Revolution #129, May 18, 2008
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Coming Events at Revolution Books
New York
212-691-3345
revbooksnyc@yahoo.com
revolutionbooksnyc.org
Watch for the opening later in May of the new Revolution Books
146 W. 26th Street, between 6th + 7th Ave. We welcome volunteers to help finish the renovation and go out with “Revolution Books Mobile” – Call 212-691-3345.
May 13, Tuesday, 7pm
Discussion on Bob Avakian’s talk: “Making Revolution, Emancipating Humanity”
7 pm @ Think Coffee, 248 Mercer, between 3rd + 4th St., NYU campus Please join us for these regular Tuesday discussions, always lively.
Check website for more information and events.
Chicago
1103 N. Ashland Avenue
773-489-0930
revbookschi@yahoo.com
http://chicagorevolutionbooks.blogspot.com/
May 14, Wednesday, 7 pm
“Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity” by Bob Avakian. One glance at the terrain and you can see all kinds of negative contradictions including extreme individualism, heightened parasitism and relentless consumerism. But, as Avakian writes, "while it causes real problems and embodies real obstacles from the perspective of our revolutionary objectives, [it] also poses significant problems for the ruling class, much as they're promoting it." How should we understand and act in relation to the complicated political and ideological terrain today? Can all this be re-polarized for revolution?
Los Angeles
Libros Revolución
312 West 8th Street 213-488-1303
librosrevolucion.blog.com
May 14, Wednesday, 7 pm
Cinema Revolución – Jesus Camp documents the shocking mobilization of a Christian fascist movement in the U.S. (See Revolution newspaper review in Issue No. 66, 10/22/06).
May 15, Thursday, 7 pm
Bilingual discussion of the current issue of Revolution/Revolución newspaper. Check our blog for recommended articles. Bring your questions and suggestions for articles you want to discuss.
May 18, Sunday, 3 pm
Beginning a new series of Sunday discussions of “Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity” by Bob Avakian. First discussion: Is Marxism a science or religion? Does it matter? What is the importance of a fearless attitude towards the truth?
May 25, Sunday, 3 pm
“Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity” by Bob Avakian. Discussion: Hastening while awaiting – not bowing down to necessity. We’re not in a revolutionary situation. So what do we do? Wait for things to get really bad and for people to get really desperate? Or are we “hastening while awaiting” – actually working to accelerate things and preparing the ground for when it would be possible to rise up? Bob Avakian says, “Everything we’re doing is about revolution.” Can that really apply to today?
Berkeley
2425 Channing Way near Telegraph Ave
510-848-1196
www.revolutionbooks.org
Every Thursday at 7 pm (unless another event is
scheduled)
Discussion of articles in current Revolution newspaper
May 13, Tuesday, 7 pm
Is the U.S. Preparing to Attack Iran? What Can Be Done? Emergency Meeting with Larry Everest
May 20, Tuesday, 7 pm
Presentation & Discussion of “Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity” by Bob Avakian: What really happened in socialist societies? What would “doing better” mean and look like, and can you really do better? (part 1)
May 27, Tuesday, 7 pm
Presentation & Discussion of “Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity” by Bob Avakian: What really happened in socialist societies? What would “doing better” mean and look like, and can you really do better? (part 2)
June 3, Tuesday, 7 pm
Presentation & Discussion of “Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity”by Bob Avakian: “We need a revolution. Anything else, in the final analysis, is bullshit.” What is meaningful revolutionary work today when there is not yet a revolutionary situation? Is spreading revolution and communism a part of that meaningful revolutionary work?
June 5, Thursday, 7 pm
Khalil Bendib, author of Mission Accomplished: Wicked Cartoons by America’s Most Wanted Political Cartoonist
June 10, Tuesday, 7 pm
“Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity” by Bob Avakian: “Fight the Power, and Transform the People, for Revolution”
Honolulu
2626 South King Street
808-944-3106
Every Monday, 6:15 pm
Revolution newspaper reading and discussion group
May 17-18, Saturday & Sunday
Visit the Revolution Books booth at the Hawaii Book and Music Festival, Honolulu Hale, 10am-4pm
Cleveland
2804 Mayfield Rd (at Coventry)
Cleveland Heights 216-932-2543
revbookscle@hotmail.com
Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 3-8 pm
Every Wednesday, 7 pm
Discussions of “Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity—Part 2: Everything We’re Doing Is About Revolution” by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
May 17-18, Saturday & Sunday, noon - 8 pm
Visit and volunteer at the Revolution Books booth at the Hessler Street Fair, one block west of Euclid & Mayfield in University Circle
June 1, Secular Sunday, 4 pm
Book discussion series: Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian
Seattle
1833 Nagle Place
206-325-7415
seattlerevolutionbooks.blogspot.com
Announcing a New Revolution Books in Seattle!
