WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON at REVOLUTION BOOKS…

Author readings:
Barbara Nimri Aziz, “Swimming up the Tigris: Real Life Encounters in Iraq”
Fr. Luis Barrios, “Coquiando: Meditaciones Subversivas para un Mundo Mejor"
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
Larry Everest, “Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda”
Isamu Fukui, “Truancy”
Alexis Greene, “Women Writing Plays”
Chris Hedges, “American Fascists” and “I Don’t Believe in Atheists”
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”
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
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"
Jeff Sharlet  “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power”
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”

Major Programs sponsored by Revolution Books:
“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, 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.

“MAKING REVOLUTION IN THE USA” The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,  October 26, 2008      A sold-out crowd, over 300 people.

 “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 (writers for Revolution newspaper, and people from China who lived through the Cultural Revolution, Bai Di, Dongping Han, and Guobin Yang.

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Tuesday Evening Conversations
on hot topics from Revolution newspaper and the re-envisioned revolution & communism of Bob Avakian are wide-ranging and always lively:  myth/art/science, the NBA, the new RCP Constitution, religion and atheism, Black presidents and Black people, Obama, Making Revolution in the USA, the US-backed Israeli massacre in Gaza.

Salons on:
Evolution, Sean Bell and the history of violence against Black people, “Freeganism for Beginners,” elections, prostitution and human trafficking co-sponsored with ontheissues.com, a series on “Obama: A Deadly Trap,” and many other topics.

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

Revolution Books has started a series “Two-Four Friday Films”—screenings of films that matter, with talkbacks by the director, every second and fourth Friday.
Some of the films that have been screened in the past year at the bookstore:

“From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale”  Talkback with director Henry Chalfant
“Schmatta: From Rags to Riches to Rags” Talkback with director Marc Levin
“Sacco and Vanzetti” Talkback with director Peter Miller
“American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi” Talkback with director Sebastian Doggart
“Plunder:  The Crime of Our Time” Talkback with director Danny Schechter
“Blast!”  Talkback with director Paul Devlin
“The Glass House”  Talkback with director Hamid Rahmanian
“View From a Grain of Sand”  Talkback with director Meena Nanji
“Disappearing Voices: The Decline of Black Radio” Talkback with director U-Savior Washington
“Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train” Talkback with director Denis Mueller
“Chronicles of a Refugee”  Talkback with director Adam Shapiro
“Newark ‘67” Talkback with directors Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno
“William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe” Talkback with directors Emily and Sarah Kunstler (screening at Cinema Village)
“Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About… A Film of a Talk by Bob Avakian” (screenings at Symphony Space and Schomburg Center)
 “IRAN (is not the problem)”
“The Atheism Tapes”
“Paperback Dreams”
“Trouble the Water”

First Night Opening
This standing-room-only event in June 2008 featured Professor John Gerassi, filmmaker Marc Levin, lawyer Lynne Stuart, performances by the theater ensemble Universes, jazz musicians Mike Wimberly & Laurence Goldman

Press:
Over the past year in our new 26th Street location, Revolution Books has been featured in:
New York Press (February 1, 2009)                               NPR-WNYC radio (October 2008)
New York Magazine (December 8, 2008)                                      WBAI radio (frequently)
NY Observer (October 2008)                                                         Laura Flanders GRIT TV
Time Out (July 2008)
Chelsea Now  (June 2008, March 2009)