When: Tuesday, December 6 Time: 6:00 p.m. Where: 1 E. Jackson (State/Jackson) EL Stop: Jackson, off of Red (State) and Blue (Dearborn) lines Travel with readers through three unique but interwoven stories. The first tells of a white middle- class kid growing up in '50s America who goes to an integrated high school and has his world turned around; the second of a young man who overcomes a near-fatal disease and jumps with both feet into the heady swirl of Berkeley in the '60s; and the third of a radical activist who matures into a tempered revolutionary communist leader. "Whatever you may expect in picking up this book - I guarantee you'll be surprised... There is breadth to this man. And if you thought that 'communism is dead' or that all those who continue to uphold it confirm to the stereotypes of 'dogmatic totalitarianism,' you are in for a real jolt!" (From the Preface of the Memoir). Guest Readers include: * Jaafar Aksikas, Ph.D., Professor of Cultural Studies, Columbia College * Jose Guerrero, artist and muralist * Susan Nussbaum, disability rights activist, playwright, actress and director * Dread Scott, artist * David Shapiro, actor And a discussion between Raymond Lotta, Maoist political economist and Martha "Quetzal" Ceja, Insight Press's Managing Editor If you think about the past or if you urgently care about the future ... if you want to hear a unique voice of utter realism and deep humanity ... and if you dare to have your assumptions challenged and your stereotypes overturned ... then you won't want to miss this book. Bob Avakian is the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. And he is more than that: he's an innovative and critical thinker who has taken Marxism to a new place; he's a provocative commentator from basketball to religion, doo-wop music to science; and he's a pit-bull fighter against oppression who's kept both his solemn sense of purpose and his irrepressible sense of humor. For more information about this book and other books by Insight Press, please contact Insight Press: info@insight-press.com 773-329-1550