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Support for $50,000 drive to get @BobAvakianOfficial everywhere

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"My hope is for a fundamentally different system..."

On the 5 year anniversary of my husband's murder at the hands of Akron Ohio police, I choose to donate and help raise funds to get Bob Avakian Official to millions of people. Together with my Cleveland revcoms family, we collected $420 thru a Facebook marketplace rummage sale. I don't live close to any other revcoms so this was a great way for me to contribute my time and goods to the cause when I may not otherwise have been able to. So far I also have 2 new $5 donors and 2 more potential to contribute to our national goal. Thru listening to and discussing the dispatches, I have come to realize that there are other options out there. We don't have to live like this. There is hope somewhere out there. My hope is for a fundamentally different system where I can attain true justice for my Mohammad Isaifan's brutal murder and the hope of ending police murder nationally. I encourage you to donate in any way you can TODAY!!!! The time is now. Justice for Mohammad.

Cultivating a sense of hope and the confidence

I chose to donate because the current, outmoded system of capitalism and imperialism has resulted in heartbreaking realities: burning, starving, and limbless children, along with a planet teetering on the brink of destruction. This system has given rise to fascism with Donald Trump, as the putrid face of it and we are confronted with an unprecedented level of danger. Yet, there is hope on our side - Bob Avakian. By engaging with his ideas, listening to his vision, and allowing ourselves to be challenged to think differently, we can cultivate a sense of hope and the confidence needed to forge a new path from this chaos—a whole new way to live—a fundamentally different system. Become part of this movement to bring BA’s groundbreaking revolutionary message to the forefront everywhere.

Statement for the $5000 Matching Challenge

"I am a baby boomer that knew better in the 60s and 70s because of the leadership of Bob Avakian. Revolution Nothing Less!"

Statement from a donor who offered 2K challenge for Giving Tuesday:

The leadership of Bob Avakian based on the new communism he has brought forward is the only way forward for revolution and the emancipation of humanity here and around the world. @BobAvakianOffical is the beacon to lead us to the bright future.

From a $50 donor

I'm just glad someone is saying these things out loud and I would love to participate in amping up the volume.

From a $25 donor

To support the strongest voice I know that says what needs to be said to bring forward real change.

From a $100 donor

I believe that we have to overhaul the whole system.

“Get the word out”

From a $10 new donor

Nov 5^th was not the end…Nov 5^th was the beginning.

From a $20 donor

Donations for your education/I think you’ve got something here we def. Need a revolution I’m thankful for the knowledge and information you provide.

From a $200 donor

I saw Chairman Avakian in 1972 at 12 years old. We NEED The Real Deal” if we’re talking REVOLUTION!

From a caregiver from Belize

As we strive to make this a better place for humanity, I am making a donation of $20 which I know is only a drop in the bucket. I am fearful for what is happening to this country.

Why I'm supporting the drive to bring Bob Avakian Official to thousands of people so that millions of people can be brought into the revolution.

I think that humanity is at a key precipice where people take responsibility for a different future-by making all-the-way revolution, particularly here in the U.S…

There is no realistic way to try to bring forth a different future for humanity except by working to make an all-the-way revolution on a scientific basis of the New Communism as brought forth by Bob Avakian. To paraphrase Malcolm X, Bob Avakian is "telling people what they need to know and do, not what they want to hear."

So, the choice is ours—do we want to bring about a differrent future for humanity and the planet or do we allow this capitalist-imperialist system to burn it all to the ground—whether in the form of Adolph Trump or smiling, slick Genocidal Joe/Killer Kamala/Democrats. This is why I'm supporting the drive to bring Bob Avakian Official to thousands of people so that millions of people can be brought into the revolution.

From "an ordinary person"

I am just an ordinary person. Everyone else who supports this revolution is also just... an ordinary person.

What sets us apart from everyone else who cares about humanity is two things: we were exposed to Bob Avakian’s revolutionary leadership at some point—whether a few days or weeks or months ago, or a few years, or even a few decades ago—and we were brave enough and honest enough to realize that what he was saying made sense. That it required action.

BA has dug deeply into what it will take to liberate humanity—an actual revolution. And like he says: in the final analysis, everything else is bullshit.’

So now it’s up to you.

Join us. Help millions and millions of people free this planet and free ourselves.

We are running out of time!

From a $20 donor:

i contribute to this cause, because Bob Avakian has poured his life, heart, soul & brains into the world historic struggle to, & success of a real Social Revolution here in amerikkka, land of genocide & slavery & wage-slavery. I am a retired Proletarian on a fixed income, & donate to every fund raising drive for this cause, & will continue to do so.

