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.
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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 revcom.us: Take Out BAsics 1:3 Challenge the Elections Assault with Truth About This System “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  As we go into September, it’s time to make plans to get this month’s quote from BAsics, 1:3, out onto campuses and broadly into society. Get together with others to think about and discuss this quote—and make plans to put it into the hands of many, many people. [[MORE]] The message of this quote goes right up in the face of the massive efforts by those in power who will be hitting people from every direction this “election season”—to corral people into choosing one or another top representative of this capitalist-imperialist system, which exploits and oppresses people here and around the world, causing much death and suffering. BAsics 1:3 lays bare the essence of the nature of this society…and the reality of what the U.S. does all over the world. It can be the focus of broad debate and wrangling of people in the neighborhoods, on campuses and wherever people are gathering over the Labor Day weekend. Especially look to distributing tens of thousands of BAsics 1:3 palm cards, along with many copies of BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian, at events like the Caribbean Day Parade in NYC and major September 16 Mexican Independence Day festivals and independence day festivals by Central Americans, which draw large numbers of people. Each month the BA Everywhere campaign has featured a quote from BAsics. These quotes have touched and connected with people far and wide; many people have found their way into this campaign and the movement for revolution by engaging with the quotes and being part of spreading the quotes to others. Very importantly, fundraising should run through all these efforts. The aim of the BA Everywhere campaign is to raise big money to get BA’s vision and works into all corners of society. A national movement is being born—as it grows, both the need and potential to raise money pose themselves in new ways. September should see new leaps in fundraising—ranging from those with little resources and means, to those with more ability to contribute. Let’s get out there in a big way and talk to people we know and those we’ve never met before. Let’s talk to people about the difference getting BA Everywhere can make in the whole social and political culture of this society.
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Reposted from revcom.us: Take Out BAsics 1:3

Challenge the Elections Assault with Truth About This System

“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 

As we go into September, it’s time to make plans to get this month’s quote from BAsics, 1:3, out onto campuses and broadly into society. Get together with others to think about and discuss this quote—and make plans to put it into the hands of many, many people.

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We need a revolution! Watch Bob Avakian imagine a viable and vibrant new society in which people will be able to carry the revolution forward to emancipate all humanity — in this 5-video YouTube playlist, “Imagine a New Socialist Society in North America.”

These are excerpts from Bob Avakian’s Revolution talk. Avakian is a visionary communist thinker and revolutionary leader. He is the author of many books and articles. He is the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. And he is more than that: he’s an innovative and critical thinker who has taken Marxism to a new place; he’s a provocative commentator on everything from basketball to religion, doo-wop music to science; and he’s a pit-bull fighter against oppression who’s kept both his solemn sense of purpose and his irrepressible sense of humor.

Watch the full talk at revolutiontalk.net. Participate in the BA Everywhere campaign at basicsbustour.tumblr.com.

An interview with a Black woman in the Bronx who has become an ardent supporter of the BAsics Bus Tour and has some very important things to say about BAsics and Bob Avakian.

Source: SoundCloud / BAeverywhere

Voices from the BAsics Bus Tour: Day 2, Dinner in the Bronx! Our BA Everywhere crew had been out in the streets and around some projects of the Bronx on a summer afternoon – taking out BAsics, distributing palm cards, working to bring people into the movement for revolution. We were soaked with sweat and a little tired, but excited about the beginnings of our work in the Bronx and looking forward to a very special night to cap it off. Our BAsics van didn’t have a difficult time finding the house we were looking for as we drove it down a quiet, tidy street in the Bronx. One of its brick sides is painted in black, with portraits of two young men murdered by NYPD superimposed on the background. A few words under the portrait on the left side had their names followed by the word “EXECUTED.” The front of the house is painted blue. It contains the names of about 40 people – Anthony Rosario, Hilton Vega, Malcolm Ferguson, Frankie Arzuega, Leonard Lantin, Jose L. Zarete, Patrick (Hessy) Phelan, William Whitehead, Amadou Diallo – above them all the words “in memory of.” A tombstone placed in front of the house said, “In our grieving hearts we acknowledge police brutality and Racial Injustice, ‘Thou shalt not kill’ said the lord.” Everyone named on this wall was murdered by the NYPD. The BAsics Bus Tour was being welcomed to a dinner by two of the mothers fighting police brutality and murder for a night of warm companionship, stimulating discussions, and heartfelt exchanges about future possibilities that were deep and sprinkled with humor. Ample quantities of delicious food had been prepared. These parents and some other members of their families mingled late into the cool of the evening, along with the BA everywhere crew that had come from throughout the country and other parts of the city. No one who was there will forget this night in the Bronx. One of the BA Everywhere volunteers said after the event, “there’s a lot of things rattling around in my head. All the people killed. All the people whose names haven’t been recognized here in this city and all around the world would fill up this whole neighborhood and beyond”.
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Voices from the BAsics Bus Tour: Day 2, Dinner in the Bronx!

