We are one week out, and $9,000 to go, to meet the goal of raising $30,000 by March 31 to get the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian's voice reaching millions. Thank you to everyone who has donated, and who are working to raise funds. 

The situation is urgent with fascism moving rapidly. It could make all the difference if the clarity of analysis and revolutionary vision in Bob Avakian's voice was reaching throughout society.

This week, we want to share a new fundraising letter to spread everywhere you can. Email it, put it under people's doors, print it out to give people on the spot.

We're also going to share a report we received from members of THE REVCOM CORPS For The Emancipation Of Humanity about raising funds in New York. They sum up here a key lesson: "Engage people, persevere and ASK EVERYONE to donate."

Write to us this week with your questions, ideas, what obstacles you're encountering and your positive experience, info@BobAvakianOfficialEverywhere.org

** A letter to raise funds widely:

Feel free to personalize and edit this template:

Dear

Will you help meet the goal of raising $30,000 by March 31 in the campaign to get the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian's voice reaching millions? 

A few weeks ago, Bob Avakian wrote:

"Trump’s fascist rule, like Hitler’s before him, is a regime of horrors—and is completely illegitimate." 

The situation is dire, and moving fast. The vicious, heartless fascist regime is shredding the rule of law, kidnapping dissidents, deporting migrants to the "black sites" of Guantanamo and El Salvador prisons, erasing trans people... and much more... with much more promised.

In his short statement, Bob Avakian (BA) goes on to say: "Even with particular differences, what is happening now with Trump’s fascist rule also involves a terrible momentum that will involve massive, monstrous crimes against humanity, in this country and in the world overall."

And BA puts forward what's needed to defeat this: the determined, sustained mass mobilization of millions. This will not be stopped by supporting those who minimize the danger by refusing to call it what it is: fascism. It will not be stopped by donating to people running for office in a year and a half, if elections even take place then. It will not be stopped just by caring for those around you, while humanity sits in the crossfires.

Too many are unclear about what's happening and what to do. Too few are calling this out, and charting the path forward. But Bob Avakian has been sounding the alarm about the rise of fascism in the U.S. for over 30 years. And no one else, besides BA, has shown so clearly how this fascism is rooted in the system of capitalism-imperialism with its roots in slavery and genocide. Even more, no one else has developed a concrete framework for a whole different way the world can be. In his New Year's message, "2025: A New Year—Profound New Challenges—And a Profoundly Positive Way Forward in the Face of Very Real Horror," BA says:

We are now at the point where it is more and more urgently necessary to move beyond this whole monstrous system—beyond a situation where people are forced to struggle just for individual survival, with everyone compelled to be in competition and conflict with others, and the masses of people everywhere are chained down by outmoded oppressive relations, while the future, and the very existence, of humanity is increasingly endangered.

And it is possible now to move beyond all this.

In his recent two part interview, BA brings all this alive—giving concrete guidance on what needs to happen now, the basis to defeat this regime, and how human society can be organized on an emancipating foundation. Having watched this interview, a young professor who has studied BA's work said, "The new communism is even more of a breakthrough than I've fully appreciated, this really is a framework for a society that people would want to live in!"

But way too few even know about Bob Avakian's work, and the powers-that-be don't want people to know. 

The National Campaign to Get @BobAvakianOfficial Everywhere is raising funds to break through this, to radically impact society with Bob Avakian's vision and leadership. Through his social media, he is cutting through the noise and distraction with the truth that people need to know. For this to reach millions, we are combining efforts of online advertising and an on-the-ground impact, with a grassroots effort to spread posters, stickers, flyers and more. But this will not be funded without your support—this is going up against the well-funded media mouthpieces and politicians of this system. 

As someone who cares about humanity, whose heart aches at what is happening, and who is in fear for the future, this is work that you need to engage. And your support now can help break this debate open throughout society. Be part of the positive answer to the burning questions of what kind of society we are going to have, and what kind of people we are going to be. Donate today.

best,

PS You can donate to changing what people understand, and raising their sights at BobAvakianOfficialEverywhere.org.

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** Raising Funds in NYC

A week ago THE REVCOM CORPS For The Emancipation Of Humanity in NYC set up a rummage sale outside Revolution Books in Harlem and raised over $700 towards the national fund drive to promote the social media messages from Bob Avakian. 

What to do with all the leftover items? With good weather predicted for this weekend, a couple revcoms pushed hard to do this again in order to reach the $1,000 goal. We set up some clothes racks and a literature table on the plaza outside a main urban library and across from a big Saturday farmers market in a mixed neighborhood full of people from the Caribbean, young people, middle-class intelligentsia, white and Black, bikers and strollers and lots of tourists. 

We got there early to get a good spot. A nearby vendor was selling beautiful handmade clothes, another with sunglasses, and more… a group of Girl Scouts with a bullhorn doing brisk business selling cookies… fundraisers from Planned Parenthood… someone soliciting signatures for the next campaign for NYC mayor. We set up displays, put out revolutionary literature, and figured out how to display a few of our “nicer” sale items.

Check out the reel that was posted on social media to hear a member of THE REVCOM CORPS calling out to passersby, “In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America.” And inviting people to check this out. Holding up a copy of the broadsheet We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live, a Fundamentally Different System, she urged everyone to stop, to come look and to donate. Spread REVOLUTION. Spread @BobAvakianOfficial!  No one was going to get by that table without her inviting them over. 

In about four hours, we raised $288, and scores of people were introduced to BA and THE REVCOM CORPS For The Emancipation Of Humanity. Most significant: More than half of that amount was straight donations—people giving without getting anything at the rummage sale as well as people who gave more than the asking price of an item they were getting. A woman visiting from Argentina gave $50 instead of the $40 price of a coat… a guy donated $40 for two sweaters which was four times the marked price… and more. There’s so much hatred for what’s happening, a lot of fear and a lot of anger. 

People were inspired simply that we were out there, boldly talking about revolution, challenging people to learn about and help spread BA's work, and definitely about the need to stop the Trump Fascist regime. 

The key thing: Engage people, persevere and ASK EVERYONE to donate.

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