Donate to the Special Issue of Revolution!

As you discuss and make plans to get the broadsheet out in the next two weeks, fundraising has to be a big factor in your plans. Think of what it would mean for hundreds of thousands to be introduced to Bob Avakian's vision of communism, his analysis of the heavy challenges that people face today, and his program for how to deal with all this. There is no other leader like Chairman Avakian out there.

Donations for this broadsheet can be made in several ways listed below. Please indicate that the donation is specifically for the broadsheet issue:

• Make a check out to RCP Publications and mail it to P.O. Box 3486, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 60654-0486. Or the check can be dropped off at your local Revolution Books, or given to any Revolution seller.
• Go online to any Revolution Books site and make a payment to PayPal (please note that it's for the broadsheet issue).
• Cash is always accepted by Revolution sellers or at Revolution Books.

Get Ready for a Gonzales Resignation!

Sellers should be ready to get out WANTED T-shirts and Revolution THE DAY of a Gonzales resignation. Teams need to be prepared to get out to Harlem, Columbia University, the law schools, Washington Heights, Upper Westside and Union Square with hundreds of WANTED t-shirts and the flyer for a program at the store the day after the resignation which will contrast law in this society and law in socialist society. Teams also should get out the current newspaper and the 7 talks. A forced resignation would be good, but we should not stop there. The whole regime must be driven out, Gonzales exposed for being the chief architect for torture and along with the 4 others – they should all be indicted for war crimes.

Get out Issue #83 & preparations for April 2nd Special Revolution broadsheet

Special Issue Coming!

The April 2 issue of Revolution will be a special broadsheet, designed for distribution in huge quantities.

The point: to introduce hundreds of thousands of new people to Bob Avakian’s vision of communism, his analysis of the heavy challenges that people face today, and his program for how to deal with all this…

We’re calling on distributors and regular readers to think now about how to get this issue out very, very broadly, and to make plans and preparations accordingly. Get people together now to view the DVD Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About.
Bring new people into the movement, right on the spot. And then come back together and talk about how it’s going. Spread the movement: get out hundreds of thousands of papers, create a massive political wave suddenly roaring up from below like a tsunami.

Here are some events that we need to set up teams for. Volunteer; email events you can set up a team for. Some events listed are in May or June because you might want to get your ticket now for those events.


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Friday, March 30, 2007
12:30-1:45pm
NYU School of Law
Furman hall, Rooom 334
George Packer
Staff Writer, the New Yorker
Author, The Assassin’s Gate: America in Iraq discussing The Fate of America’s Iraqi Allies
RSVP, 212-992-8854 cls@juris.law.nyu.edu


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March 31, Saturday 3PM
Target: IRAN
What’s at Stake for the Middle East
Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East
Hamid Dabashi, Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies & Comparative Literature Columbia University
Saman Sepehri, Activist and contributor to ISR
Fawwaz Traboulsi, Associate Professor of History and Politics at the Lebanese American University
The targeting of Iraw has (and will have) repercussions throughout the Middle East. In the context of the US occupation of Iraq, the 2006 Israeli Invasion of Lebanan, the intensifying Israeli attacks against and against and occupation of Palestine, what’s at stake in the latest threats against Iran? What’s behind the US’ latest Iraq WMD-style fabrications of Iran’s nuclear ambitions? Why and how should the anti-war movement oppose an attack against Iran? Elebash Recital hall
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th St.
Co sponsored by ISO, WESPAC foundation, NY Campaign for Boycott Divestment & Sanctions against Israel, Socialist Action and Action Wednesdays
http://www.mideastjustice.org/


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March 31, 2007 7pm
New York Society for Ethical Culture
West 64th Street at Central Park West
"PARALLELS: The Coming War At Home" presented by WBAI 99.5fm and The New York Society for Ethical Culture
Featuring WARD CHURCHILL, plus Lynne Stewart, Bernard White, Amy Goodman (Invited) Performances by M ATOU = Soni Moreno (Ulali), Attahua Papa, Tiokasin Ghosthorse

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April 2, 2007 7pm
U.S.-Iran Relations: On The Brink of Disaster?
The New School 66 W. 12th St., New York, NY 10011 nr. Sixth Ave. 212-229-5611
4/02/07 7pm
A panel of international-affairs scholars, including Faisal Devji, Gary Sick, Ervand Abrahamian, and Tom O’Donnell, explores the roles of oil, religion, and political interests in the current dispute.


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April 2, 2007 7pm
Michelle Goldberg
The Half King 505 W. 23rd St., New York, NY 10011 nr. Tenth Ave. 212-462-4300
4/02/07 7pm
The writer presents her new book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism.


