BA Speaks: REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS! Van Tours Hit the Streets

August 18, 2013 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

The BA Speaks: Revolution—Nothing Less! Van Tours hit the streets in New York and Chicago starting Monday, August 12, 2013; and then in Los Angeles and San Francisco the following week. Volunteers of all ages and different nationalities will be going out for a week, or for a day, in vans with striking revolutionary decorations, bringing to people that there is a way out of the madness and vicious brutality that this system and country rains down on the people here and around the world.

Van Tour, Oakland, California

The centerpiece of the tours will be showing the film BA Speaks: REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS! Bob Avakian Live, a daring and deep talk by the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian that pulls no punches. BA digs into the horrors people endure, the criminal nature of this system, the ways people are systematically lied to, miseducated, and offered false consolation and worse through religion—a talk that lays bare the source of the problems people face and, most important—-the solution—a vision of a whole new society organized in a radically new way aiming at the emancipation of all humanity. BA lays out a pathbreaking strategy to get to this new society through building a movement for revolution now.

Donation box made by a supporter. Special to Revolution

At a moment when the world is churning with big and serious questions, the Revolution—Nothing Less! Van Tours will be bringing serious, unprecedented answers. In the wake of the not guilty verdict in the trial of the murderer of Trayvon Martin there are millions of people wrestling with why does this country keep gunning down Black youth and locking up millions of Black and Latino people. At this moment, across the country, people are arguing about why it is that the basic right of a woman to be able to get an abortion, to be able to decide when and if she has a child, is being stripped away here and around the world. People are agonizing over why is the planet being destroyed while the powers that be do nothing. If you have a basic sense of right and wrong, you should ask: why is the Obama administration continuing to send remote control drones to kill people—including innocent children—across the globe? And why does his administration continue to spy on everyone in the U.S.? The question is posed: what kind of world is it where there is so much wealth and yet billions of people starve and die of easily preventable disease? And, the biggest, most fundamental question that needs to be grappled with is this: is there another way the world could be organized and is it possible? This is not often posed because for decades those who rule this society and dominate the media and the educational system have ruled it out of order and impossible. But that is not true. The BA Everywhere campaign and the summer van tours are breaking that silence.

Bob Avakian has developed a scientific methodology to go to work on the fundamental questions of problem and solution. He has forged answers and a road forward for humanity. Over the last several decades BA has worked to sum up the positive and negative experience of the communist revolution so far and, drawing from a broad range of human experience, BA has developed a new synthesis of communism that is a viable vision and strategy for a radically new, and much better, society and world, and provides the crucial leadership that is needed to carry forward the struggle toward that goal. (See more information on BA’s new synthesis of communism.)

At this moment of great turmoil and questioning, when people are raising their heads with fresh eyes to see the harsh reality we live, bringing BA and what he has brought forward can shake up previously held assumptions—rupturing people out of thinking that there is no other way the world could be. Meeting BA through the van tours, having an opportunity to see BA Speaks: REVOLUTION—NOTHING LESS! Bob Avakian Live or dig into a copy of BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian, the handbook for revolution for this time and place in history, opens up new possibilities—not just for the people met on the tour—but for the future of humanity and the planet. The tours need to have real impact everywhere they go. More, the Van Tours will give people a way to contribute to bringing this future into being through being a part of a multifaceted fundraising campaign so that everywhere people know about BA and the movement for revolution he leads. This is no small matter—it is the leading edge of putting revolution back on the agenda when it is so urgently needed.

If you have a conscience and can't stomach any longer the outrages of this society, if you want to contribute to bringing a new, far better world into being, if you are feeling that without really radical change that gets at the root of the problems people face then all the oppression will just go on and on, then this is the campaign for you.

It is not too late to volunteer for a day or two or longer, it is not too late to contribute food, housing, and funds to make the tour possible. It is time to make a difference and get involved. Contact Revolution Books or the BA Everywhere Committee in your area for ways to connect. And, follow the campaign on line at http://revcom.us/movement-for-revolution/BAE/.

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