From someone who gave $20

The reason I'm donating is that I believe Bob Avakian speaks up for people like me. I have a disability called Crohn's disease which makes my life quite difficult to live. Currently under the system of capitalism-imperialism if you have a disability you are drowning in medical debt because it is almost impossible to get any form of government assistance. Bob Avakian is one of the few people willing to call for the end of this system of exploitation and to create a new emancipating system for humanity to replace it. Thank you Bob Avakian, Revcoms, and to anyone who believes in a better tomorrow you have my gratitude.

From a couple who gave $100

Our community, the LGBT, trans, immigrants, people of all races and all origins, we don’t like the attacks on anyone. We’re human. We want to promote peace, love and harmony. We need to organize against any severe attacks and assist people in any way. Everyone needs to be organized. People need to reconnect to their human origins. Everyone should hear these messages.

November 23, 2024

Making Plans to Reach the $25,000 Goal

A few of us in NE Ohio and Detroit had a brief zoom discussion of Update #16 from the National Campaign to Get @BobAvakianOfficial Everywhere and then made plans to help reach the $25,000 goal by December 3. In the discussion we especially dug into the sentence, "What the decent people do depends on what they understand and where their sights are raised to.” Several people thought the report from LA summing up the dinner sale was especially helpful in demonstrating ways that right now people can step into plans for raising critically needed funds. Someone fairly new to following BA brought the discussion back several times to what a difference it makes when people can come to see that a whole better system is possible and excitedly took on a lot of responsibility for carrying out the plans we united on.

We decided to do an online holiday rummage sale and set a goal of $500 to $1,000 by Dec 3. We immediately posted an announcement for it on FB marketplace and will shortly post one on Craigslist. We've gotten out a couple hundred texts to people we’ve met through the course of broadly spreading the revolution, and we intend to send 100 or so more texts. We’re calling on people to volunteer to help and to donate usable items and crafts.

Everyone who purchases something will also get We Need and We Demand and BA's message REVOLUTION #102.

In addition to the rummage sale, some of us are reaching out broadly by phone and email with the new fundraising letter for the $25,000 drive.

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Comments from the initial phases of the fundraising campaign

From a supporter:

Just sent in $250 for the Campaign to spread Bob Avakian Official (including fees for this).

Here is why I'm doing so.

We have just finished the 2024 election where the people of this country were given a "choice" between a white supremacist, misogynist, xenophobic fascist-Trump and a genocidal, mass incarcerator, who has no program or solutions to the deep, serious problems facing humanity and the planet: Harris.

Many people are shocked, saddened, angered, depressed, etc over the outcome of this election.

Why did half of the country vote for a convicted felon who abused women, put in place on the Supreme Court fascists who killed Roe v Wade, separate children from their parents, invoke Adolf Hitler in his speeches, threatens to take away the rights of millions of people?

It's because half of the country think that it's OK to screw over other people, no matter the cost.

Half of the country is full of fascists and wishing it different will not change that reality. We need to get out there, off our butts, dry our tears and build a movement for revolution so that this system can be overthrown and a different and better world can come into being.

Trump just like the rest of this system is illegitimate (and yes, I mean the Democrats here too), outmoded, and needs to be replaced by a revolutionary, socialist society, on the road to communism. Fascism is illegitimate and can't offer any answers to the problems facing humanity. It is a HUGE problem when half of the country is OK with fascism—which means pogroms against immigrants who are forced to come to this country to survive because this system has made it impossible for them to live in their countries. It is a HUGE problem when Christian Fascist politicians and other fascists are OK with women dying from septic shock because they can't get the abortion care that they need because of Roe being overturned. It is a huge problem when doctors are afraid to take care of patients because they are afraid of going to prison or worse for treating their patients, and instead engage in malpractice due to this fear.

Which is why Bob Avakian Official needs to get out to people in a massive way and people need to engage with it, support it, debate it with others as well as with the RevCom Corp for the Emancipation of Humanity, so that people can see that Trump and Harris represent two parts of a dead end and deadly system which is no good at all. Thousands of people are needed who can in turn influence millions who can actually become part of a revolutionary movement to overthrow this system. If someone thinks that this isn't possible, well put out your program and show why you think you can do better.

We need a society which will place the needs of humanity and the planet first, instead of "Amerikkka First". This society is based upon the scientific understanding of the "New Communism" as brought forth by the revolutionary leader, Bob Avakian, who has dedicated his life for over 50 years as to how to make all-the-way revolution and bringing forth a world that we all want to live in.