Our BA Everywhere crew had been out in the streets and around some projects of the Bronx on a summer afternoon – taking out BAsics, distributing palm cards, working to bring people into the movement for revolution. We were soaked with sweat and a little tired, but excited about the beginnings of our work in the Bronx and looking forward to a very special night to cap it off.

Our BAsics van didn’t have a difficult time finding the house we were looking for as we drove it down a quiet, tidy street in the Bronx. One of its brick sides is painted in black, with portraits of two young men murdered by NYPD superimposed on the background. A few words under the portrait on the left side had their names followed by the word “EXECUTED.”

The front of the house is painted blue. It contains the names of about 40 people – Anthony Rosario, Hilton Vega, Malcolm Ferguson, Frankie Arzuega, Leonard Lantin, Jose L. Zarete, Patrick (Hessy) Phelan, William Whitehead, Amadou Diallo – above them all the words “in memory of.” A tombstone placed in front of the house said, “In our grieving hearts we acknowledge police brutality and Racial Injustice, ‘Thou shalt not kill’ said the lord.”

Everyone named on this wall was murdered by the NYPD. The BAsics Bus Tour was being welcomed to a dinner by two of the mothers fighting police brutality and murder for a night of warm companionship, stimulating discussions, and heartfelt exchanges about future possibilities that were deep and sprinkled with humor. Ample quantities of delicious food had been prepared. These parents and some other members of their families mingled late into the cool of the evening, along with the BA everywhere crew that had come from throughout the country and other parts of the city. No one who was there will forget this night in the Bronx.

One of the BA Everywhere volunteers said after the event, “there’s a lot of things rattling around in my head. All the people killed. All the people whose names haven’t been recognized here in this city and all around the world would fill up this whole neighborhood and beyond”.

Raising Funds for the BAsics Bus Tour!

Raising Funds for the BAsics Bus Tour!

We will report in a few days on the results of the efforts to raise $25,000 by the weekend of July 6-8 for the upcoming leg of the BAsics Bus Tour set to begin in New York soon.  Volunteers across the country are packing their bags, teams in NY have been spending time in the areas the Tour will be going to… people are beginning to get involved.  In order to make all this happen, fundraising for the Tour needs to go to a whole other level… reaching and involving many more people, and giving them the opportunity to be part of something that can make a big difference in the world: a Bus Tour aimed at spreading Bob Avakian’s vision and works throughout society, connecting with sections of NY and the surrounding areas that are most cast off, repressed and brutalized by this system as well as reaching out further to other strata who don’t like this situation… through this Tour, all these people finding out about Bob Avakian, and getting organized into the movement for revolution.

A total of $50,000 needs to be raised by August 1. For the coming week, along with ongoing forms of mass fundraising – the yard sales, tamale sales, events, all of which are essential in the BA Everywhere Campaign, we also want to encourage people do a lot of meetings with individuals about contributing.  See this post for a call for matching contributions as one aspect of what people can do (though there are also people who can give larger sums who should be reached about this Tour).

Remember to also ask people for a statement saying why they are contributing and encouraging others to donate too.

