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From BobAvakianOfficial:
Break The Chains—Unleash The Fury Of Women As A Mighty Force For Revolution! A Special Message
From BobAvakianOfficial:
Break The Chains—Unleash The Fury Of Women As A Mighty Force For Revolution! A Special Message
Los Angeles
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The REVCOM CORPS for the Emancipation of Humanity in Los Angeles stepped out onto the boardwalks and streets of Venice Beach to celebrate International Women's Day 2024. Sunsara Taylor addressed a rally of 50 people who intently listened to a message of why we need a revolution and how that revolution is possible. She invited people to join the Revcom Corps on a mission to prepare now for a revolution that could be made not in some far off future but in this time. She spoke powerfully to why she's a follower of the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian (BA), and called on people there to dig seriously into his audio dispatches on social media. Noche Diaz and Michelle Xai from the Revcom Corps gave people a concrete sense of who this force is and how you can step into it – learning as you are changing the world and putting this revolution and the leadership of BA on the map. Dolly Veale read a statement from the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now – many of them defying the enforced hijab from the infamous Evin Prison. The march included people from around the world – born in the U.S. to people from Iran, Mexico, Chile, Spain, Ghana, Nigeria and more. We marched through a trendy shopping district where people from different strata came out of stores to join in as others listened to agitation, watched the battle cry for emancipation/dance and donated funds. The protest ended up at a restaurant to watch a segment from the Interviews with Bob Avakian on why the liberation of women is essential to the revolution we need. A couple small groups talked more deeply about this, and about joining the Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity.
Los Angeles
New York
International Women's Day march in Harlem, New York City. Photo: revcom.us
International Women's Day 2024 March in Harlem, New York City. Photo: revcom.us
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Over two days the REVCOM CORPS for the Emancipation of Humanity and others in NYC took the basic message and challenge of International Women's Day out from the streets of Harlem, to a major shopping area around Macy’s and into the New York subways.
The simple message, manifested with a beginning force was: Break the Chains Unleash the Fury of Women As a Mighty Force for Revolution. And a challenge to all those who stopped, who raised their fists, who took out their cameras, to be part of this revolution NOW and to dig into the core message from @BobAvakianOfficial on why we need a revolution and why this revolution is more possible.
On Friday late afternoon a noisy march led by The RevCom Corps marched through central Harlem, stopping to do the dance Battle Cry To Break All Chains at the main thoroughfare at 125th St and Malcolm X. On Saturday we went out to Herald Square, a busy shopping area. As the rain started we went into the train station to reach people pouring out of the trains. With the sound booming in the subway tunnels, people’s heads turned, many people stopped and videotaped and some raised fists as we danced.
Chicago
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“Break, Break the Chains, Unleash the Fury of Women As A Mighty Force for Revolution” rang out as a small but defiant crew led by the Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity marched through the Chicago loop in a cold rain on International Women's Day.
The day began with a performance of the dance Battle Cry To Break All Chains, followed by a short rally which opened with the audio of the BA's social media post on for IWD. A leader from the Revcom Corps said, “We are here to celebrate with people all over the world! Women, men, differently gendered people in saying NO! to the patriarchal degradation, dehumanization, and subjugation of all women everywhere, and all oppression based on gender or sexual orientation! Let's make this International Women's Day a big step and crucial advance towards the revolution needed to finally Break all the chains as we raise our voices, Dance, and Chant! With our sisters and brothers all over the world to declare women are not bitches, hoes, punching bags, sex objects or baby making machines. Women are full human beings.” A member of the women's group from the Little Village Community Council spoke and also read a poem. Little Village is a Mexican immigrant community. A solidarity statement was given from a member of Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights.
The march took off heading to the Art Institute. People leaving the museum filmed us as they performed the dance outside. We also performed the dance in a train station, and indoor mall.
San Francisco
San Francisco
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The Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity in the SF Bay Area held a protest, dance, and speakout in the SF Mission District to celebrate International Women’s Day. The Mission District is historically a center of Latin American immigrants with the streets filled with people from many nationalities and backgrounds. Many were thrilled to hear the call for everyone to step into the revolution and to Break the Chains! Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution! A banner with that slogan in Farsi, Spanish, and English was a backdrop to the rally.
The whole event galvanized that busy street corner and beyond. Some, especially but not only immigrant women, joined in and many watched and listened from the sidelines. The ”Battlecry to Break the Chains” dance was a highlight. Some people were inspired to join a speak out after dancing – one immigrant woman denounced domestic violence, another did an impassioned reading in Spanish of the words that go with the dance.
The agitation from the Revcom Corps called on people to step forward into revolution in this urgent time.
San Antonio, Texas
March 8, 2024. The Revcom Corps at an International Women's Day celebration in San Antonio, Texas. Photo: revcom.us
About 250 people rallied and marched in San Antonio, Texas, on March 10, for International Women's Day. The Texas Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity brought revolution into the mix, including and the Battlecry to Break All the Chains. Many people were challenged by this, and some heads began to turn to consider revolution, and the New Communism brought forward by Bob Avakian.. Break all the chains!. Unleash the fury of women as a mighty force for revolution!
We received reports that Revcoms in Hawaii and Cleveland also celebrated International Women's Day. We received this photo from Hawaii.
Honolulu, Hawaii Photo: Special to revcom.us