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DESCRIPTION:The BAsics Bus Tour has been building the movement for revolution and 
 spreading the book BAsics -- a handbook for revolution and an introduction 
 to the new synthesis communism developed by Bob Avakian. The first bus Tour 
 went through California, the second tour traveled through the South, to 
 Sanford, Florida where Trayvon Martin was murdered. The most recent tour 
 focused on the Bronx and Brownsville in Brooklyn, where the NYPD's policy 
 of stop-and-frisk is the most intense. Thousands of people, especially 
 those most oppressed by this system, have been impacted by, and supported, 
 these tours, connecting with Avakian's vision of revolution and 
 communism.\n\nNow the BAsics bus tour coming to UC Berkeley – and other 
 campuses across the country - and students and many other people can step 
 in and join the emerging movement for revolution.  There are many ways to 
 participate, be part of this, and help, many things to learn and 
 do.\n\n\n\nWhy is the bus tour so important and why should people take 
 part?\n\n* Because planes, missiles, tanks of the USA and its allies 
 bombard people in faraway lands while they sleep in their homes or go about 
 their daily lives, blasting their little children to pieces, cutting down 
 men and women in the prime of life, or in old age, kicking down their doors 
 in the middle of the night\n *Because right here in the USA itself the 
 police harass, brutalize and murder youth in the streets of the inner 
 cities. Because the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world, 
 with over 2.4 million locked up, 6 million in prison, probation or parole, 
 the majority Black and Latino.\n* Because there is a war on women in this 
 country... from Christian fundamentalist attacks on abortion and 
 contraception, to the increasingly violent and degrading global pornography 
 industry and the “pornification” of the culture overall, to the blaming 
 and shaming of women who are the victims of harassment and rape.\n\nThis 
 list could go on and on.  And universities are supposed to be places where 
 critical thinking about these kinds of issues are debated - but in the main 
 this does not happen and is suppressed.  And now the elections assault us.  
 But it's one more sham - as BAsics puts it: "The essence of what exists in 
 the US is not democracy but capitalism-imperialism and political structures 
 to enforce that capitalism-imperialism.  What the US spreads around the 
 world is not democracy, but imperialism and structures to enforce that 
 imperialism."\n\nBut the most important reason the bus tour is important is 
 because things DO NOT have to be this way.  A far better socialist world is 
 possible, and an emancipated humanity is possible in a communist world.  
 And this is what we are working on now - to raise funds to bring BA 
 everywhere.  Because if Bob Avakian's work, vision, and leadership become a 
 point of reference and debate on campus and throughout society, it will 
 make a very big difference.  The whole social and political culture will 
 “breathe” more freely, people will wrangle passionately over big 
 questions concerning the direction of society, and the times will once 
 again resonate with big dreams for fundamental change and the emancipation 
 of humanity.\n\nThere are many ways to take part - key nodal points in the 
 next few weeks are on the other side.\n\nRevolution Club in the Bay Area: 
 Revolution_Club_Bay_Area@hotmail.com\nRevolution Books 2425 Channing Way in 
 Berkeley 510-848-1196\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/09/03/18720912.php
SUMMARY:JOIN THE SF Bay Area BAsics CAMPUS TOUR! BAsics Bus Tour -- Coming to UC Berkeley!
LOCATION:12pm Join us at Bancroft and Telegraph\n- 4pm Report back from BAsics Bus 
 Tour to the South and NYC\nCall Revolution Books at (510)848-1196 or email 
 them @ revolutionbooks@dbcglobal.net for more information.\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/09/03/18720912.php
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