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

As we begin projecting BA Everywhere in June, and gearing up for the next leg of the BAsics Bus Tour… get deeper into Avakian’s work.  Check out the full talk, Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About. The theme and the message this month — a message being taken up and spread by hundreds across the country is quoted from this film: “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 Watch the full Revolution talk at http://revolutiontalk.net/films. Watch and discuss with friends, and share this online. *** In 2003 Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA delivered an historic talk in the United States. 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 takes us deep into the heart of the horrors we see around us – from the oppression of whole peoples and parts of the world to what underlies brutal wars of domination – and why we live in a world where profound poverty, starvation and exploitation co-exist with unprecedented wealth. From the American nightmare to a sweeping vision of a whole new world, he breaks it all down, and shows how and why a radically different world can be brought forward. This film is full of heart and soul, humor and seriousness. It will challenge you and set your heart and mind to flight.
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As we begin projecting BA Everywhere in June, and gearing up for the next leg of the BAsics Bus Tour… get deeper into Avakian’s work.  Check out the full talk, Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About.

The theme and the message this month — a message being taken up and spread by hundreds across the country is quoted from this film: “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

Watch the full Revolution talk at http://revolutiontalk.net/films. Watch and discuss with friends, and share this online.

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In 2003 Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA delivered an historic talk in the United States. 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 takes us deep into the heart of the horrors we see around us – from the oppression of whole peoples and parts of the world to what underlies brutal wars of domination – and why we live in a world where profound poverty, starvation and exploitation co-exist with unprecedented wealth. From the American nightmare to a sweeping vision of a whole new world, he breaks it all down, and shows how and why a radically different world can be brought forward. This film is full of heart and soul, humor and seriousness. It will challenge you and set your heart and mind to flight.