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NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO GET @BOBAVAKIANOFFICIAL EVERYWHERE
Real-Time Leadership for Real Revolution In This Time 

The revcoms have launched a MAJOR national campaign to get @BobAvakianOfficial everywhere. To raise tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars... to garner tens and hundreds of thousands of followers... to reach millions. 

On this page, people write about their ideas and experiences, and what they have learned. Send your posts to revolution.reports@yahoo.com.

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A Fight for the Walls with @BobAvakianOfficial Up Against the BEB

A few of us went to the opening night of a progressive gallery with an exhibit on political and social injustices. But we knew from some of the artists participating that there was going to be an emphasis on channeling people into the BEB—Bourgeois Electoral Bullshit. 

September 29, 2024 - Los Angeles - Fight for the Walls with @BobAvakianOfficial up against the BEB

 

In addition to reaching the crowd, we postered the area with the revcoms’ translation of @OBEY’s Kamala Harris poster: 

We posted those along with poster “Stop following BEB. Start following @BobAvakianOfficial” on four spots right where people were entering and leaving.

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2024-09-19 Revcom translation of Kamala Harris OBEY poster

 

Revcom translation of Kamala Harris OBEY poster   

The posters immediately became a sharp dividing line. As soon as we turned around from putting up the last one, we saw a man holding a crumpled poster. He said he had taken it from an eight-year-old girl who tore it down saying, "They’re communists and they want to destroy America." But he argued that he doesn’t think anyone should be tearing down posters that they don’t agree with. (He is actually a professor at a local university who said this semester on campus is “like an armed camp” with security who check for campus ID at every entrance—and hates to see this kind of shutting down of needed debate and dissent.) He signed up to talk more about the Campaign to Spread @BobAvakianOfficial Everywhere.

Stop Following BEB - Start Following @BobAvakianOfficial

 

We were just there for about 30 minutes and raised $40. (We probably could've raised more but it was a chaotic scene!)

Minutes after leaving, one of us went back to take a picture and all the posters telling the truth about Kamala had been torn down. Two people came up asking for some—they thought Kamala and Trump were both horrible and were searching for something that was not channeling people into the elections. They got Kamala and BEB posters (they wanted to distribute in their city), made a donation and said they would scan the QR code to hear Bob Avakian on social media.  

This was just a beginning sense of what could be unleashed by presenting a clear view of what the actual reality is of the choices in the BEB, amidst a lot of searching, agonizing and head-in-the-sand delusions.

We're going back today to put more posters up—sharply speaking the truth, and driving people to check out what Bob Avakian is saying about the need, and potential, for a real revolution in this time.

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Lighting Up the Night With @BobAvakianOfficial
from a few revcoms in LA

People came from across SoCal to attend the opening night of the protest art collective Indecline's first solo gallery show in downtown LA.  The revcoms had a broad impact on this crowd—introducing people to Bob Avakian's voice and leadership, straight up—distributing hundreds of copies of Bob Avakian's social media dispatch, REVOLUTION #81: Why I Am Not Running for President. 

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The audience was mainly a punk and street art scene—anti-fascist and anti-Trump but largely tuned out and/or cynical about the possibility for fundamental change, but very open to hearing an argument about real revolution. 

This crowd is attracted to the creative and satirical way Indecline's art creatively challenges the status quo.  (And the art itself was interesting and in-your-face but worth a reflection in its own right.)

Using a car battery, a loud speaker, and projecting a few illustrated video excerpts from Bob Avakian's message from the roof of a pick up truck got people's attention in a way just flyering would not have done.  This was a great thing to do!  There really is nothing like getting Bob Avakian's voice in front of people—straight and direct with so much sharpness and undeniable hard hitting revolutionary substance. 

About 85% of the crowd (approximately 850 people) got the flyer for REVOLUTION #81, many read it in line and stopped to talk, ask questions or responded to the call to be recruited into this revolution. 

