
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
- 180 pages
- English
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
About this book
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 antiapartheid 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.”
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- FOREWORD by Cornel West
- INTRODUCTION by Frank Barat
- ONE Progressive Struggles against Insidious Capitalist Individualism - Email interview (2014)
- TWO Ferguson Reminds Us of the Importance of a Global Context - Interview in Brussels (September 21, 2014)
- THREE We Have to Talk about Systemic Change - Interview in Paris (December 10, 2014)
- FOUR On Palestine, G4S, and the Prison-Industrial Complex - Speech at SOAS (December 13, 2013)
- FIVE Closures and Continuities - Speech at Birkbeck University (October 25, 2013)
- SIX From Michael Brown to Assata Shakur, the Racist State of America Persists
- SEVEN The Truth Telling Project: Violence in America - Speech in St. Louis, Missouri (June 27, 2015)
- EIGHT Feminism and Abolition: Theories and Practices for the Twenty-First Century - Speech at University of Chicago (May 4, 2013)
- NINE Political Activism and Protest from the 1960s to the Age of Obama - Speech at Davidson College (February 12, 2013)
- TEN Transnational Solidarities - Speech at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey (January 9, 2015)
- INDEX
- Back cover