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Together We Can Win the Revolution Books Fund Drive
$25,000 By August 2nd
Updated July 23, 2017 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
You, and we, have an opportunity and a responsibility to raise the funds, so that Revolution Books not only survives, but thrives at a moment when it is needed as never before. It is a time to donate generously.
There is no place else, none that plays the role that Revolution Books does. If you have spent any time at RB you experienced what we say about the store: that people come to Revolution Books from all over the world and around the corner—from the projects to the brownstones of Harlem—to find the books and the deep engagement with each other about why the world is the way it is and the possibility of a radically different way the world could be. How much does that matter at a moment when the Trump/Pence fascist regime threatens the seven billion people on the planet, and the planet itself?
Every dollar you donate to Revolution Books opens up possibility: for children to discover books with humane values, for young people to grapple with the big questions of our time, for people of all ages and nationalities from ex-prisoners to college professors—to know, grapple with, and be a part of changing the world. This can be life changing. But it only happens with your financial support.
Curiosity about everything, discovery of different cultures, learning of lives of peoples hidden from view, and the stories of history suppressed course through Revolution Books. Here you feel the vibe of certitude about the potential for a better world and a deep critique and intolerance for the unnecessary suffering of people. Authors, artists, and customers comment that programs or just hanging out here is different, richer—an engagement filled with a thirst for what is true.
This vitality stems from the breakthrough in revolutionary theory that is the new communism developed by the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian. Most of all this is a more scientific method and approach to understanding the world as it actually is. The passion for changing the world at RB comes from his vision and the strategy for an actual revolution and a radically new society on the road to real emancipation.
More than a bookstore, Revolution Books is the political, intellectual, and cultural center of a movement for revolution. Important Books. Pulitzer and Grammy award winners mixing it up with youth and ex-prisoners. Scholars and writers engaging with spokesperson Andy Zee and other revolutionary thinkers and fighters. RB is a place of radical and revolutionary ferment. A place that hosts a culture of revolt against a revolting culture.
FOR ALL OF THIS, YOUR SUPPORT IS ESSENTIAL. YOUR CONTRIBUTION MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR THE NEW REVOLUTION BOOKS IN HARLEM TO BE VIABLE AND THRIVE.
This can't happen on the sale of books alone, especially when so many still don't know about the new RB in Harlem. Your contribution this year will go to a vibrant promotion campaign so that many more people learn about and make RB a destination. This is crucial to getting the store on a sustainable path.
RB has an important curated collection of thousands of books... but more titles are needed to serve the wide scope of our global mission and as part of making RB viable.
Without you, RB cannot meet the needs of today. But with your generous donation, Revolution Books will meet that need with the books, the engagement, and the understanding to forge a culture, a people, and a movement for a whole new world.
TOGETHER, WE CAN WIN THE REVOLUTION BOOKS FUND DRIVE—
$25,000 BY AUGUST 2
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