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DESCRIPTION:Discussion with special guest speaker Clyde Young \nThe Oppression of Black 
 People,  \nThe Crimes of This System  \nand the Revolution We Need \n 
 \n“The young man was shot 41 times while reaching for his 
 wallet”…“the 13-year-old was shot dead in mid-afternoon when police 
 mistook his toy gun for a pistol”… “the unarmed young man, shot by 
 police 50 times, died on the morning of his wedding day”… “the young 
 woman, unconscious from having suffered a seizure, was shot 12 times by 
 police \nstanding around her locked car”… “the victim, arrested for 
 disorderly conduct, was tortured and raped with a stick in the back of the 
 station- house by the arresting officers.” \nDoes it surprise you to know 
 that in each of the above cases the victim was Black? If you live in the 
 USA, it almost certainly doesn’t. Think what that means: that without 
 even being told, you knew these victims of police murder and brutality 
 \nwere Black. Those cases—and the thousands more like them that have 
 occurred just in the past few decades—add rivers of tears to an ocean of 
 pain. And they are symptoms of a larger, still deeper problem There will 
 never be a revolutionary movement in this country that doesn’t fully 
 unleash and give expression \nto the sometimes openly expressed, sometimes 
 expressed in partial ways, sometimes expressed in wrong ways, but deeply, 
 deeply felt desire to be rid of these long centuries of oppression of Black 
 people. There’s never gonna be a revolution in this country, and there 
 never should be, that doesn’t make that one \nkey foundation of what 
 it’s all about. So the questions must be sharply posed: what really IS 
 the problem? What is the source of it? And what is the solution? \nClyde 
 Young is a spokesperson for the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.  As a 
 teenager, he served time in juvenile "correctional institutions" and while 
 serving a lengthy prison sentence he became a revolutionary-- leading 
 prison rebellions and other political activity. He was influenced by the 
 revolutionary leaders and movements of the 1960s. He was also greatly 
 influenced by Mao and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China. 
 Upon his release from prison, Clyde met Bob Avakian and recognized in him 
 unique and special qualities as a leader and also an enormous sense of 
 humor. Clyde Young has written extensively for the revolutionary press  
 \n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/17/18563850.php
SUMMARY:Revolution Books Presents a Discussion with Clyde Young on The Oppression of Black People,
LOCATION:Revolution Books 2425 Channing Way(in the Sather Gate Parking Mall off of 
 Telegraph Avenue) Berkeley,CA 94704 Wheelchair accessible.Donations 
 accepted.\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/17/18563850.php
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