Join us in making plans for a major revitalization and expansion in our new location. Contact us to get involved.
May 17, Saturday, 7 pm
Revolution Books Book Group discusses Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian. This week: More on Christianity, Judaism, And Islam—Rooted in the Past, Standing in the Way of the Future
May 18, Sunday, 3 pm
Reading & discussion of this week’s Revolution newspaper
May 24, Saturday, 7 pm
Revolution Books Book Group discusses Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian. This week: Religion—A Heavy, Heavy Chain.
May 25, Sunday, 3 pm
Reading & discussion of this week’s Revolution newspaper
Detroit
406 W.Willis
(between Cass &2nd, south of Forest)
313-204-2906
May 14, Wednesday, 6: 30 pm.
Discussion of Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian. Part II: Christianity, Judaism & Islam - Rooted in the Past, Standing in the Way of the Future. Bengal Masala Cafe, 9335 Conant Avenue, Hamtramck (1 block north of Holbrook).
May 17, Saturday, 7 pm
An evening of readings from Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian, followed by discussion. 555 Art Gallery, 4884 Grand River Ave.
Bob Avakian will not be present at this event.
Boston/Cambridge
1158 Mass Ave, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
617-492-5443
revbooks@netzero.net
revolutionbookscamb.org
Discussion series on Away With All Gods!
Revolution Books hosts weekly focused discussions on the new book Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World. For those of you who are reading this important new work by Bob Avakian, these discussions will offer a way to engage more deeply into the current discourse about god, atheism and morality, the need to fully rupture with all forms of superstition, and to take up instead a truly scientific approach to understanding and transforming reality.
May 19, Monday, 6:30 pm
Part 2: CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM, AND ISLAM—ROOTED IN THE PAST, STANDING IN THE WAY OF THE FUTURE
• The Historical Development and Role of Christianity: Doctrines and Power Politics
• Demystifying Jesus and Christianity
• Islam Is No Better (and No Worse) Than Christianity
• Religious Fundamentalism, Imperialism, and the “War on Terror”
• Why Is Religious Fundamentalism Growing in Today’s World?
May 27, Tuesday
Part 3 RELIGION—A HEAVY, HEAVY CHAIN
• Religion, Patriarchy, Male Supremacy and Sexual Repression
• The Bible Belt Is the Lynching Belt: Slavery, White Supremacy and Religion in America
• Christian Fascism and Genocide
• Religion, Fundamentalism, and the Slave Mentality
June 2, Monday
Part 4 GOD DOES NOT EXIST—WE NEED LIBERATION WITHOUT GODS
• The “Left Hand of God”—And the Right Way to Go About Winning Liberation
• Reason Has Not “Failed Us”—Reason Is Absolutely Necessary— Though, In Itself, It Is Not Enough
• Religious “Faith”—Let’s Call It What It Is: Irrational
• God Does Not Exist—And There Is No Good Reason to Believe In God
• Religion as an Opiate of the People—And an Obstacle to Emancipation
• Liberation Without Gods
Atlanta
4 Corners Market of the Earth
Little 5 Points, 1087 Euclid Avenue
404-577-4656 & 770-861-3339
rbo-atlanta.blogspot.com
Open Wednesdays & Fridays 4 pm - 7 pm,
Saturdays 2 pm - 7 pm
May 14, Wednesday, 8 pm
Revolution Books and others present
50 Artists, 50 Shots
We Are All Sean Bell
Artists Respond to the Sean Bell Verdict
@ Eyedrum (www.eyedrum.org), 290 MLK Jr. Drive SE, Atlanta, GA 30312
Sundays, 4-6 pm
Discussion of “Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity” by Bob Avakian. Check blog or call for location.
