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“The ‘voting trap’ under capitalism” Bob...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:09:58 -0400

“The ‘voting trap’ under capitalism”
Bob Avakian on the elections: no matter who wins, we lose.

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New and Breaking News... Cornel West Interviews Bob Avakian: Get the Word Out, Spread the Link All Over, Organize Listening Parties

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 10:33:29 -0400

New and Breaking News... Cornel West Interviews Bob Avakian: Get the Word Out, Spread the Link All...

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THERE IS NO "PERMANENT NECESSITY" FOR THINGS TO BE THIS WAY A RADICALLY DIFFERENT AND BETTER WORLD CAN BE BROUGHT INTO BEING THROUGH REVOLUTION

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:06:43 -0400

*During this “election season,” the title of this article keeps coming to mind. by Bob...

August and BAsics 3:22 Click on the small arrow mid photo on the...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:17:00 -0400

August and BAsics 3:22

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When UH students hit the campus on the first day of classes in August it was hard to miss quotes from BAsics posted on bulletin boards, doors, and walls. Centerfolds and back pages from Revolution were posted everywhere. One student said: “Whenever I spotted one of those [the centerfold] I would go over to read it. We need more of that!” Some said they especially liked the BAsics 3:22 centerfold (Issue 277).

During August more than 800 students also came to Revolution Books to purchase their texts. When they stepped into the store the first thing they saw was a big display about the BAsics Bus Tour, BAsics 3:22, and books exposing the oppression of women. At times the talk by Sunsara Taylor at the Revolution Books New York store was on the TV screen; at other times scenes from the BusTour. One of the store walls featured BAsics 3:22 Revolution newspaper centerfolds, along with hand-written messages “from the war zone.” Students were invited to add more. Some dropped coins into the “penny jar” with the challenge from Harlem to donate to the tour.

Several university students, who had come to the store during the week, attended a “speak-out” at the bookstore where women shared their personal war stories and dug more deeply into BAsics 3:22. While there was deep anger about the many outrages women face every day, getting into how that oppression is “bound up with the division of society into masters and slaves” and whether all-the-way revolution is possible was a whole new discussion and much more challenging.

Two things really hit us while focusing on BAsics 3:22. One is the deep anger women (and some men) feel about women’s oppression, but how suppressed they feel about expressing this rage. The second was the absence of any envisioning of a world free of this oppression. The challenge of unleashing debate and discussion that envisions a liberating future, free of the oppression of women, is enormous. This was brought home to us at August’s Revolution Fiction Book Club discussion on Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time when one woman, unfamiliar with the women’s movement of the 70’s, was stunned that “there were women who thought like this.”

BA Everywhere Fund Raising Action Report From September 22,...

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:40:26 -0400

BA Everywhere Fund Raising Action Report From September 22, 2012

Around noon Saturday, as one of the BA everywhere actions in the northern west coast, a couple of revolutionaries stopped by an outlying neighborhood where we’re known. We took our bucket, BAsics palm cards, copies of the book BAsics, and went knocking on doors in apartment complexes. After a friendly greeting, we just said straight out: “We’re not religion. We’re not here about the elections. We’re here about revolution!” and then handed them the BAsics card with the Bob Avakian quote “No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, who the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.”

We let them check it while one of us read the quote (1:13) from the book BAsics. We’d give people some space to share their thoughts on these words, and then did some interchange on this big campaign to get the work of this revolutionary communist leader out into the public discourse, so people know there is actually a way out of this mess that is the world today. Then we’d ask “Want to put a donation to this campaign in our bucket?”, and also, depending on what directions the discussion was going, asked “Do you know other people we can bring this to?” and “Do you want to come with us?”.

The first complex we went to was largely Hispanic. Every person who opened their door donated! We also got out Spanish editions of Revolution newspaper, and handed people Lo BAsico (the Spanish edition of BAsics) to read the quote directly. The words got reactions, heads nodding and people saying things like “Yes, that’s what it’s like!” The next two complexes were a mix of immigrants such as Burmese and Somali, and also white, native American and African American nationalities. The reception was similar. Not all, but most people donated! And we made some new connections. There were some language barriers with new immigrants, but once we told people up front what we were about, they were usually very open.

