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Tune in to 90.7 FM, KPFK on Tuesday, May 24 from 5-6 pm to hear a new segment of the interview with Bob Avakian, on Michael Slate's show. He will be talking about growing up in Berkeley in the 50's, through the storms of the 60's and how he became a revolutionary communist. From doo wop to Mao! Dear Friends, The L.A. Friends of Insight Press and the Los Angeles Central Library, Social Science Department cordially invite you to a Celebration of the Release of: FROM IKE TO MAO AND BEYOND: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist, a Memoir by Bob Avakian Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 7 p.m. (reception at 6 p.m.) Los Angeles Central Library, Mark Taper Auditorium 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles free and open to the public Contact : 323-492-8529 We will host an evening of readings, performance, and commentary by authors, artists, and academics in celebration of the release of From Ike to Mao and Beyond, My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist, a Memoir by Bob Avakian. A growing list of participants include: * Reg E. Gaines (playwright, poet and author� Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk ) * Luc�a Marano (actor�A&E's100 Centre Street ) * Raymond Lotta (author of America In Decline and editor of And Mao Makes Five) * Dr. Juan Gomez-Qui�ones (professor of history at UCLA and author of The Roots of Chicano Politics 1600-1940 and Chicano Politics 1940-1990) * Carol Downer (co-founder of Feminist Women's Health Centers and author of A New View of a Women's Body ) * Barry Sanders (professor, Pitzer College), and Francis D. Adams (authors of Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 1619-2000) * Paul Von Blum (senior lecturer of African American Studies and Communications at UCLA and author of Resistance, Dignity and Pride�African American Artists in Los Angeles ) * Jerry Quickley (host, Beneath the Surface on KPFK 90.7FM; poet) * Martha Quetzal Ceja (managing editor of Insight Press, Inc., former MEChA chair and co-author of The Chicano Struggle and Proletarian Revolution in the U.S.) Check out the reviews from the San Francisco Chronicle, Counterpunch and Midwest Book Review at : http://www.insight-press.com/page4. <javascript:ol('http://www.insight-press.com/page4.html');> html <javascript:ol('http://www.insight-press.com/page4.html');> Here's what Cornell West, Howard Zinn & Juan Gomez-Quinones wrote about Bob Avakian's Memoir: �Bob Avakian is a long distance runner in the freedom struggle against imperialism, racism and capitalism. His voice and witness are indispensable in our efforts to enhance the wretched of the earth. And his powerful story of commitment is timely.� Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion, Princeton University �A truly interesting account of Bob Avakian�s life, a humanizing portrait of someone who is often seen only as a hard-line revolutionary. I can understand why Bob Avakian has drawn so many ardent supporters. He speaks to people�s alienation from a warlike and capitalist society, and holds out the possibility for radical change.� Howard Zinn Open Letter to Youth and Students >From Dr. Juan Gomez Quinones Historian and Writer, UCLA Friends, Winter makes us think of summer. The good news bad times may bring is that if we can imagine a better time, we can row to the opposing side of bad history a different and better world. Students, more than dreaming, demand a map for the row. I can point to three examples of maps of interest to students of today to get them to tomorrow. Motorcycle Diaries in words and film recreates the journey of two youth across a continent of bad hurt and seeming helplessness. At the end of their trip, they had a map to change this world. Not that long ago during the wars and turbulences of the sixties, a former prisoner shared his bad times and good hopes with the rest of us, Malcolm X Autobiography. Today students are checking out both the book and the film with hopeful eyes. In a journey closer in time and nearer in turf to us now, Bob Avakian travels a journey from a certain yesterday to a possible tomorrow in From Ike to Mao and Beyond. This diary of hopes and journal of lessons narrates how some youth went from troubling days to challenging actions to sharing dreams. Bob Avakian imagines and knows he is not the only one and he is ready to share dreams, his and ours. His memories are sharp and clear, and hence the lessons he has learned are that much more compelling as maps for those who demand a better world. His shared experiences, with unflinching candor and generous warmth, are his respects for those of strong heart and clear mind, those ready to do the work of getting to the other side of history. Thus, my friends, I advise you to prepare yourself in the spring for a plentiful summer, by putting aside this tiresome winter by some good words for bad curses, turning the bad into good by our actions. Dr. Juan Gomez Quinones Historian and Writer, UCLA P.S. You can get Bob Avakian's Memor at: Book Soup, Duttons (Bevely Hills & Brentwood), East Wind Books & Arts, Esowon Books, Imix Books, Libros Revolucion, Occidental College Books, Skylight Books, 33-1/3 Bookstore, and also on line from amazon.com and insight-press.com. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! 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