From Carl Dix’s blog: June 5: WE ARE ALL TRAYVON; THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS GUILTY! Dear Friends!I just got back from Sanford, Florida, where I spent the weekend standing together with people there, speaking bitterness about Trayvon’s murder, and about all the other Trayvon’s; and taking to them a message of No More — “No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over… who have been condemned to a life of oppression and oblivion, even before they are born.” [BAsics 1:13]I’ll write more about that trip soon.  Right now I’m writing you about June 5th, which is 100 days since the vigilante murder of Trayvon, and the call to make that day a day of Justice for Trayvon; a day to wear hoodies and say defiantly “We Are All Trayvon.”Whether or not people act on June 5th matters. [[MORE]]  Right now the mouthpieces of the system are telling us that protest has done its part now that Zimmerman has been indicted and that it’s time to get out of the streets and let the courts work.  The truth is that the system was working when it let Zimmerman walk free the night he murdered Trayvon and when it drug tested Trayvon’s dead body but didn’t drug test his killer.  And it’s still working as story after story turns up in the media portraying Zimmerman as the victim and dragging Trayvon’s reputation thru the mud.IT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE ACT WITH DETERMINATION TO DECLARE THAT WE WILL NOT SIT BACK IN SILENCE WHILE THE SKIDS ARE GREASED TO EXONERATE TRAYVON’S KILLER AGAIN!June 5th, 2012 — Wear your hoodies, and encourage others to wear theirs too.  Organize others to get involved thru Face book and on Twitter.  Create posters that say, “We Are All Trayvon!” and spread them to others.  Take this message into your schools; bring it out at rallies after school, in your communities and in every way possible.  And take pictures of whatever you do and send them in to the Stop Mass Incarceration Network at stopmassincarceration@gmail.com so people everywhere know that this is happening all across the country.  Make sure there are no secret actions on June 5th.People in Sanford were very heartened to hear that people around the country haven’t given up on fighting for justice for Trayvon.  Some of them are talking about what they could do there to be a part of this nationwide action.  Join with them and others all across the country. June 5: WE ARE ALL TRAYVON; THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS GUILTY! Carl DixMay 29, 2012
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From Carl Dix’s blog:

June 5: WE ARE ALL TRAYVON; THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS GUILTY!

Dear Friends!

I just got back from Sanford, Florida, where I spent the weekend standing together with people there, speaking bitterness about Trayvon’s murder, and about all the other Trayvon’s; and taking to them a message of No More — “No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over… who have been condemned to a life of oppression and oblivion, even before they are born.” [BAsics 1:13]

I’ll write more about that trip soon.  Right now I’m writing you about June 5th, which is 100 days since the vigilante murder of Trayvon, and the call to make that day a day of Justice for Trayvon; a day to wear hoodies and say defiantly “We Are All Trayvon.”

Whether or not people act on June 5th matters.

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Carl Dix at a speak out in front of the Sanford, FL police station on May 25, 2012.
Sanford is where 17 year old Trayvon Martin was murdered in a modern American lynching

BAsics Bus Tour volunteers speakout at the Sanford Police Station with a banner signed by hundreds throughout the region:

“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, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.” - Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:13

BAsics Bus Tour volunteers headed to speakout at the Sanford Police Station bringing a banner signed by hundreds throughout the region:

“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, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.” - Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:13

Snapshots of building support for the BAsics Bus Tour to East Oakland

During the last two weekends we took out the historic BAsics Bus Tour to two neighborhoods in East Oakland.  Sometimes we went with a truck that was decorated with displays of the tour and a couple quotes from Bob Avakian (“No more generation…” and the “3-strikes”).  Sometimes 4 of us and sometimes the two or three of us just piled into a car and drove through the ‘hoods, stopping at bus stops, street corners, houses, shops, park and Wal-Mart where we found groupings of masses. (We also went to a church on a Sunday but there were very few people.)  We would get out of the car and talked to people about the Bus Tour, about revolution and communism that the Tour is spreading to the South through promoting BAsics and BA and the leadership he gives to this movement for revolution.  We also spread the word about a Memorial Day BBQ that will be in a park in one of the ‘hoods and that will report back to people the exciting experience from the Bus Tour.

