FEATURED ARTICLES
Eric Harris – Another Black Life Stolen by This System!
Tulsa Sheriffs Caught on Video Murdering a Black Man!
Statement by Carl Dix
April 12, 2015
Watch this video through TO THE END and hear the inhumanity of these pigs!
New from Sunsara Taylor
Calling All Students:
There is a Need and There is Still Time to Throw In With #ShutDownA14
to STOP MURDER BY POLICE!
April 11, 2015
First Impressions of the PREMIERE of the New Film of REVOLUTION AND RELIGION: The Fight for Emancipation and the Role of Religion; A Dialogue Between CORNEL WEST & BOB AVAKIAN
April 6, 2015
Bob Avakian, "Yes there's a conspiracy, to get the cops off."
From REVOLUTION: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About, a film of a talk by Bob Avakian
Editorial: Fighting Through To Re-Take the Offensive Against Police Murder
April 12, 2015
"We Are Workers, Not Slaves!"
Farmworkers in Baja California Stand Up!
April 11, 2015
NOW AVAILABLE:
Constitution, Law, and Rights –
in capitalist society
and in the future socialist society
Selections from the writings of Bob Avakian
and excerpts from the Constitution for the
New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal)
from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
Read or download (PDF)
Stop Murder by Police! #ShutDownA14
BREAKING NEWS
Editorial
A14—Going Back on the Offensive
April 16, 2015
Sights and Sounds of April 14
April 16, 2015
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April 11, 2015
Voices of Conscience
April 14, 2015. The shooting of unarmed blacks, Hispanics and poor youths on the streets of America, and the long-term incarceration of young offenders are among the most flagrant examples of failure in our policy and justice systems.
March on today!
—Rose Styron, poet, journalist, human rights activist
Here in NYC with @Carl_Dix & @CornelWest at #ShutDownA14 march against police murder pic.twitter.com/0FAiE27XQ1
— Residente C13/ RC13 (@Calle13Oficial) April 14, 2015"Students, faculty and staff are welcome to make their own choices about attending the Shut It Down Rally tomorrow in Union Square at 2pm. Students should work with their professors to ensure the requirements of their courses are appropriately met. All staff should be in conversation with their supervisors. Serene and I are fully supportive of this event, as we are horrified by the killing of primarily black and brown people by law enforcement in our nation. If you do decide to attend the event, please be safe and exercise care."
Frederick A. Davie, M.Div.
Executive Vice-President
Secretary to the Board of Trustees
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
See written and video statements from Cornel West, Carl Dix, Richard Leakey, Rev. Dr. Calvin Butts III, Faith Ringgold, Jasmine Guy, Peter Coyote, Alice Walker, Cindy Sheehan, Arturo O'Farrill, and more here
Campuses & High Schools
Madison high school students, determined to stop murder by police, plan to block a major street in Madison, Wisconsin, "all night."
Very powerful protest shutdown class as usual at UC Berkeley today from noon until at least 2 o'clock up to 70 students blocked Sather Gate. It was like the sixties. There were physical confrontations to prevent students from going through the line. Hundreds of students were forced to stop and choose another route and confront the reality of Black lives matter and police murder. The protest started with just 15 but the action galvanized the real anger that among especially the black and Latino students. 1 Black student in particular rallied the students, demanding they refuse to let anyone go through the line and marching up and down the line like a battle commander.
Die-in at UCLA, Los Angeles (Instagram)
Above, students from City Arts & Technology High School, SF on A14 Instagram-revclub_bay
Die in at U Mass Amherst by Black Students Today
30+ students walked out Brooklyn Friends HS to #ShutDownA14 #NYC! "We need to bring more ppl in. #BlackLivesMatter"
Brooklyn HIgh School Students at Union Square
[John Caroll University, University Heights, OH] JCU police "tore down our signs advertising this event." JCU Black Student Union rep. #ShutDownA14 #BlackLivesMatter
MORE ON STUDENTS HERE
A Message from Carl Dix
THE MOVEMENT TO STOP MURDER BY POLICE TOOK BACK THE STREETS
Police Strike Back with Vicious Arrests—Drop All the Charges!
April 15, 2015
April 14 Protesters Have Right on Their Side
Police Who Attacked Them Are Unjust and Immoral
April 16, 2015
Demonstrations
New York:
#ShutDownA14 on the Brooklyn Bridge! credit: James FromTheInternet
Union Square fills up for the rally in NYC. Photo: JamesFTinternet
Setting out from Union Square. @JamesFTinternet
Union Sq. Park, New York. #ShutDownA14 #sos #saconscene @mtsacjour
Eve Ensler hugging Hawah Bah whose son Mohamed was killed by Police. #ShutDownA14 now!
FOR MORE ON NY CLICK HERE
Ferguson, Missouri:
Intersection of Canfield and West Florrisant
Oakland, California:
Shit got shut down in Oakland on April 14! The day began with a speak-out at Oscar Grant Corner in the heart of downtown and ended with a major disruption of traffic on a key Bay Area freeway.
