Revolution Books Berkeley

Get your free ticket to this Sneak Preview --- a powerful documentary by Questlove with never before seen performances by Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, B.B. King, Ray Barretto and Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mavis Staples and more!

SNEAK PREVIEW ONLINE SCREENING! JUNE 30! Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was never seen and largely forgottenuntil now. The feature includes never-before-seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension and more. SUMMER OF SOUL premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. It will stream on Hulu in conjunction with Disney General Entertainment’s Onyx Collective; Searchlight Pictures will release it theatrically.

Live -- revolutionaries marching on LA Sheriff's Station, letting the world know there is a force organizing people now for an actual REVOLUTION!

#HappyPride from The Revcoms! We recognize the bravery and heart of all who stand up against, or struggle to just exist within a system where those who fall out...side of those acceptable, patriarchal relations are violently targeted. We stand with you. We recognize your full humanity and with all our hearts dedicate ourselves to fighting for a world where men, women and differently gendered people are equals and comrades doing this in the only way we can, by fighting for revolutionnothing less! *** Follow: @TheRevcoms Read: www.revcom.us Watch: YouTube.com/TheRevcoms

Tonight at 7, come to hear a video of a talk by Carl Dix - 100 years ago, white mobs rampaged through the Greenwood section of Tulsa, burning down Black businesses, homes and churches, decimating 40 square blocks and killing more than 300 people. Survivors of this massacre have fought for justice and reparations but have been denied by this system at every turn. Billboards ain't justice, commemoration isn't justice.... Justice is making sure this savage oppression of Black people is finally ENDED once and for all. AND that will take a REAL Revolution.

Harriet A. Washington discusses her new book 2pm PST Sunday! "Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential, Carte Blanche reveals that Americans, including African Americans, are still being medically experimented upon without their consentyet again in research sanctioned by law. Harriet Washington’s powerful indictment of ongoing medical coercion unveils a gross violation of our human rights. It is vital reading at a moment when change is so necessary. Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist and Stamped From the Beginning https://www.facebook.com/events/172268234400910

A Massive American Crime. Read the article. Check out the booklist. Because #NeverAgainIsNow

Check out our selection of titles specially curated for this Presidents Day.

**Watch the Online Panel [free] SUNDAY FEB 7, 2pm PT/5pm ET at: Youtube.com/user/revolutionbooks1 or Facebook.com/revbooksNYC... Unique, essential opportunity to learn about the urgent and dire situation of Nasrin Soutoudeh, internationally renowned human rights lawyer, and all political prisoners in Iran...and why all who stand for justice and yearn for a better world should stand withthese political prisoners. Nasrin has been sentenced to decades in prison and dozens of lashes. She now has COVID-19 and a heart condition but continues to challenge the authorities and advocate for other political prisoners. The newly-released documentary Nasrin was filmed in Iran by women and men who risked arrest to make the film. **Watch Nasrin at: https://kinomarquee.com/venue/new-plaza-cinemafor$12 for a 5-day viewing period. You can watch before or after the panel discussion. Revolution Books is partnering with New Plaza Cinema in New York to make the film available. Also now on Amazon Prime and Apple TV. Sunday, February 7 Online panel features: **Jeff Kaufman, director and co-producer of the film Nasrin. **Marcia Ross, co-producer of the film Nasrin. **Dr. Shahrzad Mojab, director of Critical Studies in Equity & Solidarity, New College at the University of Toronto. **Karin Deutsch Karlekar, director of PEN America’s Free Expression At Risk Programs. **Kave Milani, political activist and representative of Burn the Cage, Free the Birds campaign in Europe in solidarity with political prisoners in Iran. **Raymond Lotta, host and moderator, from Revolution Books in Harlem; political economist, writer forrevcom.us, and advocate for the new communism developed by Bob Avakian. **Short videos from Maryam Claren, daughter of political prisoner Nahid Taghavi; and revolutionary artist Shekib Mosadeq performing Burn the Cage. #burnthecage#Iran#Tehran#politicalprisoners#FreePoliticalPrisoners#HumanRights#CoronavirusIran#Nasrin#women #freenasrin#NasrinSotoudeh #documentary @burn_the_cage@shekibmosadeq

Program starts at 1pm here.

TODAY IN THE NY TIMES: A Pledge to the People of the World! Trump refuses to concede. Republi-fascists are backing him up. He’s filing lawsuits to try to overtu...rn the election, counting on the fascist-packed Supreme Court. His MAGA mobs are mobilized. All of us who won’t go along with the white supremacist, science denying, child caging, covid-spreading, woman hating regime need to be mobilized and in the streets, in nonviolent, determined, mass protest to stop the theft of the election and this hateful fascist program. Do you refuse to accept a fascist America? Add your name to the Pledge: RefuseFascism.org Venmo: Refuse-Fascism CashApp: RefuseFascism Join us in the streets this Saturday Nationwide Trump Is Still Trying to Steal the Election! NO! Trump/Pence OUT NOW!! With Dr. Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, Lilly Wachowski, Arturo O'Farrill, Chuck D, Lalah Hathaway, Jodie Sweetin, Shepard Fairey, V (formerly Eve Ensler), Peter Carey, Alex Winter, Rosanna Arquette, Alyssa Milano, Zoe Lister-Jones, Alan Lightman, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ashley Dawson, Carl Dix, Jessica Care Moore, Vijay Iyer, and Fat Mike

https://www.dailycal.org//berkeley-residents-students-ral/

https://twitter.com/ProtestPix/status/1325173889777872897

We'll join them and be there at noon! Then back to the bookstore.

Revolution Books is a signatory to this statement from bookstores around the country condemning Trump/Pence fascism. Please share widely!! https://www.revolutionbooks.org/bookstores-issue-public-sta

"How many more fucking bodies have to pile up?" --Lilly Wachowski https://lithub.com/lilly-wachowski-refuse-fascism-at-the-b/

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Do not miss this special poetry event! Tuesday 4pm PT, 7pm ET. and please invite your friends.

Don't miss Martin Espada live here on Tuesday 4pm PT, 7pm ET.