“The ‘voting trap’ under capitalism”
Bob Avakian on the elections: no matter who wins, we lose.
The REVOLUTION is real! Watch it. Spread it.
June 2nd Celebration at Marcus Garvey Park, Harlem, NYC:
picnic and report back from the BAsics Bus Tour
On Sat. Jun 2 we had a picnic at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem to celebrate and welcome back the volunteers who had participated in the recent leg of the BAsics Bus Tour that went into the deep South.
A group of young girls ranging in age from 5-12 years old were the first to arrive. A week before the picnic one of the girls had run into revolutionaries and signed the BAsics 1:13 “No more generations of our youth…” quote banner — writing “Fair is fair” as her contribution. She had been thinking about the picnic all week and invited her friends. The girls read the quote palm card aloud in unison. The 5-year-old wanted to add “No Racism” to the banner and since she had not yet learned how to write an older girl wrote it for her.
UC Riverside: Day 2 & 3 “Have you talked to the communists?”
Riverside, Wednesday
UC Riverside is surrounded by desert hills, it is warm here, even in February. Our bus drove around the outskirts of campus, nearby there are neighborhoods of extreme poverty. This university is an oasis in an area which is full of extremes, including organized reactionaries. We marched into campus wearing t shirts “you can’t change the world if you don’t know the BAsics.”
We tried out a new cadence about the book and Bob Avakian: heads turned and a student ran up, “who are you? I’ve been involved with Occupy. I’m glad you’re here.” *