Here are some key fundraising materials to use (also see the “What You Can Do” page of this blog):

Video about the last leg of the Tour

Sample fundraising letter

BAsics Bus Tour Phone Banking Script (Word file)

“I gave to the BAsics Bus Tour” card (to give to donors as a memento of their much appreciated contribution)

TO: BA Everywhere and Revolution Newspaper and others (picture of drum attached) An Online Fundraiser!   A Drum…for BA Everywhere…What a Difference It Would Make   An artist has donated a beautiful 13” REMO Leon Mobley Signature Series Djembe to raise funds for the Basics bus tour - kicking off its new leg in New York city on July 15.  The Djembe, an African drum that originated in Ghana, is used by musicians on stages and drum circles throughout the world.  It is an incredible new instrument both visually and in sound quality.  (Description of instrument)   The drum has been posted on ebay so that people all across the country can be part of this fundraising auction.   Bidding begins at $500.00.  If you are the first person to hit the Pay Now button for  $1,000, the drum is yours.   Think about the difference your donation can make… Go to ebay.com and search for or click on -  Djembe BA Everwhere   Make your bid online, call (213) 304-9864 or email baeverywhere_la1@yahoo.com.
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TO: BA Everywhere and Revolution Newspaper and others (picture of drum attached)

An Online Fundraiser!
 
A Drum…for BA Everywhere…What a Difference It Would Make
 
An artist has donated a beautiful 13” REMO Leon Mobley Signature Series Djembe to raise funds for the Basics bus tour - kicking off its new leg in New York city on July 15.  The Djembe, an African drum that originated in Ghana, is used by musicians on stages and drum circles throughout the world.  It is an incredible new instrument both visually and in sound quality.  (Description of instrument)
 
The drum has been posted on ebay so that people all across the country can be part of this fundraising auction.   Bidding begins at $500.00.  If you are the first person to hit the Pay Now button for  $1,000, the drum is yours.
 
Think about the difference your donation can make…
Go to ebay.com and search for or click on -  Djembe BA Everwhere
 
Make your bid online, call (213) 304-9864 or email baeverywhere_la1@yahoo.com.

mini-bus tour in Detroit from June 23-25

From several Revolution readers and volunteers for the next leg of the Basics Bus Tour:
We decided to do a mini-bus tour in Detroit from June 23-25. This is a city in which the people cry out sometimes quietly, sometimes not, against a system whose police killed 7 year old Aiyana Stanley-Jones on May 16, 2010 as she lay sleeping with her grandmother on the living room couch, against Mayor Bing who recently told people refusing to leave their homes, that they will leave because “we will turn your water off”, against the vast poverty there. So much of the city is literally destroyed that it is a struggle for most people to go anywhere or do anything. 98 people were murdered in Detroit in the first 120 days of this year and everybody speaks deep concern about violence among the youth. And in this city, 2000 people rallied for Trayvon Martin last month. This is a city whose people needto know that there is a way out and a way forward with Bob Avakian’s revolution and re-envisioned communism, need to see Basics 1:13 and consider what it means.
 

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A Poem- inspired by Basics 1:13 

Here’s a poem a long-time supporter of RB Berkeley wrote as part of the Poetry night they did inspired by Basics 1:13

Poem on BA’s 1:13 quote from BAsics

We overcame anxiety and took responsibility. We heeded BA’s call to give the whole of it, our all.

We fought, refused to fall, instead stood tall, yes, and had the gall to build a wall between ourselves and the hideous ghastly past, eons of early death and misery for all humanity, perplexed by humbug and religion’s full insanity.

For the rich, parasitic excess, drunkenness, the fog of doubt and aching loneliness, of mass confusion.

For the poor, the endless scrape and scramble through the flesh-tearing bramble of lightless days and harrowing nights, replete with countless frights.

We overcame anxiety and took responsibility to rip the veil of ignorance, and armed with science, we overcame oppression and oblivion, misery and brutality, and through a labyrinth of grinding torment inflicted by the ignorant, did finally wrench humanity from darkness into light, and at last we overcame the night.

Here is the “12 ways people can get involved in the movement for Revolution” postcard. Spanish coming soon…