Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Greetings!

HEADS UP: On Monday -- I will post a new youtube clip with part of the Q&A at my Berkeley stop of the "From the Burkha to the Thong: Everything Must, and Can, Change --- WE NEED TOTAL REVOLUTION!" tour.  The clip will be of a Muslim student who wears the veil challenging me for criticizing the veil and my response.  This was a very important exchange, so come back on Monday to watch it here, and get ready to share it with others on your facebook and twitter and other networks.

SECOND HEADS UP: This Friday in NYC: DO NOT MISS OUTERNATIONAL!  If you do not know this bad-ass revolutionary band and its totally danceable and in-your-face live show -- check them out on their facebook and then catch them this Friday.  Note: This is their ONLY scheduled show in NYC!

Friday April 2nd
Santo's Party House
, 96 Lafayette Street, NYC
$8 adv / $10 door
doors open 7pm  (16+)

UZUHI 7:30pm
THE LONDON SOULS 8:30

OUTERNATIONAL 9:30pm
11pm afterparty at Mehanata Bulgarian Bar  (21+)
113 Ludlow (free with concert ticket or wristband!)

facebook invite here




OKAY, BACK TO MY UPDATE:


So, I've been on the road and so far it has been fantastic.

I've been impressed with the seriousness of the young people who've been turning out at NYU, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago and the International Women's Day celebrations and protests in Los Angeles and elsewhere.  I've been enjoying the controversy and the debate over things like the veil and pornography and all the crippling cultural relativism and individualism that goes along with justifying these outrageous concentrations of the oppression of women.  The controversy has only convinced me further of the need for precisely a REVOLUTIONARY approach to the liberation of women to be out there contending with and breaking people's best inclinations and aspirations out of the frameworks which paralyze and suffocate those better aspirations.

I have also been thrilled that my tour has drawn forward some of the many young people out there who are thoroughly disgusted with this world and wishing to contribute profoundly to bringing a better, a liberated world into being.  One young woman who came to my talk at NYU then flew out to Berkeley and spent her spring break helping to build for my talk at that campus.  Others who attended at NYU are currently working to bring me back to NYC, this time up near Barnard college, to give the talk again.

These young people and others have also been out there taking it to the streets - protesting the American Apparel "Best Bottom" contest in several cities across the country (and making the local papers in NYC and Oakland!!) and some folks in NYC are gearing up to do creative protests against the anti-abortion ads that have started appearing on the New York subways.

There is so much more to say -- but for now, I will leave you with a teaser.  Be sure to check back on Monday for new clips from my tour!

Sunsara

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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Sunsara on pornography and the military...

Sunsara is currently on a national campus speaking tour, with her unprecedented talk on:
"From the Burkha to the Thong: Everything Must, and Can, Change--WE NEED TOTAL REVOLUTION!"
This is from the Q & A at the event at NYU on Feb. 23...


tour dates coming up...
March 15 - Berkeley
Pacific Film Archive Theater - 4-6:30 pm
2575 Bancroft Way
Tkts: $20-10, students free with ID
contact: Revolution Books 510-848-1196

April 8 - UCLA
7-9:30 pm - LaKretz Auditorium
South Campus
Sponsored by Critical Thinking at UCLA
contact: critical.thinkingucla@yahoo.com

April 13 - University of Hawai'i
7-9:30 pm - Architecture Building
University of Hawai'i-Manoa
Suggested donation $20-10; students free w/ID
Sponsored by Revolution Books
contact: 808-944-3106

To invite Sunsara Taylor to your campus, contact sunsara_tour@yahoo.com
To donate towards this project, send checks payable to "Sunsara's World"
c/o Revolution Books, 146 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001

Find Sunsara Taylor on facebook & twitter





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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Sunsara on individualism...

Coming up on Monday in Berkeley: Sunsara Taylor on "From the Burkha to the Thong: Everything Must, and Can, Change--WE NEED TOTAL REVOLUTION!"

Here Sunsara responds to the problem of individualism:

Monday, March 15, 2010
Berkeley, CA

April 8th - UCLA
Sponsored by Critical Thinking at UCLA
contact: critical.thinkingucla@yahoo.com

April 13th - University of Hawai'i-Manoa
Sponsored by Revolution Books
contact: 808-944-3106

revcom.us
find "Sunsara Taylor" on Facebook and Twitter

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Sunsara on cultural relativism...

