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Friday, April 27, 2007

#86 - Update for May 1

Updated 5/2/07
From the current Revolution:


Revolution newspaper will be coming out with a major statement for May 1 that should get out everywhere on that day. The statement will speak deeply to the whole fascist assault on the immigrants—what is the source of this, what kind of political struggle must be waged to resist this, and the connection of this to hastening things in a revolutionary direction.

May 1 is the international holiday of the proletariat, the class with nothing to lose but their chains. It is a day when the revolutionary aims of the proletariat—for a world without classes and class divisions and all that goes with that, and for a revolution to get to that world—are renewed and declared.

On May 1 this year, we call on distributors and readers of Revolution to not only march, but to boldly get this newspaper and the May 1 statement into the hands of tens of thousands and more. This effort should include the special Revolution issue (#84) on Bob Avakian, along with other revolutionary materials.

Please join teams taking this May 1 statement to the demonstrations and events listed below. Teamleaders, please be reminded to send in reports to getoutrevolutionnyc@yahoo.com within 2 days of outings.

Other important materials for distribution on May 1 will include 300 Wanted for Illegally Crossing Borders: The Bush Regime, and 300 CDs of Why Do People Come Here.

Sunday, April 29th

4 PM-8PM. Giuliani says he's gonna be President, We say HELL NO! Lakou New York Radio Program invites you to join us at a Brooklyn community forum on Rudolph Giuliani. We will be screening the documentary film "Giuliani Time" which chronicles
Giuliani's racist and ruthless attacks on Haitian refugees fleeing Duvalier's terror; on New York City's homeless; on public assistance recipients; on communities of color and the poor by giving the police a license to maim and murder with impunity. We invite you to come meet and listen to the film maker Kevin Keating, to parents whose children were murdered by Giuliani's police, and to lawyers and activists who fought and continue to fight back. There will also be an open mic to you to ask questions and voice your own apprehensions on the nightmare of Giuliani in the White House. The event will be held on Sunday April 29th, 2007 from 4pm to 8pm at the Walt Whitman Junior High School Auditorium which is located at 72 Veronica Place (Corer of Albemarle Rd.) in Brooklyn, NY. There is a $10 donation requested to support Lakou New York radio program which is a Haitian community grassroots radio program which is aired daily (Mon-Fri, 1-2pm) on "Radio Pa Nou" 94.7 FM-SCA. Live and archived programs are also available on our website.

6:30-7:45 pm. PEN Event @ Cooper Union, The Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture: David Grossman and Nadine Gordimer, Discussion. Tickets: $15/$10 PEN members. David Grossman is a novelist, journalist, and children's book writer whose work examines the human soul, love and the Holocaust, as well as the tragedies and opportunities of contemporary Israeli-Palestinian relations. In 1988, Grossman received the Har Zion Prize in recognition of his efforts to enhance peace and understanding between Arabs and Jews. Last year, he joined A.B. Yehoshua and Amos Oz in a plea to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to reach a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. A few days later, Grossman's son Uri was killed when his tank was hit by a Hezbollah missile. After the lecture, Grossman will be joined on stage by Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer for a discussion about his life and work. or the complete PEN World Voices festival program, visit http://www.pen.org/ or call 212-334-1660.

7:30 PM. In The News With Jeff Greenfield: Dan Rather. Jeff GreenfieldCNN senior analyst Jeff Greenfield (now joining CBS) and former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather discuss today's key political issues. Greenfield's insightful analyses and quick wit make him one of the most trusted television journalists. Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Y
Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall, Price: $30.00 All Sections

Monday, April 30

6 PM. Columbia University bookstore. Discussion of Marxism and the Call of the Future: Conversations on Ethics, History, Politics with Raymond Lotta and Bill Martin.

4 PM. The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez. TriBeca Film Festival: BALLA Discovery 2007, 90 minsInterests: Social Issues, Politics, Latino, Documentary, Immigration. Nearly ten years after the murder of 18-year-old American citizen Esequiel Hernández by a U.S. Marine team in Texas, the border continues to see increased militarization. Juxtaposing the grief of the victim's family with the Marines' frustration and guilt in their first on-screen interviews, this probing documentary, narrated by Tommy Lee Jones, asks: is history doomed to repeat itself? In English and Spanish. AMC Kips Bay Theater 11, $18
Mon, Apr 30, 4:00pm, Regal Cinemas Theater 11, $14
Tue, May 1, 10:30pm, Tribeca Cinemas Theater 2 , $18
Fri, May 4, 2:30pm, AMC Kips Bay Theater 12 , 14

Tuesday, May 1st

MAY 1 - Stand with Immigrants: Stop the Raids & Deportations! Actions: Immigrant rights boycotts, demos.

11 am: Mass meeting. At Warinanco Park, Elizabeth, NJ. Sponsor:NJ May 1 Coalition. Info: jgabriel55@igc.org

12 Noon: 181st & St. Nicholas – Rally. Immigrant Communities Coalition

2-2:30 pm: Interfaith Prayer Service. At Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Sq South). Sponsor: NY Immigration Coalition.

2:30-3:30 pm: Rally (the theme--"Our American Family Tree"). At Washington Sq Park; 3:30-4 pm: march to Union Sq.

4 pm: Rally/march. At Union Sq Park, 14th St & B'way (4/5/6, L, N/Q/R/W to Union Sq); march to Federal Plaza/Foley Sq (site of African Burial Ground). Sponsor: NYC May 1 Coalition. Info: 646-291-2778, http://www.may1.info/ Student volunteers: igobin@hunter.cuny.edu National May Day Movement for Worker & Immigrant

7 PM. WBAI presents Greg Paat, RobertKennedy Jr.... From Baghdad to New Orleans. Community Church of NY, 40 East 35th between Park and Madison.


7 PM. DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING: MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY. Theresa Lang Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor Admission: Free, The Village Voice calls the Academy Award-nominated My Country, My Country, "the definitive film about the U.S. occupation of Iraq." It is indispensable, heartbreaking, and ferociously wise. Following the screening, director and New School graduate Laura Poitras converses with Academy Award-winning filmmaker and the Department of Media Studies and Film's 2007 Artist-in-Residence Peter Davis (Hearts and Minds, 1975).




7:30 PM- 10 PM. May 1 Open House at Revolution Books, 9 West 19th Street. Special guests: Raymond Lotta and Bill Martin at 8 PM. Come toast May 1. Refreshments will be served. Bring your favorite wine or dish.


Wednesday, May 2

** Emergency Demonstrations

5:00PM Times Square World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime call for emergency demonstration, to march to Union Square where UFPJ and others will have an action.

Bush has vetoed the troop withdrawal bill. We must hit the streets immediately, or else we are accepting the terms that our only course of action is to submit to Bush’s agenda of endless war and hope that the complicit Democrats strike a “compromise.”
Gather for an emergency demonstration WEDNESDAY at 5pm in front of Times Square’s military recruiting center— 43rd and Broadway. We will then march down to Union Square, where MoveOn, United for Peace and Justice, and other organizations have called an emergency veto action starting at 6pm.

5:30PM Brooklyn, Borough Hall (corner of Joralemon & Court St)

Join the Move-On vigil with Brooklyn Parents for Peace.



