PRESS RELEASE–
Controversial young communist launches nationwide campus tour
"From the Burkha to the Thong: Everything Must, and Can, Change --- WE NEED TOTAL REVOLUTION!"
First stop: New York University's Cantor Film Center, February 23, 2010 from 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, at 36 East 8th Street, in New York City
Sunsara Taylor, whose militant atheism drew packed auditoriums at campuses across the country last year. is now taking on another sacred cow; she is challenging the “sanctity of motherhood” as well as the misogyny of today's so-called “sexual liberation” and insisting that women still need liberation in the U.S. and around the world. Taylor will make the case why there is no biological, man-made, or god-given reason for the subordinate position of women, and how things can change through communist revolution.
Already, the title of her speech, “From the Burkha to the Thong: Everything Must, and Can, Change --- WE NEED TOTAL REVOLUTION!” and the provocative street theater which is being used to promote Taylor's tour are generating buzz and controversy among students. The street theater features a dramatic exchange between a woman dressed in a burkha and another dressed in a thong and ends with an announcement for Taylor's speech and has been performed in student cafeterias, on street corners during the busy class-changes, and on the trains in the area. Students have responded by breaking into applause and breaking into debate – and many stating their intention to attend the event on Tuesday.
Sunsara Taylor says she does not fear the controversy being generated and is not afraid of offending people. “Young people have been so bombarded by images of women, half-naked and half-starved, as objects of sexual plunder and a means for selling everything from cars to wars to ideology, that they ‘think' this is just the way things are.' But the forms of dehumanizing and demeaning women that go on in this country are no more 'natural' than the burkha.” In explaining the reason for this tour, Taylor said, “I understand that the whole world could be radically different – women and men could relate with mutual respect and equality and we could do away with wars, hunger, and enforced ignorance -- if we only make revolution. I am not afraid to say it and to take on all-comers who might want to challenge that idea.”
Next stops on the tour include:
University of Chicago, March 3rd, 2010
University of California at Berkeley, March 15th, 2010
University of California at Los Angeles, April 8th, 2010
Taylor will be making a special stop in Los Angeles for International Women's Day on March 6th, joining revolutionary women from Iran, who have courageously stood up to the reactionary Islamic Republic of Iran. They will be taking to the streets to call for an uncompromising outpouring of fury and resistance and a new movement for revolution.
Come and hear Sunsara Taylor, you've not heard a voice of a new generation like hers. She is also available for interviews.
Link to the Bill O'Reilly show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-F-zmTNuk4
Link to promotion for this tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ6XsAGDoPU
Link to Taylor's response to Focus on the Family-Tim Tebow Superbowl ad controversy:
SUNSARA TAYLOR is a writer for Revolution newspaper, a host of WBAI's Equal Time for Free Thought, and sits on the Advisory Board of World Can't Wait. She has written on the rise of theocracy, wars and repression in the U.S., led in building resistance to these crimes, and contributed to the movement for revolution to put an end to all this. She has traveled to the funeral of Dr. George Tiller, led protests in support of abortion outside Obama's commencement speech at Notre Dame, spoken and debated on campuses nationwide on Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World by Bob Avakian at New York University, UCLA's Center for the Study of Religion, and at the 2009 Atheist Alliance International Convention in Los Angeles. She takes as her foundation the new synthesis on revolution and communism developed by Bob Avakian.
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