Coming up on Monday in Berkeley: Sunsara Taylor on "From the Burkha to the Thong: Everything Must, and Can, Change--WE NEED TOTAL REVOLUTION!
Here Sunsara responds to the problem of cultural relativism:


Monday, March 15, 2010
Berkeley, CA

April 8 - UCLA
7-9:30 pm - LaKretz Auditorium
South Campus
Sponsored by Critical Thinking at UCLA
contact: critical.thinkingucla@yahoo.com

April 13 - University of Hawai'i
7-9:30 pm - Architecture Building
University of Hawai'i-Manoa
Suggested donation $20-10; students free w/ID
Sponsored by Revolution Books contact: 808-944-3106

find "Sunsara Taylor" on Facebook and Twitter

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Carl Dix on Women's Liberation, Black Manhood, and Total Revolution

Watch this:

and come see Sunsara Taylor
Monday, March 15 in Berkeley
Pacific Film Archive Theater - 4-6:30 pm
2575 Bancroft Way
Tkts: $20-10, students free with ID
contact: Revolution Books 510-848-1196

coming up:
April 8 - UCLA
7-9:30 pm - LaKretz Auditorium
South Campus
Sponsored by Critical Thinking at UCLA
contact: critical.thinkingucla@yahoo.com

April 13 - University of Hawai'i
Sponsored by Revolution Books
contact: 808-944-3106

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Look at all these beautiful children who are female in this world...

Look at all these beautiful children who are female in this world
Here is a link to the centerfold from the March 7 issue of Revolution Newspaper in honor of International Women's Day on March 8: “LOOK AT ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN WHO ARE FEMALE IN THIS WORLD.”  Zoom in and you can read this short piece from Bob Avakian where he speaks with heart and fire to what this reality is.  You'll then see these pictures up close and brilliant.  Take a minute and really look at the photos of these young girls' shining faces all over the planet. A radically different world is possible, and these youth who today are crushed down and crushed under, can and must be part of bringing that new world into being.

We are building a movement for this revolution here and now.  That's what Sunsara Taylor is calling on people to be part of with her speaking tour, "From the Burkha to the Thong: Everything Must, and Can, Change--WE NEED TOTAL REVOLUTION!"

Sunsara has already appeared at NYU and the University of Chicago. Coming up next...

March 15 - Berkeley
Pacific Film Archive Theater - 4-6:30 pm
2575 Bancroft Way
Tkts: $20-10, students free with ID
contact: Revolution Books 510-848-1196

April 8 - UCLA
7-9:30 pm - LaKretz Auditorium
South Campus
Sponsored by Critical Thinking at UCLA
contact: critical.thinkingucla@yahoo.com

April 13 - University of Hawai'i
Sponsored by Revolution Books
contact: 808-944-3106

To invite Sunsara Taylor to your campus, contact sunsara_tour@yahoo.com
To donate towards this project, send checks payable to "Sunsara's World"
c/o Revolution Books, 146 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001

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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

"And who are you to criticize the burkha?"

This is a question that has come up a lot in the course of building for Sunsara Taylor's national campus speaking tour, "From the Burkha to the Thong: Everything Must, and Can, Change--WE NEED TOTAL REVOLUTION!"  


You can hear for yourself what Sunsara has to say - An excerpt from her talk at NYU on Feb. 23 was included in a special program on March 8 for International Women's Day on WBAI-FM radio in NYC.  The except begins about 14 minutes into the broadcast
WBAI March 8, 2010 - "Break the Chains..."

Sunsara has already appeared at NYU and the University of Chicago.  Coming up next...


March 15 - Berkeley
Pacific Film Archive Theater - 4-6:30 pm
2575 Bancroft Way
Tkts: $20-10, students free with ID
contact: Revolution Books 510-848-1196

April 8 - UCLA
7-9:30 pm - LaKretz Auditorium
South Campus
Sponsored by Critical Thinking at UCLA
contact: critical.thinkingucla@yahoo.com

April 13 - University of Hawai'i
Sponsored by Revolution Books
contact: 808-944-3106


To invite Sunsara Taylor to your campus, contact sunsara_tour@yahoo.com
To donate towards this project, send checks payable to "Sunsara's World"
c/o Revolution Books, 146 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001









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