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REVOLUTION AND RELIGION DIALOGUE
November 15, 2014, Riverside Church, NYC
JUSTIFYING and COLLABORATING WITH Israel's Genocidal Attacks on Palestinians in the Name of "Peace and Justice"
As spoken to by Alan Goodman in a recent statement on revcom.us,* this is what is done in an ad in the New York Times (Saturday, September 13, 2014) under the perverse heading "Commitment to Peace and Justice." Sponsored by a so-called "Creative Community for Peace" and friends, this ad is signed by an array of people in Hollywood, and others in the arts, all of whom should—and, in some cases at least, very likely do—know better. Under an utterly flimsy cover of "peace and justice," it begins with a perverse and hypocritical lament for the supposed "devastating loss of life endured" by Israelis (!!) as well as Palestinians—as if the two were on an equal level, when the loss of life by Palestinians was more than 20 times greater, and was overwhelmingly civilians, including hundreds and hundreds of children, while almost all of the Israeli dead were soldiers, killed in the context of an invasion of Gaza. The ad then quickly moves to its own version of the sickening Israeli mantra that "Hamas made us slaughter Palestinian children." Those who have signed this ad—out of whatever motivation—need to be called to account for what they are doing.
» Two Ads: One Righteous, One Reactionary
Sunsara Taylor:
"How does anybody think it’s possible to out-socialize the institutions of this entire system without revolution?”
One Day, One Section, New York Times
Societal Abuse of Women
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The NBA: Marketing the Minstrel Show and Serving the Big Gangsters
LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling tells a woman friend not to bring Black people to games. Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks owner, says, "If I see a Black kid in a hoodie, and it's late at night, I'm walking to the other side of the street." Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson sends an email to fellow team officials complaining that the large number of Black fans at Hawks home games, along with too many Black cheerleaders, hip hop music playing in the arena, etc., were scaring away white fans. What is the NBA all about? Listen to Bob Avakian's talk, "The NBA: Marketing the Minstrel Show and Serving the Big Gangsters." And share it! Track 1, Track 2.
Hundreds of Thousands Fill New York Streets to “Change Everything” and Save the Earth!
Photo: AP
October 2014
Month of Resistance
The October Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation must be like a giant STOP sign stuck right in the face of American society, day after day, so that it can't be covered up, whited out, ignored, neutralized or suppressed. Many different people will act in many different ways—from teach-ins, sermons and social media postings to street demonstrations. The defiant youth who refuse any longer to accept being demonized and criminalized will be in the streets and raising their voices in other ways in October. People whose loved ones have been murdered by cops or who have been locked away in the dungeons of this incarceration nation will join them.
PLEDGE OF RESISTANCE
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Columbia University:
Changing the Game
Stolen Lives Mothers Urge Others to Take a Stand
For the Month of Resistance
A powerful new artistic work by Alice Walker
Gather
A poem dedicated to Carl Dix and Cornel West
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From the Stop Mass Incarceration Network on Alice Walker's Poem
Day —Evidence of murder piles up, but still the cop who killed Michael Brown is not indicted and is walking free! We demand justice!
The Spirit of Ferguson on College Campuses
A Call to Teachers:
We Don't Have to Get Used To Oppression–A Month of Resistance Against the New Jim Crow
Updated 9/21
Support Statements for October Month of Resistance
October Student Challenge
Also in this issue
University of Illinois Rescinds Professor's Appointment:
Why? For Daring to Criticize Israeli War Crimes!
From A World to Win News Service:
The aims behind the U.S.'s new war in the Middle East
Gaza, Ukraine, Iraq... the Urgency of Working for Revolution in a World of Escalating Horrors, Sharpening Contradictions, and Growing Turmoil
From Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party:
The Material Basis and the Method for Making Revolution
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The Strategic Approach to Revolution and Its Relation to Basic Questions of Epistemology and Method
There IS an EPIDEMIC of Police Murders: 59 Stolen Lives from July 17-August 17
Behind Three of the Police Murders in September
How to:
Take the Revolution to the Campuses
An Incident on the Train
Of Continuing Interest
Why You Absolutely Need a Vanguard Party to Make Revolution
by Lenny Wolff
In a World of Rape and Violence Against Women
Bringing Out Revolution and the Leadership of Bob Avakian
Interview with Former Prisoner
» Part 1: Breaking with the Gang Life, Getting with the REAL Revolution
» Part 2: Science, Revolutionary Theory, and Getting into Bob Avakian
» Part 3: Don't Risk Your Life Over Stupid Shit—Be Down for Revolution
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?
The following message needs to reach many thousands of people in the next few weeks:
Sept. 25, 2014
New: Month of Resistance
Sept. 24, 2014
New re: the Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation:
New Audio! Chuck D takes the pledge for the Month of Resistance.
Sept. 26, 2014
All Out for the October Month of Resistance! How Long Will Murdering Pigs Continue to Walk Free?—Grand Jury Lets Murdering Police Walk Free in Ohio!
Sept. 25, 2014
We Urge You to Come to Ferguson, Missouri, October 10-13
Sept. 24, 2014
South Central LA Protest: "If you're sick of the murdering police—out of your houses, into the streets!"
Sept. 23, 2014
New Outrage in Ferguson: Memorial to Michael Brown Burned Down
Sept. 23, 2014
Mission Statement
Stop Mass Incarceration Network, Roosevelt University, Chicago
Sept. 23, 2014
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» Editors Note
» Communism or Nationalism?
The Revolutionary Communist Organization, Mexico (OCR, Mexico)
» From Unresolved Contradictions, Driving Forces for Revolution by Bob Avakian:
"The New Synthesis and the Woman Question: The Emancipation of Women and the Communist Revolution—Further Leaps and Radical Ruptures"
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