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"Bob Avakian is calling out how flawed this current system is."

This person donated to the campaign in the store after listening to the intro video and two messages, REVOLUTION #101, "The 'choices' in this election are a damning exposure of this whole system" and REVOLUTION #98 "What is the difference between fascist ruling class liars and 'mainstream' ruling class liars?" He gave what he had $14 and said he could give more later and could share it with others.

"Growing up and coming from India to the first world, I saw human suffering on different scales. My country was colonized by the British imperialists and that framework of capitalist b******* was imposed on us and that continues to this day. Who's guarding this system? It is the West. It's a human profiting system. Bob Avakian is calling out how flawed this current system is. It resonates with me. It's compelling."

College student who donated:

I played the video intro introduction and REVOLUTION #101. She donated $10 online.

"We should not be forced into a two-party system where we must choose the 'lesser of two evils.'
We should not be satisfied with leaders who do not represent our visions of the future and society.
The Democratic and Republican Party do not represent its voter base and we should demand a change of the voting system.
Everyone should listen to Bob Avakian's message and begin to envision a different system with which we live in."

Change minds and hearts for Revolution!

I gave to get the word out about revolution because it is time to think outside the box as a people who will not give up on the climate and the peace movement and bring about change collectively by kicking out the broken system. It is on many minds that the system is broken and needs to be replaced. We can do this. Give to spread the word and start that conversation to change minds and hearts for Revolution!

Letter from a woman incarcerated at a federal prison –

October 9, 2024

Hello there. Sorry for the delayed response. I’m currently in college obtaining my BS at the moment. Receiving these dispatches keeps me in tune with the truth of what’s occurring in the real world that I don’t receive on TV or in the news feed on our tablets. They keep me focused on what the world really is and what can be done to change this world. “The time is now” speaks on this being a rare time that we are in and I must agree with that. We have the tools and means to bring the vision of BA of a new communism.

The politicians which are the 10% continue to feed the 85%, the poor and oppressed, lies and ideologies that continue to put them deeper into poverty and oppression. Because of the “look out for me and mine, and fuck everyone else” mindset we continue to have communities filled with poverty. Instead of showing these communities the right way the 10% continues to lead them astray. This is why it’s important for the 5% which are those who know the truth and chose to uplift and enlighten those who are truly blind to the tactics of the 10%.

We are trained to hate others by the 10% because we are hated by those and we hurt people, and continued to hurt people throughout history.

I consider myself a part of this 5% and I am a free thinker that knows the truth about the world we live in. This requires us to know our true selves that politicians and policy makers continue to try to get us so far away from. Knowing that there are people far away from, knowing that there are people like BA out there to fight for those that can’t fight for themselves gives me the motivation to join the fight and be the change I would like to see. This keeps me in good health and I look forward to being a part of that change.

In Solidarity

P.S. Once again I apologize for the delayed transmission. Let’s continue on this fight for change.

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From someone who contributed $300

“Fascist trump or killer Kamala" … it’s always been choose your poison.

It’s pretty clear that…this doesn’t point the way forward…but many are just hoping that killer Kamala will somehow make this society a little bit better than the other guy. WE CAN DO BETTER.

There is only one way out of this … revolution. The revolutionary leadership of Bob Avakian who through decades of pointing the way forward is calling on people to throw off these literal mental and physical chains.

The bottom line is voting is just an endorsement of what this system does daily here and around the world.

I fought for these imperialists once…went to Vietnam, I actually volunteered, wasn’t drafted. The U.S. killed 3 1/2 million in that war and were ultimately defeated. From that experience, I committed to never fight for them again. I was with the group of vets that turned our backs and marched away from the Vietnam war memorial in Washington, DC when they were dedicating it. It was a proud moment in my life.

It is time to fight again…time to fight to put this system away and do our part here and help lift this weight off the people of the world

Support the revcoms and defend the leadership of Bob Avakian

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From a follower of BA in another country who helps translate BA’s work into Spanish.

[Editors note: We received this statement from a follower of BA in another country who is assisting in translating the BobAvakianOfficial messages, and other articles, into Spanish. He did his own translation into English of his statement, which we edited very slightly for clarity.]

Dear compañer@s:

When I think about how urgent it is to spread the thought and work of Bob Avakian, concentrated in the New Synthesis, and in each of the materials of his authorship, especially in these almost daily messages, I'm initially distressed by the gigantic scale of this work and the need to seize this rare moment., and then I try to do what I can to contribute to said dissemination. It's the way to be consistent between what is said and what is done.

