URGENT UPDATE
July 2, 2013 | BA Everywhere | revcom.us
There is an urgent need to reach the Indiegogo crowd sourcing goal of $20,000 for BA Everywhere by July 15th. DONATE NOW to the Indiegogo Summer 2013 Campaign.
Join and spread the Indiegogo campaign! Seize the tremendous opportunity to realize the potential to get BA Everywhere and let people be part of this campaign which could make a huge difference in society!
Watch the BA Everywhere video on the Indiegogo site and think about everyone you know who would be inspired and challenged to contribute to the campaign. To raise the funds we must ASK people with more financial resources, middle class and wealthy friends, friends of friends, relatives and people who, once again, know of BA and the movement for revolution to DONATE and kick off the summer campaign.
The fund raising out in the streets of the hoods and at festivals are both inspiring and important in creating awareness and movement around BA Everywhere—and now let’s add to that with efforts to reach all kinds of people from all walks of life, asking for donations of $100, $500 or $1000+.
Reach out to all the people you know:
- Who came to the premiere of BA Speaks: Revolution - Nothing Less! Bob Avakian Live, or who have seen parts of the film, or who have bought the DVD of the film.
- Who bought or have read BAsics from the Talks and Writings of Bob Avakian
- Who contributed to or followed the BAsics Bus Tour during the spring and summer of 2012 and/or the upcoming film Occasioned by the Publication of BAsics: A Celebration of Revolution & The Vision of a New World.
- Who has experienced and engaged BA in some way.
Email, text, call, tweet, visit—however you communicate and spread the word. Do it TODAY.
For more updates and statements on the BA Everywhere Summer 2013 Indiegogo campaign go to BA Everywhere on revcom.us and the Indiegogo Summer 2013 Campaign.
* * * * *
Below is a sample letter that you can use TODAY to send to people that makes use of the letter from Dr. Dennis Loo which speaks to an important question that many people have from his own perspective. Use it widely.
SAMPLE LETTER FOLLOWS:
Dear ________,
I write today to with an urgent message and a great need.
As millions are fighting and even dying in the streets of
Egypt, Brazil and Turkey, as millions here in the U.S. are
agonizing over the real possibility that the murderer of
the black teenager Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, will
be found not guilty thereby legitimating open season on
black youth in hoodies; to take just two examples of the
struggles that fill the papers lately, there is a huge
problem. People do not know about, people are not debating
and weighing that there is a radically different better
way the world could be through a thorough revolution for a
whole new system. Without this, no matter how heroically
people fight, the old order, no matter how outrageous the
brutality that people must endure, capitalism/imperialism
will continue to destroy lives and the planet.
I write you personally today to ask that you donate today
to the Indiegogo online crowdfunding campaign: BA
Everywhere Summer 2013: Making a Difference, Changing
the World! Your contribution will enable
volunteers to go out this summer to spread the liberating
vision and framework for a radically different world
developed by the revolutionary leader, Bob Avakian.
I want to share this letter that is a call for matching
funds from Dr. Dennis Loo, which speaks to the difference
donating to this campaign will make:
Letter from Dr. Loo:
Dear Friends at BA Everywhere:
I am a Professor of Sociology and chose this field in
part because I wanted to more deeply understand the
world and help others understand the world in order to
change it. I know that there are many in the academic
community who go into their fields for similar reasons
and who can and should be donating to this Indiegogo
fund drive.
I am putting up a $500 challenge to other teachers and
professors to match my donation.
Here is why I am donating. Let me know why you chose
to match this.
When the RCP began several years ago to promote BA as
the cutting edge of what they do I was skeptical. How
can one person be that important? Then I began to read
his new synthesis. For those of us who aren’t “feeding
at the trough” and who instead want to see a different
world than the horrors being played out before our very
eyes now, his work and his role are frankly
indispensable. I certainly am a different person because
of his influence and in particular his breakthroughs on
questions like the role of a vanguard party relative to
the question of truth and how a party, while critical,
does not by definition have a monopoly over truth. This
is inextricably tied in with his views about the
“wrangling” nature of genuine communists and Marxism –
real revolutionaries are not afraid of debate and
contention but welcome it because it is through that
process that truth comes to be known. If you’re wrong or
partially wrong, you will find out if you engage in
debate and discussion and if you’re principled. Nobody
has a monopoly over truth but this attitude of being
always willing to wrangle over questions and this
recognition of the complexity of reality and life – this
is something terribly precious! Whether you agree with
communism and communists or not, this spirit can only be
something that you must welcome and want to foster.
Dennis Loo, Ph.D.
{insert person’s name} Will you meet Dr. Loo's challenge
and answer his call? If you want to make a big difference
in whether there is going to be the possibility of really
radical change, then, this is the campaign for you. Donate
$500 -- or, more - to reach the goal of $20,000 by the
July 15 deadline to fund the summer project, at http://igg.me/at/BAEverywhere-Summer2013
I will {call or write you} to talk in the next day or two.
Best,