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April 5, 2007 7pm
CONVERSATIONS: RELIGION AND POLITICS
Thursday, April 05, 2007 7:00pm The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor Event Description:
The Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School presents the third in a four-part series of conversations with writers and thinkers who are extending the boundaries of discussion on some of the key public policy issues of today. Bob Abernethy, host of PBS’ Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly, brings his interviewing skills to the stage to ask about the great spiritual questions of our day. In conversation with writer Chris Hedges (American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America and Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America), Blu Greenberg, an award-winning writer, psychologist and co-founder and the first president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance; and Irving Greenberg, president of Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation, he asks how religion plays into the political and personal landscapes. The series will conclude on May 10.
Ticket Price:$5 Ticket Information:
In-person purchases can be made at the New School Box Office at 66 West 12th Street, main floor, Monday-Friday 1:00-7:00 p.m. Inquiries can be sent to boxoffice@newschool.edu or 212.229.5488. Most events are FREE to all students and New School alumni with ID.


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April 10 8:15pm
Laura Flanders with Katrina vanden Heuvel: The "Blue" and the "Red
Air America radio host Laura Flanders, the bestselling author of Bushwomen and the recent Blue Grit, believes there are no such things as “red” and “blue” states and that young, supposedly alienated Americans are going to the polls in droves. Flanders talks about new progressives who are challenging the establishment with talent, ideas, media and cash and how they have their sights set on building a new Democratic Party.Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor of The Nation.
Date & Time: Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 8:15pm
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Code: T-LC5SE14-01
Price: $25.00


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April 11, 2007
NY Historical Society
170 Central Park West @ 76/77
The Radical and the Republican
New York Divided: Lincoln
The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the president and the most famous black man in America – opponents at first, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass gradually became allies and their relationship signaled a profound shift in the direction of the Civil War. These iconic figures live again and shed new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America.
Time & Location
Date: 04/11/2007 06:30 PM
Pricing
Full Price Ticket (Non-Members): $15.00
Member Cost: $8.00
Student/Senior/Educator Cost: $10.00
Speaker Bio(s)
James Oakes is Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the author of The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery. Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. His most recent book is Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction.


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April 12, 2007
THE CONSTITUTION IN CRISIS: BRYAN STEVENSON
Date:Thursday, April 12, 2007 7:00pm Building/Location:The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor Event Description:
This four-part lecture series curated by Sam Haselby, visiting professor, and co-sponsored by the Leonard and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Program, the New School Writing Program, and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts aims to deepen public understanding and raise critical awareness of this charter document of the United States by bringing three of the country’s leading scholars of law, history, and literature and one of America’s outstanding human rights activists to address the topic of the Constitution in Crisis. The final lecture will be delivered by Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, professor of clinical law at New York University, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, speaking on political rights under the U.S. Constitution.
Free Contact Information:
For more information or special needs requests, call 212.229.5353. Questions can be sent to specialprograms@newschool.edu.


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April 17
"Global Warming: Answer the Call." with Nadia Elrokhsy.
Date: Tuesday, April 17 Time: 6:30 PM
Audience: adults
Description: In celebration of Earth Day, this slide show presentation will explain the science of global warming and what causes it. Ms Elrokhsy will examine the crisis global warming poses to people and the planet and what you can do to reduce your carbon footprint and stop global warming.
Location: Mid-Manhattan Library455 Fifth Avenue(212) 340-0849


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April 17
Bystanders:Why Don’t We Get Involved?
“All it takes for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Why don’t we act when others need our help? Can we find a path to involvement by acknowledging the failure of doing nothing? Take a contemporary and historical look at bystanders and the role they play in un-civil society. Examine ourselves and historical models in an interactive setting.This program is facilitated by members of the staff of Facing History and Ourselves, a national nonprofit organization that sponsors programs to engage teachers and students in an exploration of racism, prejudice, anti-Semitism and individual choice.
Date & Time: Tue, Apr 17, 2007, 6:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Code: T-LH5LC03-01
Price: $40.00

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April 26

Ending Tyranny: The History of an Idea
Richard Gilder Distinguished Lecturer Series
President Bush, in his second inaugural address, committed the United States to "the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world." Professor Gaddis will explore the deep roots of this idea in American history, together with the feasibility of making it an objective for national and international policy in the 21st century.
Buy Tickets
Event Details
Time & Location
NY Historical Society
170 Central Park West @ 76/77
Date: 04/26/2007 06:30 PM
Pricing
Full Price Ticket (Non-Members): $18.00
Member Cost: $10.00
Student/Senior/Educator Cost: $15.00
Speaker Bio(s)
John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University and the author of The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, as well as Surprise, Security, and the American Experience. Most recently, he wrote The Cold War: A New History and is currently writing a biography of George F. Kennan. A 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal, he has taught at the University of Helsinki, Princeton University, and Oxford University, among others.


