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Revolution Books Berkeley

To Everyone Who Cares About the Future of Humanity & Our Planet SUPPORT Revolution Books Berkeley!

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Revolution Books Berkeley

Revolution Books Berkeley

Revolution Books Berkeley

Revolution Books Berkeley

To Everyone Who Cares About the Future of Humanity & Our Planet SUPPORT Revolution Books Berkeley!

To Everyone Who Cares About the Future of Humanity & Our Planet SUPPORT Revolution Books Berkeley!

To Everyone Who Cares About the Future of Humanity & Our Planet SUPPORT Revolution Books Berkeley!

To Everyone Who Cares About the Future of Humanity & Our Planet SUPPORT Revolution Books Berkeley!

Reiko Redmonde
Reiko Redmonde
Reiko Redmonde
Reiko Redmonde
1 Campaign |
Berkeley, United States
$20,032 USD by 126 backers
$20,027 USD by 125 backers on Jul 7, 2015

Aug 20:  We have very exciting news to share:  our new, totally remodeled store is now open at our new space at 2444 Durant in the Sather Gate Mall, up toward campus from our old space. 

We invite everyone to come see us, and want to send out a special thanks to all of you who made this possible thanks to your financial contributions, volunteer work, and support.  STAY TUNED FOR OUR GRAND OPENING SCHEDULE IN SEPTEMBER!






Aug 15:  We also want to encourage everyone to DONATE NOW at igg.me/at/RevBooksNYC to Re-open Revolution Books NYC in Harlem!  Our sister store, Revolution Books New York, is a beacon for revolution and wide-ranging, critical engagement nationally.  It has signed a lease for a new storefront and is making a big move to Harlem. Now the fight is on to ensure that the most radical bookstore on the planet re-opens in September.  RB NYC has raised 34 percent of its $30,000 goal, with 10 days remaining.  The funds are going towards the immediate expenses of renovating its new space at 437 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue).  Go to igg.me/at/RevBooksNYC to learn more about why this “Bookstore for the World Is Coming to Harlem:  What It Is …Why It Matters…How YOU Can Help Make It Happen,” including video statements from Eve Ensler, Edwidge Danticat, and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o.


Renovating Revolution Books New York's new space in Harlem 

We made it! 

Thanks to everyone who donated and spread the word, we were "trending," "in demand," and raised $20,027 by midnight Monday, surpassing out goal!  We consider all of you now part of the Revolution Books Berkeley community.  We've now painted the new space and today finish installing a new $6,000 plus floor!  Lots more work - lights, furniture, electrical, and new stock - to go to move in by August 1, so more collective fundraising, promotion and discussion ahead, which we'll keep you posted about.    The campaign is still open, and donations are still very urgently needed. TO DONATE: Click on the pink box on the right side of the page that says SELECT A PERK. And you can always donate at www.revolutionbooks.org.   Best, from the Revolution Books Staff and supporters.

Revolution Books Needs Your Support to Move, Renovate & Revitalize

Revolution Books Berkeley has been at its current space for 27 years – a center of the revolution, a “Berkeley institution” as poet Bob Hass put it, and one of the “Top 20 Bay Area independent bookstores.” (SF Chronicle).  The bookstore has hosted hundreds of author events, political forums, artistic performances, and provided a unique and cutting edge revolutionary book selection in Northern California. 

Now Revolution Books has the need – and opportunity – to move into a new space at 2444 Durant in Berkeley by August 1.  Your support will make it happen!

Revolution Books is where people from around the world come for the books and the engagement about why the world is like this and how it could be radically transformed through revolution - there is a way out. It's a bookstore marked by a morality and strategic approach to fighting for a world that is overcoming all forms of exploitation and oppression… grounded in the re-envisioned communism of Bob Avakian, and with big arms to engage the wide spheres of cultural and intellectual life that must be a part of fighting for a new world.

The times are changing....There’s a new spirit of resistance spreading across the country - from Ferguson to Baltimore and beyond, and intensifying outrages from attacks on women’s rights, to a new escalation in Iraq, to one police murder after another.  Big questions are being posed about the future of humanity and the planet.  All this makes a vibrant and financially solvent Revolution Books more needed than ever.

$20,000 is needed now for this move and transformation.  Your donations will pay for: 

  • Installing a new floor
  • New electrical wiring and lighting
  • Patching and painting
  • An expanded stock and a Point of Sale system

The result:  a new and revitalized Revolution Books Berkeley...and a real contribution to human emancipation.

“It's not your old grandpa's communism -- It's something else. It's a deep, spirited analysis. I grapple with these guys all the time, from another point of view, but I love em and respect them and they need your help. And if you want independent thought, independent books, independent ideas to exist you have to step up. You have to help.”  Peter Coyote, author, actor, Zen Buddhist Priest

After this move, Revolution Books will launch a Fall fund drive of special author events to complete its re-launch and expand its literature selection, its events, its work and its reach and impact.

Other Ways You Can Help

Revolution Books has an all-volunteer staff -- and you are invited to join it!  Also needed: big & small donations; people to work on fund raising; social media geeks; designers and artists; carpenters; and authors, poets & performers to work with us on this exciting project.

Call 510-848-1196 or email us at revolutionbooks@sbcglobal.net.

Humanity needs revolution, revolution needs Revolution Books, and Revolution Books needs you.



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Revolution & Religion DVD

$45 USD
REVOLUTION and RELIGION: The Fight for Emancipation and the Role of Religion film of a DIAlogue between CORNEL WEST & BOB AVAKIAN
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August 2015
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A Cross of Thorns

$50 USD
Book signed by author Elias Castillo: A CROSS OF THORNS: THE ENSLAVEMENT OF CALIFORNIA'S INDIANS BY THE SPANISH MISSIONS. This book documents the suffering of California Indians during the mission period when more than 60,000 died. Since its publication Pope Francis has said the catholic church will canonize Junipero Serra. The book contains historic details that argue against sainthood. (Hardcover 248 pages.)
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August 2015
1 out of 5 of claimed

The Rainman's Third Cure

$75 USD
Peter Coyote's second memoir, signed by the author. The guiding metaphor in his new spiritual biography is drawn from a line in an early Bob Dylan song. For Coyote, the twin forces Dylan identifies as Texas Medicine and Railroad Gin – represent the competing forces of the transcendental, inclusive, and ecstatic world of love with the competitive, status-seeking world of wealth and power. The Rainman’s Third Cure is the tale of a young man caught between these apparently antipodal options,,,.
1 out of 2 of claimed

REALITY PACK

$80 USD
Atheists T Shirt - an RB original (state your size) Away With All Gods: Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian (paperback 257 pages)
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September 2015
1 out of 4 of claimed

DANCE CLASSES

$100 USD
5 DANCE CLASSES - STRETCH ‘N BREATHE for All Adults, 18 to 100 years old! Taught by Sarah Berges, dance and movement teacher for over 25 years Saturdays 1:00-2:15 PM Wednesdays 10:00-11:15 AM At SARAH BERGES DANCE Studio in Oakland Join us as we activate our breath and bodies to achieve increased ease of mobility! We exercise, we DANCE, we have fun!
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August 2015
0 out of 2 of claimed

2 books by Edwidge Danticat

$100 USD
THE FARMING OF BONES, and CLAIRE OF THE SEA LIGHT - both signed by Edwidge Danticat!
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August 2015
1 out of 2 of claimed
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