6 PM - JOURNALISM AS A SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITY, Building/Location: The New School, 66 West 12th Street, room 510, In the past several years, more than 100 journalists around the world have been killed doing their job, while 24 countries jailed 125 journalists last year alone. The Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School presents Martin Fishgold, editor and former president of the International Labor Communications Association, who will talk with a group of respected journalists including Robert Fitch, author of Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America's Promise, and Rob Mahoney, deputy director, Committee to Protect Journalists, and Cal Skaggs, film producer and director. about how new legal threats to journalists are emerging daily and how the U.S. military has stonewalled investigations into the deaths and detentions of journalists in Iraq. Other than these dramatic instances, journalists here and abroad are threatened in subtle and not-so-subtle ways to hide the truth. What does it mean to be a journalist and how are journalists in this country fulfilling the roles of afflicting and comfortable and comforting the afflicted? 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.

8 PM. 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. Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Y. Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall. Code: T-LC5PF03-01 Price: $25.00 All Sections

6:30 pm. Cooper Union The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
Free. Howard Zinn: An Evening of Dramatic Readings From Voices of a People's History of the United States Reading, with Kerry Washington, Allison Moorer, Ally Sheedy, Brian Jones, Danny Glover, Deepa Fernandes, Erin Cherry, Harris Yulin, Kathleen Chalfant, Opal Alladin, Staceyann Chin, Steve Earle and Stanley Tucci, Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove will introduce and narrate an evening of dramatic readings from Voices of a People's History of the United States. The public performances of Voices are inspiring, challenging reminders of our rich history of protest and its relevance. In a series of compelling readings, the words of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past—and present—will echo in The Cooper Union's historic Great Hall including Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Fannie Lou Hamer, Maria Stewart, Tecumseh, Emma Goldman, Paul Robeson, Susan B. Anthony, Yuri Kochiyama, Leonard Peltier, Cindy Sheehan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Henry Turner, and many others. Howard Zinn is a historian, playwright and social activist. He was a shipyard worker and Air Force bombardier before he went to college under the GI Bill and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Author of numerous books, Mr. Zinn has received the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award and the Lannan Literary Award.

Thursday, May 3rd

6:30pm. Stem Cell Research: The Way Forward. Chuck Close, Kevin Eggan, Michael J. Fox, Susan L. Solomon, Harold Varmus, Lieutenant Governor David Paterson and Leonard Lopate. A majority of Americans support it. Scientists are determined to harness its potential to treat and cure major diseases. Hear a panel discuss ways that citizens, scientists, 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 Foundation. Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Y. Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall. Price: $25.00 All Sections

6:30 pm. An Evening with Barbara Kingsolver. Lecture and book signing. Building: The Cooper Union The Great Hall, East 7th Street at Third Avenue. $10, call Ticket Central: 212 279-4200 or go to http://www.ticketcentral.com/. The box office at 416 West 42nd St. is open noon-7 p.m. Barbara Kingsolver, bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible, will be speaking at The Cooper Union's Great Hall about her new book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, which chronicles the year she and her family vowed to spend eating a locally-produced diet and avoiding food transported by the use of fossil fuel. This local-food project was the culmination of Kingsolver's longstanding conviction that America has lost its way when it comes to the production and consumption of food. Kingsolver's book makes a compelling case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. Proceeds from this event will benefit Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project, a non-profit dedicated to revitalizing underserved parks, community gardens, and open space throughout New York City and to teaching children to be better environmental stewards.

Friday, May 4

9 PM DJ Spooky: Rebirth of a Nation, part of the Tribeca Film Festival. Winter Garden @ the World Financial Center. After a two-year world tour, conceptual artist, writer and musician DJ Spooky will bring his acclaimed multimedia performance piece Rebirth of a Nation to the Tribeca Film Festival on May 4th and 5th, 2007.An audio and visual re-imagining of D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and polarizing 1915 classic, The Birth of a Nation, the work combines DJ Spooky's celebrated skills as a club DJ, multimedia storyteller and social critic to transform the silent era epic into a mesmerizing commentary on political corruption and racism.The Tribeca performances will mark the premiere of a new soundtrack recorded by the renowned Kronos Quartet as well as a pristine new high definition print of the film. Rebirth of a Nation will be released along with a documentary about the making of this unique cinematic and musical triumph on DVD by Starz Media.The London-based video collective D-Fuse will open the show each night with their performance piece Latitude.For more information and to purchase tickets, go to http://server1.streamsend.com/newstreamsend/clicktracker.php?cd=725&ld=3&md=161&ud=8120c7ad0935654428306263fc5937e0&url=http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org

Saturday, May 5th

10am-6pm
St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery - 2007 Annual Patron Block Party. East 11th Street between 2nd & 3rd Aves.

9 PM DJ Spooky: Rebirth of a Nation, part of the Tribeca Film Festival. Winter Garden @ the World Financial Center. After a two-year world tour, conceptual artist, writer and musician DJ Spooky will bring his acclaimed multimedia performance piece Rebirth of a Nation to the Tribeca Film Festival on May 4th and 5th, 2007.An audio and visual re-imagining of D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and polarizing 1915 classic, The Birth of a Nation, the work combines DJ Spooky's celebrated skills as a club DJ, multimedia storyteller and social critic to transform the silent era epic into a mesmerizing commentary on political corruption and racism.The Tribeca performances will mark the premiere of a new soundtrack recorded by the renowned Kronos Quartet as well as a pristine new high definition print of the film. Rebirth of a Nation will be released along with a documentary about the making of this unique cinematic and musical triumph on DVD by Starz Media.The London-based video collective D-Fuse will open the show each night with their performance piece Latitude.For more information and to purchase tickets, go to http://server1.streamsend.com/newstreamsend/clicktracker.php?cd=725&ld=3&md=161&ud=8120c7ad0935654428306263fc5937e0&url=http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org

6:30 pm (reception) & 7:30 pm (ceremony) - Benefit: musical & poetic tribute to Nobel prize-winning author & humanitarian Toni Morrison. W/Cassandra Wilson, Ron K Brown's Evidence, Noel Pointer String Trio, Obediah Wright's Balance Dance Theatre, poet Sonia Sanchez, Howard Dodson (Schomburg Center). At Columbia U, Lerner Hall (116th St & B'way, 1 to 116th St). $150; proceeds to African Voices, nonprofit literary magazine that sponsors readings, the Reel Sisters Film Festival & other cultural events. Tix: 212-865-2982, http://www.africanvoices.com/


Sunday, May 5th


Cinco de Mayo Celebration, Flushing Meadow Park, Queens.

11am- 6pm
Broadway Spring Festival, 86th Street to 96th Street on Broadway
www.mortandray.com



Monday, May 7

8:30 am - Court support: jury selection in case of Fr Luis Barrios (John Jay College prof, El Diario columnist), arrested w/15 others outside the UN as Bush was speaking on 9/19 & charged w/assaulting an officer (a felony), resisting arrest & disorderly conduct. Rally outside before hearing starts, then pack the courtroom. At 100 Centre St (6, J/M/Z, N/R/W to Canal St, 4/5 to Bkn Bridge-City Hall, B/D to Grand St); rally usually in Collect Pond Park near Centre & Leonard St. Info: Lucia Bruno, 212-926-5757 or un16defense@yahoo.com

8:15pm. Discovery/The Nation Poetry Contest Winners. Place: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Y. Venue: Buttenwieser Hall. The Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prizes are presented by The Nation’s poetry editor, Grace Schulman. Now in its 33rd year, this contest has discovered such poets as Nick Flynn, Gregory Orr and Mary Jo Salter.The 2007 Discovery/The Nation Poetry Contest winners have been selected. They are:· Paula Bohince of Greensburg, PA· Darcie Dennigan of Rumford, RI· Joseph Heithaus of Greencastle, IN· Melissa Range of Decatur, GAPrice: $18.00 All Sections / $10.00 Age 35 and Under


