Thursday, September 29, 2016

Social Media Support for October 8 Launch of #TheNewCommunism by Bob Avakian

Social Media Support for October 8 Launch of #TheNewCommunism by Bob Avakian

Updates on the book & October 8 launch
Facebook Event for October 8 NYC

Follow on Twitter:
@Carl_Dix
@SunsaraTaylor
@BAEverywhere


Use the hashtag #TheNewCommunism

Suggested tweets (below are memes you can use on any media)

1.  Bob Avakian's #TheNewCommunism is about emancipating all of humanity w scientific theory for an actual revolution https://www.facebook.com/events/1128928543850115/
2.  3 reasons to get #TheNewCommunism science, strategy, leadership for an actual revolution and a radically new society http://revcom.us/a/458/3-reasons-you-should-get-the-book-en.html

3.  Launch of #TheNewCommunism by Bob Avakian Sat Oct 8 @SchomburgCenter Inviting you to be there. Get your tickets now https://www.facebook.com/events/1128928543850115/

4. What Ppl Are Saying About Bob Avakian & #TheNewCommunism. Get the book & your ticket for the Oct 8 Book Launch

5.  Have ur book & ticket yet? Be w & 4
https://twitter.com/BAeverywhere/status/780978820564353024

6. [to tweet "at" accounts by changing the account addresee] . The Bob Avakian Institute & Insight Press sponsoring launch Oct 8. Don't miss it!

Join the Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1128928543850115/


Sample posts:

If you don't have your ticket yet, make it happen right now. You don't want to miss this!

Come to a program to launch a pathbreaking new book by Bob Avakian: THE NEW COMMUNISM: The science, the strategy, the leadership for an actual revolution…eventbrite.com

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I invite you to join CornelWest and CarlDix in launching Bob Avakian's pathbreaking new book #TheNewCommunism on Saturday October 8 in Harlem at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. This event is for everyone agonizing about the state of the world and hungering for fundamental change. After, join us for a celebration and reception down the street at Revolution Books to raise funds to get BA's work more widely known. RSVP & get tickets here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1128928543850115/
OCT8
Sat 1:30 PM · New York











Sunday, September 25, 2016

Carl Dix, Live from Charlotte, NC:
Look, It’s Beautiful

September 23, 2016 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

Friday, September 23—Carl Dix called revcom.us from Charlotte, North Carolina, and gave us the following statement as he marched in tonight’s protest:

When I saw that video of Keith Lamont Scott’s wife watching and recording her husband’s murder, it made me mad as hell—and it made me want to go rushing through Charlotte to find some people and call on them to TAKE TO THE STREETS. At first I had some trouble finding people. And then I heard people are in the streets downtown, and I rushed to catch up with them. There’s not as many people as yesterday, but it is still hundreds of people. It’s mostly a youthful crowd. Look, it’s beautiful.

There are people of different races and nationalities, and they took to the streets and started marching around shutting down downtown Charlotte. But they had an aim in mind in doing that. As they marched, they made a move to Interstate 77. The police were acting as if they were in position to try to stop this, when the move happened. The police had actually blocked the highway themselves as a way to try and keep the protesters off the highway. It did them no good. The protesters had one way to get on the highway and double-downed another. And all of a sudden, hundreds of us were on the highway, marching.


 9/24/16: Carl Dix from the Revolutionary Communist Party speaking in Charlotte, NC, at the end of a rally and march demanding justice for Keith Lamont Scott, murdered by Charlotte police. 

The people are very determined. They are angry. They are calling for the release of the tapes. They are taking up the chant “Indict, Convict, Send the Killer Cops to Jail! The Whole Damn System Is Guilty as Hell!” There’s a lot of “Black Lives Matter,” a lot of “No Justice, No Peace.” There are a lot of very determined people in the streets. And that’s needed in the face of this onslaught of police murder after police murder after police murder—and the whole system going into motion to justify it. People standing up and resisting and saying “We’re Not Gonna Take This Shit Anymore!” and meaning it and acting on it.

And the other thing that’s needed is that this has gotta be connected with the revolution. Because we need an actual revolution. We gotta get rid of the system that does this to people again and again and is responsible for all the other horrors. Because there is no way you can solve this problem within this system. It’s built into its fabric and framework. When cops kill and brutalize Black people and Latino people, it’s not rogue cops violating the procedure—it’s police doing their job.

We’ve got to hammer that home to people and bring to them that we need revolution—and that we’ve got the leadership for it in Bob Avakian (BA), and we’ve got the strategy and programmatic approach for that revolution. And we need to connect that to how we have to get organized now for an actual revolution.
I hope I’m coming through, ‘cause I’m marching along, and there’s a lot of chanting going on. People ought to give themselves a roar for what they’ve accomplished tonight. They did it, and they’re gonna keep doing it. People are chanting, “We’re young, we’re strong, we’re marching all night long.” I got a lot of determination, but I’m not that young, so I’ll see how long I can go.

But look, this is beautiful, it’s powerful, it’s important. And it’s gotta get connected to a movement for an actual revolution to get rid of the system that’s responsible for the horrors.

‘American empire treats Blacks like a conquered people’


‘American empire treats Blacks like a conquered people’ 

RT September 22, 2016 
"The thing is the police have been unleashed by the system to brutalize and even murder people and then when people refuse to continue accepting it, the police are unleashed to crush them standing up... The police are killing us, and everything that the system says you are supposed to do, people have done: they have elected officials who they thought would stop it, they have tried to get body cameras, they’ve held town hall meetings; tried to get reforms passed and still police continue to kill people and get away with it no matter how horrific the circumstances. And then they tell people, “Wait for the investigation.” But what is there to investigate? In Tulsa, Oklahoma the man had his hands up on the car and they shot him and they are saying “wait for us to investigate” and told outright lies that contradicted by the video. In Charlotte, they are saying “We have a policy that we can’t release the video.” So you should believe the police story until you learn different. But why should we believe them if they lie all the time?" - Carl Dix, founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party.