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May2, 2007
Brian Greene
For reasons that Brian Greene will explain, it is very, very useful for physicists to imagine that instead of one universe there are many. Multiple universes make the world of teeny particles, the quantum world, more understandable. They help explain how time works, and even make it logically possible to go back in time and kill Hitler. But while many universes may appeal to this prize-winning author of The Elegant Universe, most of us were happy when the word universe meant “everything there is.” Learn why we need more than one.
Date & Time: Wed, May 2, 2007, 8:00pm
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall
Code: T-LC5PF03-01
Price: $25.00 All Sections


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May 3, 2007
Stem Cell Research: The Way Forward
Chuck Close, Kevin Eggan, Michael J. Fox, Susan L. Solomon, Harold Varmus, David Paterson and Leonard LopateA majority of Americans support it. Scientist are determined to harness its potential to treat and cure major diseases. Hear a panel discuss ways that citizens, scientist, governments, philanthropists and patient advocates can work together to move stem cell research from the lab bench to the bedside.
This Program is in conjunction with The New York Stem Cell Research Foundation.
Date & Time: Thu, May 3, 2007, 6:30pm
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall
Code: T-LC5PF06-01
Price: $25.00 All Sections


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May 22, 2007
Alice Walker in Conversation with Gloria Steinem
Alice Walker, known for her literary fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple, has written many volumes of poetry and non-fiction. Her most recent book is We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness, a series of spiritual and political meditations on what each of us can do to better the world and be a force for peace, hope and sanity. Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor and feminist activist. In 1972, she co-founded Ms. magazine and remained one of its editors for 15 years. Her books include the bestsellers Revolution from Within: A Book of Self Esteem and Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Moving Beyond Words.
Date & Time: Tue, May 22, 2007, 7:30pm
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall
Code: T-LC5WL08-01
Price: $25.00 All Sections


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May 24, 2007 (sold out)
Understanding Our World: Al Gore with Charlie Rose
Al Gore served as the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, having had a prior distinguished career serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance and An Inconvenient Truth. He also stars in the Academy Award-winning film An Inconvenient Truth, where he passionately exposes the myths and misconceptions about global warming and offers practical solutions for what each of us can do to ensure the future of our planet. His most recent book is The Assault On Reason, a visionary analysis of how we can put the tenets of fact-based reasoning back into public discourse and politics at large.
Tickets for priority seating are $50.
Date & Time: Thu, May 24, 2007, 8:00pm
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall
Code: T-LC5SE19-01
Price: $50.00 All Sections


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June 18
Yoko Ono in Conversation with Anthony DeCurtis
Yoko Ono is a ground-breaking and award-winning musician, artist, filmmaker and peace activist. Her most recent work includes the albums, Yes, I'm a Witch and Open Your Box. One of the boldest creative thinkers and cultural icons of our time, she discusses her extraordinary life journey with Anthony DeCurtis, who is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the author of In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work.
Date & Time: Mon, Jun 18, 2007, 8:00pm
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall
Code: T-LC5AE13-01
Price: $35.00 All Sections

Saturday March 24 #83 in Harlem

People are meeting in Harlem this Saturday, March 24th, at 1:30 at

Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd
Between 124th and 125th Streets
New York, NY 10027
212-665-7400
info@hueman-bookstore.com

We will not be meeting at the Bookstore at 9:00am.

Bring papers, DVD, MP3 and your video players if you have one.

Join us in getting out this week's issue of Revolution as well as last week's paper, the DVD's, and MP3 with the 7 Talks.

Revolution #83!

NOTE: Along with the excerpt of the talk "Bringing Forward Another Way", this issue announces a special effort with a special issue:
Calling All Readers...and Revolutionaries
Special Issue Coming!
The April 2 issue of Revolution will be a special broadsheet, designed for distribution in huge quantities.
The point: to introduce hundreds of thousands of new people to Bob Avakian’s vision of communism, his analysis of the heavy challenges that people face today, and his program for how to deal with all this.

Events to bring Revolution #83

Friday, March 23:
NOTICE OF PUBLIC FORUM
TRI-LEVEL JOIN LEGISLATIVE TASK FORCE
Medgar Evers College
Founders Auditorium
1650 Bedford Avenue
10am - 3pm
"Subject:
Police-community relations, and police policy, procedure and practices
"Purpose:
To bring together members of the community, includng clergy, elected officials, law enforcement officials and other community leaders to examine policies and practices and city, state and federal laws and regulations relation toundercover law envorcement. These policies and practices have resulted in too many shootings of unarmed black men in recent years and have undermined community support for law enforcment."
This task force includes federal, state and city legislators including Gregory Meeks, Charles Rangel, Ruben Diaz and many others.
The flyer says "Oral testimony by invitation or walk-in registration - limited to five minutes". To register in advance to speak, the flyer says to email trileveltaskforce@gmail.com, or call Senator Malcolm Smith at (212) 298-5585, or Councilman Leroy Comrie at (718) 776-3700, or Congressman Gregory Meeks at (718) 725-6000.