We were arguing for people to follow, and donate to have an impact with @BobAvakianOfficial and this social media dispatch.  And a few people did donate.  But we summed up that we needed to make the call for funds even sharper.  There were a couple times in the night when a long line amassed out front and we should've concentrated our forces right then and there—with an ideological challenge on where people spend their money, and why giving to the campaign to spread @BobAvakianOfficial is the most important thing to spend money on.  This wasn't a monied crowd, but we think could've opened up the debate even more.

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Cleveland how we fundraise with bake sales to get @BobAvakianOfficial everywhere

Driving People to @BobAvakianOfficial on Los Angeles Freeways

Freeways have a special meaning in Los Angeles—a huge city of 3.8 million with the busiest freeways in the country.  “Rush hour” is an all day thing and part of the life in the city.

People in this city got inspired to reach those millions.

Banner for @BobAvakainOfficial hanging on the Santa Monica Freeway near Downtown Los Angeles, September 20, 2024

 

Banner for @BobAvakainOfficial hanging on the Santa Monica Freeway near Downtown Los Angeles, September 20, 2024    Photo: revcom.us

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As one dimension of the national campaign to Get @BobAvakianOfficial Everywhere, a small team, including new people inspired by this plan, created simple 4’ x 4’ freeway overpass boards with the simple slogan “Bob Avakian Official—Leadership for a Real Revolution In These Times.” They made sure these would be inexpensive and easy to make and also weatherproof and unmissable!

Sign being posted in Los Angeles for Bob Avakian Official

 

A photo of the stencil for freeway signs for @BobAvakianOfficial    Photo: @Revcomcorps_LA

And the impact?  One of the signs that stayed up for 5 days was seen by well over 100,000 people.  Multiply this by the dozens of overpasses that radiate from the city center. 

And there was an immediate response from friends and family and political contacts – people reaching out with “I saw the Bob Avakian signs today…”  At least one person felt compelled to take a picture of the signs and tweeted about it—with a snarky tone, but still spread it further.

These can also be posted on city streets in a way that can impact important communities. 

To learn more about how you can do this in your city contact us at RevcomCorpsLA@gmail.com.

Spreading @BobAvakianOfficial In the Silverlake district of Los Angeles

 

Spreading @BobAvakianOfficial In the Silverlake district of Los Angeles    Photo: @RevcomCorps_LA

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Detroit - Signing people up to @BobAvakianOfficial

There was a Ribs R&B festival in downtown Detroit last weekend [August 10]. We decided to focus on urging people to subscribe on the spot to @BobAvakianOfficial. We didn't have a lot of time to be there, but we made up a mini-table with posters with QR codes and got out the flyer "...those of you who are not afraid of the truth..." Many people related to the question "If you have thought about revolution but you say: 'this could never really happen--we could never win'..."''

In a short time eight or nine people subscribed on the spot. This is a photo of one person.
Taking call to signup for @BobAvakianSocial to Ribs & R&B event in Detroit

 

August 10, 2024. Taking call to signup for @BobAvakianSocial to Ribs & R&B event in Detroit    Special to revcom.us

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From the genocide in Gaza, to the growing threat of world war between nuclear powers, to escalating environmental devastation… the capitalist-imperialist system ruling over us is a horror for billions around the world and is tearing up the fabric of life on earth. Now the all-out battle within the U.S. ruling class, between fascist Republicans and war criminal Democrats, is coming to a head—likely during, or before, the coming elections—ripping society apart unlike anything since the Civil War.

Bob Avakian (BA), revolutionary leader and author of the new communism, has developed a strategy to prepare for and make revolution. He’s scientifically analyzed that this is a rare time when an actual revolution has become more possible, and has laid out the sweeping vision, solid foundation and concrete blueprint for “what comes next,” in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America.

The website revcom.us follows and applies that leadership and is essential to all this. We post new materials from BA and curate his whole body of work. We apply the science he’s developed to analyze and expose every key event in society, every week. Revcom.us posts BA’s timely leadership for the revcoms (revolutionary communists), including his social media posts which break this down for people every week and sometimes more. We act as a guiding and connecting hub for the growing revcom movement nationwide: not just showing what’s being done, but going into what’s right and what’s wrong and rapidly learning—and recruiting new people into what has to be a rapidly growing force.

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