Tho donations were mostly not large, but numerous. In a couple hours, we found $47 in the bucket! And a good part of this time of course was spent talking with people and making connections. A young man who’d heard us talking to folks on the walkway, came out and said “Oh yeah, this is the book I need!” and bought a copy on the spot. When we asked him “Do you know other people we can take this out to?” he said many people he knew were talking about real changes being badly needed in this world, and the conversation concluded with us agreeing we meet up in the nearby park the next Saturday for a barbecue or pot luck, and get a session going where people can really get into the things being talked about. And so that’s what’s happening NEXT Saturday!

Arizona’s “show me your papers” law goes into...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:07:00 -0400

Arizona’s “show me your papers” law goes into effect today. The Charlotteobserver.com writes that “There, according to a recent report by the National Immigration Law Center, an immigrant advocacy group, law enforcement officers have created an “environment of racial profiling” that has encouraged private citizens to discriminate and abuse people they regard as foreign.”

Why do people come here from all over the world? - Check out this clip from “Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About, a film of a talk by Bob Avakian” given in 2003 in the U.S. Bob Avakian is the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. This talk, followed by questions and answers, is a wide-ranging revolutionary journey, covering many topics. It breaks down the very nature of the society we live in and how humanity has come to a time where a radically different society is possible. It is full of heart and soul, humor and seriousness; it will challenge you and set your heart and mind to flight. Watch the entire film online at http://revolutiontalk.net

Sign the Call: A Call To Stand Together To Oppose The Obama Administration’s Dangerous Assault On Fundamental Rights

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 11:51:00 -0400

From a Revolution newspaper reader in Harlem about why he signed the NDAA statement and why BA...

Do you have BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian?...

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:11:53 -0400

Do you have BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian? Post your review of the book online and send a copy of your review to us at baeverywhere@gmail.com. Tell us what you thought about it. What’s your favorite quote and why. Buy the book here.

Report From the DNC in Charlotte September 15, 2012 A...

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:32:50 -0400

Report From the DNC in Charlotte

September 15, 2012

A contingent of revolutionaries went to the DNC in Charlotte, North Carolina to put revolution and Bob Avakian on the map in the midst of a very politicized atmosphere. March on Wall Street South, a coalition of activist groups, organized a rally and march through downtown Charlotte on Sunday, September 2^nd, a few days before the official start of the convention. Charlotte is the finance capital of the south with the international headquarters of Bank of America and the East Coast headquarters of Wells Fargo, two of the four largest banks in the country. According to march organizers, these banks have some of the highest foreclosure rates as well. Duke Energy, also headquartered in Charlotte, was another focus of the protest. Duke Energy is the largest utility company in the country, and one of the most damaging to the environment, with dozens of coal-fired power plants, most of which burn coal from the devastating method called mountaintop removal mining. Duke also has many nuclear power plants.

The march through downtown was very vibrant with lots of signs and banners. Chants rang out from different parts of the march that stretched for several city blocks. Downtown Charlotte looked like a police state. Police barricades lined both sides of the entire march route. There were more police than protesters. Police were on foot and on bicycles. The bicycle cops had their bikes lined up end-to-end, forming a second continuous barricade on both sides of the march, inside the metal barricades. Convention delegates and on-lookers were lined up watching the march go by from behind the barricades. One of the largest and most colorful contingents in the march was the immigrant’s. They wore butterfly wings with the words “Migration is a Human Right” written across the wings. The “Undocubus,” a bus that had traveled across the country for six weeks starting from Arizona, brought dozens of undocumented people to the DNC with “No Papers, No Fear” painted on the side of the bus. They were joined by many other immigrants from around the region and country. World Can’t Wait brought a model of a Drone that really stood out and got a lot of attention, and the Stop Patriarchy contingent had quite an impact, particularly with their stickers which a number of the spectators along the route were wearing, “Abortion on Demand and Without Apology” and “If you can’t imagine sex without porn…You’re fucked.”

