KickOff for BAsics Bus Tour - 5-18-12 @ 7 pm

Friday, May 18, 7 p.m.
A Fundraising open house at Revolution Books-- a celebration in unity with the major kickoff event for the BAsics bus tour in Atlanta. 

RED DETACHMENT OF WOMEN - film showing 5-20-12

Film showing and discussion – 

a benefit for REVOLUTION BOOKS ($5 and up)

6 pm, Sunday May 20 at our bookstore

Red Detachment of Women (1970) is one of the Yang Ban Xi—the Eight Model Revolutionary Works created during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in China. Red Detachment’s story is set  in the 1930s during China's war of liberation, it is about a young woman slave who escapes a brutal landlord and joins a women’s detachment of the Red Army. The ballet, developed by Chiang Ching, the wife of Mao, had  innovative choreography, a strong female heroine and a revolutionary message.

Video statement from BAsics Bus Tour 5-22-12 @ 7 pm

Gather at Revolution Books to watch a video statement from the tour. We encourage people to pull together friends and tune in for a very special opportunity to hear first-hand about the progress of the tour thus far, what the volunteers on the tour are learning and what the response has been up to that point.Coming together in this way, people will also be given another opportunity to contribute… this time to the next leg of the tour, which those on the tour will also be fundraising for. Stay tuned to basicsbustour.tumblr.com for details.

Support Revolution Books - 20 % Off Sale thru Saturday

Keep Revolution Books on the frontlines of  the struggle for a better world! 

Revolution Books needs your support. In the next week, we must raise several thousand dollars to pay the rent and other pressing bills.

Here's what you can do:

1. We are looking for 50 people who will donate $50 or buy $50 worth of books or t-shirts.  Donate through this website. We can accept credit card donations over the phone at 510-848-1196, or just come into the store.  We also need regular monthly sustainers. Contribute what you can!

2. We have a special sale of 20% off all new hardcover books, today through Sat. May 12th.  Here are just some of the new titles:
Catching Fire, the 2nd book of the Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Mocking jay, the final book of the Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
Thirteen Loops, Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America by B.J. Hollars
Eminent Outlaws, The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram
The Good News Club, The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children by Katherine Stewart
A Thousand Lives, The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown by Julia Scheeres

Haiti, The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois
A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss, Afterward by Richard Dawkins

3.  Become a volunteer and help change the world!  We need people to design and make displays, to organize and publicize book readings and store events, plan fundraising activities, and catalog new books and keep the inventory up-to-date.  Summer Interns Needed!  High school or college students with creative ideas and energy are needed to work with us. Even if you have just one hour a month-- call us to find out how to get involved.

Support the BAsics Bus Tour - send off party May 8

The BAsics Bus Tour is getting ready to hit the road in the South. Next week volunteers from Los Angeles to New York will stream into Atlanta. They will be traveling there on the money donated for this tour all across the country. Some will be taking greetings that were created and signed in the communities they’re coming in from. They’ll be representing something much bigger than themselves. As one volunteer put it: “This is a great opportunity to expand and widen the movement for revolution, as well as to let many more people know about BA and the revolution...the fact that this vision was brought to them and that they know that there are people who really WANT TO DEDICATE THEIR LIVES to change the world, that already makes a difference in the political atmosphere of the country.”

Cornel West speaking about the BAsics Bus Tour:

Send Off Party for a volunteer for the BAsics Bus Tour 
Tues, May 8, 6:30 pm 
Alhamra Restaurant
3083 16th St., San Francisco 
This is a fundraiser for the Tour. Meet and talk with the volunteer, Joey Johnson.