These messages from @BobAvakianOfficial allow us to obtain real-time guidance regarding the world historical events that are marking the present, and what position one should have regarding them from the revolutionary communist perspective.

I must reiterate that for me it is a source of pride to be able to be part of those who contribute to the dissemination of these messages and it is one of most important things I do in my life. Beyond this individual aspect, secondary but not insignificant, it is a very important source of motivation to advance the assigned work as rigorously as possible. The main aspect of my modest role in said task is the awareness that I have that there is a great worldwide need to promote revolutionary thought, and today the most advanced point in terms of revolutionary thought is represented in the New Synthesis of Bob Avakian, therein lies the possibility of emancipation of humanity.

You can count with me in this necessary work.

With revolutionary affection, XXX

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From a 92 year old supporter/follower of Bob Avakian:

I have known of Bob Avakian and his leadership since the1970s when I learned about and traveled to then-socialist China and then began working at Revolution Books.

Through all the years since then, BA was always leading, speaking the truth and breaking issues down and insisting that we not follow blindly, but do our own thinking and looking at both sides of the questions.

His memoir From Ike to Mao and Beyond is honest and heartfelt and I still have a pamphlet he wrote, called "Communists are Rebels." This was a letter to his parents, printed April 1980. In it he displayed his humility and also attempted to connect with them and lay out his perspective on questions like human nature, religion and Marxism.

The last time I saw him speak was at the Riverside church in the Dialogue with Cornel West in 2014. He demonstrated there a model of how to unite with religious aspirations, and struggle over questions of the need for Real Revolution.

I am having trouble expressing how fortunate I am to be living at the same time as him and how lucky the human race is that he is here at this time of crisis, danger and opportunity.

Anyone who wants to be a part of this opportunity, ought to check out his social media posts and writings -- not only on current crises, but also his other books, such as Away With All Gods! and Observations on Art and Culture, Science and Philosophy.

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C. Clark Kissinger on why you should follow @BobAvakian if you want revolution & a better world

Revcom in the Midwest talks about spreading Bob Avakian's leadership on Facebook

From a donor:

Things are getting crazier and more dangerous every day... We need an actual revolution!

We don't have to choose between war criminal imperialist Democrats like Biden/Harris/Walz or fascist, white supremacist, woman hating Amerikkkan Hitler Trump/Vance.

There is actually a leader and a program to bring forth a different future for all of humanity. That third option is the movement for revolution and the campaign to Get @BobAvakianOfficial everywhere. @BobAvakianOfficial and the dispatches are pithy, provocative, and we all need to be talking to other people about it. These dispatches challenges us to look around us and see what is going on and see what we can do to change things.

Every day, I look forward to seeing a new dispatch and of course, I'll go back and read or listen to older dispatches to see if there is something else new to learn from them. I welcome other people to check out the dispatches on @BobAvakianOfficial and get into talking to other people about them and donating whatever funds they can, because as we get closer to the elections and things will get more hairy and crazier, we need to find a way to make sense out of it all and act accordingly.

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From a supporter:

I am a long time supporter. I have donated to Revolution Books and to the revcoms principally because of the new synthesis of communism brought forward by Bob Avakian.

In a time of book burnings I think the bookstore is an essential center for revolution against the fascist storms that are raging. It is a place where people can get at the truth of what is developing worldwide, and what is needed.

I have not been mobile and up until the last few months, I have not had contact with many people. But I recently have had the opportunity to talk to many people who work where I am now living. I have showed them Lo Basico, BAsics, the Constitution in English and Spanish, and the New Communism in both languages and many cards with quotes from BAsics. I have also talked to them about Bob Avakian’s social media dispatches.

People who have talked to me of late brighten up when I show them quotes from Lo Basico, and one bought the abortion T-shirt, “Forced Motherhood is Female Enslavement.” I have access to a lot of immigrants and none of them disagree with the need for revolution. One who bought Lo Basico is gung ho for learning as much as she can. "I will write in the margins," she asserted!

People here in every case without exception respond well to the quotes I give them to read. I sold 2 Lo BAsicos and my support person borrowed The New Communism. The comment I hear most often from immigrant workers here is "Powerful" after they've read BA on women's oppression. The workers here look up to me and are very friendly. I meet new workers often and ask them what they think of quotes from the cards. I give them the cards and point out the website.

The most popular card reads, "What we need is an actual revolution."

Everyone I show the cards to, without exception, says the quotes are "true."