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To the new freedom fighters;

Greetings. I would like to let you all know that I think that what you are aiming to do and the messages that you are conveying is very important and very much needed and you are all on a great journey in the troubled areas in the South, or the lynching belt dubbed as the bible belt. I only wish that I could’ve been there with all of you, but I am here helping to raise monies and awareness to the cause, and hopefully the message will be heard and there will be more freedom caravans in the future in all areas of the South and all other places where the “Stand your ground” law exist, which is a law that is made from bias politicians and is the reason that the murder of Trayvon is allowing his murderer to be free on bond, and is possible he won’t see the inside of a courtroom.
Anyway, as I said, what you all are doing is very important, much needed, and hopefully more people will open up and be in the mindset to think critically to what is happening in our society and not no long turn a blind eye to the way this nation is at the present time, with injustice, oppression, racism, and a government that is set on instilling fear and telling lies to the people. I sincerely hope that you will find more people to join the cause for revolution and instill the hopes that we can all change things in this society and rid us from all the digressions of this government that is motivated by greed and instills fear and control upon the people with their so-called law enforcement that incarcerates and kills millions without provocation for Uncle Thomas Sam for many decades. The time has come to stand up and count ourselves…a revolution is needed and the machine and regime must be broken.
Here’s wishing you all on the tour a safe journey, and I am with you all in spirit. Blessing to you all!

Power to the people,

A jazz musician in Cleveland

Be a part of a movement to spread revolution and the work of Bob Avakian, everywhere.

“BAsics Bus Tour – Adelante!”

This was received from BA Everywhere organizers in Los Angeles:

We gathered last Sunday for a send-off dinner for a young volunteer from L.A. heading out to Atlanta to join up with the BAsics Bus Tour.  Watching the “Next Stop… Revolution” video on the Tour blog and the youtube statements from the NYC professor and Cornel West supporting the tour, gave us a sense of the deep sentiments this tour is touching and the  “good news” that the volunteers will be bringing – revolution, communism and Bob Avakian’s works and vision of a whole new and far better world.  We cut a cake that said “BAsics Bus Tour – Adelante!” and shared thoughts about what to anticipate and what impact the tour will have, the difference it will make to humanity to take this message to those living in the heart of what Avakian has called the Bible belt that is also the Lynching Belt in the South of the U.S.  One older man felt the BAsics tour into the South is historic, and he told the volunteer, “this tour will change you – prepare to be changed!”  We thought this captured something about how the tour will be fighting the power and transforming the people for revolution – and all of us who throw in, take this up, involve many others, follow the tour and spread its impact - will be changed, as we aim to accomplish a real leap in this movement for revolution through this bus tour!  People brought donations they had collected from others, everyone donated at the event, with some making very generous contributions, and we raised over $1,400 towards the success of the tour and spreading BA everywhere!

“Keep track of the freedom bus—the Avakian bus!”
Dr. Cornel West supports the BAsics Bus Tour.
Watch and Share this video online. Donate to support the Tour at http://basicsbustour.tumblr.com/donate

“I wanna put in my strong endorsement of this freedom bus… Courageous brothers and sisters going down to the gut-bucket South. The old Jim Crow senior, still the Jim Crow junior, of course. Whole lot of lynching used be going on in the past, still police brutality taking place, unemployment and underemployment taking place. Dilapidated housing in place, disgraceful school system’s in place… Revolutionary Communist Party bearing witness in a serious kind of way. And I just want to let folk know… I’m behind what they’re doing… keeping track of the injustice here in the state. Keep track of the freedom bus—the Avakian bus!”

~Cornel West

Read other statements of support at http://basicsbustour.tumblr.com/support 

Getting Ready for the BAsics Bus Tour

This is the first piece from one of the BAsics Bus Tour volunteers.  Volunteers will be blogging from the road in near-real-time.  Stay tuned and share with others!

Getting Ready for the BAsics Bus Tour

From a correspondent

It was close to 2 am when a few of the other volunteers and I finally sat down to talk after a send off party for us as we head out to be part of the BAsics Bus Tour – we were already getting a feeling of what wrangling into the night was gonna be all about! The party was hosted by two young supporters of the revolution. It was an evening where people celebrated the BAsics Bus Tour and got involved in supporting it.  It was just a taste of how lively debate and discussion is opened up when you bring BA into the mix.  It also made a dramatic impact for those at the party to encounter this diverse group of people that have decided to get on a bus and go on tour with this, and the different types of people coming together in a myriad of ways to make this happen.

People came to this party who had never encountered the movement for revolution before, or who had come out in the streets protesting the murder of Trayvon Martin and were just starting to check it out, as well as veteran revolutionaries and volunteers getting on the bus. Food was served for $5 a plate, folks talked and hung out and then sat down together to hear more about the Tour and to hear from a couple of the volunteers.

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Peep this cover of the latest Revolution newspaper. “The BAsics Bus Tour Next Stop: Atlanta - and Beyond”
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Peep this cover of the latest Revolution newspaper.

“The BAsics Bus Tour

Next Stop: Atlanta - and Beyond”