The BA Everywhere contingent was small but noticeable. We all wore the t-shirt “I AM PART OF THE THOUSANDS WORKING ON THE REVOLUTION,” and we carried oversized enlargements of the front page of Revolution Newspaper “Obama Has No Future For The People…The Revolution Does,” the front cover of BAsics, the image of BA, and September’s quote from BAsics 1:3, “The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism-imperialism and political structures to enforce that capitalism-imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.” We were able to get out a thousand palm cards of BAsics 1:3 and promoting the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal) to the people watching the march, reaching out to them over the police barricades.

On Monday, September 3^rd, a music and street festival called Carolina Fest was held on closed-off downtown streets. A free annual festival, this year it was billed as part of the DNC festivities, and it attracted thousands of people to downtown, including delegates, Democratic Party activists, and a cross section of Charlotte area residents. And the Revolution was part of the festival too. We set up on the street with the large images that we had carried in the march the previous day, and we put a plastic milk crate upside down on the ground in front. One person got on the milk crate and did some loud agitation, while we got out thousands of the palm cards and sold copies of Revolution Newspaper, BAsics and the Constitution. The agitation started with “The Republicans are no damn good, but the Democrats are no damn good either. Humanity and the planet need Revolution!” and then ran down what the Obama administration has “accomplished” while in office: accelerated mass incarceration, police murder of the people, disregard for the environment, attacks on fundamental rights as well as abortion and birth control, deporter-in-chief of immigrants, expansion of the wars/drones, foreclosures and unemployment, etc. It definitely stirred things up! A lot of people turned their heads or stopped in their tracks to listen. Some people didn’t believe what we were saying but were willing to check out the facts in Revolution Newspaper. Others agreed with our exposure of Obama but were caught up in the “lesser of two evils” trap and focused on how horrible Romney would be. Some hardcore Obama supporters only wanted to talk about healthcare, or actually spoke favorably about what the U.S. is doing around the world. There were right-wingers appalled that we were promoting revolution and communism. And there were some people who were very surprised but refreshed to come across a group that was out there in the middle of the DNC exposing the Democrats and posing a radical alternative, who engaged around BA’s vision of communism, checked out BAsics and the Constitution, made small donations and took palm cards to distribute themselves. At one point, there was an intense exchange between two friends, two young Black women who had stopped to listen. One woman wouldn’t have any of it – didn’t want to hear anything against Obama, and was pulling on her friend to keep walking. The other woman started arguing and said that she had spent a year in the military in Iraq as a medic, and everything we were saying about the wars and the drones was true. She told her friend to go on without her, and yelled “don’t call me on my cellphone either!” This was no everyday scene. People stopped to take pictures. Reporters asked for interviews. We engaged with all viewpoints, sold a lot of newspapers as well as some BAsics and Constitutions.

Over the two days, we got interviewed by over 10 media outlets including the Charlotte Observer, Charlotte TV news, NY Times, London Times, Al Jazeera, Havana Times, Australian Financial Times, National Post from Toronto, and a Florida A&M student media project. A French reporter who came up after he saw the BA image poster said he knew about Bob Avakian because he had attended UC Berkeley.

Throughout the rest of the week, there was an un-permitted anti-war march, an Occupy encampment in a local park, and a civil disobedience action where several of the undocumented immigrants bravely got arrested in front of the arena where the convention was being held. Revolutionaries were invited to go to several college campuses in the area during the week, which was a great opportunity to get out hundreds more of the palm cards as well as newspapers, and deeply engage with students on these campuses.

The most striking observation throughout our time in Charlotte was how thick and pervasive ugly American chauvinism was. Not only was it being unleashed from Obama and the top representatives of the Democratic Party at the podium inside the convention, but it was also taken up unquestioningly by the ordinary person in the street, and the “America first” mentality even defined the framework of many of the oppositional groups protesting outside the convention, with concerns narrowly focused on how the issues affect Americans. The one palm card that we wish we had brought in addition to the other materials was the one with BAsics 5:7 and 5:8 – “American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People’s Lives,” and “Internationalism – The Whole World Comes First.”

