After the last Livestream we made a decision to concentrate in South Shore, the neighborhood where our organizing center is located. We decided to keep our center, which had not been open consistently for years, open every day until the next Livestream.

We want to saturate the community with “We Are The Revcoms” broadsheet and organize people into the revolution through their getting into and spreading the broadsheet as well as raising funds for the revolution. We set a schedule of being open every day M-F and weekend evenings when we have a movie showing and a potluck.

We also posted the broadsheet, together with the call to donate and BA's “Instead of fighting and killing each other...” on every pole along the blocks from our center to a major intersection. They are still up, something very unusual along this stretch and have even held up in the rain.

One week the weather was beautiful and we set up outside our center with a table with literature, bundles of the broadsheet We Are the RevComs which we stuffed with an announcement of our hours and invitation to our weekend activities, the call to donate and the POAs. We also had the large screen TV outside playing the BA interviews and chairs set up for people to watch. We challenged people to be part of the revolution and when we could, we walked through the broadsheet with them conveying the urgency of acting in this rare time when revolution becomes more possible.

We got out 100's of copies of the broadsheet and many, many people took bundles to spread. In one instance, a visitor to the center called to say he was “stopped while driving on a street near the center”. When asked if he was stopped by the police, he said, “No it was by kids passing out the broadsheet”.

Some examples from these past weeks: One woman took a bundle to get out at work after asking if this was the same thing she had been reading on the pole. Two recent high school graduates stopped to talk for quite some time with a club member and took bundles and signed up with the revolution after posing questions like “what is a system?” Another youth came by after seeing the American Crime series display outside our center. He said he was into history and drawn to this. He then went and got his friends to come check out the organizing center and the revolution. While one left pretty quickly, the rest stayed and got into an engaged conversation with club members. A couple new people attended our first organizing potluck where there was some intense, but friendly, struggle over the question of reform versus revolution. An Iranian comrade stopped by the center to bring a visitor from another country who was looking for the Democracy Can’t We Do Better than That? book by BA which is hard to find on line. They made a donation for the fund drive.

Other times it has been too cold and rainy to set up outside. Some people from the neighborhood have joined us inside and one person has become very active, helping staff the center and ran with the club at Pride Fest. At the request of one club member the movie showing one week was “Fruitvale Station” after watching "The Murder of Fred Hampton" the previous week. We included the piece “Watching Fruitvale Station with Bob Avakian” inside the broadsheets we distributed leading up to the movie showing.

The club had a crew at Pride Fest agitating and getting out the broadsheet and the flyer In Defense of LGBTQ Rights to hundreds of mainly young people waiting in line to go into the fest. [See pictures] There we met a group of 3 young trans people from Wisconsin who were excited to meet the RevComs because they consider themselves communists. In conjunction with the club’s dynamic presence, a veteran supporter got $30 in donations for the sticker ”In Defense of LGBTQ Rights and Lives—Fight the Power, & Transform the People for Revolution.” from fest goers.

We also were out at a protest called by the family of Lil Red who was murdered by the Chicago pigs. The protest took over several busy streets to vocal and noisy support from Black people who saw it. Very importantly, one of the family members of Lil Red who lives in a suburb asked for a bunch more broadsheets as the box he had gotten recently had all been distributed to places where he knows people like a relative’s barber shop.

The protest for justice for Lil Red was also outside a police station. Migrants are being forced to live on the floor there and at other police stations because of the lack of housing being provided for the immigrants who are being bussed to Chicago from Texas. One of the migrants spoke with a Spanish speaking member of the Rev Club to find out what was happening with the protest and then the Rev Club member got on the bullhorn and addressed the migrants collectively. Also a couple of laborers from this same wave of immigrants from Venezuela stopped and talked to people at our center as they were in the area for work and were looking for housing anywhere they can find it. Off this a team took out the Spanish broadsheet to a park near the Little Village (a Latino) community where between 200-250 migrants, mostly from Venezuela, are staying.

A man from the neighborhood who has been helping staff our center has taken several large bundles of broadsheets which he has gotten out on buses and a large gathering of people attending a giveaway of clothes and goods at a church at another part of the Southside.

On Juneteenth, we had our large TV outside the organizing center playing the video of “BA for the Liberation of Black People”. We also took part in an open mic being held at a new venue across the street from our center. Leo performed the Revolution Rhyme and JR did his poem about the police brutal murder of Tyre Nichols in Memphis to a small but appreciative audience.

As of June 20^th we have raised $77 from donations at our center.

We are reaching out to everyone we know, via text blasts, dms, phone calls, etc, to watch the Livestream and reach out to others to do the same. We will be hosting a showing at our center and will be including an announcement about this, along with the Livestream flier, in all the broadsheets leading this week.