July 14, Tuesday, 7pm
A Dialogue
Between
CORNEL WEST
and
CARL DIX
Tickets: $20 - $10 with student ID - Premium Tickets: $100. Group rates also available.
To purchase tickets:
From Revolution Books: 212-691-3345, or on line at www.revolutionbooksnyc.org/Purchase.htm
From Harlem Stage: 212-281-9240 ext.6,
or online www.harlemstage.org
For more information or to volunteer,
call Revolution Books at 212-691-3345,
Email: cornelcarldialogue@gmail.com
THIS EVENT promises to be a crackling evening of passionate and penetrating conversation over matters that many are seriously concerned about but have not dared to discuss out loud and in public. Cornel West and Carl Dix will break the silence and address from their different philosophical perspectives what the election of Obama really means for people in the U.S. and around the world.
CORNEL WEST is one of America's most provocative public intellectuals and has been a champion for racial justice since childhood. His writing, speaking, and teaching weave together the traditions of the black Baptist Church, progressive politics, and jazz. The New York Times has praised his "ferocious moral vision." Dr. West currently teaches at Princeton University.
CARL DIX is a longtime revolutionary activist and a spokesperson for the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. Carl was one of the Fort Lewis 6 - six GI's who refused orders to go to Vietnam in 1970. Carl served 2 years in Leavenworth Military Penitentiary for this stand.
Proceeds of this event will benefit Revolution Books in New York City and the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund, which provides subsidized subscriptions to Revolution newspaper and other revolutionary literature to prisoners. Information about the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund is available at: www.prisonersrevolutionaryliteraturefund.org
See video poet Staceyann Chin's performance at the June 10 benefit for Revolution Books at the Knitting Factory in New York. Much thanks to Candice S. Vernon for the clip.
More than a bookstore, Revolution Books is a crucible in which the most liberating science, revolutionary communism, interacts and mixes it up with all the streams of progressive, radical and revolutionary intellectual life. At the heart of the store is Bob Avakian's radical re-envisioning of revolution and communism.
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Revolution newspaper "Imagine a World Without America" Picnic, Riverside Park at 145th & Riverside Drive.
Screening and Discussion: "Paperback Dreams"
This film by Alex Beckstead which aired last year on PBS tells the story of 2 independent book stores in California and their recent struggle for survival-- one succeeded, one failed. Come watch the film and talk with Revolution Books staff about the lessons for saving our bookstore in New York City.
"Recent developments in cell biology: Functioning in a noisy world"
A discussion with Columbia University physics grad student, Andrew Mugler: "How would you move if you were constantly bombarded by billions of particles that were 0.1% your size and had an average speed of 1,000 miles per hour? How would you reliably communicate if your messages were encoded as packets of tens of molecules with an error rate as high as 30%? Such is life at the scale of a single cell. Evolution continues to leave microorganisms with survival strategies that solve these problems optimally given the physical limits of their turbulent environments. Using examples from bacterial nutrient intake, fly embryonic development, and virus proliferation, I hope to give a sense of how microscopic life copes amid all the noise."
Presentation: Making Revolution Requires Revolutionary Leadership: The Importance of Bob Avakian
NOTE Location: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 W. 13th St. near 7th Av.
"Why Everything You've Been Told About Communism is Wrong..." with Raymond Lotta
NOTE Location: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 W. 13th St. near 7th Av.
Abortion, Morality and the Liberation of Women, with Sunsara Taylor & Dr. Susan Wicklund
Location: TBA
Melvin Van Peebles book release party:
"Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha"
The new graphic novel by the legendary filmmaker, playwright, actor and artist.
Book Release Party with John Gerassi
"Unrepentant Radical Educator: The Writings of John Gerassi"
Edited and with interviews by Tony Monchinski
Location: Revolution Books
"Understanding the Global Economic Crisis: System Failure and the Need for Revolution"
Listen to a unique communist analysis from political economist Raymond Lotta, author of "America in Decline" and "Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism: The Shanghai Textbook," and writer for Revolution. Presented at Revolution Books, March 29, 2009.Now on Sale -
GAZA: A CALL TO ACT
DVD from the January 13, 2009
Emergency Town Hall Meeting: "Stop The Israeli Massacre in Gaza.
Condemn the U.S. Role in this War Crime."
$20 including postage - 2 DVD set
The speakers included Abdeen Jabara, past-president of the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee; author Chris Hedges; former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney; Alan Goodman, writer for Revolution newspaper ; Adam Shapiro, human rights activist and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement ; Center for Constitutional Rights Vice President Peter Weiss; actor Vanessa Redgrave; and Najla Said, actor and daughter of Edward Said.
This year is the Darwin Bi-Centennial at Revolution Books!
SALE for DARWIN BI-CENTENNIAL...
10% off when you buy these 2 books together:
Ardea Skybreak, "The Science of Evolution and the Myth of Creation: Knowing What's Real and Why It Matters" and Bob Avakian's "Away With All Gods: Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World"
Check out the article on Revolution Books ("Book Marx") in this week's New York Press.
This revolutionary communist bookstore invites you to VOLUNTEER.
This store fulfills great needs in society right now, and YOU are needed here-- with whatever skills and interests you have. Web design, graphic design, Facebook, events-planning, fundraising, promotions and media, BOOKS, ideas, a burning desire to radically changing the world.
Don't Drink the Obama-lade!
INGREDIENTS: massacres in Gaza, Rick Warren, escalation of the Afghanistan war, Hillary Clinton, bailout of big business, Rahm Emanuel, blaming Black people for problems the system inflicts on them, "coming together" with those who hate gay people, Robert Gates, whitewashing torture by the Bush regime, and the Patriot Act.
SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Obamalade causes massive loss of life in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Pakistan and many other countries; continued attacks on Black people, women, immigrants, gays & lesbians; political cowardice that is dangerous to the health of humanity. If, after drinking Obamalade, you find yourself accepting the crimes of this system -- you should immediately take 2 doses of reality and report to the nearest movement of resistance against these crimes.
Revolution Books in Berkeley featured on MTV's
"Change It or Loose It"
To watch the video entitled:
Revolution: The Real Change
Check out story about Revolution Books in the NY Observer October 7, 2008
"Where Being in the Red Now Rules!
Leftist Revolution Books relishes Wall Street crisis from fresh Chelsea space"
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For those who wish to read the dissenting view, the uncensored analysis, the truth about their country and the world, the existence and viability of Revolution Books is absolutely essential."
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-- HERB BOYD, journalist (Amsterdam News, Essence), author (Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography)
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