BA: A Contended Question at the DNC Protests

The short orientation piece in Revolution #278, “BA – A Contended Question,” was very helpful in preparing to take the BA Everywhere campaign into the mix at the DNC protests in Charlotte. A very noticeable development was that BA was much more known among a variety of people we encountered from a number of different cities – an indication that the BA Everywhere campaign is having an impact. And the range of viewpoints on BA that we encountered covered the gamut of those mentioned in the “Contended Question” piece – the two extremes and everything in between! Here are some examples:

A student from a college in North Carolina who had heard about BA on his campus and had watched some BA clips at revolutiontalk.net came up and said he had two questions: Why do we make such a big deal about BA, and why do we say he has developed Marxism further? He said he had also been checking out Worker’s World and was interested in what the differences were. This led to pointing out the Three Alternative Worlds essay in BAsics, and posing the contradictions in socialism that BA has wrestled with – how to hold onto power while making sure that power was worth holding onto. The student said he had never thought about that, and was going to check out the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal) online to further the discussion.
A community organizer from a city in the northeast who was into hip hop culture said he had read BAsics and really disagreed with the quote “Let’s imagine if we had a whole different culture. Come on, enough of this ‘bitches and ho’s’…” saying that BA doesn’t understand hip hop and needs to make a distinction between hip hop and rap, which are two different cultures.
A “doofus” made a snide remark while walking by, saying he wasn’t interested because he wasn’t religious (meaning that he didn’t worship BA), to which one of the revolutionaries responded, “We’re not religious either, we’re scientific and if you are, you should check out BA too.”
An anarchist who was fresh from the protests at the RNC in Tampa took the palm cards and said, “Yeah, I’ve heard of Bob Avakian before.”
A reporter from France came up when he saw the large BA image poster and said he knew about Bob Avakian because he had attended UC Berkeley.
An Australian reporter took a photo of the BA image and bought a BA button after a wide-ranging discussion that included him describing a family member who had been involved in the debates between “Stalinists” and “Maoists” in Australia in the 1970’s.
An independent activist wanted to understand the difference between all the socialist and communist groups at the protest, which led to a conversation about BA’s theoretical contributions in developing a strategy for revolution and envisioning what a socialist society would look like that was truly on the road to communism, and he walked away with a copy of the Constitution.
Several people came up after seeing the BA image poster and asked, “Who is that guy?” That question always presents a great opening to introduce people to BA and his new vision of communism.

BA EVERYWHERE... IMAGINE THE DIFFERENCE IT COULD MAKE!

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Reposting from Revolution #249, November 6, 2011 Reposting the editorial announcing this campaign....

Reposted from Revolution #281, September 23, 2012 Three Things...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:19:42 -0400

Reposted from Revolution #281, September 23, 2012

Three Things You Need to Know About the Background for Events in the Middle East and North Africa

Mass protests and attacks on U.S. embassies took place in more than 20 countries across the Middle East and North Africa last week, including in Egypt, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan, and Palestine. In Libya, the U.S. ambassador and three other State Department employees were killed. These outbreaks coincided with the distribution of a clip of a film that, as described in media reports, appeared designed to grotesquely and gratuitously offend Muslims.

The actual relationship between the distribution of this video and the range of protests and other incidents is not clear at this point, and circumstances surrounding who or what is behind this video and their motives are murky. But to analyze and understand these rapidly unfolding events, it’s crucial to start not with whatever specific incident triggered these events, but at the beginning of this story with some basic facts and history.

“The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism-imperialism and political structures to enforce that capitalism-imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.”

—BAsics 1:3 by Bob Avakian

This is as true in the Middle East as anywhere in the world. For thirty years, the U.S.-backed Hosni Mubarak regime oversaw the interests of U.S. imperialism in Egypt, with torture and “disappearance” directed at any form of protest. The religious fundamentalist, absolutist Saudi monarchy—a model of the vaunted “freedom and democracy” the U.S. brings to the world—prohibits women from public activity, including driving, and recently sent troops into neighboring Bahrain to shore up another torture-based, oppressive pro-U.S. regime. And the U.S. backs Israel, on the land of the dispossessed Palestinian people, as regional (and global) “enforcer.”

All this barely scratches the surface. Newspapers and books could be filled with exposure of the crimes of the United States as well as other imperialist powers like Britain, Germany, France, Russia, etc. Do some online research, and challenge your friends, fellow students, and colleagues to do so as well: Pick any country in the region and check into its history. You’ll find the bloody tracks of “imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism” all over the histories—and present lives—of billions of people in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. (Suggested readings are at the end of this editorial.)

