Book Release Celebration!

Tuesday, April 5th, 7:30pm @ Brasil

2604 Dunlavy @ Westheimer in the Montrose

Houston, TX 77098

Check www.revcom.us for events around the country

"A Simple and Basic Truth"

# 1: "There would be no United States as we know it today without slavery. That is a simple and basic truth." So opens "BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian." This just-published book takes you on a remarkable and readable journey through the brutal system that dominates the planet today to a vision of a new and far better revolutionary world. It lays out a road map for how to get there, breaking down how to understand the system we live under and how to live and struggle to transform it. Full of heart and soul, science, radical critique and revolutionary vision, BAsics is a work that a new movement for revolution can grow up around. Get your copy, or several copies, of BAsics for yourself, family, friends, and colleagues. Buy a copy for a prisoner. Available through RevolutionHtown, Amazon.com, or Revolution Books stores, Also available online @ revcom.us You can't change the world if you don't know the BAsics!

Bob Avakian is a serious revolutionary leader and wide-ranging thinker. He is the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party and a movement aiming to make revolution when the possibility opens up. He is someone who, in the words of Cornel West, "is a long distance runner in the freedom struggle against imperialism, racism and capitalism."

Book Release Celebrations welcoming the book happened around the country on April 5th.

On April 11th there was a major event in Harlem celebrating the release of "BAsics...", that was a source of great inspiration, puncturing the atmosphere and impacting the societal discourse with revolution and envisioning a whole other way the world can be.

It was an evening of music, visual art, poetry and readings including musician Guillermo Brown; Richard Brown, former member Black Panther Party and co-founder of The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, founded by the SF8; poet and playwright reg e. gaines; Moist Paula Henderson, baritone sax player and composer; jazz musician David Murray; Outernational; Abiodun Oyewole from The Last Poets; Ted Rall, cartoonist and author; excerpts from Tapsloitation; and jazz musicians Matthew Shipp and William Parker.

A visual arts exhibition specially curated for the night included the work of Derrick Adams, Richard Duardo, Skylar Fein, Kyle Goen, Dread Scott, SenOne and others to be announced.

The April 11 Host Committee, in association with Revolution Books, includes Aladdin, actor and playwright; Paul Von Blum, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, African American Studies and Communication Studies, UCLA *, Herb Boyd, journalist and author; Elaine Brower, National Steering Committee of World Can't Wait* and anti-war military mom; Dr. Robert Keith Collins, anthropologist; The Committee For the Defense of Human Rights, founded by the SF8; Carl Dix, founding member of the Revolutionary Communist Party; Jessica Green, media maker and co-director, Maysles Cinema*; Nicholas Heyward, Sr., father of Nicholas Heyward, Jr. (murdered by the NYPD in 1994); Russ Jennings, theatre producer and writer; Erin Aubry Kaplan, journalist and author; Rev. Earl Kooperkamp, St. Mary's Church*, Harlem; Mike Ladd, poet and music producer; Philip Maysles, visual artist, co-director, Maysles Cinema*; John Santos, musician; Matthew Shipp, musician; Dr. Tolbert Small, co-founder and physician at the Harriet Tubman Medical Office in East Oakland, CA and former physician to the founding chapter of the Black Panther Party; Clarence Taylor, professor of History, Baruch College*; Cornel West, Professor of Religion, Princeton University*; Robert M. Young, film maker and David Zeiger, film maker. (* for identification purposes only)