Revolution #133, June 22, 2008
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New York
212-691-3345
146 W. 26th Street, between 6th & 7th Ave
revbooksnyc@yahoo.com
revolutionbooksnyc.org
June 25, Wednesday, 7 pm
Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason. “With mordant wit, Susan Jacoby surveys an anti-rationalist landscape [where] reading [is] on the decline and scientific and historical illiteracy on the rise...” Jacoby also wrote Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism.
June 27, Friday, 7 pm
Larry Everest & Gareth Porter speaking on the threat of U.S. Invasion of Iran. Larry Everest is the author of Oil, Power, and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda and a writer for Revolution newspaper. Gareth Porter is the author of Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam and writes frequently on Huffington Post and other websites.
July 2, Wednesday, 7 pm
Jeremy Scahill, author of New York Times bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. Jeremy Scahill can be heard on Pacifica‘s Democracy Now (99.5FM) and Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO).
Chicago
1103 N. Ashland Avenue
773-489-0930
revbookschi@yahoo.com
http://chicagorevolutionbooks.blogspot.com/
June 25, Wednesday, 7 pm
“Re-envisioning Revolution and Communism: WHAT IS BOB AVAKIAN’S NEW SYNTHESIS?” Continuation of Part II: A Philosophy to Understand—and Change—The World. The Role, and Potential Power, of Consciousness—a further and qualitatively deeper grasp of the ways in which matter and consciousness mutually interpenetrate with and transform each other.
July 2, Wednesday, 7 pm
“Re-envisioning Revolution and Communism: WHAT IS BOB AVAKIAN’S NEW SYNTHESIS?” Continuation of Part II: A Philosophy to Understand—and Change—The World. Rupturing with Pragmatic Tendencies—a critique of a host of problems associated with pragmatism and related philosophical tendencies.
July 4, Friday, Noon-4pm
(Anti-) 4th of July Picnic: “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” (based on the speech by Frederick Douglass, see poster). Join us for discussion, debate, music, and food. Rogers Park, by the Wall. (Take the CTA red line to Morse, walk east to Morse and Sheridan, take circle turn into the park). It is a potluck so bring a dish, music and friends.
July 13, Sunday, Noon
Secular Sunday
Los Angeles
Libros Revolución
312 West 8th Street 213-488-1303
librosrevolucion.blog.com
July 5, Saturday, 3 pm
Seminar series on Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World — “Religion — A Heavy, Heavy Chain” (pp 119-154).
July 6, Sunday, 3 pm
Discussion: “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?
Berkeley
2425 Channing Way near Telegraph Ave
510-848-1196
www.revolutionbooks.org
June 24, Tuesday, 7 pm
EMERGENCY FORUM: The Danger of a U.S. Attack on Iran is Real and Growing—We Must Act Now! (See ad)
July 1, Tuesday, 7 pm
“Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity” by Bob Avakian. This week: Repolarization for Revolution
July 4, Friday, 6 pm
Anti-July 4th spoken word event in the spirit of Frederick Douglass’ famous address “What to the American Slave is Your Fourth of July?”
July 10, Thursday, 7 pm
Adam David Miller, author of Ticket to Exile, a memoir of growing up in the Jim Crow South.
Honolulu
2626 South King Street
808-944-3106
Mondays, 6:15 pm
Revolution Books circle. Currently discussing “Re-envisioning Revolution and Communism: WHAT IS BOB AVAKIAN’S NEW SYNTHESIS?”
July 6, Sunday, 3 pm
Discussion of Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian, Part 2.
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” by Bob Avakian. Everything We’re Doing Is About Revolution.
Seattle
1833 Nagle Place
206-325-7415
seattlerevolutionbooks.blogspot.com
Coming in July, Date TBA
Revolution Books presents
Re-envisioning Revolution and Communism: WHAT IS BOB AVAKIAN’S NEW SYNTHESIS?
Presentation followed by discussion
June 28, Saturday, 7 pm
Discussion of “Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity” by Bob Avakian. What do we mean by “Enriched What Is To Be Done-ism” and how is it possible to “hasten while awaiting” the development of a revolutionary situation in a country like the U.S.?
July 5, Saturday, 7 pm
Discussion of ”Making Revolution & Emancipating Humanity” by Bob Avakian. How is Bob Avakian—his body of work, method and approach—bringing forward an advanced understanding of what revolution and communism are all about and how to move toward that objective? Why does the world need a culture of appreciation, promotion and popularization around Avakian and his leadership?
Detroit
406 W.Willis
(between Cass &2nd, south of Forest)
313-204-2906
Tuesday, June 24, 6:30 pm
Discussion of Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian. Part Four: God Does Not Exist—We Need Liberation Without Gods. At Taqueria Arandas, 1807 Livernois Avenue (at Vernor), Detroit.
Tuesday, July 8, 6:30 pm
Discussion on “Re-envisioning Revolution and Communism: WHAT IS BOB AVAKIAN’S NEW SYNTHESIS?” Part I: “Humanity Needs Revolution and Communism.”
Boston/Cambridge
1158 Mass Ave, 2nd Floor, Cambridge
617-492-5443
revbooks@netzero.net
revolutionbookscamb.org
Sundays, 6:30 pm
Ongoing discussing of Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian.
Atlanta
4 Corners Market of the Earth
1087 Euclid Avenue in Little 5 Points
404-577-4656 & 770-861-3339
rbo-atlanta.blogspot.com
Open Wednesdays & Fridays 4 pm - 7 pm,
Saturdays 2 pm - 7 pm
Sundays, 4-6 pm
Discussing “Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity” by Bob Avakian. Meet at bookstore at 3:30.
Tuesdays, beginning July 1, 7-9 pm
Book Club discussion of Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian.