Tuesday, May 8th

6:30pm, CUNY Grad Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
Martin E. Segal Theatre
The Interpretation of Habeas Corpus
With David Cole, Georgetown University, Legal Affairs Correspondent for The Nation; Aziz Huq, Liberty and National Security Project, The Brennan Center for Justice; and Corey Robin, the Graduate Center. (Center for the Humanities)



Thursday, May 10


1 PM. Lynne Stewart to speak at LaGuardia College - The Little Theatre - 31-10 Thompson Ave., L.I.C. New York



7:00pm. Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam(1). Building/Location: The New School, Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue. Event Description: The New Press and International Affairs at The New School present a conversation with preeminent historians of the Vietnam War, Marilyn B. Young and Lloyd C. Gardner, editors of Iraq andtheLessons of Vietnam, as they draw out the connections between the Vietnam War and the Iraq War—and the many lessons that went unlearned by U.S. foreign policy makers, even as they have been obsessed with overcoming the “Vietnam Syndrome.” Anthony Arnove, author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal, and Jan Barry, founder and first president of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), also join the panel.


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.

Monday, May 14



5:30PM Join Lynne Stewart: Book Party to celebrate the release of : Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine, by Joel Kovel & We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon Edited by Kamal Boullata and Kathy Engel Place: Mamlouk 211 East 4th Street Joel Kovel, Kathy Engel and others will read from their works.


8 pm (reception 7 pm) - Film/discussion: World premiere, "War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" (US, 45 min). W/director Loretta Alper (Media Education Foundation, http://www.mediaed.org) & Norman Solomon (featured in film, narration by Sean Penn). Insightful analysis of strategies used by administrations Dem & Rep to promote their agendas for war, from Vietnam to Iraq. Familiarizes viewers w/techniques of war propaganda, sensitizes to rhetoric of "war on terror." At Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave (at 2nd St, F/V to 2nd Ave). $10 (incl reception). Sponsor: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). Info: hgoldstein@fair.org Tix: 800-838-3006,http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/14397


May 17

Mumia Abu Jamal's FINAL APPEAL COURT DATE! Battle on in the eleventh hour of Mumia's case!The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has informed attorneys for death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal that it will hear oral argument on Mumia’s habeas corpus appeal on May 17 in Philadelphia. In a letter to supporters announcing the hearing, Mumias attorney Robert Bryan pointed out that Mumia “remains in great danger. If all is lost, he will be executed.” Mumia’s case has reached a critical juncture. Any decision by the Third Circuit will likely be appealed to the reactionary U.S. Supreme Court. United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 601 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA. For more information go to: http://mumia.org/


7:00 pm What Do Creationists Believe About Human Evolution?
with Dr. Eugenie Scott, American Museum of Natural History. Central Park West, at 79th Street, New York, $10.00 General Admission / $8.00 Members Call: (212) 769-5100 or www.amnh.org




Tuesday, May 22, 2007

7:30pm. 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. Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Y. Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall
Code: T-LC5WL08-01 Price: $25.00 All Sections

Thursday, May 24, 2007

8:00pm. (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. Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Y Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall Code: T-LC5SE19-01

June 16-17

Clearwater Festival at Croton Point Park


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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 Y
Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall
Code: T-LC5AE13-01
Price: $35.00 All Sections

Friday, April 20, 2007

#85 - April 21. 22 Plans - Reaching Our Goals

When we set off to introduce Bob Avakian to hundreds of thousands of people with the special issue, we set plans to achieve just that. Saturation, saturation, saturation. This weekend, we are fighting through to reach those goals, getting thousands and thousands to key areas and important sections of people. In quite a few reports, people are saying - I heard about this here or saw you here. People are beginning to talk about Bob Avakian and what he's about.

We are within reach of our goals, but not without really pushing forward this weekend. They were real when we set them and we aim to meet them this weekend. Teams should consciously fight through to meet the goals set below and not accept only a few hundred people getting the broadsheet. We can do this!

Saturday April 21

11 AM - 7 PM. Harlem. Meet at BK on 125th @ Lenox. Goal: 15,000 special issues, 100 current issues, $500.

12 AM - 7 PM. Sunset Park sound truck. Meet at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. Team will go on 5th Ave from 42nd to 47th back and forward. Goal: 10,000 special issues, 100 current issues, $250.

11 AM - 7 PM. East Flatbush. Meet at Church and Nostrand. Goal: 10,000 special issues, 100 current issues, $300.

All day South Asian Underground Film Festival: Emergences and Emergencies: New South Asian Film-Making from Britain All films shown at CANTOR Film Center36 East 8th St @University Place *Free & Open to the Public from 7pm Friday.

10 AM - 6 PM - Astor Place Festival. Astor Place between Broadway and Lafayette Street.

Noon - 7 PM. Earth Day Outside at Grand Central Station. On Vanderbilt and 42nd Streets. Environmentally oriented images from Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtensteins will grace the deiling of Grand Central Main Concourse. Many bands outside on Vanderbilt Street. Groups include Greenpeace, Farm Sanctuary, etc. Goal: 1,000 special issues, 50 current issues, $250.

2PM and 8 PM. In Darfur at the Public Theatre. Working as Research Assistant to Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from the New York Times, playwright Winter Miller is immersed in the issues surrounding the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan. In Darfur is the provocative account of three intertwined lives at a camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Darfur. The story follow an aid-worker’s mission to save and protect lives, a journalist’s pursuit to deliver a Page One story and a Darfuri woman’s quest to find safety across Darfur’s borders. It is a searing story of urgency and international significance.

4 pm, Theater 2, T2 - Sophie Fiennes's The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. The Department of Film presents a weeklong run of Sophie Fiennes's The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, an exuberant romp through the popular field of dreams known as cinema with Slavoj Zizek, the irrepressible Slovenian psychoanalyst and philosopher. Zizek not only presents clips from films by Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, and the Marx Brothers, to name a few, but makes his points by inserting himself into some of the films. Originally a three-part Channel 4/More 4 documentary, Fiennes's exhilarating exegesis on the constant interplay between the unconscious mind and the movies is about "the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire—it tells you how to desire" (Zizek). (Zizek wrote the Foreword to Bob Avakian's Marxism and the Call of the Future book.)

7 PM - Times Square from 7:30 PM - 1 AM. Meet at Revolution Books at 7 PM. Speak from the ladder. The weather will be nice and lots of youth and others will be out. Goal: 7,000 special issues, 100 current issues, $300.

Sunday, April 22

Noon - 6 PM - Jackson Heights. Meet at 82nd and Roosevelt at noon.

10 AM - 6 PM - Earth Awareness Day. Waverly Place betwen Broadway and 5th Avenue.

Noon - 4 PM - Earth Day Celebration in Central Park at the Great Hill. Enter at 103rd and Central Park West. The celebration will include planting and mulching projects for families, arts & crafts, tours, and storytelling in the newly landscaped Peter Jay Sharp Children's Glade. Brady Rymer takes the stage at noon, followed by kids favorite The Laurie Berkner Band at 1pm and a dance party with Baby Loves Disco. Goal: 1,000 special issues, 50 current issues, $250.

Noon - 7 PM. Earth Day Outside at Grand Central Station. On Vanderbilt and 42nd Streets. Environmentally oriented images from Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtensteins will grace the deiling of Frand Central Main Concourse. Many bands outside on Vanderbilt Street. Groups include Greenpeace, Farm Sanctuary, etc. Goal: 1,000 special issues, 50 current issues, $250.