Springfield, Massachusetts:
Springfield, MA: “We are no longer going to sit back and watch our black and brown children get killed”
Several dozen activists took to the streets of Springfield, MA to protest on April 14, blocking traffic and creating a major scene at a busy intersection. Signs included "Prisons are slavery, police are the slave trade" and "Black Lives Matter - Shut It Down."
Over a dozen protesters were arrested.
From mainstream news coverage of the protest: "One protester explains, ‘The mayor needs to be here, see this, be arm-in-arm with us and standing up with this to let the system know we are no longer going to sit back and watch our black and brown children get killed.’”
[Interviewer:] “You saw a lot of people with you that got arrested, what did that mean?”
[Protester:] “That’s why we did it, that’s how much it means to us, that’s why put our lives on the line. This means so much to us, we’re fighting to survive.”
San Francisco Bay Area:
A14 Rally at City Hall in San Francisco
#BlackLivesMatter protesters here to "shut down" SF City Hall over @SFPD racist text messages and more
#bart #BlackLivesMatter @24th st and Mission, San Francisco
FOR MORE ON SAN FRANCISCO CLICK HERE
Chicago:
Chicago - hundreds of people marching out of Daley Plaza in the Loop
Die-in at Marriott Hotel in Chicago
FOR MORE ON CHICAGO CLICK HERE
Cleveland:
Families of people murdered by police
Cleveland police uses horses against the demonstrators
Los Angeles:
At LAPD headquarters in Los Angeles. Nearly a thousand people joined the rally and march.
At the site where Afrika was murdered by the police. #ShutDownA14 NO MORE! IT STOS TODAY! WE REFUSE 2 LIVE THIS WAY!
Dozens of protesters determined to keep shutting it down on A14 to STOP police murder stayed in the LA Downtown area through rush hour. Twenty of them sat down in a very busy intersection downtown stopping the blue line metro train, backing up street and freeway traffic for over an hour. Call to demand all charges be dropped! Call LA Central Division 213.486.6606. In addition, four UCLA students stopped traffic on the 405 Freeway offramp earlier today. Call Century Regional Detention Center at 323.568.4000 and West Hollywood Sherriff's at 310.855.8850 to demand their immediate release with all charges dropped.
Photo: Los Angeles—blocking the train. @Jayron26
FOR MORE ON LOS ANGELES CLICK HERE
Atlanta:
Rally in Atlanta
Atlanta: protest for #ShutDownA14 blocked off an on-ramp by Georgia State University
FOR MORE ON ATLANTA CLICK HERE
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Also in this issue
Murder by Police Must Stop Now #ShutDownA14
Updated April 13, 2015
Check out what's here and click here for much more >>
The relentless murders of innocent human beings by police is intolerable. The protests set for April 14 must witness thousands insisting that:
THIS MUST STOP—NO MORE!
If not now, when?
If not you, who?
#ShutDownA14
WE REFUSE TO TAKE THIS SHIT!
Updated April 13, 2015
April 14: All Sets—All Affiliations—Together—Blacks...Latinos
“Justice for Justus” in Zion, Illinois
April 12, 2015
Taking A14 to the MEChA National Conference
April 12, 2015
At Abyssinian Baptist Church, NYC: "This is terrible and it really DOES have to stop!"
April 13, 2015
North Charleston, South Carolina:
Protests Demand Justice for Walter Scott—"No more! No More!"
April 13, 2015
“Stolen Lives” Truck in Harlem with 3 Days to go: “We're on the FRONTLINES”
April 12, 2015
Carl Dix Calls for Huge Stolen Lives Installations for April 14th Actions!
April 8, 2015
Editorial
The Time Is Now, the Potential Is There, to Shut Shit Down on April 14
April 8, 2015
Double Down on the Moral and Political Challenge Posed by the Stolen Lives Poster
April 4, 2015
Download this audio file for sound cars/trucks, playing out in the streets, etc.:
Another Reason Why We Must Shut Down Business As Usual on April 14!
South Carolina Cop Caught on Video Murdering Black Man
Statement by Carl Dix
April 8, 2015
» Planting of “Evidence” by Police: The Notorious Case of LAPD Rampart Division
April 13, 2015
A Call to Attorneys, Law Students, Legal Observers and Legal Workers—Volunteers Needed!
April 6, 2015
TODAY'S OUTRAGES
Updated April 13, 2015
OUTRAGE in Miami: Cops Kill Mentally Ill Black Man “Armed” with a Broomstick
April 11, 2015
Pasco, Washington:
4 Arrests at Protest Marking 2 Months Since Police Murder of Antonio Zambrano-Montes
April 13, 2015
Police Murder of Walter Scott: Window into Lives of Black People in North Charleston
April 13, 2015
Before the Video: There Was Already Evidence that Walter Scott Was Murdered by the Cop
April 13, 2015
San Bernardino Sheriffs Caught on Video:
The Savage Beating of Francis Pusok
April 13, 2015
Chicago Stolen Lives Dinner:
Families Tell Their Stories of Heartbreak, Outrage, and the Fight for Justice
April 1, 2015
VOICES OF CONSCIENCE FOR APRIL 14, SHUT IT DOWN
Updated April 13, 2015
NEW: Read the "Statement of Conscience From Cornel West & Carl Dix"
See what these people have to say about #ShutDownA14....
