosts music and writing events in multiple spaces. Upcoming chapbook: The Source IG: art_by_nikki_k.
PAMELA L. LASKIN - former faculty member at City College, where she directed The Poetry Outreach Center. Author of five books of poetry, and most recently, her young adult novels and poetry focus on political and social justice freedoms. She is a proud supporter of Revolution Books.
CHANEL BURNS - Chanel is an artist and writer based in East Village. Her work is sourced from a well of dreams, visions, collective imagination and spiritual inquiry.
ALBERT DEPAS - visual artist, poet and educator. Author, Metamorphosis of Joy and The High. "I participate to preserve free speech and the freedom of the human’s spirit in the creative process."
BROOKE FINEGOLD - artist, poet, comedian, community event host who explores the sparkly facets of queerness, family, love and the body. She writes for @gaydarshow, runs @lesbianhands, hosts the Poetry is Gay salon at Singers and Comedy is Gay show at the Standard/Highline.
RASHIDAH ISMAILI - "As a writer and former Creative Writer, MA and MFA professor, I wish to be engaged in the discussion of how to be a concerned citizen of this world. I hope the arts will humanise us all and encourage our empathy and intelligence in making this a better world for all to enjoy."
MARZ LONGMA - Musician, Poet, Story-time teller, Actor, and Director. Youtube: @marzlongma1369
ILKA SCOBIE - a poet who teaches in the NYC public school system. Also writes about art for London Artlyst; deputy editor of LiveMag, a literary magazine; co-curator of a group show ART AM 3 in Soncino, Italy. Her recent poetry has appeared in Urban Graffiti, Vanitas and Poetry in Performance.
BARRY WALLENSTEIN - Author of 13 collections of poetry, most recent Playing in Overtime. Emeritus Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at City University of New York. "I look forward to joining other voices in protest against the current administration's ultra-nationalistic agenda and the nation's drift into fascism."
I am because we are. – Senegalese proverb
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Suggested donations of $5-10 at the door will be donated to bookstore.
This event is co-sponsored by Revolution Books Educational Fund, a 501(c)3 entity.
Giant Used Book Sale to Support Revolution Books
Sat & Sunday, April 12 & 13, 12 noon til 7pm both days
PEOPLE !
Are we not in the time of...
BANNED Critical thinking
BANNED Basic justice
BANNED Rule of law
BANNED Books
BANNED Students and scholars who dare to speak the truth about American imperialist crimes from 1619 down to Gaza right this minute.
BANNED, BURIED AND CANCELED in government, in the arts, in media, in the sciences, at Columbia!... as the Trump/MAGA regime barrels ahead with its Nazified remaking of academia, society and the world.
ALL TRUE Is there a single person reading this who is willing to accept it as the inevitable future of our world... not a damn thing to be done?!
NO! Not at Revolution Books At this bookstore, we bring you into the fight to STOP this fascism before it consolidates, to understand where this came from, and to act.
At Revolution Books, discover the books, the discussion, the performance, the debate needed to find our courage together, to fight for the whole world first and the whole new world that is POSSIBLE. Wrestle with and apply the new communism of the unparalleled revolutionary leader Bob Avakian.
On Saturday & Sunday, April 12 & 13 only:
- Find 1000s of great used books-- fiction, politics, poetry, art, children's books, science, revolutionary theory, history... Most $2-3
- Become a monthly donor to Revolution Books. Our goal: 25 new monthly donors by May 1! Special "Understand and change the world" gifts for those who sign up now through this weekend.
- Discussion, debate, current film clips of Bob Avakian with hard-hitting, real-time analysis and strategy on stopping fascism and making revolution with the aim of emancipating all of humanity.
Looking for a sedate retreat from the world? Not here. Instead, get in on the urgent process together of discovery and purpose... to understand and ACT.
Alive, curious, furiously urgent, all weekend!
Berkeley Events
2444 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Big Used Book Sale, Benefit for Revolution Books
Friday, April 4th, Saturday, April 5th and Sunday, April 6th from 12-6 p.m.
Come to our Used Book Sale, Friday-Sunday, April 4-5-6, from 12-6pm.
Donate funds now and volunteer to sort books and to staff the sale.
We have raised about $1000 towards our $3000 goal.
Revolution Books is even MORE important now as an intellectual, political, and cultural center for revolution as Trump/MAGA fascism drives to consolidate its grip on power and over society.
In this time when millions of people are being jolted as the Trump/MAGA fascists carry out one horror after another, what kind of future we get depends on what people understand and what they do.
This is where Revolution Books comes in. Revolution Books is where the whole world comes first, and the poetic spirit meets the search for the truth.
Where we carry a selection of a wide range of crucial literature — poetry, books on the history, culture and struggle of African American, Latine, Asian and Native peoples, women and LGBTQ, immigrants, books on science - all now under attack.
Support Revolution Books by donating books 📚📔📕 and come to the Benefit Book Sale, volunteers needed!
We need books (in good condition) of all kinds: history, fiction, African, Asian, Latine and Native American, women's, kids', science, graphic novels.
To donate books, contact us at revolutionbooksberkeley@gmail.com or call 510-848-1196. You can drop them off during our open hours: Tues-Fri from 12:30-7pm, Sat and Sun, 1-6pm.
Or to support the store, you can get a gift card for a friend or order online at www.revolutionbooks.org. Monthly sustainers needed, join Patreon.
Satsuki Ina presents her memoir: THE POET AND THE SILK GIRL
Friday, April 11th, 7 p.m.
In 1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 and invoked the 1798 Enemy Aliens Act, and 125,000 people of Japanese descent,
including newlyweds and American citizens Itaru and Shizuko Ina, were forcibly removed and incarcerated in remote concentration camps for years,
without charges, trial or due process.
Many of their homes, property and businesses were stolen by their white neighbors, and never returned. These fundamental violations of basic rights and US constitutional rights were a consequence of war time patriotism and racism and intended by the government to intensify that hysteria - to unite the country behind racism and patriotism against “the enemy”.
Satsuki Ina was born to Itaru and Shizuko during their imprisonment. She is a psychotherapist and an activist and weaves their story together in this moving mosaic through diary entries, photographs, clandestine letters, and heart-wrenching haiku. She reveals how this intrepid young couple navigated life,love, loss, and loyalty tests in the welter of World War II-era hysteria.
From Heyday, the publisher:
The Poet and the Silk Girl illustrates through one family’s saga the generational struggle of Japanese Americans who resisted racist oppression, fought for the restoration of their rights, and clung to their full humanity in the face of adversity.
With psychological insight, Ina excavates the unmentionable, recovering a chronicle of resilience amid some of the severest blows to American civil liberties. As she traces the legacies of trauma, she connects her family’s ordeal to modern-day mass incarceration at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Lyrical and gripping, this cautionary tale implores us to prevent the repetition of atrocity, pairing healing and protest with galvanizing power.
In this time when Trump MAGA fascism is incarcerating and deporting immigrants to hell hole prisons without due process, along with a furious onslaught of other fascist measures, when the government is declaring it is acting under the authority of very same Enemy Aliens Act which was used against the Japanese in World War II and has not been used since,
Revolution Books is proud to host Satsuki Ina and we invite everyone to come, listen and engage on these crucial questions.
NEVER AGAIN IS NOW!