10:30 AM - 10 PM. Tishman Auditorium at the New School for Social Research, 66 W. 12th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues. The Media Communications Assocation International teams with the U.N. Dept of Public Information to present this 2-day festival of films such as "The Diary of Jay-Z: Water for Life", Chernobyl: The Invisible Thief and "A right to Live: AIDS Medication for Millions." Goal: 500 special issues, 50 current issues, $100.

1-5 Sugar Hill. Emphasis on donations for special issue. Goal: 1,000 special issues, 50 current issues, $400.

1-5 Tribeca. Emphasis on donations for special issue. Goal: 1,000 special issues, 50 current issues, $400.

2:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2 - Sophie Fiennes's The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. The Department of Film presents a weeklong run of Sophie Fiennes's The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, an exuberant romp through the popular field of dreams known as cinema with Slavoj Zizek, the irrepressible Slovenian psychoanalyst and philosopher. Zizek not only presents clips from films by Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, and the Marx Brothers, to name a few, but makes his points by inserting himself into some of the films. Originally a three-part Channel 4/More 4 documentary, Fiennes's exhilarating exegesis on the constant interplay between the unconscious mind and the movies is about "the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire—it tells you how to desire" (Zizek). (Zizek wrote the Foreword to Bob Avakian's Marxism and the Call of the Future book.)

7 PM. In Darfur at the Public Theatre. Working as Research Assistant to Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from the New York Times, playwright Winter Miller is immersed in the issues surrounding the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan. In Darfur is the provocative account of three intertwined lives at a camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Darfur. The story follow an aid-worker’s mission to save and protect lives, a journalist’s pursuit to deliver a Page One story and a Darfuri woman’s quest to find safety across Darfur’s borders. It is a searing story of urgency and international significance. Goal: 1,000 special issues, 50 current issues, $100.

7:30 PM. Mike Wallace at the 92nd Street Y. Mike Wallace will be speaking on current events. Goal: 1,000 special issues, 50 current issues, $100.


Monday, April 23, 2007

6 PM - 9 PM - Free Arts NYC Annual Art and Photography Auction Benefit. Milk Gallery, 450 15th Street at Tenth Ave Liv Tyler and Scarlett Johanson cohost this fund raiser for Fre ARts NYC progrmas which provide art and inspiration to at-risk families.

7:30 p.m., Theater 2, T2 - Sophie Fiennes's The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. The Department of Film presents a weeklong run of Sophie Fiennes's The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, an exuberant romp through the popular field of dreams known as cinema with Slavoj Zizek, the irrepressible Slovenian psychoanalyst and philosopher. Zizek not only presents clips from films by Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, and the Marx Brothers, to name a few, but makes his points by inserting himself into some of the films. Originally a three-part Channel 4/More 4 documentary, Fiennes's exhilarating exegesis on the constant interplay between the unconscious mind and the movies is about "the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire—it tells you how to desire" (Zizek). (Zizek wrote the Foreword to Bob Avakian's Marxism and the Call of the Future book.)

Tuesday, April 24

7 PM. Green Thoughts: Writers on the Environment. The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7ths Street. Jonathan Frnazen, Moses Isegwa, Laura Restrepo, Salman Rushdie and other authors read from works addressing threats to the natural world.


Upcoming Events in brief

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Earth Institute Distinguished Lecture Series: Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed EDT Location:Columbia University, Morningside Campus, The Rotunda, Low Memorial Library Contact:For further information regarding this event, please contact Earth Institute Events Office by sending email to events@ei.columbia.edu . The Earth Institute's Distinguished Lectures Series presents "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed," with Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography, University of California at Los Angeles. Open to the public. A book signing will follow the lecture. Reservation recommended.

May 1 - WBAI presents Greg Paat, Robert Kennedy, Jr. and .. From Baghdad to New Orleans. Community Church of NY, 40 East 35th Street (between Park and Madison)

May 2 - 6:30 PM - Howard Zinn: An Evening of Dramatic Readings From Voices of a People's History of the United StatesReading, with Kerry Washington, Allison Moorer, Ally Sheedy, Brian Jones, Danny Glover, Deepa Fernandes, Erin Cherry, Harris Yulin, Kathleen Chalfant, Opal Alladin, Staceyann Chin, Steve Earle and Stanley Tucci/ The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue Free. Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove will introduce and narrate an evening of dramatic readings from Voices of a People's History of the United States. The public performances of Voices are inspiring, challenging reminders of our rich history of protest and its relevance. In a series of compelling readings, the words of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past—and present—will echo in The Cooper Union's historic Great Hall including Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Fannie Lou Hamer, Maria Stewart, Tecumseh, Emma Goldman, Paul Robeson, Susan B. Anthony, Yuri Kochiyama, Leonard Peltier, Cindy Sheehan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Henry Turner, and many others.

May 3, 6:30 PM. An Evening with Barbara Kingsolver at Cooper Union. Barbara Kingsolver, bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible, will be speaking at The Cooper Union's Great Hall about her new book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, which chronicles the year she and her family vowed to spend eating a locally-produced diet and avoiding food transported by the use of fossil fuel. This local-food project was the culmination of Kingsolver's longstanding conviction that America has lost its way when it comes to the production and consumption of food. Kingsolver's book makes a compelling case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. Proceeds from this event will benefit Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project, a non-profit dedicated to revitalizing underserved parks, community gardens, and open space throughout New York City and to teaching children to be better environmental stewards.


May 16. Tavis Smiley at Rutgers graduation, New Brunswick

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Updated Orientation/Plans for #85 - Revised 4/19

4/19 additions/changes are noted by asterisks****

****ALL OUT TO HIGH SCHOOLS FRIDAY 4/20 *****

The basic orientation coming off the 2 week issue of introducing people to Bob Avakian and the new issue with Why Imus... on the front cover: we want to continue to saturate with the special issue and also get out the current issue. The goal we set for the broadsheet is within reach. Hundreds of thousands getting to know that there exists a revolutionary leader who is bringing forward another way, and engaging with him and his works. We can do this!

#85, the new issue, is to be sold for at least $1.

Join the sales outings below. Show Revolution newspaper to your friends and invite them to join.

Schedule for week of April 18-

Thursday, April 19

7:00Am Sutphin/Jamiaca Hub. Take the E train to the Sutphin station and go on the street level. Goal 1,700 special issue. $200 donation.

about 7:30 AM/ lunchtime/afterschool - George Washington High School, Washington Heights.

11 AM - Columbia - meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 114th and Broadway.

6 PM - Meet at Revolution Books to go out with the newspaper.

7:30 PM Rock to Save Darfur, Ethical society. 2 W 64th StNew York, NY 10023(212) 874-5210

8:00pm Barnard/Columbia Take Back the Night. Meet at Barnard Hall, Broadway & 117th then at 9:30pm a Speakout, McIntosh 222.columbia.edu/cu/tbtn

Friday, April 20

**ALL OUT TO HIGH SCHOOLS IN MORNING, LUNCH, AFTERSCHOOL***

Columbia University

10 AM - 10 PM Sexual Assault Yearly Speak Out (SAY SO!) Union Square Park. Description Starting at 10am April 20, for the next 12 hours NYC survivors wil ltell their stories of rape. Part vigil, part art happening, the Sexual Assault Yearly Speak Out will end the silence around the city's epidemic of sexual violence.

