People in Los Angeles show their responses to these quotes from BASics, July, 2012. These were taken in different places on different days but all in the same area.  Below are the transcribed posters from the photos.

[[MORES]]

Lives are more important than other people lives. 

People divided to hate, go along with the army when they are terrorist themselfs. 

The benefit of all people is better than being individual. 

Challenge the government to give the people what they need instead of wanting us to die and live under the rules instead of being free to think and give our opinion and speak on topics.

 
We work for the killers in the name of killers for the killers.  [From a veteran of the U.S. military]
 
There is only one Earth and we all come from the same source.  We are all one people, so its up to us to care about each other.
 
No to the 1070.
 
Everybody life is important no matter age creed or color or what states or country you from we all have life and we want to live permanently.

It’s June and graduations are everywhere – caps and gowns, balloons, ecstatic families, crying grads.  And looming over it all like a dark shadow is The Future – what is the world students are entering into, what promise does it have, and what meaning are their lives going to have?  At one inner-city high school in Los Angeles, where less than half the students who started there as ninth graders make it to graduation, and this year’s graduation included memorials for two classmates who died during the school year, graduating seniors got the opportunity to do something meaningful at their graduation and they eagerly took it.  As students sat in their seats on the stadium floor and then walked up to have their name announced and picture taken with the principal, nearly 50 of them, about a fifth of the graduating class, wore a small orange-colored button on their blue gowns.  From a distance all you could see was a button.  But up close and in person, students wore the button so it could be read:

“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, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, BAsics 1:13

BBQ in L.A. to raise funds for the BAsics Bus Tour

We received this correspondence about a fundraising BBQ held Sunday, May 27th, in L.A.

It was a beautiful day for the fundraising barbeque for the next leg of the BAsics Bus Tour. We celebrated the success of the just-completed leg of the Tour from Atlanta to Sanford, and reaching the goal of $30,000. As we enjoyed the delicious foods from various parts of the world, there were lively informal discussions in several different languages.

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Gathering in L.A. Tuesday Night to Watch Special Announcement from Carl Dix

At a restaurant in the Crenshaw district, a dozen people gathered to watch the video statement from the BAsics Bus Tour - ranging from people who joined in on the spot, to those consciously standing with the revolution, to committed revolutionary communists.  The crowd gathered around the screen watching Carl Dix’s announcement of the BAsics Bus heading to Sanford, Florida was strikingly multinational, and for many people a new and welcome experience as Black people from the nearby area engaged in translated discussion about revolution, mass incarceration, and Bob Avakian with Spanish-speaking immigrants who live in Pico-Union.  One woman was clearly moved by this, commenting how here we are coming together like this, but in the prisons - like the one where her son is on his second strike - the system pits people against each other, gets them to fight each other and then that spills out of the prisons and into the neighborhoods.  Everyone there wanted to participate in this historic Tour in one way or another.  Some donated small amounts of money, all signed the banner, and people left with some planning to come to the fundraising picnic and others looking ahead to the June 5th day of justice for Trayvon Martin and taking posters of the Three Strikes quote from Bob Avakian to start getting up and around the area.

We received the following from organizers in Los Angeles:

A banner to support the BAsics Bus Tour began as a quote taped on a whiteboard in a Pico-Union area classroom: “No mas generaciones de nuestra juventud, aqui o a traves del mundo, cuyas vidas se acaban, cuyo futuro ya esta sellado, que han sido condenados a una muerte temprana o a una vida de miseria y brutalidad, que el sistema ha destinado a opresion y al olvido incluso antes de que nazcan.  Yo digo no mas de esto.”  A classroom of not quite 20 students, all children of immigrants from Mexico and Central America.  As the Revolution talk from Bob Avakian played on the projection screen about the history of lynchings in this country, students who’d had their heads down when the lights went off were suddenly sitting straight up.  When the clip ended and the guest speaker asked them to respond, a hand shot up.  “What happened to Trayvon Martin is just like what happened to Emmett Till!” the young woman exclaimed.  At the end of a discussion that ranged from what is revolution to how do you make real change to the significance of people fighting the power like the rebellion in that area the year before after the police murder of Manuel Jaminez and the importance of people knowing they have this leader, Bob Avakian, a volunteer read the quote on the board in Spanish aloud to the class and students were asked to give it some thought and send their messages to the BAsics Bus Tour.  Students took the markers and grouped together around the banner.  “I wish the best for your revolutionary movement…” begins one message.  One student draws a heart.  Another writes, “Stay safe.”

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“Next Stop… Revolution!” captures the scenes when Bob Avakian’s Revolution talk hit the streets on L.A. city busses. Get a taste of the impact BA makes.

TUESDAY: Watch this video with a special video from the BAsics Bus Tour, released online along with a special announcement about the Tour. You’ll hear first-hand and in some depth about the progress of the Tour thus far, what the volunteers are learning and what the response has been up to this point. This is an opportunity for you to come together where you live, bringing in people in your neighborhood, people you know, etc. Gather in people’s homes or a local community center, church, barber shop, housing project’s rec room or restaurant. Be part of a multitude of collective and informal gatherings across the country.

Stay tuned for the the special update and announcement video to be uploaded Monday night. Share this widely online today, and download from Vimeo.

“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!

Kick-Off Parties in Atlanta and nationwide this Friday!

Taking REVOLUTION, COMMUNISM, and BOB AVAKIAN to the South! The official Kick-Off Party to send the BAsics Bus Tour on the road!

7-10pm, Friday, May 18th
Little 5 Points Community Center
1087 Austin Ave. (at Euclid)

Join the celebration and excitement, see the decorated RV, meet  the volunteers and all those supporting this, listen to live music and poetry, watch videos documenting our efforts so far and clips of Bob Avakian, bring a dish to share, and more. $10 suggested donation.

Kick-Off Parties all across the country this Friday to celebrate this Tour heading further South:

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