PARTY OF WORLD REVOLUTION is this year's FEMCON beneficiary. CHECK IT OUT!!!!
The bands playing FemCon are:Mk Ultra Culkin, Edible Intentions, Mary Fuego, Huge Euge, Sun Rise Above, The Plurals, Realicide, and Really Cinematic! Doors @ 8pm. FREE!!!! Check out the calendar for the complete line up!!!
Build for Revolution! Donate to the $100,000 Fund! Sisters and brothers; Comrades:
It’s no secret that humanity is faced with severe problems. From the daily deaths of thousands from preventable disease and starvation to the criminal lack of assistance to victims of natural and manmade disasters, from threats of nuclear war to the wars of occupation that have left hundreds of thousands displaced or dead in Iraq and Afghanistan, from the destruction of the environment to the immense fall in living and working conditions being suffered by working people the world over – all results of a global capitalist system that is as unwilling as it is unable to provide solutions – our species is ultimately faced with two possibilities: socialism or death.
In the midst of this increasing world crisis, the Party of World Revolution – a revolutionary communist workers’ party that stands in the tradition of heroes like Karl Marx and Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara – was founded with the historic goal of organizing our fellow workers to destroy the system of exploitation of man by man and replace it with a truly free society without classes, in which the collective interests of humankind prevail.
In order to carry out such a historic task, our dedicated cadres will begin by taking the authentic communist program and outlook to our toiling brothers and sisters all over the world.
A plan of action has been formed, and the necessary preliminary activity carried out, for our revolutionary party to branch out into dozens of countries around the world through an organized campaign to be launched in the fall.
But we can’t do it alone. Through our calculations, we have come up with a international plan that would allow us to reach millions of people with only $100,000. It is with this in mind that we launched the $100, 000 fund, in which we aim to collect 100,000 US dollars before December 31, 2009.
Capitalist politicians routinely raise millions of dollars only to squander them in meaningless electoral campaigns. Our party, on the other hand, will utilize this $100,000 fighting fund to enact actual concrete change in the world.
We encourage you to look over our website, our statements and our organizational documents, and to donate to our fund.
Your contribution will help us to:
- Send organizers into workplaces fields, and workers’ meetings and gain general exposure for the workers’ movement through the media and other outlets in 89 countries.
- Translate our materials (such as “Che Guevara and the coming world revolutionâ€), as well as revolutionary classics, into dozens of languages; and distribute them.
- Expand the printing and distribution of our periodicals, books, pamphlets, leaflets and other agitational materials.
- Produce radio and television programs as well as documentaries and other films putting forward our revolutionary outlook and helping to develop class consciousness.
- Build revolutionary schools, and arrange transportation for students to and from classes.
- Open spaces for workers to meet, study, train and organize.
- Expand our public resource libraries, and establish new ones.
- Build genuinely democratic workers’ associations which can be wielded as an important weapon in the struggle against the capitalist bosses.
- Promote the struggles of workers around the world and combat the lies of the capitalist’s mainstream media.
- Defend class war prisoners around the world.
- Expose the crimes of the capitalists and their servants.
- Strengthen existing artistic organizations for working people, and forge new ones.
- Defend and assist workers engaged in conflicts with the bosses (such as strikes and lockouts).
- Carry out mass feedings, disaster relief, free clinics, etc., in the interests of the working class.
- Fight for global revolution!
We understand that your money is hard earned, but we are asking you to assist in the liberation of humanity. A worthier cause doesn’t exist.
Please pitch in.
In struggle and solidarity, PoWR
FemCon is a feminist rock show put on by Rosie Costello every year. November 2007 was the first annual FemCon (known then as Bitch Rock Fest) and it took place at Mac's Bar in Lansing, Michigan. FemCon is a concert that hopes to inspire revolution and critical thought to all involved. The show was inspired by Eva Chavela (New York grunge artist). It is in honor of any woman or man that recognizes the exploitation of women through music and seeks to destroy the exploitative market.
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Benazir Bhutto - A few thoughts » Women, rape and torture: The forgotten victims of Iraq. No eyes followed her coffin to the end of the road Only a memory of a lifeless form passing in some lane… A moon mourned in silence.Nazik al-Mal’aika. Whenever a country is being occupied, whenever wealth and hegemony are desired, inflaming wars and genocides, it is the innocent individuals who have no desire to be embroiled in the tumultuous conflicts of others, that suffer the greatest casualties. Sadly, in the midst of these testosterone fuelled injustices, the greatest war crimes are always bequest upon the female inhabitants.Why do the predominantly male dominated political and religious leaders, when overcome with a malicious desire to display their strength, turn to women to vent their frustrations?
Take Iraq: the status of women has regressed to medieval times since the UN sanctions and the more recent occupation. Many are now forced out of education as most poor families choose to send only their sons to college. Also, the increase in unemployment has meant women workers are the easiest economical cutback to instigate. The greatest tragedy of all is that many are also the victims of the most violating physical act upon another human being. The stories are harrowing.
It numbs me that there exists a sense of acceptance; that brutality is expected in war, that yes, it’s not very nice, but shit happens.
The stench of rape in battle is so ubiquitous many have become immune to the iniquity of such an act – wherever and whenever it is committed.
“You raped a country why not the people†-The voice of an Iraqi woman. http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
* Law enforcement authorities seek to arrest rape, torture victim * Torture suspect accused of beating alleged rape victim before * US practicing systematic rape, torture, sadism against women in Iraqi priso… * WaPo: Why the Low Rate of Rape Convictions Across the Pond?
"Only in communist society, when the resistance of the capitalists have disappeared, when there are no classes (i.e., when there is no distinction between the members of society as regards their relation to the social means of production), only then 'the state... ceases to exist', and 'it becomes possible to speak of freedom'. Only then will a truly complete democracy become possible and be realized, a democracy without any exceptions whatever. And only then will democracy begin to wither away, owing to the simple fact that, freed from capitalist slavery, from the untold horrors, savagery, absurdities, and infamies of capitalist exploitation, people will gradually become accustomed to observing the elementary rules of social intercourse that have been known for centuries and repeated for thousands of years in all copy-book maxims. They will become accustomed to observing them without force, without coercion, without subordination, without the special apparatus for coercion called the state.