Saturday, March 24:
From the Hip Hop Caucus
Make Hip Hop Not War Tour
3/24/2007 - New York, New York
7:00pm - 10:00pm, Doors @ 6:00pm
West-Park Presbyterian Church (165 West 86th St. at Amsterdam Ave.)
The purpose of the MAKE HIP HOP NOT WAR CAMPAIGN is to get more people of color, college students and young people involved in the anti-war movement. Make Hip Hop Not War will provide the anti-war movement with a “surge” that could transform current public opinion which opposes the war into powerful mobilization against the war. A stronger and more diverse mobilization is critical to force our policymakers to take concrete steps to withdraw our troops from Iraq and to prevent an attack on Iran.

Thursday, March 22-24 at CUNY: Facing Race: A National Conference.WBAI, CUNY’s Center for Humanities, and the Applied Research Center present “Facing Race”, a multi-faceted discussion of racial justice at the CUNY Grad Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 35th Street in Manhattan.
The color line is still the issue in the 21st century. The conference begins on Thursday evening, March 22nd with the brilliance of writer Walter Mosley; includes the Friday evening performance of the legendary Eddie Palmieri; and a wide range of thinkers and workers and opportunities to share effective strategies for change. All hue-mans invited.Admission, plenary sessions and workshops athttp://www.arc.org/ or call (212) 513-7925.
Key note address by Walter Mosley: Thursday, Mar 22, 7:00-9:00pm;
panels and workshops: Friday, Mar 23, 10:00am-10:00pm; Saturday, Mar 24, 10:00-6:00pm, Proshansky Auditorium."
Our need for racial justice is rooted in the decimation and annihilation of our natives peoples, in the historic and monumental enslavement and marginalization of African peoples, it informs our excuse to go to war without counting the dead or measuring the destruction, and it is the weight we put on the back of every so-called illegal laborer who harvests our sustenance, builds our shelters, and who will ultimately dig our graves."-- Walter Mosley

Sunday, March 25th 1:30PM Brooklyn Peace Parade.
JOIN THE BROOKLYN PEACE PARADE STOP THE ESCALATION! END THE WAR IN IRAQ CONGRESS MUST ACT!
Bring neighbors, friends, kids, musicalinstruments, banners, and above all… YOUR VOICES. March from Carroll Park, Carroll Gardens to Grand Army Plaza.

Monday, March 26th, 8:00 PM. Peace concert and panel/community discussion at The New York Society for Ethical Culture2 W. 64th Street and CPW. World premier of choral work by Thea Musgrave "Voices of Power and Protest" focusing on victims of war. Location: The New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West New York NY 10023. Contact: Robert Pape rlpape@gmail.com 585-739-5265 http://www.voicesforpeace.orgRSVP

Tuesday, March 27, 7:00 p.m.
CONVERSATIONS: THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT VS. THE DEMOCRATIC STATE With Alan Wolfe, author of Does American Democracy Still Work? and Eric Alterman, political journalist and author of When Presidents Lie: The History of Official Deception and Its Consequences. Location: The New School Theresa Lang Community Center 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.March 29, Noon. ACT-UP's 20th anniversary action. Assemble at the Federal Building, Broadway and Worth.March 31, 7 pm. Ward Churchill, Lynne Stewartat New York Ethical Culture, admission $20.

Thursday, April 5, 7:00 p.m. CONVERSATIONS: RELIGION AND POLITICSWith Bob Abernathy, host of PBS' "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly," writer Chris Hedges(American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America and Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America); Blu Greenberg, an award-winning writer, psychologist and co-founder and the first president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance; and Irving Greenberg, president of Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation. Location: The New School Theresa Lang Community Center 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.

Thursday, May 10, 7:00 p.m. CONVERSATIONS: GAY RIGHTS IN AMERICA. With Harry Hirsch, editor of The Future of Gay Rights in America and Lisa Duggan, editor of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture. Location: The New School Theresa Lang Community Center 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.

Sean Bell Grand Jury Announcement - MONDAY & TUESDAY - The whole world is watching!!

The DA will be holding a press conference at 11 AM at the Queens Kew County courthouse on MONDAY to announce the charges. October 22 parents Nicholas Heyward and Juanita Young plan to hold a parents press conference at ll:30 AM, and People's Justice is planning to hold their press conference at 12 noon.

We should call in a big way for EVERYONE to be out there MONDAY -- this is the moment when the whole world will be watching and they should see a powerful statement that the people of this city are not going to accept anything less than complete justice in this case.