***11 AM - 5 PM. Earth Day Outside at Grand Central Station. On Vanderbilt Street, west side of Grand Central Station. Many bands, etc.****

3:30 PM - 7:30 PM - Washington Heights. 180th and St Nicholas.

6 PM - Meet at Revolution Books to go out with the newspaper.

***South Asian Film Festival in PM *** Please see entry below.

***7 PM - 1 AM - TIMES SQUARE*******


Saturday, April 21

11 AM - 7 PM. Harlem. Meet at BK on 125th @ Lenox

***South Asian Film Festival all day *** Please see entry below.

12 AM - 7 PM. Sunset Park sound truck. Meet at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. Team will go on 5th Ave from 42nd to 47th back and forward.

***11 AM - 7 PM. East Flatbush. Meet at Church and Nostrand.

***Noon - 7 PM. Earth Day Outside at Grand Central Station. On Vanderbilt Street. Many bands, etc.****

***7 PM - 1 AM - TIMES SQUARE*******

Sunday, April 22

Noon - 6 PM - Jackson Heights. Meet at 82nd and Roosevelt at noon.

****Noon - 4 PM - Earth Day Celebration in Central Park
Sunday, Apr 22, 200712:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The celebration will include planting and mulching projects for families, arts & crafts, tours, and storytelling in the newly landscaped Peter Jay Sharp Children's Glade. Brady Rymer takes the stage at noon, followed by kids favorite The Laurie Berkner Band at 1pm and a dance party with Baby Loves Disco.

Coming up:

Earth Institute Distinguished Lecture Series: Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Date:Wednesday, April 25, 2007 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm EDT

Location:Columbia University, Morningside Campus, The Rotunda, Low Memorial Library

Contact:For further information regarding this event, please contact Earth Institute Events Office by sending email to events@ei.columbia.edu .

The Earth Institute's Distinguished Lectures Series presents "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed," with Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography, University of California at Los Angeles. Open to the public.

A book signing will follow the lecture. Reservation recommended.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Revolution April 12 Online

April 12

To all those participating in the drive to get out ½ million copies of the special issue of Revolution about Bob Avakian:

There has been a lot learned and a lot accomplished in the first week of this drive. We have to build on all this now and take it to another level to achieve our goals, as part of the first phase of really making this leader known to millions of people.

What’s been revealed:

-- a tremendous sense among many that these times demand very radical and revolutionary leadership to be out there and heard from, and a real openness to and beginning connection with Bob Avakian and what he’s all about;
-- an eagerness among many, many people, from many different walks of life, to both get the word out and begin to get deeply into this;
-- a whole host of questions, different among different people, that are spoken to or touched on in the special issue and, with much more depth, in Bob Avakian's works, that have been drawn out and joined with thousands of people in the course of this;
-- the importance of the DVD [Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About] in all this – getting deeply into people’s questions and sparking them even more to take this material out – and the importance of getting this out as we are doing the special issue;
-- a particularly burning desire to get into all this among immigrants, who are directly under the gun of this system;
-- some particular eagerness on the part of radical-minded students to take this out and connect this vision to the people on the bottom of society.

In other words, what’s been even more deeply revealed is the potential for this leader and what he represents to take root much more broadly and deeply in society.

What’s been accomplished:

As of Sunday night, April 8, we had achieved over 1/4 of our goal. The paper had gotten out from New York City to Los Angeles; from Chicago to Salt Lake City, Utah; from Atlanta to Berkeley, California. It’s gotten out among, and been engaged by, immigrant construction workers and people in the projects, among prisoners and their families, and professors and their students, among people in movements for social change, and thousands of everyday people. The special issue has been spread by all kinds of people – teachers and clergy and librarians and bands and tax preparers. There’s been ads in newspapers and slots on the radio. In sum:

-- a small, but significant, slice of all the people who would want to get into these politics and hear about – and engage with – Bob Avakian have actually gotten a chance to hear about him for the first time;
-- hundreds of people have participated in this, in different kinds of ways, and thousands more have taken papers and expressed an interest or desire to get into this. For many, this is their first time actively promoting revolutionary politics;
-- in some areas and campuses, there has begun to be a “saturation” effect achieved. That means a situation where everyone knows about or has heard of Bob Avakian; where there is beginning to be a buzz; and where people are starting to engage with what he’s brought forward. -- some people are beginning to get organized around revolutionary politics.

All this is very important and a good beginning. It provides a basis to reach our goals – if we learn from what we’ve done so far, build on it, and take things to a higher level.

What we have to do now:

-- Go all out to saturate key areas, even while going broadly throughout society; as we do this, bring new people forward to join the effort.

-- Get back to everyone who took papers to sum up what’s happened, how to understand it, and how to do more so that we can achieve our goals. Call everyone who’s given their names and get them into the effort, including going out with teams so that they can learn how to get this paper out to thousands themselves.

-- Get back to all teachers, clergy, owners of small businesses, people who work at community centers and clinics and libraries, etc. Sell these people the DVD to use in their areas and figure out with them how to get the special issue out deeply into their networks and the people they come into contact with every day.

-- Get ourselves organized so that when this is over we are able to sum this up and then move forward to build this revolutionary movement in a more organized and powerful way.

-- Report back your experience.

Issued by the editors of Revolution
____________________________________________________________________

• Tell us your experiences reading, distributing, and raising money for this special issue of Revolution newspaper, order more newspapers: Email us at mailto://rcppubs@hotmail.comor send us your comments directly. Or write us at Revolution, Box 3486 Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 60654. Or call us at 773-227-4066.

• Download the audio version of the article "The Crossroads We Face... The Leadership We Need" in Spanish or English to play on boom boxes or MP3 players. (Instructions to download and save Audio files)

• Download the new printable poster-ad for the works by Bob Avakian.

• Download ad-ready artwork to make posters, or place print ads for this special issue in local newspapers and magazines.

With contact information for Revolution newspaper: 4x5 ad (pdf) 5x4 (pdf)Full Page Ad (pdf)

With space to insert specific local information: 4x5 ad (pdf) 5x4 (pdf)Full Page Ad (pdf)

• Download the front page of Issue #84.
____________________________________________________________________

Schedule for Friday - Sunday April 13-15

Here's the scheduled for Friday through Sunday April 13th-15th

Friday, April 13

7-9 AM - High Schools in AM


Washington Heights Day -
7:45am George Washington High School 191st & Audubon, near St. Nicolas
10:00am 181st and St. Nicolas
12 Noon George Washington High School 191st & Audubon
1:30pm 191st & St. Nicolas2:15pm 180 & St. Nicolas
5:00pm 163rd & Broadway

Harlem Team
11 AM Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox.
Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.
3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.

Columbia Team
9:15am Conference on Katrina
Jerome Greene Hall
Sponsored by the Columbia University Black Law Students Association
13th Annual Paul Robeson Conference
Hurricane Katrina Revisited: Continuing Obstacles and Hope for the Future
11 AM - Columbia. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.

New School Conference on Poverty
9:30am-5:00pm
Lang Student Center at 55 West 13th Street
A Realistic Growth Policy for Our Times:A Conference in Memory of David Gordon
The aim is to promote a lively dialogue between scholars focused on labor market regulation, industrial relations, corporate governance, and political and cultural institutions, with scholars of economic growth who see institutions and income distribution as central to their analysis. The hope is to further our understanding of progressive and growth-promoting policies in today’s economic climate

7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM)
Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre,
127 East 23rd Street

8PM In Darfur
Public Theater
425 Lafayette StreetNew York, NY 10003
The Public Theater presents a developmental production of Winter Miller's In Darfur, a powerful and timely work that explores the current humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan.

