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Film Screening + Discussion: The Oppression of Black People and the Revolution

Screening of film excerpts from talks by the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian, who is the architect of a whole new framework of human emancipation, “the new communism.” These film excerpts are from his 2011 talk Revolution: “Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About,” and from his 2017 talk “The Trump-Pence Regime Must Go: In the Name of Humanity We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America. A Better World IS Possible”:

Discussion will follow.

Film Excerpts:
“Emmett Till and Jim Crow: Black people lived under a death sentence”
“They’re selling postcards of the hanging”
“What to the slave is your fourth of July? From the past to the present.”
“The direct line from the Confederacy to the fascists of today”

Historic photo shows formerly enslaved people soon after the Civil War.











When: Sun., Feb. 25, 2018 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: Revolution Books
437 Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Ave. @132nd St
212-691-3345
Price: Donations welcome
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Screening of film excerpts from talks by the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian, who is the architect of a whole new framework of human emancipation, “the new communism.” These film excerpts are from his 2011 talk Revolution: “Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About,” and from his 2017 talk “The Trump-Pence Regime Must Go: In the Name of Humanity We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America. A Better World IS Possible”:

Discussion will follow.

Film Excerpts:
“Emmett Till and Jim Crow: Black people lived under a death sentence”
“They’re selling postcards of the hanging”
“What to the slave is your fourth of July? From the past to the present.”
“The direct line from the Confederacy to the fascists of today”

Historic photo shows formerly enslaved people soon after the Civil War.

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