Freedom Is a Constant Struggle : Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

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In practice, my impression is that Palestinians (much like Israelis) don't really get American race issues nor are they very intersectional.

The military-industrial complex serves as the enforcing agent of global capitalist interest, as it is manifested through the brutalization of the oppressed. Highly recommend this to anyone wanting a more contemporary analysis of the necessary historical context in which we must frame our ongoing struggle toward liberation. It tied so many struggles together for me and gave me a huge reading list to further my understanding.A wonderful read for a beginning who's looking to understand the interconnectedness of abolition on this planet.

Angela Davis new book made me think of what Dear Nelson Mandela kept reminding us, that we must be willing to embrace that long walk to freedom. Angela Davis, has a kind of, varied staccato, style of speaking, which, while it serves its purpose, of allowing her time, to think, and read, and form thoughts as she goes, ends up being, a little monotone. She goes back to Black Panther Party days, although she did not stay a member for long, choosing the Communist party over the BPP when faced with the directive to choose. Some salient takeaways I walked away with included: the drawbacks of individualism and the strength of collective movements for social justice, the necessity of taking a global perspective on issues of equity and justice, and how we can opt into oppressive systems even if we hold marginalized identities (e.and in 1951, a petition was made to the UN for relief from the genocide black people were experiencing in the US. These intricate networks of violence and capitalism, as outlined by Davis, help us broaden our understanding of intersectionality as a “conceptualisation of the intersectionality of struggles.

Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. The weapons used in Palestine are also exported to America to manage and brutalise largely working-class and minoritised communities.She is the author of many books, including Women, Race and Class and Freedom Is a Constant Struggle. I imagine this is a great book for people who are already familiar with her activism and want some more extra content. She emerged as a nationally prominent activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement despite never being an official member of the party. Davis demonstrates that this isn’t merely a coincidence but more so, the operating logic of capitalism: technologies of violence are developed and perfected on the dispossessed, then exported around the world to manage dissent. A broad range of subjects are discussed in the pocket-sized powerhouse: Black Lives Matter, Palestine, the abolition of carceral systems, gender and liberation, and all are discussed with delicate – yet sophisticated – nuance, while encapsulating the meaning of freedom, equality and liberation.

It is sometimes incorrectly thought that genocide means the complete and definitive destruction of a race or people. I had never heard of this charge being made against the US (another "failing" of our racist education system). This includes recognizing the legacy of intergenerational harm extending back to chattel slavery, whose primary institutional locus in the United States today is a prison-industrial complex that houses well over two million people—25 percent of all the world’s prisoners, the majority black and brown. It could do with a newer edition were she can share lectures or essays on the hellish panorama of the past couple of years.All of the topics that Angela discuss challenge us to find the intersections of struggle that exist around the world, and broaden our thinking of how social movement works. Through the series of her collected interviews and speeches, one can imagine an overhaul of division, and seek another world in which is possible. Davis speak in university and the weight of her presence, the fact that she's struggled against the government and is here. Many of my family members struggle to understand the changing social paradigms in this country and will often make very individualistic comments and criticisms about the deconstructing of things that have long been familiar to them.