8 PM. The Accomplices play.
Acorn Theatre. 42nd Street between 9th & 10th aves.
A play about American complicity in WWII.

8 PM. Inherit the Wind

9 PM - 1 AM - Bus lines to prisons.
Meet at 58th Street and 8th Avenue, opposite Duane Reed.

Lower East Side/ Youth Venues & Clubs

Saturday, April 14

Harlem/East Harlem
10:00AM -- SHARP
Adam Clayton Powell Blvd @ 126th Street, look for the truckby the state office building

Brooklyn
- time and place to be announced

Queens
- time and place to be announced

Union Square Team
10:30am meet at the Bookstore
11:00am out at Union Square

12 NoonSea of People Event
Meet at Bookstore at 10:30amDemo starts 12 noon, rally followed by people dressed in blue stretching north in 2 columns along projected eastern and western 10foot waterlines that may one day redefine lower Manhattan under the 10 foot sea level rise scenario. Meet at Batter Park (4/5 to Bowling Green, R/W to White hall St, #1 to South Ferry). Sponsors: Step It Up NYC, Code Pink, et al. http://www.seaofpeople.org/

8PM Doors open
Black Rock CoalitionWith Pillow Theory, Shaka Zulu Overdrive and others
Club Midway
25 Avenue B, bet. 2nd & 3rd $10

10:30PM
As people leave the theaterTHE COAST OF UTOPIA’ Lincoln Center Theater’s brave, gorgeous, sprawling and ultimately exhilarating production of Tom Stoppard’s trilogy about intellectuals errant in 19th-century Russia. A testament to the seductive powers of narrative theater, directed with hot and cool canniness by Jack O’Brien and featuring a starry cast (Brian F. O’Byrne, Jennifer Ehle, Martha Plimpton, Josh Hamilton and Ethan Hawke, among others) in a tasty assortment of roles. Vivian Beaumont Theater, 150 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212) 239-6200.

9:00PM
Amir El Fassar
Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver bet. Broadway and Broad212-967-4318 $15.00

9 PM - 1 AM - Bus lines to prisons. Meet at 58th Street and 8th Avenue, opposite Duane Reed.

Times Square


Sunday, April 15, 2007

Churches: Riverside Church, St. Mary’s Church, Abyssinian Church, House of the Lords Church, The Brooklyn Tabernacle, and Father Barrios’ church.

Washington Heights Team
180 & St. Nicholas
and
2pm
Stop the DeportationsImmigration Rally
165th street & Audubon, la Coalicion Comunidades Immigrates.

African Market
116th & MLK Blvd

Chelsea Team
afternoonTemple

7:30pm
Congregation Beth Elohim
274 Garfield Place (corner of Eighth Avenue)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Sunday, April 15 2007, 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Join us for the fourth film in the Brooklyn Filmmakers Series. Rory Kennedy will show her film "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" (originally broadcast on HBO). This film looks at how the abuses which occurred in the fall of 2003 at the Iraqi prison still remain etched in our national consciousness. The documentary asks: what do the events that occurred at the prison still say about America? Our government? Our military? Ourselves? The film is built on direct, personal narratives of perpetrators, witnesses, and victims of the abuse to probe the psychology of how typical boys and girls next door can become perpetrators of atrocious acts. It also explores the history of policy decisions dating back to the erosion of the Geneva conventions that contributed to making the abuse a reality.
2 or 3 to Grand Army PlazaExit south side of Flatbush Avenue. Walk 1 block along Plaza Street West. Turn right at Lincoln Place. Go 1 block, turn left on 8th Avenue and walk to Garfield Place.
Q to 7th AvenueWalk uphill along Flatbush Avenue. Turn right on 8th Avenue and walk to Garfield Place.
F to 7th AvenueExit at 8th Avenue (9th Street). Walk north along 8th Avenue (the numbers descend) to Garfield Place.

7:30pm
92nd St. Y
Lexington Avenue @ 92nd Street
Walter Isaacson with Charlie Rose: On Albert EinsteinWalter Isaacson recently completed the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of the brilliant scientist’s papers were made available to the public, revealing new insights into Einstein’s life, times and genius. Isaacson is president of the Aspen Institute. He has been chairman and CEO of CNN and managing editor of Time magazine. Isaacson is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and Kissinger: A Biography.

Next weekend:
Apr 20-22
South Asian Underground Film Festival:
Emergences and Emergencies: New South Asian Film-Making from Britain
All films shown at
CANTOR Film Center36 East 8th St @University Place
*Free & Open to the Public
from 7pm Friday.

Monday, April 09, 2007

Monday, April 9, 2007 Orientation and Plans

Here's how we should be approaching people [UPDATED 4/12/07]:

We are going for reaching many thousands and tens of thousands of people with this Special Issue introducing them to Bob Avakian. And involving many many people in this process. What is the difference between reaching thousands and tens of thousands, and dozens and hundreds?

There's a big difference between real saturation – thousands going out in an area, school, workplace, etc. – and getting out dozens or hundreds. It doesn't necessarily take a lot of people to really saturate: you are aiming to get out thousands and tens of thousands in an area, where people will see it all over (along with the promo posters for the special issue, and the promo postcards for the REV DVD and the store itself, also available at the store). People get the effect of seeing this more than once, start hearing Bob Avakian's voice in recorded Talks played on the radio, hear about him in class, etc. etc., and start taking notice of what this is all about and talking with each other about it. We've learned that lots of people can and will participate in doing this right from jump – if we put out that hundreds of thousands of people need to get acquainted with Bob Avakian and the revolution and communism he is all about, and consider and talk about this whole different way with fresh eyes. Through doing this we are finding those who are aching for another way and ready to change the world as they learn more about all of this at the same time. This has been learned from the experience of getting out thousands and tens of thousands, rather than dozens or low hundreds, in targeted areas: putting this Special Issue right into people's hands in the quantities that are commensurate (that is, bundles of 50 to 1000 and more), struggling with them to fund it, and explaining to them in a short and powerful way how this is "how it starts," how they are part of getting ready for the revolutionary solution, by getting these out to thousands more people who need to be learning about and debating and discussing what Bob Avakian is talking about.

Some teams have pointed out that this is very different from sifting through the people we are encountering, having long conversations as if we have to answer everything before people can accept this challenge in the Special Issue itself: "If a different – a better – world is possible, you've got to struggle to understand how and fight to bring it into being."

This challenge means telling those who want a profoundly different world – and there are thousands and thousands of these people – that they and everyone they know should be looking into Bob Avakian and talking about this Special Issue and be part of spreading this to many others. Right now!

Here is a slightly updated orientation that reflects this emphasis on what people are accomplishing by participating in getting out thousands and tens of thousands of the Special Issue right now:

Here's your chance to meet the most radical revolutionary leader that this country has seen. He's putting forward the most radical vision and plan, a vision of no more exploitation, no more of one nationality over another, no more men over women, no more. Bob Avakian says that we can do this.

Here's your chance to meet the most radical revolutionary leader that this country has seen. He's talking about a communist revolution. Not the lies about communism you've probably heard. Bob Avakian has a whole new different vision of what communism is. You need to check this out and be part of thousands of people who spreading 10s and hundreds of 1000s of this newspaper around the city and the whole country, right now. This is how we start bringing forward another way, this is how we are starting to get ready, right now, for when we might be able to make revolution. We should talk and thousands more people need to get this Special Issue and start talking about this revolutionary way in all the neighborhoods, schools, churches, workplaces, colleges, and all over.

