We spent almost $5,000 of our $8,000 budget (we're setting some aside to run ads on different platforms). Through getting this in front of 1.5 million people, over 117,000 people watched the video in part with over 20,000 watching it in full. Through this, and other advertising, hundreds more people have subscribed to @BobAvakianOfficial on YouTube.

This matters. But this is really a tiny piece of what's needed over these next weeks. Reaching millions and millions more with Bob Avakian's revolutionary message—breaking down the reality of what's happening, why, and fighting to raise people's sights to the revolution that we need and that is more possible in this time—can make all the difference over these next few weeks. And this is going up against all the ways that people are thinking and acting now on the terms of this system. But that will only be possible with your generous donation—and with you playing a role to put this in front of many, many, many others.

Right now, the most important thing that anyone who wants a better world needs to be doing is donating to and raising funds for the National Campaign to Get @BobAvakianOfficial Everywhere. This direct challenge—to donate to this campaign—needs to be put to people straight up! 

As Bob Avakian (BA) repeats in his social media message REVOLUTION #88: A Rare Time, and Urgent Need—for Revolution—Not Continuing Enslavement to this System: "This is not a time to be siding with one group of oppressors or another. This is a rare time—a very rare opening—a chance that may come only once in a lifetime—a chance to take advantage of the deep divisions among the ruling oppressors and go after their whole system, with the aim of bringing the whole thing down, and putting something much better in its place."

Send out REVOLUTION #88, and ask for funds for this Campaign.

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Plan bake sales, and reach people with potential to be big donors. We should be reaching people in the neighborhoods, artists, doctors, academics, scientists, and many, many more.

One thing we've learned is that it makes a difference to lead with the need for funds, and what you're raising funds for—making that a mass question. This sets terms with what the real needs are, and what difference they can make. It makes someone consider what they are going to sacrifice for—supporting a war criminal, just doing for self, or giving so that humanity has a fighting chance to get free at a time when the future hangs in the balance. It sharpens up the question, making clear that we are working to change the world now and not just "spreading ideas" in the abstract. 

Two projects as part of this:

** We are raising funds to rent an LED truck to drive through Springfield, OH for two days at the time of their next city council meeting with this basic message: 

Springfield: 

WHY DO PEOPLE COME HERE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD?

Because America has messed up the rest of the world even worse than what they've done in this country.

Follow @BobAvakianOfficial for Revolution for a Whole New World

Springfield has become the site of ugly fascist attacks on immigrants—and captured national attention. But no one—besides Bob Avakian—is speaking the full truth about the real problem and solution. This will reach people on the ground in Springfield at a time when local and national media will be covering the scene. This is a chance to have a national impact with BA's voice, and his sharp truth telling. The LED project will cost $3,500 but we want to raise at least $10,000 for this to spread what breaks out on the ground.

Think about different sections of people—and different kinds of people—to go to for these funds. How many millions of people feel like the singer Linda Ronstadt who Bob Avakian speaks to in REVOLUTION #89: Linda Ronstadt: Powerful Truth About Trump and Immigrants... BUT there is more that needs to be said. What about Haitian storeowners? Or people from around the world that work in hospitals? Or what about newly arrived migrants who are scared by these ugly attacks?

** Today, with REVOLUTION #90, Who am I to tell people truth they don't want to hear? Bob Avakian is introducing a series on his social media: "A Profound Fight for the Soul of Black People: A Defeated People—Or, A Revolutionary People?" Listen to REVOLUTION #90. No one is speaking to this question like Bob Avakian, and there is more to come!

This will be of great interest to all kinds of people from different perspectives, and should open up serious debate and discussion. It will introduce many, many new people to a core element of what BA and the new communism are all about, and who this leader is.

We are aiming for big impact with this series—and a concerted multifaceted online advertising campaign—but this too will require many thousands of dollars. Send in your ideas, and stay tuned. 

Bob Avakian has said: 

There is the potential for something of unprecedented beauty to arise out of unspeakable ugliness: Black people playing a crucial role in putting an end, at long last, to this system which has, for so long, not just exploited but dehumanized, terrorized and tormented them in a thousand ways—putting an end to this in the only way it can be done—by fighting to emancipate humanity, to put an end to the long night in which human society has been divided into masters and slaves, and the masses of humanity have been lashed, beaten, raped, slaughtered, shackled and shrouded in ignorance and misery.

Whether that potential is realized depends on reaching millions with this challenge concentrated in Bob Avakian's social media messages.

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