WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON at REVOLUTION BOOKS…
we host over 100 events annually. here are some of them:
See also a separate list of our film screenings.
Film Premiere: "BA Speaks: Revolution--Nothing Less"
screened at AMC Magic Johnson 9 Harlem Theater
"The Future of Women Depends On Us!"
Talk by Revolution correspondent Sunsara Taylor
"On the Occasion of the Publication of BAsics:
CELEBRATE REVOLUTION AND THE VISION OF A NEW WORLD"
An evening with David Murray, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Maggie Brown, reg e. gaines, Maluca and many more...
At Harlem Stage, Aaron Davis Hall
April 11, 2011
AN EVENING WITH JUNOT DIAZ His novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize
February 9, 2011
WIKILEAKS REVELATIONS A forum with Carl Dix, Bill Quigley (Center for Constitution Rights) and Andy Zee
December 21, 2010
JUSTIN CROCKETT ELZIE, first Marine to come out under “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”— new memoir “PLAYING BY THE RULES” December 16, 2010
URBAN WORD POETRY TEAM – National slam champions seen on HBO’s “Brave New Voices”
December 15, 2010
GLEN E. FRIEDMAN, photographer, author “FUCK YOU HEROES” “THE IDEALIST” “RECOGNIZE”
December 14, 2010
CAROL LUI, “ARLENE ON THE SCENE” - A reading, plus performance of NTOR band
December 11, 2010
TED RALL, “The Anti-American Manifesto”
November 18, 2010
CHRIS HEDGES, “THE DEATH OF THE LIBERAL CLASS”
November 8, 2010 Opening Book Release Party, a benefit for Revolution Books
“THE AGE OF OBAMA, PART 2: POLICE TERROR, NO JOBS, INCARCERATION, MIS-EDUCATION:
WHAT FUTURE FOR OUR YOUTH?” A DIALOGUE BETWEEN CORNEL WEST AND CARL DIX
October 29, 2010 Over 700 people at Harlem Stage/Aaron Davis Hall in Harlem, a benefit for Revolution Books.
DAVID HARVEY Paperback release event for“A Companion to Marx's Capital”
September 9, 2010 Over 200 people at PS 41, a benefit for Revolution Books
EMERGENCY FORUM: Gaza Freedom Flotilla Massacre with Alan Goodman, Chris Hedges, Abdeen Jabara, Joel Kovel, Adam Shapiro, Andy Zee
June 1, 2010 – Forum held 2 days after the massacre
RAYMOND LOTTA , “A CAPITALIST OIL SPILL... A SYSTEM NOT FIT TO BE THE CARETAKER OF THE PLANET”
May 4, 2010
Ngugi wa Thiong'o Release event for “Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir”
April 15, 2010 – At Judson Church, over 250 people, a benefit for Revolution Books
MEMORIAL FOR HOWARD ZINN with Andy Zee, Raymond Lotta, Danny Schechter and other friends
February 6, 2010
SUNSARA TAYLOR “FROM THE BURKHA TO THE THONG: EVERYTHING MUST, AND CAN, CHANGE”
February 23, 2010 – New York University and on April 22, 2010 – Barnard College
April 8, 2010 – At Cantor Film Center, Columbia University and October 26, 2009 – New York University
BEVERLY NAIDUS author of “ARTS FOR CHANGE: Teaching Outside the Frame” with Greg Sholette, Emily Caigan, Magdalena Gomez and ANDY ZEE.
March 22, 2010
A Very Merry Un-Birthday Tap Dance Party in honor of JANE GOLDBERG, featuring Lisa LaTouche, and her group L-Touch Tap Phonics: Joseph Webb, Michela Lerman, Sean Jackson
March 18, 2010
"THE GUANTANAMO LAWYERS" Attorneys MARK DENBEAU and Yvonne R. Bradley
January 28, 2010
“ ‘AFTER CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN,’ WALLY SHAWN READS FROM HIS ESSAYS AND DISCUSSES HUMAN NATURE WITH A COMMUNIST.” A benefit evening with Wally Shawn and Andy Zee. Available on DVD.
January 8, 2010
Raymond Lotta "The Elephant in the Room: Can Anything Short of Revolution Solve the Environmental Crisis?"
December 15, 2009 – A Talk and national Webcast
JEFFREY HAAS, “THE ASSASSINATION OF FRED HAMPTON: How the FBI & the Chicago Police Murdered
a Black Panther”
December 9, 2009 Book Release Party
JOHN GERASSI, “TALKING WITH SARTRE: CONVERSATIONS AND DEBATES”
December 2, 2009 Opening Book Release Party
November 22, 2009 Book Reading Benefit Screening for Revolution Books at Cinema Village:
“WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE”
Talkback with Filmmakers Emily and Sarah Kunstler + Joey Johnson
November 21, 2009
Opening Book Party for FIVE Great Graffiti Books
ALAN KET, author, artist. Titles included: GRAFFITI PLANET 2, NEW YORK BLACK BOOK MASTERS
October 24, 2009
Benefit Theater Performance for Revolution Books at Irish Arts Center
‘FREDERICK DOUGLASS NOW’ by ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH
October 21, 2009
CHRIS HEDGES “EMPIRE OF ILLUSION: THE END OF LITERACY AND THE TRIUMPH OF SPECTACLE”
September 9, 2009 Opening Book Release Party
JOHN GERASSI “UNREPENTANT RADICAL EDUCATOR: THE WRITINGS OF JOHN GERASSI”
September 3, 2009 Opening Book Release Party
MELVIN VAN PEEBLES “CONFESSIONS OF A EX-DOOFUS-ITCHYFOOTED MUTHA”
August 6, 2009 Opening Book Release Party
“ABORTION, MORALITY AND THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN”
August 3, 2009 Presentation in the wake of the murder of Dr. George Tiller
Dr. Susan Wicklund and Sunsara Taylor, GLBT Community Center
“THE ASCENDANCY OF OBAMA… AND THE CONTINUED NEED FOR RESISTANCE AND LIBERATION: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN CORNEL WEST AND CARL DIX”
July 14, 2009 - Over 700 people overflowed Harlem Stage/Aaron Davis Hall in Harlem. Broadcast live on WBAI, post-interview with Amy Goodman on “Democracy Now”- Available on DVD.
