You're invited to an evening of
readings and conversation of
Bob Avakian's memoir
"From Ike to Mao and Beyond:
My Journey from Mainstream America to
Revolutionary Communist."

Monday, July 24. 6:30pm.
Join us at the delicious Uptown Juice Bar, located at 54 W. 125th St.
between Lenox and 5th Aves.

Readings by:
Aladdin, comedian and playwright
Herb Boyd, journalist, Amsterdam News
Gamal Abdel Chasten, playwright and performer with Universes
Rev. Earl Kooperkamp, St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Lara Stapleton, writer
Tevin Thomas, musician and educator
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Bob Avakian has written a memoir containing three unique but interwoven stories. The first tells of a white middle-class kid growing up in ’50s America who goes to an integrated high school and has his world turned around; the second of a young man who overcomes a near-fatal disease and jumps with both feet into the heady swirl of Berkeley in the ’60s; and the third of a radical activist who matures into a tempered revolutionary communist leader. If you think about the past or if you urgently care about the future... if you want to hear a unique voice of utter realism and deep humanity... and if you dare to have your assumptions challenged and your stereotypes overturned... then you won’t want to miss this book.

"Bob Avakian is a long distance runner in the freedom struggle against imperialism, racism and capitalism. His voice and witness are indispensable in our efforts to enhance the wretched of the earth. And his powerful story of commitment is timely."
– Cornel West

"A truly interesting account of Bob Avakian’s life, a humanizing portrait of someone who is often seen only as a hard-line revolutionary. I can understand why Bob Avakian has drawn so many ardent supporters. He speaks to people’s alienation from a warlike and capitalist society, and holds out the possibility for radical change."
– Howard Zinn
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Bob Avakian is the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. And he is more than that: he’s an innovative and critical thinker who has taken Marxism to a new place; he’s a provocative commentator on everything from basketball to religion, doo-wop music to science; and he’s a pit-bull fighter against oppression who’s kept both his solemn sense of purpose and his irrepressible sense of humor.

For more information, call: 917-553-4704