TUESDAY is also important but will be much more powerful if MONDAY marks a bit political divide and the determination of the people is expressed in visual form (banners etc.) and from parents and many people. There will be national and international media there (the TDA on Saturday got national coverage and it was overall positive). There is already talk of changing venue and we know how few cops who even get indicted actually get convicted and sentenced -- going forward requires the people expressing their determination that justice will be demanded in the streets. Tuesday, 5 PM, Union Square. Sellers should meet at Revolution Books at 4PM to go over to Union Square.

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Upcoming Events

Tuesday , March 20, 7:00 p.m. DON'T PANIC! A SERIES OF DISCUSSIONS LIVING IN A STATE OF FEAR.
Admission: $5 Webcast: www.newschool.edu/webcasts These days, human ingenuity is regarded with apprehension and even fear. What are the consequences for the future of civilization? Moderator: Jean Smith, Director of New York Salon. Participants: Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent; Christopher Hayes, contributing writer at The Nation and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute; and Megan McArdle, countries' editor of The Economist. Visit www.nysalon.org for more information.The Economist and The Nation are media partners for this event. Location: The New School Theresa Lang Community Center 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.

Wednesday, March 21st , 7pm. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
Their private contractors operate in Iraq, Afghanistan and within theUnited States. Most people have never heard of Blackwater USA, but that is about to change . . . Join JEREMY SCAHILL, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books), and Nation columnist NAOMI KLEIN, as they discuss the radical privatization of war and how it threatens American democracy.
Moderated by AMY GOODMAN, host of Democracy Now! A book signing of Blackwater will follow the event. Location: New York Society for Ethical Culture 2 West 64th Street (at Central ParkWest) New York NY 10023 Contact:Liliana Seguraliliana@nationinstitute.org(212) 209-5442S ponsored By:Presented by The Nation Institute. Co-sponsored by The Nation, DemocracyNow! and the Public Concern Foundation.Voices for Peace Concert & Discussion

Thursday, March 22-24 at CUNY: Facing Race: A National Conference.
WBAI, CUNY’s Center for Humanities, and the Applied Research Center present “Facing Race”, a multi-faceted discussion of racial justice at the CUNY Grad Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 35th Street in Manhattan.

The color line is still the issue in the 21st century. The conference begins on Thursday evening, March 22nd with the brilliance of writer Walter Mosley; includes the Friday evening performance of the legendary Eddie Palmieri; and a wide range of thinkers and workers and opportunities to share effective strategies for change. All hue-mans invited.

Admission, plenary sessions and workshops athttp://www.arc.org/ or call (212) 513-7925.
Key note address by Walter Mosley: Thursday, Mar 22, 7:00-9:00pm;
panels and workshops: Friday, Mar 23, 10:00am-10:00pm; Saturday, Mar 24, 10:00-6:00pm, Proshansky Auditorium.

"Our need for racial justice is rooted in the decimation and annihilation of our natives peoples, in the historic and monumental enslavement and marginalization of African peoples, it informs our excuse to go to war without counting the dead or measuring the destruction, and it is the weight we put on the back of every so-called illegal laborer who harvests our sustenance, builds our shelters, and who will ultimately dig our graves."-- Walter Mosley

Sunday, March 25th 1:30PM Brooklyn Peace Parade.
JOIN THE BROOKLYN PEACE PARADE STOP THE ESCALATION! END THE WAR IN IRAQ CONGRESS MUST ACT!
Bring neighbors, friends, kids, musicalinstruments, banners, and above all… YOUR VOICES. March from Carroll Park, Carroll Gardens to Grand Army Plaza.

Monday, March 26th, 8:00 PM. Peace concert and panel/community discussion at The New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 W. 64th Street and CPW. World premier of choral work by Thea Musgrave "Voices of Power and Protest" focusing on victims of war. Location: The New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West New York NY 10023. Contact: Robert Pape rlpape@gmail.com 585-739-5265 http://www.voicesforpeace.orgRSVP

Tuesday, March 27, 7:00 p.m.CONVERSATIONS: THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT VS. THE DEMOCRATIC STATE With Alan Wolfe, author of Does American Democracy Still Work? and Eric Alterman, political journalist and author of When Presidents Lie: The History of Official Deception and Its Consequences. Location: The New School Theresa Lang Community Center 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.

March 29, Noon. ACT-UP's 20th anniversary action.
Assemble at the Federal Building, Broadway and Worth.

March 31, 7 pm. Ward Churchill, Lynne Stewart
at New York Ethical Culture, admission $20.

Thursday, April 5, 7:00 p.m. CONVERSATIONS: RELIGION AND POLITICSWith Bob Abernathy, host of PBS' "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly," writer Chris Hedges
(American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America and Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America); Blu Greenberg, an award-winning writer, psychologist and co-founder and the first president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance; and Irving Greenberg, president of Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation. Location: The New School Theresa Lang Community Center 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.