CONCERT at the Knitting Factory:
“AN EVENING OF POETS AND WRITERS, ACTORS AND MUSICIANS
TO BENEFIT THE NEW REVOLUTION BOOKS ON ITS FIRST ANNIVERSARY”
June 10, 2009 - Performers: Staceyann Chin, Melvin Van Peebles, Burnt Sugar, Outernational, Aladdin
“TORTURE AND THE NEED FOR JUSTICE”
Speakers: Chris Hedges, Sister Dianna Ortiz, Gitanjali Gutierrez, Jeremy Scahill, Michael Ratner, Laura Flanders, Andy Zee Performers: Geeta Citygirl, Fajer Al Kaisi, Aladdin
June 3, 2009 - New York Society for Ethical Culture
“ON DEVELOPMENTS IN NEPAL AND THE STAKES FOR THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT”
March 29, 2009 - TheEventSpace, 122 W. 26th Street
“GAZA: EMERGENCY TOWN HALL MEETING”
A Call To Act: Stop The Israeli Massacre in Gaza. We Condemn the U.S. Role in this War Crime.
Jan 13, 2009 - New York Society for Ethical Culture
Over 550 people. Speakers: Chris Hedges, Cynthia McKinney, Abdeen Jabara, Peter Weiss, Alan Goodman, Najla Said, Adam Shapiro, Adam Zee. Available as a DVD.
“REDISCOVERING CHINA’S CULTURAL REVOLUTION:
Art and Politics, Lived Experience, Legacies of Liberation”
A Weekend Symposium at Revolution Books and New York University
Sponsored by Revolution Books, Set the Record Straight, and the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU.
December 12-14, 2008 First symposium since 1976 to examine the liberating legacies of China’s Cultural Revolution, with NYU scholars Andrew Ross, Aly Rose, revolutionary journalists Li Onesto, Raymond Lotta (Revolution newspaper) and people from China who lived through the Cultural Revolution, Bai Di, Dongping Han, and Guobin Yang.
“MAKING REVOLUTION IN THE USA”
October 26, 2008 The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, A sold-out crowd, over 300 people.
other Author readings:
Peter Akinti, “Forest Gate”
Barbara Nimri Aziz, “Swimming up the Tigris: Real Life Encounters in Iraq”
Fr. Luis Barrios, “Coquiando: Meditaciones Subversivas para un Mundo Mejor"
Helen Benedict “The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq”
Herb Boyd, “Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin”
Peter Carroll, “Riverborne: A Mississippi Requiem”
Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper, “Subway Art 25”
Kia Corthron, playwright
Migdalia Cruz, playwright
Carl Dix, writer for Revolution newspaper, and member of the Revolutionary Communist Party
Nora Eisenberg “When You Come Home”
Hester Eisenstein, "Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World”
Larry Everest, “Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda”
Isamu Fukui, “Truancy”
Reg e. Gaines poet
John Gerassi, “Unrepentant Radical Educator: The Writings of John Gerassi”
Alexis Greene, “Women Writing Plays”
Chris Hedges, “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, “American Fascists”
Dagmar Herzog, “Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics”
John Hutnyk, “Bad Marxism: Cultural Studies and Capitalism”
Susan Jacoby, ”The Age of American Unreason”
Esther Kaplan, “With God on Their Side”
Ismail Khalidi, poet
Joel Kovel, “Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel Palestine” and “The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World”
Lewis Lapham, editor, Lapham's Quarterly, former editor, Harper's
James W. Loewen, “Lies My Teacher Told Me”
Anthony Loewenstein, “My Israel Question”
Dennis Loo, co-editor, “Impeach the President”
Raymond Lotta, “America in Decline” and “Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism”
Stephanie MacMillan, “As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial”
Mark Crispin Miller, “Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They’ll Steal the Next One Too”
Sonia Ossorio, New York NOW
Mike Otterman, “Erasing Iraq: The Human Cost of Carnage”
Cristina Page, “How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America”
Peter Phillips, editor “Censored 2009: Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009”
Gareth Porter, “A Peace Denied: The United States, Vietnam, and the Paris Agreement”
Ted Rall, nationally syndicated cartoonist, “America Gone Wild”
Julie Salamon “Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids”
Jeremy Scahill “Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army"
Danny Schechter, “Plunder: The Crime of Our Time”
Jeff Sharlet “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power”
Justine Sharrock, “Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things”
Sparrow, “America: A Prophecy, A Sparrow Reader”
Caridad Svich, playwright
Seth Tobocman, “Disaster and Resistance”
Naomi Wallace, playwright, “The Fever Chart”
Susan Wicklund, “This Common Secret: My Journey As an Abortion Doctor”
Theater performances:
Wallace Shawn’s THE FEVER performed by David Shapiro
Brian Dykstra’s THE JESUS FACTOR
Naomi Wallace’s THE FEVER CHART performed by Omar Metwally
Jeni Mahoney’s THE FEAST OF THE FLYING COW …AND OTHER WAR STORIES