Below are some upcoming events Wednesday and Thursday. Two I assume are sponsored by the (Maoist) Revolutionary Communist Party, and another is a protest Thursday in Chapel Hill organized by the UNC Students for a Democratic Society.
Wednesday:
RAYMOND LOTTA
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 14 @ 7pm
Hugo Chavez Has an Oil Strategy But Can This Lead to Liberation??
The nature of Hugo Chavez's "Bolivarian revolution" is a highly
important and widely discussed issue among progressive and
radical-minded people. For many, what is happening in Venezuela offers
the hope of a viable model for a just society and a "Twenty-First
Century Socialism."
Thursday:
U.S. Out of Iraq Now!
Military Recruiters Off Our Campus and Out of Our Community!
Military Recruiters Off Our Campus and Out of Our Community!
WHAT: Demonstration Against the War and Military Recruitment
WHEN: November 15, 2007
WHERE: 3:30pm--March from the Pit (on UNC's Campus, near the Student Union)
4:30pm--Rally and Creative Action at Chapel Hill Recruiting Station (1502 E. Franklin St.)
UNC-Chapel Hill Students for a Democratic Society is organizing a demonstration against the continued U.S. war on Iraq and military recruitment on November 15, 2007.
Since the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq , more than 1.2 million Iraqi civilians and nearly 4,000 U.S. troops have died. More than $465 billion has already been wasted on this war and the Bush administration has just requested an additional $190 billion to continue the war. Meanwhile, the Democrat-controlled Congress refuses to offer any real challenge to the war and fulfill the mandate to end the war that brought them to power back in November 2006. We are sick and tired of these games. While the people of Iraq continue to suffer under U.S. occupation, people here at home are suffering too. The Gulf Coast still isn't rebuilt, the cost of education continues to rise and become less accessible for millions of this country's young people, and many people don't have access to healthcare. This war has got to stop.
Last November, the Army opened a new recruiting station in Chapel Hill. This station, the first of its kind to open in town, gives recruiters easy access to the area's youth, high schools, and colleges. It is clear why this facility was built: in the face of the failing war on Iraq, the military is desperate for more young people to continue the occupation and be able to wage new wars on people throughout the Middle East and around the world. Military recruiters use deceptive practices, ranging from promises about money enlistees will receive to the length of enlistment, and specifically target youth of color and working class youth. If we refuse to enlist, the war cannot continue.
On the first anniversary of this station's opening, join us a we renew our call for military recruiters out of our schools and communities, and U.S. troops out of Iraq NOW!
We refuse to kill and be killed--No to military recruitment!
Iraq for Iraqis--U.S. Troops Out Now!
Shut the War Down!
UNC-CH Students for a Democratic Society
http://chapelhillsds.org | unc.sds@gmail.com
WHAT: Demonstration Against the War and Military Recruitment
WHEN: November 15, 2007
WHERE: 3:30pm--March from the Pit (on UNC's Campus)
4:30pm--Rally and Creative Action at Chapel Hill Recruiting Station (1502 E. Franklin St.)
I'm not a Maoist, but the talk below, combating recent capitalist demonization of Mao, at Duke Thursday night looks interesting.
A Critical Response to Mao: The Unknown Story
Mao: Fairy-Tale Monster or Greatest Liberator of the Mid-20th Century
A talk by Maoist political economist Raymond Lotta
Thursday, November 15, 7:00 pm
Social-Psychology Bldg, Room 126
Duke University, 109 Chapel Drive
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's Mao: The Unknown Story has been widely
promoted in the media as the definitive biography of Mao Zedong. In a way no
recent work has, Mao: The Unknown Story demonizes Mao, the towering revolutionary
figure of the mid-20th century, and the Chinese revolution, the most radical of
the 20th century.
The book presents the Chinese revolution as based on pure manipulation
and terror. It obliterates the social gains of the revolution in health and
education and women's liberation. The societal accomplishments,
grass-roots innovations, and political complexities of the Great Leap Forward and
Cultural Revolution are simply tossed off as madness.
Raymond Lotta, Maoist political economist, will discuss the book in a
talk titled "Fairy-Tale Monster, or the Greatest Liberator of the Mid-20th
Century: A Critical Response to Mao: The Unknown Story." Lotta will
present a spirited critique of key contentions the authors make about the Chinese
revolution, economic strategy under Mao, and the goals and results of
the Cultural Revolution. And he will invite discussion about the legacy of
the Chinese revolution in today's world.
_______________
ABOUT RAYMOND LOTTA : Raymond Lotta is a Maoist political economist who
has authored America in Decline, essays in Maoist Economics and the
Revolutionary Road to Communism, and numerous articles. He is a contributing writer
to Revolution newspaper. He is a member of the Union for Radical Political
Economics. His books have been reviewed in journals such as Foreign
Affairs and China Quarterly. Over the last year he has been on a speaking tour
under the title "Socialism Is Much Better Than Capitalism, and Communism Will Be
A Far Better World," including appearances at UCLA, Columbia University,
Harvard, and several universities in Mexico.
Raymond Lotta - Set the Record Straight - PO Box 981 - Chicago, IL
settherecordstraight at hotmail dot com
Mao: Fairy-Tale Monster or Greatest Liberator of the Mid-20th Century
A talk by Maoist political economist Raymond Lotta
Thursday, November 15, 7:00 pm
Social-Psychology Bldg, Room 126
Duke University, 109 Chapel Drive
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's Mao: The Unknown Story has been widely
promoted in the media as the definitive biography of Mao Zedong. In a way no
recent work has, Mao: The Unknown Story demonizes Mao, the towering revolutionary
figure of the mid-20th century, and the Chinese revolution, the most radical of
the 20th century.
The book presents the Chinese revolution as based on pure manipulation
and terror. It obliterates the social gains of the revolution in health and
education and women's liberation. The societal accomplishments,
grass-roots innovations, and political complexities of the Great Leap Forward and
Cultural Revolution are simply tossed off as madness.
Raymond Lotta, Maoist political economist, will discuss the book in a
talk titled "Fairy-Tale Monster, or the Greatest Liberator of the Mid-20th
Century: A Critical Response to Mao: The Unknown Story." Lotta will
present a spirited critique of key contentions the authors make about the Chinese
revolution, economic strategy under Mao, and the goals and results of
the Cultural Revolution. And he will invite discussion about the legacy of
the Chinese revolution in today's world.
_______________
ABOUT RAYMOND LOTTA : Raymond Lotta is a Maoist political economist who
has authored America in Decline, essays in Maoist Economics and the
Revolutionary Road to Communism, and numerous articles. He is a contributing writer
to Revolution newspaper. He is a member of the Union for Radical Political
Economics. His books have been reviewed in journals such as Foreign
Affairs and China Quarterly. Over the last year he has been on a speaking tour
under the title "Socialism Is Much Better Than Capitalism, and Communism Will Be
A Far Better World," including appearances at UCLA, Columbia University,
Harvard, and several universities in Mexico.
Raymond Lotta - Set the Record Straight - PO Box 981 - Chicago, IL
settherecordstraight at hotmail dot com
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