Thursday, May 10, 7:00 p.m. CONVERSATIONS: GAY RIGHTS IN AMERICA.
With Harry Hirsch, editor of The Future of Gay Rights in America and Lisa Duggan, editor of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture. Location: The New School Theresa Lang Community Center 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.

DC Antiwar Demonstration - Newspaper Agitation and Orientation for 7 Talks

Here is an agitation that Chicago's agitation developed which teams can use in DC.

We need a massive movement that is determined to drive out the Bush Regime! The world today is a nightmare. Endless war, imminent attack on Iran, legalization of torture, construction of a theocratic state, attacks on abortion and contraception, the horror of the governments actions during Katrina.

George Bush has made it clear this will not end as long as he is in power -- so ending this is tied up with driving him and his regime from office. We must not accept having to chose between crusading McWorld or reactionary Jihad, where siding with either one of these means you wind up strengthening both. And we must respond to the difficulties the US is facing not from how to save the US, but from the interests of humanity and the urgent need for a different world.

We must bring forward another way, a better world can be created. This paper gets down under how things got to where they are now, and how a different, liberating society could be brought into being. If you are thinking about this, you have to get with Bob Avakian and the thinking he is doing about what it will take to have a truly liberating society - a communist society. Get this paper, help fund it, and take more to get back home.

FUNDRAISING AGITATION

Help make the most radical revolutionary communist paper available to everyone. Hundreds of dollars are needed. Buy a bundle to take back home!


And, Orientation for Distributing Talks

Some thoughts on orientation for selling the seven new talks from Bob Avakian at this Saturday’s march:

From Bringing Forward Another Way: “Our responsibility lies in, first of all ourselves understanding, but second of all giving people as broadly as possible, at any given time, a full, scientifically based picture of what is going on in the world, where the dynamics are driving things—and why—and what are the means for acting to radically transform all this, with the objective of getting rid of all these horrors and bringing a new world into being — a transformation, in other words, that would be in the interests of the great majority of oppressed people, indeed the great majority of people throughout the world and ultimately humanity as a whole.”

These seven talks from Bob Avakian are a concentration of providing that understanding for people, on the burning questions of the day. They need to get into many, many more people’s hands.

This Saturday’s march on the Pentagon will be an important congregation of people that need to get these talks and engage Avakian’s work overall. (See the NY blog for more orientation on the march overall which I don’t want to repeat all of here.) We need to make the biggest impact possible and we should not underestimate the potential. People will be there because they are agonizing about the current situation. They’ll be there because they want to stop the Iraq War, prevent a war on Iran and think Bush should be impeached for war crimes. This is really important to unite with and dig into people even more where all these outrages stem from, what’s needed to prevent further crimes, and what kind of world is possible. They need to hear Avakian’s revolutionary communist analysis and vision and get to know the person who is actively “bringing forward another way!”

We have to give all this content and substance and make sharp and compelling arguments for why people need to check out these seven talks, the Revolution DVD and Avakian’s whole body of work.

Some thoughts on approach:

We have to go at how we’ve been getting out these talks in a different way. A lot of what we’ve done before at these kinds of things is sell sets of talks one by one and have lengthier discussions with individuals. Instead, we want to do agitation and cohere crowds of people.

A few different models:

- first, when people are milling about (in the pre and post rally), we should head towards the middle and back of the crowds (we don’t want to interfere if people are listening to the speakers) and one person should do prepared and sharp agitation (they should practice this beforehand, more on that below). The other people on the team, 2 or 3others, should go around to the crowd standing around and sell the talks. They should put them in people’s hands so they can read the titles and collect money ($5 for the set of seven talks, though people can give more). They should also collect contact information. While focusing in on key points, this agitation can be a bit longer.

- second, when the march is marching, or people are walking by more quickly, this model will have to be reworked some. The agitation points will have to be shorter and more concentrated. We’ll have to see how the loud the march is being and what’s possible here, but this is an idea.

- third, we want to find the ways throughout the day to actually play the talks for people. IS IT POSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE TO BRING DOWN A RADIO AND BULLHORN, OR A RADIO WITH LOUD SPEAKERS? This would be best (we could have a grocery cart where we cart this around). If this is not possible, someone needs to bring a boom box (WITH BATTERIES) so we can play the clips for smaller groupings. We have not enough done this kind of thing where people hear Avakian right then and there.

All these models can include some one on one discussions, and again, they all need to include getting lots of contacts, but we want the mainthrust of the day to be SPEAKING TO LARGE NUMBERS OF MASSES. We’ll have to be fluid and sum up how we’re doing throughout the day.

