Recently, I returned to a neighborhood of the oppressed in Houston that has been a focus of work with stores and other businesses. I was taking out the @BobAvakianOfficial flyer, and had some copies of the latest revcom.us article on SB4 in Texas. My last stop was at a gas station/convenience store.
A Black woman in her 40s overheard my conversation with the store worker, and called me over. Soon an intense three-way conversation was underway. Referring to Texas Senate Bill 4 (SB4), an older man talked about how Texas has always been a Jim Crow state. He said the people running this state want to take things back to slavery days again.
The woman pulled up @BobAvakianOfficial and listened to Number One. She really liked it, and wanted to know how we saw making this revolution. I pulled out a packet of the Declaration and Proclamation, and showed how they lay out the analysis and strategy that Bob Avakian, BA, has forged, including the six points from The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America.
She subscribed to the @BobAvakianOfficial channel as one way to connect with the revolution, and I encouraged her to go to @TXRevcoms to connect directly with the Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity in Texas. She told me that “people in this neighborhood need this, because there’s a lot of homelessness and poverty here.”
As I left, I made sure the man who’d been part of this exchange and his friends got the Declaration/Proclamation packets. Then, several guys called me over because a woman in a nearby car wanted some of this revolutionary literature, and a couple of them took it also.
This was the kind of dynamic we urgently need to seek out and develop more. We need to strive to influence “blocs of people,” make an impact, and accumulate forces—for revolution.
