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BAsics Bus Tour rolls through Brooklyn.
In mid-July, the BAsics Bus Tour kicked off in New York City, rolling through the streets of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia. Two RV’s filled with volunteers — women and men of different nationalities, ages and backgrounds have taken out Bob Avakian’s communist vision and works and are organizing people into building a movement for revolution.
The BAsics Bus Tour in action in Brooklyn. Thursday, July 19th. Photos courtesy of Revolution newspaper.
Carl Dix speaks in Brownsville, Brooklyn, with residents and BAsics Bus Tour volunteers.
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The BAsics Bus Tour is on the ground in NYC!
The BAsics Bus Tour is on the ground in NYC! Two buses, with over 2 dozen volunteers, are in the Bronx and Brooklyn as you read this, already meeting and getting with many people about the revolutionary leadership of Bob Avakian – lifting sights to a different and liberating world and the many ways thousands can be involved in this movement for revolution starting now.
Going deep into the ground zero neighborhoods of the NYPD’s ugly stop and frisk assault on hundreds of thousands of youth, thevolunteers were hosted on one of their first nights here for dinner by families of victims of police murder. They describe an evening none will forget, with heartfelt pain and humor, wonderful food and deep exchange about what people face under this system and how to get out of it. (See http://www.basicsbustour.tumblr.com/ and http://www.revcom.us/)
For the next 10 days, the BAsics bus tour travels through the Bronx, Brooklyn and nearby cities, reaching out to and involving thousands and changing people’s ideas of the possiblity of real change – making a movement for revolution real.
YOU can be part of pushing this bus and you are needed:
CALL: 718.664.4164EMAIL: ba.everywhereny@yahoo.com
Watch and spread this video everywhere! It paints a compelling picture of how the movement for revolution is developing, growing and cohering through the BAsics Bus Tour. Hear from people who met the tour and hear Carl Dix, Sunsara Taylor and Clyde Young. The film captures the hope people feel when they find out that there could be a radically different and far better future by encountering the vision and works of Bob Avakian, the revolutionary leader who has developed a new synthesis of communism. BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian concentrates all this and is at the heart of the Tour. It needs to be seen by thousands of people today, which can make a big difference in involving people in the movement for revolution.
We highly recommend that it be used for fundraising shown not only at events and collective efforts, but also to individuals who are able to contribute larger sums. Send the intro above and the link to the film (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsBxMETRSio) to everyone you know, especially people just finding out about all this. Ask people to spread it widely, post it online, and share via their social networks. Make copies of the film by downloading it from Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/45323963) and get these copies everywhere so people can show them on the streets, on portable dvd players and with individuals.
A commentary about getting BA Everywhere out broadly:
I picked up a copy of BASics for a friend of mine I work with. I kept asking if he read it and he’s always like, “I know you say I can skip around and read quotes, but I like to read a book cover to cover and I’m reading a novel right now.” He does read Revolution each week, though, when I finish reading it and give it to him. Anyway, so I see him one day, and he’s like, “I was riding on the subway back to Brooklyn and there’s a girl across from me reading BAsics, and so I tell my girlfriend, ‘Hey, there’s that book our friend keeps telling me to read.’”
Taking out revolution and internationalism at the International African Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY on anti-July 4th
International African Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NYHundreds of people strolled leisurely around this festival, in the sweltering summer heat, listening to African music, tasting African and Caribbean delicacies, and browsing jewelry, clothing, music cd’s, and African drums, in the multi-aisled outdoor marketplace. Vendors from West Africa, Barbados, Guyana, Senegal, the U.S. and many other countries brought their wares to sell. Some people traveled from their home countries to this five day festival. It was a colorful crowd with Muslim African women in traditional dress, Rastafarians, African Americans, and people of all nationalities.
In the midst of this, revolutionaries talked to people about BAsics, Revolution newspaper and the cards featuring quotes : “American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People’s Lives.” BAsics 5:7 and “Internationalism—The Whole World Comes First.” BAsics 5:8.
Taking revolution to the Jimmy Cliff concert
We received this from a reader:
This evening we took revolution out into Brooklyn, at Prospect Park where a free Jimmy Cliff concert was being held. We had a large display of the Revolution newspaper cover and the centerfold, and plenty of cards with the “No more generations of our youth…” quote [BAsics 1:13] that we were handing out to the revelers and the people just passing by. At first we were just handing out the cards with no agitation. People were taking the cards, but it didn’t seem to resonate too much at first. A little while later one of the revolutionaries began agitation.