- Cornel West
- Carl Dix
- Richard Leakey
- Father Bob Bossie, SCJ
- Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York
- Naomi Wallace, playwright
- Faith Ringgold , artist
- Rev. Frank Wulf
- Jasmine Guy
- Peter Coyote
- Alice Walker
- Arturo O'Farrill
- Cindy Sheehan
- Charles Burnett
- Rev. Jerome McCorry
- Collette Flanagan
Wanted: People of Conscience to TAKE A STAND
April 6, 2015
Of Continuing Interest
Excerpts from Away With All Gods! by Bob Avakian:
Religious Fundamentalism, Imperialism and "The War on Terror"
Why Is Religious Fundamentalism Growing in Today's World
Some Points of Orientation, Principle, and Method Regarding the Accusations Against Bill Cosby
From "Bombingham" and Selma to 2015:
Interview with a veteran revolutionary
As Mexican Caravan Heads East from Chicago: Confrontation at the Mexican Consulate
April 9, 2015
Latest Front in War on Women:
New Fascist Kansas Law Criminalizes Most Second Trimester Abortions
April 13, 2015
In light of the latest developments between the U.S. and Cuba we encourage readers to see “Re-Colonization in the Name of Normalization Behind the Re-Establishment of U.S.-Cuba Diplomatic Relations
(originally published December 29, 2014)
For a basic understanding of the real issues and interests at work in the nuclear deal between Iran and the U.S. and other world powers, see “Nuclear
Agreement with Iran: U.S. Empire Makes Move to Meet Rising Challenges”
(originally published 4/6/15)
Cheers to the rebellious artists who installed a statue honoring NSA-leaker Edward Snowden in Ft. Green Park in Brooklyn April 6
Political Prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal in Danger
See report from Mumia’s visitors 4/6/15 here
Mumia on the police murder of Walter Scott (audio)
Clark Kissinger: Outrage at Shocking Treatment of Mumia Abu-Jamal
April 3, 2015
Who Is Mumia Abu-Jamal?
April 2, 2015
From A World to Win News Service:
The horrific murder of Farkhunda
A 27-year-old Afghan woman accused of burning the Koran, was brutally beaten to death on 19 March by a lynch mob in the presence of a group of police who did nothing to stop them in the centre of Kabul, only a few hundred metres from the Afghan presidential palace.
April 15, 2015
NEWS COVERAGE OF #ShutDownA14
Updated April 13, 2015
AllHipHop.com interviews Carl Dix!
JetMag.com - Cornel West Sparks #ShutDownA14 Movement
La Opinion - Desde Los Ángeles convocan a paro nacional por tiroteos de policías
April 10, 2015
Los Angeles and New York City Press Conferences Calls on People to Hit the Streets on April 14
April 11, 2015
Press Coverage Spreads Call for #A14 to 100s of Thousands in U.S. and Beyond
Updated April 13, 2015
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A Statement from the Revolutionary Communist Party: ON THE STRATEGY FOR REVOLUTION
Updated April 16, 2015
Stop Police Murder— #ShutDownA14 BREAKING NEWS
Updated April 16, 2015
MAJOR NEWS COVERAGE OF #ShutDownA14
AllHipHop.com interviews Carl Dix!
JetMag.com - Cornel West Sparks #ShutDownA14 Movement
La Opinion - Desde Los Ángeles convocan a paro nacional por tiroteos de policías
April 10, 2015
NEW:
"The film brings you up close inside Cornel West's and Bob Avakian's dialogue: the passion, the audacity, the science, the morality, the revolutionary substance. Two courageous voices modeling a morality that refuses to accept injustice – pouring heart and soul into standing together challenging all of us to fight for a world worthy of humanity."
Andy Zee, co-director of the film
A Must-See Film!
You can't change the world if you don't know the BAsics.
BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian is a book of quotations and short essays that speaks powerfully to questions of revolution and human emancipation.
At the beginning of 2012, an in-depth interview with Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, was conducted over a period of several days by A. Brooks, a younger-generation revolutionary who has been inspired by the leadership and body of work of Bob Avakian and the new synthesis of communism this has brought forward.
Click the cover to read, print, or download a PDF of the interview.
Want to know how BA's new synthesis of communism would apply to organizing a new society?
Announcing the publication of Demarcations Number 4
From the Editors of Demarcations
January 10, 2015
Exciting Announcement:
New Indian Printing of Bob Avakian's Democracy: Can't We Do Better Than That?
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