Finally, there will be a lot of people out selling Revolution newspaper at this demonstration. This will be a very positive dynamic.

Some thoughts on the agitation:

Mainly people should reread the two articles from Avakian from a few years ago on Bringing Forward Our Line in a Bold and Compelling Way (I don’t have time to look up the link right now, but they’re onwww.revcom.us). They should also steep themselves in the clips from the seven talks that are online at www.bobavakian.net (hit the link for radio ready clips). These would be particularly good to riff off of. People should feel free to speak to one particular question that he gets into ie the two outmodeds and the need to break through that dynamic with revolutionary communism, but should keep pointing people back to all the seven talks and why they need to check these out. The editorial that was in Revolution newspaper announcing these seventalks provides some good orientation, http://www.revcom.us/a/055/avakiantalks-en.html. Also, people should use the titles of the talks themselves – these are concentrated and compelling.

People should prepare this agitation (certainly the key points) and practice to the extent possible. Throughout the day, the other folks on the team should listen to the agitator and learn as much as they can from what is resonating with people, what’s weak or too general, or what is really sharp.

Bring Forward Another Way (Issue #82)

This is a great issue. It should go out pretty broadly. A big part of this week’s plan is the D. C. demonstration on the 4th anniversary of the war against Iraq. We should encourage everyone we know to buy bus tickets and go to it. While it might not be as large as the previous one, tens of thousands are expected, including many from small cities and towns. Keep in mind that this demonstration is happening in the current context of setting deadlines for troop withdrawal/appropriation of funds and calls for Gonzalez to resign. This demonstration could be very significant if huge numbers of people not only oppose the Iraq war and attack on Iran, but also strongly call from impeachment. This could reverberate and affect what goes on at the campuses next week. Add to this the NY demo on Sunday and the impact could be magnified.

This issue needs to get out pretty broadly before and after the D.C. demo, to high schools and colleges to neighborhoods and events. Getting it out broadly now before the 17th could affect how widely and deeply the opposition to the war is in DC. Getting it out broadly now in a big way could impact how firmly and to what degree the call for impeachment based on war crimes gets taken up. Last time in DC, there was a big openness to the paper, with many people looking for a way out of this madness. The supplement, Bring Forward Another Way, is exciting to bring to people.

Also, all eyes should be on the Sean Bell Grand Jury verdict due any moment now. Please review, and encourage others too, the local party statement and Carl Dix’s statement on the newspaper website. They give people a good analysis of the problem, and of the solution, of how society could be different than the hell that millions face every day. October 22 is calling for The Day After demonstrations at Union Square. That info is provided below on this blog. Keep an eye out for any other demonstrations. Distribute the newspaper, 7 Talks/DVD/sampler.

Quantative Goals. Our goal locally is to sell 4,000 English and 1,000 Spanish newspapers. In D.C., including with other areas, an additional 8,000 English and 200 Spanish. Beside the paper team, there will also be teams distributing the 7 Talks and DVD/samplers and T-shirts. Aiming for 500-1,000 contacts. We will also bring all of the nazification of the campuses issues on hand.

DC Set-up. Buses will be dropping people off at 23rd and Constitution, the assembly site. Tere will be one bookstore table and one sellers table there from 10 AM - 1 PM. At 12:30 PM, the march will take off and end up at the Pentagon area. There will not be tables at the Pentagon area but teams will continue to go among people and distribute the newspaper, etc. The NY table staff will set up in one spot where teams easily find them to get more newspapers, etc. Please check in with the sellers table at the assembly point 1-2 times to share any experiences, positive or negative. Last time, sharing the Chicago agitation made a positive difference to what teams did. Before teams leave DC., everyone need to go to the sellers table and each seller should complete the qualitative summation sheet. Teamleaders should complete one qualitative report for the entire team (so teams should keep accurate records). Contact cards should be turned in before people leave for the march and again when they return from the march.

Newspaper Distribution. The model for distribution this time will be somewhat similar to last time of big teams, comprising of agitators, distributors passing out the newspapers, bucketeers following up for donations (and distributors getting the papers back if people don’t want it or can’t contribute - give them a contact card), getting contacts. Bundles and subs have to be part of the challenge put to people in the agitation and in conversations. This time, each team should have one person assigned to Talks/DVD/samplers (while everyone else can backpack them), and another with T-shirts. The people doing the Talks/DVD/samplers should bring DVD players, or MP3 players so people can see and listen. (Generally, we are encouraging all sellers should purchase DVD players to do showing on-the-spot in any conversation, rather than only the assigned person to do that.)

Funds. ALL regular issues of the newspaper should be sold for $1 (differs from the broadsheet for which each issue is not $1) and we should call on people to contribute more. Bundles should be sold for a down payment. Funds were low last time for the number of broadsheets that got out. Teams should be oriented to struggling for funds and politically summing up and transforming any problems.

