Freedom Is a Constant Struggle - bookrastinating.com

Paperback, 176 pages

English language

Published Feb. 9, 2016 by Haymarket Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-60846-564-4
OCLC Number:: 907653030

(2 reviews)

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.

Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-Apartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyzes today's struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine.

Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build the movement for human liberation. And in doing so, she reminds us that "Freedom is a constant struggle."

Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is …

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.

Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-Apartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyzes today's struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine.

Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build the movement for human liberation. And in doing so, she reminds us that "Freedom is a constant struggle."

Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

One of America's most provocative public intellectuals, Dr. Cornel West has been a champion for racial justice since childhood. His writing, speaking, and teaching weave together the traditions of the black Baptist Church, progressive politics, and jazz. The New York Times has praised his "ferocious moral vision." His many books include Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and his autobiography, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud.

Frank Barat is a human rights activist and author. He was the coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine and is now the president of the Palestine Legal Action Network. His books include Gaza in Crisis and Corporate Complicity in Israel's Occupation.

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Rev. Dr. Sir Wayne Murillo III reviewed Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

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5 stars

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"I do want to evoke the case of a young woman by the name of Marrisa Alexander. You know the names of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Add the name of Marissa Alexander to that list, a young Black woman who felt compelled to go to extremes to prevent her abusive husband from attacking her. She fired a weapon in the air. No one was hit. BUt in the very same judicial district where Trayvon Martin -- you remember that name -- was killed, and where George Zimmerman, his killer, was acquitted, Marissa Alexander was sentenced to 24 years for trying to defend herself against sexual assult. Recently she faced a possible resentencing to 60 years, and therefore she engaged in a plea bargain, which means that she will be wearing an electronic bracelet for the next period."
- Angela Davis in her Transnational Solidarities Speech in …

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"I do want to evoke the case of a young woman by the name of Marrisa Alexander. You know the names of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Add the name of Marissa Alexander to that list, a young Black woman who felt compelled to go to extremes to prevent her abusive husband from attacking her. She fired a weapon in the air. No one was hit. BUt in the very same judicial district where Trayvon Martin -- you remember that name -- was killed, and where George Zimmerman, his killer, was acquitted, Marissa Alexander was sentenced to 24 years for trying to defend herself against sexual assult. Recently she faced a possible resentencing to 60 years, and therefore she engaged in a plea bargain, which means that she will be wearing an electronic bracelet for the next period."
- Angela Davis in her Transnational Solidarities Speech in Istanbul, Turkey on January 9, 2015[1]
I read this in Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis. I highly suggest your read it. If you listen to the audiobook, Davis reads it[2].
Hear Alexander describe her experience on the attached TED talk.
[1]https://polymorphouslyperverse.wordpress.com/2015/01/10/transcription-of-transnational-solidarities-resisting-racism-genocide-and-settler-colonialism-by-angela-davis/
[2]https://slpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2286226980

"What was interesting during the protests in Ferguson last summer was that Palestinian activists noticed from the images they saw on social media and television that teargas canisters that were being used in Ferguson were exactly the same teargas canisters that were used against them in occupied Palestine. And as a matter of fact, a US company which is called Combined Systems Incorporated stamped CTS (Combined Tactical Systems) on their teargas canisters. And activists noticed these canisters in Ferguson. And so what they did was tweet advice to Ferguson protesters on how to deal with the teargas. And so they suggested, among other things, –this is one tweet: “Don’t keep much distance from the police. If you’re close to them they can’t teargas. Because they’d then teargas themselves.” And a whole series of really interesting comments about how activists in Ferguson who probably confronted teargas for the first time in their lives. They didn’t necessarily have the experience that some of us have with teargas. But I’m trying to suggest there are connections between the militarization of the police in the US, which provides a different context for us to analyze the continuing, ongoing proliferation of racist police violence, and the continuous assault on people in occupied Palestine, the West Bank, and especially in Gaza, given the military violence inflicted on the people in Gaza this past summer."

- Angela Davis in her Transnational Solidarities speech in Istanbul, Turkey on January 9, 2015[1]

If you want to learn more about the transnational solidarities between people protesting anti-democratic violence, I would check this article out: www.972mag.com/photos-same-tear-gas-used-in-ferguson-and-west-bank/

I read this in Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis. I highly suggest your read it. Davis reads for her own audiobook.
It is wonderful.[2].

[1]https://polymorphouslyperverse.wordpress.com/2015/01/10/transcription-of-transnational-solidarities-resisting-racism-genocide-and-settler-colonialism-by-angela-davis/
[2]https://slpl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2286226980

Acton reviewed Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

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5 stars

This was an eye opening experience for me. This is a collection of speeches and interviews in which Angela Y. Davis eloquently expresses the importance of mass movements, and that everyone see the connections between all the movements that are taking place around the world. Freedom is indeed a constant struggle, and it is a global one. One thing I'd never thought about was the parallels between Apartheid in South Africa, and what is happening in Palestine. And right now, American policemen are using the same tactics against protesters that Israel uses in Palestine.

Another topic that will stick with me is that G4S is the largest security company in the world, they are everywhere, but I've never heard that name, until now. The disturbing militarization of the police, and the racist system behind it, are responsible for imprisoning African Americans at a rate that is impossible to justify.

"The …

This was an eye opening experience for me. This is a collection of speeches and interviews in which Angela Y. Davis eloquently expresses the importance of mass movements, and that everyone see the connections between all the movements that are taking place around the world. Freedom is indeed a constant struggle, and it is a global one. One thing I'd never thought about was the parallels between Apartheid in South Africa, and what is happening in Palestine. And right now, American policemen are using the same tactics against protesters that Israel uses in Palestine.

Another topic that will stick with me is that G4S is the largest security company in the world, they are everywhere, but I've never heard that name, until now. The disturbing militarization of the police, and the racist system behind it, are responsible for imprisoning African Americans at a rate that is impossible to justify.

"The soaring numbers of people behind bars all over the world and the increasing profitability of the means of holding them captive is one of the most dramatic examples of the destructive tendencies of global capitalism. But the obscene profits obtained from mass incarceration are linked to profits from the health care industry and from education and other commodified human services that actually should be freely available to everyone."

In these speeches, Davis speaks about many movements and how they are connected. It will leave you wanting to know more. And, by the way, it is well indexed, which helps when researching the many topics Davis covers.

I would recommend this to anyone.