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DESCRIPTION:On April 11 of this year, an amazing  cultural event took place: "On the 
 Occasion of the Publication of BAsics: A Celebration of Revolution and the 
 Vision of a New World." As Revolution newspaper (issue #230) put it: 
 "Hundreds of people of diverse ages, backgrounds, and political 
 perspectives came together in one place for an evening of jazz, funk, soul, 
 rock, theater, dance, poetry, visual arts, commentary and film. All of it 
 aching for, giving voice to, and infused with the possibility of a 
 radically different world than the maddening planet we live on now. All of 
 it unleashed by-and cohered around-the occasion of the publication of 
 BAsics, a comprehensive yet succinct new book of quotations and short 
 essays by Bob Avakian, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, 
 with much of the evening's performances flowing from and a large portion of 
 it explicitly inspired by the life and the work of Avakian."\n \nThis was 
 an extraordinary night - a space where there was a palpable and living 
 sense of the potential for a new world, and a feeling among people they 
 were part of it. Our imaginations took flight and we created a space with 
 different ways of relating. People who came were inspired and provoked to 
 learn further... about Bob Avakian; about the times that Avakian, and other 
 speakers that night, came out of; and about the need for revolution, argued 
 for from different perspectives.\n \nThere was also a great deal learned in 
 the process of organizing and curating the night, lessons that tell us a 
 lot about the broader movement for revolution we are building and even what 
 it means to lead in socialist society - the significance of BAsics and what 
 can be broken open when Avakian's work is directly engaged, the importance 
 and richness of the method of solid core with a lot of elasticity, the 
 material basis for this and the creativity and initiative that was 
 developed in relation to this.\n \nI want to share some of this with the 
 readers of Revolution...\n \nRead full article here in Revolution newspaper 
 #236   \n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/20/18682514.php
SUMMARY:Learning from "On the Occasion of the Publication of BAsics"
LOCATION:Revolution Books\n2425 Channing Way (in the Sather Gate Parking Mall off of 
 Telegraph Avenue).Wheelchair accessible,donations accepted.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/20/18682514.php
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