Revolution #305, May 26, 2013 Click for current front and back page

From Florida to NY to California and Everywhere Else
Police Murder... Mass Incarceration... Racists Run Rampant

Revolution newspaper has just learned that several prisoners from Pelican Bay State Prison Security Housing Unit (solitary confinement) in California have sent word to the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund (PRLF) that the prison has withheld from them issue #302 (May First 2013) of Revolution newspaper.

We Are All TRAYVON
The Whole Damn System Is Guilty

The trial of racist vigilante George Zimmerman is set to begin June 10. Hit the streets on that day for National Hoodie Day.

Donate Funds to Send Revolution Reporters to Cover the Trial of George Zimmerman

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Coming Off the Premieres

A Fundamental Point of Orientation, Approach and Objective

THIS MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTION MUST NOW BECOME A REAL FORCE, POWERFULLY IMPACTING AND INFLUENCING ALL OF SOCIETY... bringing forward growing numbers of those this system has cast out and cast down, who must be and can be the driving force of the fight to put an end not only to their own oppression, but all oppression, all over the world... drawing in many others, from all walks of life, who are inspired to join this same cause... preparing minds and organizing forces, Fighting the Power, and Transforming the People, for REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS.

Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

Organizing Conferences First Week of June

Summer 2013: Taking BA Everywhere, Raising Funds and Making a Difference

Come to a conference on the weekend of June 1 and find out how you can be a part of exciting plans to take out and raise serious funds to spread the work and leadership of Bob Avakian—BA— far and wide, deep into the 'hoods and barrios, and out into wealthy vacation areas this summer.

A May Day Poem:
Revolution—Nothing Less!

From a prisoner.

Going Out to Wealthy Neighborhoods with BA Everywhere

An Urgent Climate Change Wake-up Call

Carbon Dioxide Levels in the Atmosphere Hit 400 Parts per Million

Scientists monitoring carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere announced on May 9 that levels of the gas had reached 400 parts per million (ppm). This announcement should serve as a gut punch and a ringing wake-up call about the heightening emergency we are facing due to the warming of the planet, climate change, and the overall environmental destruction ravaging earth.

Includes "Carbon Dioxide, the 'Keeling Curve' and Climate Change"

Photo: Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey

**Selling Revolution Newspaper on Public Transportation**

A reader shares some experience from years of getting the paper out to people on public transportation.

A QUESTION SHARPLY POSED

by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

NAT TURNER OR THOMAS JEFFERSON?

From Readers Taking Out This Question on Campus and in the Community

Photo: AP

From A World to Win News Service:

Why are there more telephones than toilets—and how many children does this kill every day?

To draw attention to a dire situation, UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson recently pointed out that of the world's seven billion people, six billion have mobile phones, while only 4.5 billion have access to toilets or latrines.

Global Days of Protest Mark 100th Day of Guantánamo Prisoners' Hunger Strike

On May 17-19, actions across the U.S. and around the world supported the hunger strikers at Guantánamo and demanded their release.

Photo: AP

From A World to Win News Service:

Guatemala's Ríos Montt Found Guilty of Genocide

On May 10, U.S.-backed strongman General Efrain Ríos Montt, president of Guatemala for 17 months in 1982-1983, was convicted and sentenced to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the slaughter of 1,771 Mayan Ixil people.

On the Epidemic of Rape in the U.S. Military

The U.S. military and the U.S. government have been rocked by a series of scandals and exposures about rape, a pervasive atmosphere of sexual harassment of women, and covering up or excusing the men who perpetrate these acts.

Judge Tosses Indictment Against Cop Who Murdered Ramarley Graham

by Carl Dix

Voices of Protest from the Bronx

Over 150 people rallied and marched on Saturday, May 18, to protest the outrageous decision of a judge to throw out the indictment of Richard Haste, the cop who murdered 18-year-old Ramarley Graham.

Summer 2013:
Stand Up for Abortion on Demand and Without Apology

Join in the National Day of Action for Abortion Rights in July and then travel from North Dakota, where the last abortion clinic in the state is facing extreme new restrictions, down to Mississippi where the last abortion clinic is facing laws that would shut it down.

Report from Trip Back to Hampshire College

A team from StopPatriarchy.org went back to talk to students at Hampshire College, where organizers of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy (CLPP) conference called police to kick StopPatriarchy off the campus.