Our objective is to be really radical and attract people who are looking for leadership. We should get into the "Conventional Wisdom says..." points, that revolution in a country like the U.S. is impossible, that leadership will sell out, that communism is dead. Get into the crossroads, the leadership we need. There's a lot of content in the newspaper that gets into that. Use the pullout quotes. Have people read what people are saying about Bob Avakian. Give them the paper so they can see it and read it.

We have got to be saying to people - If a different - a better world is possible, you've got to struggle to understand how and fight to bring it into being. Starting now, with getting this Special Issue about Bob Avakian and getting it around to dozens, hundreds and thousands more people.

Monday, April 9

11 AM - Columbia, Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway to get the broadsheets out widely.

11 AM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.

3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.

7 PM - 9 PM - Minutemen at NYU, Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Sq. Pk South. The Republican club that recently had an anti-immigrant event has not invited the Minutemen for a panel. Come take out the broadsheet and Talk #7, the Balance Talk.

7 PM - Anarchists conference ? on anti-war movement. A discussion with Bill Weinberg. T

Tuesday . April 10

10 AM - EVERYONE TO COLUMBIA. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.

7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street

8 PM. Wynton Marsalis Quintet and Dr. John at “Jazz at Lincoln Center”, 60th and Broadway (not the main Lincoln Center complex) which is in the Time Warner building at Columbus Circle. Frederick P. Rose Hall can be accessed using the JAZZ elevators located on the ground floor of The Shops at Columbus Circle across from Hugo Boss. There will be a New Orleans theme to the concert. Sellers should bring the broadsheets and the review of Wynton Marsalis’s recent album by Li Onesto (or printouts if the full paper is not available), the Wanted New Orleans T-shirt or the latest Wanted T-shirt, and a table to put this all on. Be there at 7PM since the concert begins
at 8 PM.

8 PM. The Accomplices play. Acorn Theatre. 42nd Street between 9th & 10th aves. A play about American complicity in WWII.

8:15 PM - Laura Flanders and Katrina vanden Heuvel: the “Blue” and the “Red” at 92nd Street Y.

Wednesday, April 11

7-9 AM - High Schools in AM - please check back for more details

11 AM - Columbia. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.

3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.

7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street

8 PM. The Accomplices play. Acorn Theatre. 42nd Street between 9th & 10th aves. A play about American complicity in WWII.

Thursday, April 12

7-9 AM - High Schools in AM - please check back for more details

11 AM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.

11 AM - Columbia. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.

3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc. Maybe Medgar Evers College during day to night. 7 PM. - The Constitution in Crisis: Bryan Stevenson at New School.

8 PM. Inherit the Wind opening night.

8 PM. The Accomplices play. Acorn Theatre. 42nd Street between 9th & 10th aves. A play about American complicity in WWII.

7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street

Friday, April 13

7-9 AM - High Schools in AM

Washington Heights Day -
7:45am George Washington High School 191st & Audubon, near St. Nicolas
10:00am 181st and St. Nicolas
12 Noon George Washington High School 191st & Audubon
1:30pm 191st & St. Nicolas
2:15pm 180 & St. Nicolas
5:00pm 163rd & Broadway


11 AM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.
3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.


Columbia
9:15am Conference on Katrina
Jerome Greene Hall
Sponsored by the Columbia University Black Law Students Association
13th Annual Paul Robeson Conference
Hurricane Katrina Revisited: Continuing Obstacles and Hope for the Future
11 AM - Columbia. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.

9:30am-5:00pm
Lang Student Center at 55 West 13th Street
A Realistic Growth Policy for Our Times:
A Conference in Memory of David GordonThe aim is to promote a lively dialogue between scholars focused on labor market regulation, industrial relations, corporate governance, and political and cultural institutions, with scholars of economic growth who see institutions and income distribution as central to their analysis. The hope is to further our understanding of progressive and growth-promoting policies in today’s economic climate



7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street

8PM In Darfur
Public Theater
425 Lafayette StreetNew York, NY 10003
The Public Theater presents a developmental production of Winter Miller's In Darfur, a powerful and timely work that explores the current humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan.

8 PM. The Accomplices play. Acorn Theatre. 42nd Street between 9th & 10th aves. A play about American complicity in WWII.

8 PM. Inherit the Wind

9 PM - 1 AM - Bus lines to prisons. Meet at 58th Street and 8th Avenue, opposite Duane Reed.

Lower East Side/ Youth Venues & Clubs

Saturday, April 14

Harlem/East Harlem
10:00AM -- SHARP
Adam Clayton Powell Blvd @ 126th Street, look for the truck
by the state office building

Brooklyn - time and place to be announced

Queens - time and place to be announced

Union Square Team
10:30am meet at the Bookstore
11:00am out at Union Square

12 Noon
Sea of People Event
Meet at Bookstore at 10:30am
Demo starts 12 noon, rally followed by people dressed in blue stretching north in 2 columns along projected eastern and western 10foot waterlines that may one day redefine lower Manhattan under the 10 foot sea level rise scenario. Meet at Batter Park (4/5 to Bowling Green, R/W to White hall St, #1 to South Ferry). Sponsors: Step It Up NYC, Code Pink, et al. http://www.seaofpeople.org/


8PM Doors open
Black Rock Coalition
With Pillow Theory, Shaka Zulu Overdrive and others
at Club Midway
25 Avenue B, bet. 2nd & 3rd $10


10:30PM As people leave the theater
THE COAST OF UTOPIA’ Lincoln Center Theater’s brave, gorgeous, sprawling and ultimately exhilarating production of Tom Stoppard’s trilogy about intellectuals errant in 19th-century Russia. A testament to the seductive powers of narrative theater, directed with hot and cool canniness by Jack O’Brien and featuring a starry cast (Brian F. O’Byrne, Jennifer Ehle, Martha Plimpton, Josh Hamilton and Ethan Hawke, among others) in a tasty assortment of roles. Vivian Beaumont Theater, 150 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, (212) 239-6200.


9:00PM
Amir El Fassar
Alwan for the Arts
16 Beaver bet. Broadway and Broad
212-967-4318 $15.00


9 PM - 1 AM - Bus lines to prisons. Meet at 58th Street and 8th Avenue, opposite Duane Reed.

Times Square


Sunday, April 15, 2007

Churches: Riverside Church, St. Mary’s Church, Abyssinian Church, House of the Lords Church, The Brooklyn Tabernacle, and Father Barrios’ church.


Washington Heights Team
180 & St. Nicholas
and
Stop the Deportations
Immigration Rally
2pm, 165th street & Audubon, la Coalicion Comunidades Immigrates.


African Market
116th & MLK Blvd


Chelsea Team
afternoon

Temple Beth Elohim
Congregation Beth Elohim274 Garfield Place (corner of Eighth Avenue)Brooklyn, NY 11215
Sunday, April 15 2007, 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Join us for the fourth film in the Brooklyn Filmmakers Series. Rory Kennedy will show her film "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" (originally broadcast on HBO). This film looks at how the abuses which occurred in the fall of 2003 at the Iraqi prison still remain etched in our national consciousness. The documentary asks: what do the events that occurred at the prison still say about America? Our government? Our military? Ourselves? The film is built on direct, personal narratives of perpetrators, witnesses, and victims of the abuse to probe the psychology of how typical boys and girls next door can become perpetrators of atrocious acts. It also explores the history of policy decisions dating back to the erosion of the Geneva conventions that contributed to making the abuse a reality.
2 or 3 to Grand Army Plaza
Exit south side of Flatbush Avenue. Walk 1 block along Plaza Street West. Turn right at Lincoln Place. Go 1 block, turn left on 8th Avenue and walk to Garfield Place.
Q to 7th Avenue
Walk uphill along Flatbush Avenue. Turn right on 8th Avenue and walk to Garfield Place.
F to 7th Avenue
Exit at 8th Avenue (9th Street). Walk north along 8th Avenue (the numbers descend) to Garfield Place.

