With so many urgent crises gripping our hearts, from war to climate to discontent and violence, people want to know: how can we set priorities and do the right thing, especially in this time? which is about building a better world and a better world? election that seems both problematic and the most important of our time? If anyone can thoughtfully ground us in this moment, with all its challenges and potential, it is the celebrated professor, activist, scholar, and writer Angela Davis. In his writings, lectures, and many decades of activism, Davis has shown a unique ability to bring competing struggles together into a single story – a story of systems and power. In this special first episode of /"Laura Flanders & Friends/" (formerly The Laura Flanders Show), Laura is joined by Angela Davis, a major voice in the movement for abolition and feminism who has much to share about its evolution and how decades of activism are coming together in this moment. From Palestine to elections, to our carceral state and our collective liberation, this kickoff conversation is packed with Davis' insight and lessons from his latest book "Abolition: Policies, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1". What did Davis learn in her 80 years as a freedom fighter? All this, plus Laura's commentary on the words of the late poet and essayist June Jordan, who wrote: "I was born a black woman/ and now/I have become Palestinian.”
“When large numbers of people come together to advocate for a vision of the future they would like to see, that is how change happens. This doesn’t happen because we elect a particular person.” -Angela Y. Davis
“[In] Birmingham, Jews were the very first white people to support the fight against racism. . . Here in the United States and in other parts of the world, it is Jews, young Jews, who are at the forefront of the fight against Zionism.” -Angela Y. Davis
Guest:
Angela Y. Davis: professor, activist, researcher and writer; Author, Abolition: Policies, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1.
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