Los Angeles

The National Revolution Tour launched a major effort this weekend to put revolution on the map by putting it on the walls! The situation in this society is moving rapidly with radical change coming one way or another, and not in some far-off future. Which future we get—whether something terrible OR something truly emancipating—depends to a great extent on whether there is a growing force for revolution, known throughout society.

With this understanding, we planned a concentrated effort to put 2,000 posters up on telephone poles, walls and fences throughout Los Angeles in a dramatic and high impact way, involving 50 volunteers and raising $1,000.

While we're still tallying the posters, we distributed over 3,350 (almost double our initial goal).  As you can see from the pictures, this was done with creativity and on a large scale.

We have exceeded our financial goal, raising $1,410. One thousand dollars of this came from a supporter of the revcoms who thought this plan for the revolution to be “seen and reseen by many people with this message was a very good idea.” He wasn't able to physically participate but made this generous contribution. Our aim is to have this matched over the next week, and we're a little under halfway there!

While we fell short in terms of the number of volunteers who took part, almost 20 people did participate—this included newer Revolution Club members, as well as many people who were stepping into the revolution for the first time. This was a really fun thing to be part of—with people feeling the immediate impact of doing something together that reached hundreds of thousands of people in a few days. As we went, people also took time to get to know each other, to learn more about the revolution, to debate about music, what to make of Trump, how the revolution can grow quickly and exponentially... and during breaks, watched parts of The Bob Avakian Interviews from The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show.

It was also meaningful that people could contribute in a lot of different ways—from cooking meals, driving posters from place to place, helping prepare materials, filming the outings as well as postering, taping and stapling. Everyone who took part—in ways big and small—were part of succeeding with something urgently needed to impact with this revolution—now.

Three Key Elements That Everyone Must Know About

At the core of what we've been getting up are three elements that, taken together, provide serious revolutionary clarity, vision and a challenge:

It's important that QR codes are on all our materials—so that people can go to these Interviews and the two proclamations, which hook them up directly.

In different areas, we also postered with materials on woke lunacy vs. real revolution, flyers inviting people to donate to the revolution, and more.

While we were mainly focused on getting these materials up, we did meet some people who want to learn more about and work with this revolution. A couple took materials on the spot to get to others—and at least one has already reported back on how that went.

We also ran into controversy. There were a few times when fascists among the masses defaced or tried to tear down our posters—even while we were still there. We took this on in a way that broke open bigger debate and contestation—which is essential for people raising their heads, to hear the debate and sort out what they really think of all this. A couple of times, people came to our defense or wanted more materials in the midst of this.

The new volunteers learned from all this as well.

We're going to carry forward the “battle for the walls” over the next week—coming back as posters get taken down, and really making it two-sided.

This kind of saturation—setting terms and provoking debate, discussion and intrigue—is one essential part of making this revolution unignorable. There's a lot we're learning in all this. We're already making plans for the next couple of “Saturation Saturdays” and for a major effort over Labor Day weekend. Stay tuned.

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The Bay Area

The Revolution Club, Bay Area kicked off the first saturation weekend on Telegraph in Berkeley. We began the day by taking out the We Are the Revcoms Proclamation and We Need and We Demand Declaration to a Farmers Market in downtown Berkeley. We ended with a small postering team that recruited a young customer of Revolution Books to join them on the spot. The new and returning students of UC Berkeley will see the message of revolution on bus stops, buildings, and plenty of street poles!

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Houston

A couple of Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show sustainers pulled together a team to go out this weekend to begin saturating a Black community with We Are The Revcoms and We Need And We Demand. One of them talked about how we've been postering for a while now, and was inspired by last week's segment on The RNL Show on “saturation.” He said, seeing it not as just local, but knowing that we are part of a national effort to get these up all made a big difference.

In the course of postering a pole, a Black woman stopped her car and asked what this is about. She was on her way to church and got a few copies. Five minutes later she came back, stopped in the middle of the road and said “Give me everything you got. I want to take it to church.” Which she did.