2. The clash of two reactionary forces.

The people of the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia have a long history of courageous resistance to imperialism. But serious setbacks of genuine revolutionary forces over the past several decades—especially the defeat of socialism in China and the coup there that re-imposed capitalism, in 1976—have had a terrible impact on the global political terrain. This remains true even as a new stage of communist revolution is fighting to emerge in the world.

In the Middle East and North Africa, the acceleration of capitalist globalization has displaced tens of millions of peasants and eroded traditional social structures and relations. These traditional structures were rooted in the countryside and in a way of life where peasants were subjected to the exploitation of landowners, ignorance was widespread and enforced, and women were the most downpressed of all—including by the males of the oppressed. In these conditions, both as a somewhat “spontaneous” development along with—in many cases—direct U.S. sponsorship, reactionary Islamic fundamentalist forces have achieved significant influence in these oppressed nations.

These forces appeal to those uprooted and displaced by imperialism, and those who acutely feel the oppression of the nations of the Middle East, South Asia, and elsewhere, with a program of going back to an idealized version of the past, in the form of Islamic rule. They posture against imperialism, but only in order to establish a place for themselves in the imperial order; they have neither the program nor the desire to rupture with the entire unjust and destructive order imposed by the great powers.

These Islamic fundamentalist forces do not represent the interests of the masses; those interests lie in the emancipation of all humanity and can only be achieved through revolution against imperialism. Instead, they represent the interests of those classes that aspire to power within the relations of imperialism, and use the masses as battering rams to achieve that aim. This is what is meant when we say that they represent “outmoded strata”—they represent classes and groups whose time has fundamentally passed and who can only look backward. Representing outmoded strata within these countries, their program centers on imposing religious rule and social strictures—all within the imperialist shaped and dominated setup. Where these forces come to power, as in Iran today, they impose their own form of hell-on-earth, including brutal oppression of women, severe repression of critical thinking and expression, and of people overall. And their tactics, as do those of the U.S. imperialists, reflect their fundamental disdain for the masses of people.

For all their anti-U.S. rhetoric, the Islamic fundamentalist forces that rule Iran were initially backed by the U.S. as a lesser evil (from their perspective) compared with more radical and revolutionary forces involved in toppling the murderous U.S.-backed Shah of Iran (as well as those representing other imperial powers of the time). The Islamic Republic of Iran was consolidated in part through the murder of thousands of revolutionaries and the imposition of severe and heartless restrictions on women. The Taliban in Afghanistan and other such forces have their origins in funding from the U.S. when they were fighting the former Soviet Union. It was only as changes came in the imperialist world order, and in how these imperialists saw their interests, that the Islamic fundamentalists came into opposition to the U.S.

Now we are in a dynamic where each U.S. invasion, every drone assassination by the U.S. that wipes out a family, each incident of degrading violence, drives more people into the arms of the Islamic fundamentalists. And each reactionary fundamentalist attack, obscurantist proclamation or oppressive act builds support for imperialism and reinforces its fundamental grip on the planet.

In BAsics 1:28, Bob Avakian puts it this way:

What we see in contention here with Jihad on the one hand and McWorld/McCrusade on the other hand, are historically outmoded strata among colonized and oppressed humanity up against historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist system. These two reactionary poles reinforce each other, even while opposing each other. If you side with either of these “outmodeds,” you end up strengthening both.

While this is a very important formulation and is crucial to understanding much of the dynamics driving things in the world in this period, at the same time we do have to be clear about which of these “historically outmodeds” has done the greater damage and poses the greater threat to humanity: It is the historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist system, and in particular the U.S. imperialists.

The Urgency of Bringing Forward Another Way.

The heroic uprisings against U.S.-backed regimes last year in Tunisia, Egypt, and other countries exposed that the current oppressive world order is not set in stone. They inspired freedom-loving people around the world. But they haven’t yet led to thoroughgoing revolutions that uprooted this entire imperialist-dominated structure. That requires revolutionary leadership—communist leadership. And in the wake of these upsurges, U.S. imperialism and other imperialist powers are maneuvering feverishly to maintain and expand their interests, as with their bombing and forced regime change in Libya.

