Break ALL the Chains! Bob Avakian on the Emancipation of Women and the Communist Revolution:
This Needs to Get to Thousands of Youth and Prisoners This Summer—Here's How
July 28, 2014 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
August 9: Celebrate the Release of Break ALL the Chains! Bob Avakian on the Emancipation of Women and the Communist Revolution—a collection of groundbreaking works by Avakian on how central and defining the liberation of women is to any real revolution.
A sampler edition of Break ALL the Chains! is available at revcom.us (as is the full collection). Printed editions of these samplers—32-page booklets with a four-color cover—are being made available free for distribution in prisons, schools, and communities courtesy of The Bob Avakian Institute.
We're excited to announce the publication of the sampler edition of Break ALL the Chains! Bob Avakian on the Emancipation of Women and the Communist Revolution in a 32-page booklet with a 4-color cover, just in time to play an important role in "Revolution in the City" and the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride: Ground Zero Texas.
These samplers are being made available free for distribution in prisons, schools and communities courtesy of The Bob Avakian Institute as indicated on a sticker printed on the booklet.
Check with your Revolution distributor for copies.
If you are just learning about Bob Avakian (BA) and deciding about donating to see his work spread by the Bob Avakian Everywhere campaign—consider the impact of this sampler edition of Break ALL the Chains! getting into the prisons, schools, youth programs and community centers, and out to the playgrounds, stoops, courtyards. The Bob Avakian Institute has funded the publication of 20,000 of these sampler editions of Break ALL the Chains!—which only begins to meet the need and potential for many thousands and tens of thousands of people, especially young people, to encounter this unique revolutionary voice on how humanity can get free. Donate so that this work—and all of Avakian’s work on the strategy and vision for a new wave of communist revolution—can be known and debated; can lift hearts and minds to the real possibility for a whole new world. See responses to BA’s work in statements and video here.
If you are a teacher, student, youth counselor, artist, activist, parent, or caretaker who wants to make this sampler available to youths or prisoners you work with, order copies from the BA Everywhere campaign at baeverywhere@gmail.com. Or find your nearest Revolution Books or the closest celebration on August 9 of the release of Break ALL the Chains! at revcom.us.
If you are working at Revolution Books, or are among young people and in the community: as you are inviting and involving people in the August 9 celebrations of the release of Break ALL the Chains!—talk to teachers, librarians, community college professors, coaches, church people, and counselors running summer youth programs, prisoners rights and prisoners support groups... get with them into what BA’s work is about. The BAsics 3:22 quote—“You cannot break all the chains, except one...” is both a challenge and a vision—of a different world with NO MORE of the brutalization and degradation that weighs down on half of humanity today—and the movement for revolution being built today that invites, welcomes, celebrates, and unleashes the fury of women as a driving force for that revolution—a revolution to bring about a whole other way humanity can be.
Introduce people to BA’s deep and incisive work on this in the new compendium, Break ALL the Chains! Bob Avakian on the Emancipation of Women and the Communist Revolution. In a world of rape, human trafficking, and sexual slavery, BA’s urgent insistence that the revolution humanity needs will go to work on uprooting the thousands of years of tradition and structures that oppress women in thousands of ways needs to be known, discussed, and debated by millions.
Use letters and examples from the BA Everywhere page of revcom.us—like this grandmother’s statement and this video—indicating the impact of getting into BA on people from diverse sections of society. Explore with those you are talking with the impact the sampler version of Break ALL the Chains! can have on young women and young men, in the communities, prisons, and beyond—opening eyes and minds to a whole other way the world, and people, can be, through all-the-way revolution. Arrange for the sampler edition of Break ALL the Chains! to be provided in quantity where it will be taken up as part of summer programming. Involve people in donating to make this possible on an even greater scale, including going into fall as schools reopen in full session.
Donations can be made here.
Write to us about your experiences—at baeverywhere@gmail.com.
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