Sunday, April 15 7:30pm
92nd St. Y
Lexington Avenue @ 92nd Street
Walter Isaacson with Charlie Rose: On Albert Einstein
Walter Isaacson recently completed the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of the brilliant scientist’s papers were made available to the public, revealing new insights into Einstein’s life, times and genius. Isaacson is president of the Aspen Institute. He has been chairman and CEO of CNN and managing editor of Time magazine. Isaacson is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and Kissinger: A Biography.


Next weekend:

Apr 20-22 South Asian Underground Film Festival: Emergences and Emergencies: New South Asian Film-Making from Britain
All films shown at
CANTOR Film Center
36 East 8th St @University Place
*Free & Open to the Public
from 7pm Friday.

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Updated Orientation and 2nd Week Plans (Monday, Apr 9 - Friday, Apr 13)

Here's how we should be approaching people -

Here's your chance to meet the most radical revolutionary leader that this country has seen. He's putting forward the most radical vision and plan, a vision of no more exploitation, no more of one nationality over another, no more men over women, no more. Bob Avakian says that we can do this.

Here's your chance to meet the most radical revolutionary leader that this country has seen. He's talking about a communist revolution. Not the lies about communism you've probably heard. Bob Avakian has a whole new different vision of what communism is. You need to check this out and take dozens and hundreds to your friends and neighbors. When you do that, you are beginning to change the terms of things today. You are part of bringing forward another way, of making revolution. We should talk.

Our objective is to be really radical and attract people who are looking for leadership. We should get into the "Conventional Wisdom says..." points, that revolution in a country like the U.S. is impossible, that leadership will sell out, that communism is dead. Get into the crossroads, the leadership we need. There's a lot of content in the newspaper that gets into that. Use the pullout quotes. Have people read what people are saying about Bob Avakian. Give them the paper so they can see it and read it.

We have got to be saying to people - If a different - a better world is possible, you've got to struggle to understand how and fight to bring it into being.

PLANS FOR 2ND WEEK - MONDAY - FRIDAY

Monday, April 9

11 AM - Columbia, Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway to get the broadsheets out widely.

11 AM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.

3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.

7 PM - 9 PM - Minutemen at NYU, Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Sq. Pk South. The Republican club that recently had an anti-immigrant event has not invited the Minutemen for a panel. Come take out the broadsheet and Talk #7, the Balance Talk.

7 PM - Anarchists conference ? on anti-war movement. A discussion with Bill Weinberg.

Tuesday

10 AM - EVERYONE TO COLUMBIA. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.

7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street

8 PM. Wynton Marsalis Quintet and Dr. John at “Jazz at Lincoln Center”, 60th and Broadway (not the main Lincoln Center complex) which is in the Time Warner building at Columbus Circle. Frederick P. Rose Hall can be accessed using the JAZZ elevators located on the ground floor of The Shops at Columbus Circle across from Hugo Boss. There will be a New Orleans theme to the concert. Sellers should bring the broadsheets and the review of Wynton Marsalis’s recent album by Li Onesto (or printouts if the full paper is not available), the Wanted New Orleans T-shirt or the latest Wanted T-shirt, and a table to put this all on. Be there at 7PM since the concert begins at 8 PM.

8:15 PM - Laura Flanders and Katrina vanden Heuvel: the “Blue” and the “Red” at 92nd Street Y.

Wednesday

7-9 AM - High Schools - Clinton, Beacon, La Guardia/MLK, Stuyvesant, Hunter College High, Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Irving

11 AM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.

11 AM - Columbia. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.

3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.

7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street

Thursday

7-9AM - High Schools - Frederick Douglas, Phillip Randolph, Wadleigh, George Washington

11 AM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.

11 AM - Columbia. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.

3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.

Maybe Medgar Evers College during day to night.

7 PM. - The Constitution in Crisis: Bryan Stevenson at New School.

7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street

Friday

7-9 AM - High Schools - Boys/Girls in Brooklyn , Brooklyn Tech, John Adams, Erasmus, Stevenson/Dewitt

11 AM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.

11 AM - Columbia. Meet at Pinnacle Bagel, 115th and Broadway.

3 PM - Harlem. Meet at the Burger King on 125th between Adam Clayton Powell and Lenox. Go to stores, restaurants, street corners, etc.

7 PM - 8PM (show at 7:30 PM) Henry Rollins/ Jeanine Garafolo/Mark Maron at Gramercy Theatre, 127 East 23rd Street

9 PM - 1 AM - Bus lines to prisons. Meet at 58th Street and 8th Avenue, opposite Duane Reed.

10 PM - 11 PM - Bill Maher Live; show at 11 PM

Monday, April 02, 2007

The Crossroads We Face -- The Leadership We Need

The new issue of Revolution is out!

The newspaper needs to get out broadly -- we aim to get out thousands in the NYC area, your contributions will make this a reality. Take as many broadsheets as you can distribute; Donate as much as you can. Get donations from friends, family, co-workers, the passer bys on the street. The aim is to introduce Bob Avakian -- "He is someone who has persisted in confronting the hardest, most excruciating questions before humanity. In so doing, he’s taken the communist understanding of the world and how to change it to a new place. The answers he’s brought forward and the pathways he’s forged demand a serious look—a deep engagement—from everyone concerned about the future of humanity."


By the Editors of Revolution

The situation we face—the situation the whole planet faces—cries out for change. Urgently. Look around, with fresh eyes. See:

• the bloody wars—now raging in Iraq and Afghanistan, with Iran looming next, and no end in sight. All in the name of “safety”… and all for the sake of empire;
• the lopsidedness of today’s world: the starvation, the agonizing—but curable—diseases, and the desperation that rages in the oppressed regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America… and the unimaginable wealth and luxury in the dominant (and dominating) nations… wealth and luxury in large part drawn from that very lopsidedness;
• the brutal oppression of whole peoples, from New Orleans to the U.S.-Mexican border to the ghettos, barrios, and reservations beyond. Oppression rooted in this country's brutal history and now taking twisted new forms… where the penitentiary replaces the plantation and the millions of immigrants are driven, before our eyes, into a new form of servitude;
• the age-old subjugation of women, encoded in custom, law, and family—and today reinforced with growing reactionary virulence;
• the enforced ignorance that squanders the potential of human beings… accelerated in these times by the mushrooming of fascist movements based on fundamentalist religion;
• and the blind pursuit of profit—the essence and the heartbeat of capitalism—that rushes headlong as the planet itself burns.

All this and more has persisted for generations. All this and more assumes ever more perverse forms. All this and more cries out for radical change.

The “conventional wisdom” says that fundamental change is unrealistic, even impossible. But in reality the most “unrealistic” thing in the world is to hope to touch things up around the edges, to put your trust in official channels and established authority, while things continually get worse. If a different—a better—world is possible, you’ve got to struggle to understand how and fight to bring it into being.

That demands leadership. And that is where Bob Avakian comes in.

Read the whole article: http://www.revcom.us/avakian/crossroads/index.html

Be part of putting this broadsheet in the hands, hearts and minds of millions!

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