Urgent Challenge to Readers:
Donate to Maintain the Presence of revcom.us in Sanford, Florida!
June 16, 2013 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
What if… at this moment when the eyes of the world are on the trial of the killer of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, those eyes were seeing photos and reading, hearing or watching interviews in mainstream media that put a focus on revcom.us!
And what if those eyes were being challenged to go to revcom.us for exposure, analysis, and connection to a whole radical alternative to this system, and the revolutionary leadership to make that possible.
We are not challenging you to donate funds to get that off the ground—IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.
This is a call for funds to sustain and continue the presence and promotion of revcom.us in Sanford!
There have been dozens of TV channels, newspapers, and online news sites that have covered the revolutionaries in Sanford, Florida around the trial of Trayvon Martin's killer. One example: On June 9, the online edition of the Orlando Sentinel—the largest circulation newspaper in Central Florida, ran an article titled “Communists gather to protest on eve of Trayvon Martin trial” along with a photo of revolutionaries and others displaying the following quote from Bob Avakian:
“No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.”
The article quoted Noche Diaz saying, “We came out to bring a delegation to show that people down here who are facing this aren't fighting this alone," and "People are taking this fight around the country to connect the struggles of Trayvon Martin with the struggles of injustice against the whole system of mass incarceration of black and Latino youth."
And it reported, “The protesters appeared for about an hour and chanted, "Trayvon did not have to die. We all know the reason why. The whole system is guilty."
Money is needed right now to send revolutionaries to Sanford and sustain their presence there during the trial of Trayvon Martin's killer, so that the reality there can continue to be reported in to revcom.us/Revolution newspaper, and people around the U.S. and all over the world can continue to be connected with revcom.us.
This is moment when we call on everyone reading this appeal… yes, the hardcore readers who are at revcom.us every week or every day, but also—and especially right now—to readers who open their e-subs to Revolution once in a while, or who come to revcom.us at moments when they are driven by world events to see what the revolution has to say, and also to readers with substantial financial resources:
DONATE GENEROUSLY, NOW, TO MAINTAIN REPORTERS AND PEOPLE ASSOCIATED WITH REVCOM.US IN SANFORD—TELLING THE STORY TO THE WORLD, AND CONNECTING IT WITH THE WHOLE OF THE REVOLUTION AT REVCOM.US
For more on the challenges and struggle facing people at this moment, including the role of recom.us in all this, see the editorial in the current issue of Revolution, "A Summer of Big Challenges and Intense Struggle"
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