Contacts. Last time, quite a few of the names from were small cities, and that will probably be true again this time. There was a real thirst and hunger for how do we end this war, what alternatives; and for literature; an openness to engaging. When talking to this section of people, please discuss with them setting up discussion groups around the newspapers and the DVD. They can set up weekly viewings of each section of the DVD. They should get a sub so that they can keep in touch...

There were not many NY contacts last time. Those going on the buses should think about and talk about how to get the newspaper out on the buses, and how to get contacts. The buses are the most concentrated places to get NY names. What happens on these buses can affect what happens in DC. It’s a great opportunity to talk to people.

Sunday, meet at the Revolution Books at 11:30 PM to go to the UFPJ demo: March to End the War. Sunday, March 18. Assemble at 1:00 p.m. 35th St through 39th St. East of 6th Ave. March at 2:00 pm.

**** CALL TO RETURN NAZIFICATION OF CAMPUSES ISSUES TO BOOKSTORE. If you have any, now is the time to return them to store. We want to have them on hand in D.C.************

Revolution #82

ALL OUT TO DC THIS SATURDAY MARCH 13

This Saturday, with tens of thousands in DC, and the call to impeach planted strongly in the crowd, people of the world are depending on us to unite with this and bring Revolution newspaper #82, including the excerpt from the new talk by Bob Avakian "Bringing Forward Another Way" ("Living in the House of Tony Soprano").

Everyone should go, go on buses and vans to ride with others, and call everyone else who has read and likes or respects Chairman Avakian and/or Revolution newspaper to come along. Take bundles of the paper in these next few days to friends and contacts. This issue should definitely go out in bundles in DC.

This Sunday is another protest planned here in NY, details to follow, and everyone should plan on spending the weekend out among the people at these events.

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This Thursday, and maybe Friday, plan on getting to the high schools in the morning.

Wednesday evening at 6:00pm is an event at the Wilson Center "What Kind of Democracy Do We Have with Sandra Lewis and Bob Kerry.

Friday is a planned protest also, details to follow.

Please also remember:
- Raise the funds for the papers that are distributed. $1 is the listed price...
- Send email reports of each outing, preferrably that same day.

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"Our responsibility lies in, first of all ourselves understanding, but second of all giving people as broadly as possible, at any given time, a full, scientifically based picture of what is going on in the world, where the dynamics are driving things—and why—and what are the means for acting to radically transform all this, with the objective of getting rid of all these horrors and bringing a new world into being—a transformation, in other words, that would be in the interests of the great majority of oppressed people, indeed the great majority of people throughout the world and ultimately humanity as a whole."
-From "Bringing Forward Another Way" available on www.revcom.us

**ALERT**

More will follow regarding Revolution distribution.
The Grand Jury for the Sean Bell murder case will be delivering its decision soon.
There is a TDA ("The Day After") manifestation called. It will be:
If the decision is delivered on a weekday: The NEXT day, at 5pm, assemble at Union Square.
If the decision is delivered at the end of the week and the next day is a weekend: The NEXT day, at 12 noon, assemble at Union Square.

Issue 80

Stop the Fascist Assault on Immigrants! U.S. Threats Against Iran: War Plans - and Pretexts - in Place. Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA: The Oppression of Black People & The Revolutionary Struggle to End All Oppression. There will be the new weekly discussions at the store on Saturdays, 9 AM to discuss the paper and going out. These weekend outings are big ways in which the paper can get out - come on Saturday (and if you can't , then Sunday; or come both days).

Everyone should be sure to backpack the Talks and DVD/sampler, with ways for people to hear/view on the spot. DVD players are fairly cheap right now. With this particular issue, the why do people come here piece should be played on the spot in the streets, in restaurants, barber shops, schools... Please discuss this before you go out.

There needs to be different thinking and practice on fundraising. Several hundreds of the last issue went out basically free to students and youth (and there has been some similar practice among basic people). The cover of the newspaper calls for $1. This should be our standard (with few instances where it can be sold for less), and calls for people to give more ($3, $5, $20, etc.) Consignment of bundles should accompany payment. What are we saying to people when we are calling on them to be emancipators of humanity when we don't think they will even pay for this newspaper? Teams should discuss this before they go out.

Again, the general schedule is for Wed, Thurs, Friday nights to get bundles to contacts and sell at events; Thursday and Friday AM, at high schools (and after school), also colleges; Saturday and Sunday in the neighborhood and Upper West Side. Events, programs and demonstrations are interspersed.

This Saturday, teams will go to Harlem, at a minimum.

Sunday, churches and Upper West Side during the day. A Robert Fisk program begins at 7 PM at Town Hall. Should you want to volunteer for any of these events and programs, please call the floating team co-ordinator.