An unjust and unsustainable status quo is breaking apart. But the question is whether something positive for the people can be wrenched out of it. The only way this is possible is by breaking out of the horrific choices of the current situation, and bringing forward another, liberating way aiming to overthrow and transform the root causes of the horrors facing the people—imperialist domination and feudal, patriarchal, and other oppressive traditional relations and the political structures that enforce all this.

In that context, two final points: first, the more that a visible force emerges in the U.S. that rejects the crimes and “justifications” of “our own” rulers, the better the conditions will be for a genuine, liberatory force to emerge in the world. Second, it is crucial to get word of genuinely emancipatory communism—as concentrated in the Manifesto from the RCP, USA: Communism: The Beginning of a New Stage—out into the world.

A Call To Stand Together To Oppose The Obama Administration’s Dangerous Assault On Fundamental Rights

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:00:00 -0400

The administration of Barack Obama, which had promised to put an end to torture and other outrages...

A friend snapped this picture on a bus this morning, 9/17/12.

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A friend snapped this picture on a bus this morning, 9/17/12.

Reposted from Revolution #281, September 23, 2012

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Reposted from Revolution #281, September 23, 2012

Newest in series of BA quotes in poster form.

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Newest in series of BA quotes in poster form.

Announcing: New BA Everywhere DVDs! These DVDs will include...

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:10:00 -0400

Announcing: New BA Everywhere DVDs!

These DVDs will include three videos: “BAsics Bus Tour, Atlanta to Sanford, FL… and Beyond…”, “BA Speaks — 1969, 1979, 2003”, and “Bob Avakian, ‘No More Generations of our Youth…’.” These ought to be gotten out very broadly to introduce people to BA and BA Everywhere, and would be very good for fundraising.

Stop by your local Revolution Books to pick up a few copies, and make plans to distribute these on campuses, in neighborhoods, at events, give them to potential donors, and make sure everyone who needs to know about Bob Avakian, the BAsics Bus Tour, and BA Everywhere sees these videos.

Reposted from Revolution #280, September 16, 2012 Interview with...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:37:45 -0400

Reposted from Revolution #280, September 16, 2012

Interview with Carl Dix:

Blowing the Whistle on September 13—
And Making Our Message Real

Revolution: Why should people go all out on September 13 to Blow the Whistle on Stop-and-Frisk in New York City and answer the Call for Nationwide Resistance to Racial Profiling, Police Brutality and Murder and the Pipeline Leading to Mass Incarceration?

Carl Dix: Two very important reasons. One is the very intense way the criminal “injustice” system as a whole is being unleashed on people: racial profiling, the almost two-and-a-half million people being warehoused across the county, the five million plus people discriminated against even after they’ve served their sentences—denied employment, government loans, public housing, not even allowed to vote. This is a very intense situation for tens of millions of people; their lives are enmeshed in the justice, or the injustice system as I like to refer to it. But at the same time there is a mood of defiance and resistance that’s been building. We saw it in the response to the legal murder of Troy Davis, after the vigilante murder of Trayvon Martin, with the civil disobedience actions to protest stop-and-frisk, the hunger strikes in California prisons that then spread to other states. And there is a need for that resistance to be taken to a higher level. That’s the point of September 13.

Read on…

And get out palm cards with BAsics 1:13. Write to us at BAEverywhere@gmail.com and let people know what people are saying, what their response was.

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2. The clash of two reactionary forces.

A Call To Stand Together To Oppose The Obama Administration’s Dangerous Assault On Fundamental Rights

A friend snapped this picture on a bus this morning, 9/17/12.

Reposted from Revolution #281, September 23, 2012

Newest in series of BA quotes in poster form.

Announcing: New BA Everywhere DVDs! These DVDs will include...

Announcing: New BA Everywhere DVDs!

Reposted from Revolution #280, September 16, 2012 Interview with...

Blowing the Whistle on September 13—And Making Our Message Real

Blowing the Whistle on September 13—
And Making Our Message Real