#Angela Davis

[biblicalhorror]

THE Dr. Angela Davis speaking at the student encampment on Auraria campus in Denver this weekend.

"I want you to know how important it is that you are taking this stand and this moment," Davis said, addressing the protesters. "I want to emphasize what this means for history. As you imagine this period being narrated 10 years, 20 years, 50 years from now, you will be the historical actors who made it possible for a breakthrough for the struggle against Zionism and the struggle for a free Palestine."

Civil rights icon Angela Davis speaks at Auraria campus in Denver after 40 protestors arrested

Please take the time to donate to the Colorado Palestine Coalition and the encampment here if you can!

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Angela Davis and Toni Morrison in 1974

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https://www.dropbox.com/sh/41pu2j0alrvmmqq/AADcNEo2K-fsdlacFfuXnKtva?dl=0

Above is the link to an audio file with Palestinian music, read-aloud poetry, storytelling, and excerpts from speeches on history and liberation. It was gathered by Radio Al Hara, an internet radio station broadcast from Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Amman in Jordan, founded during the pandemic as a way to connect during isolation. “Al Hara” means ​“the neighbourhood” in Arabic. From the river to the sea! 🇵🇸

[undergroundrockpress]

1969

[readyforevolution]

“The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?”

Angela Davis

[theafroamericaine]

Revolutionary Angela Davis interview in Chicago, 1972

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[cyarsk52-20]

happy MLK Day.

His words stand the test of time. Here’s some of his most famous quotes that will inspire you

Here are some quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Injustice anywhere: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere". This quote became a rallying cry during the Civil Rights movement. 

Silence of friends: "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends". This quote emphasizes the importance of allyship. 

Freedom: "We know through painful experience that freedom is never volunteered by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed". 

Love: "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend". 

Faith: "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase". 

Hope: "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope". 

Education: "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically". 

The time is always right: "The time is always right to do what is right". 

I have a dream: "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal". 

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The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 (Göran Olsson, 2011)

[edwordsmyth]

"Most people don’t think about the fact they’re eating animals. When they’re eating a steak or eating chicken, most people don’t think about the tremendous suffering that those animals endure simply to become food products to be consumed by human beings.

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity-form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world. We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object. We don’t think about the relations that the object embodies, and were important to the production of that object. Whether it’s our food or our clothes or our iPads. That would really be revolutionary, to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non-human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment.

The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underlie the commodities that we use on a daily basis.

I think there is a connection between the way we treat animals and the way we treat people who are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Look at the ways in which people who commit such violence on other human beings have often learned how to enjoy that by enacting violence on animals. So there are a lot of ways we can talk about this." -Angela Davis

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Happy Black History Month

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How would you explain the popularity of this narrative that the oppressed have to ensure the safety of the oppressors? Placing the question of violence at the forefront almost inevitably serves to obscure the issues that are at the center of struggles for justice.

Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

[luthienne]

Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle

…we will have to do something quite extraordinary: We will have to go to great lengths. We cannot go on as usual. We cannot pivot the center. We cannot be moderate. We will have to be willing to stand up and say no with our combined spirits, our collective intellects, and our many bodies.

[247liveculture]

January 26, 1944 activist and philosopher, Angela Davis, was born!

[readyforevolution]

QUEENS OF THE BLACK REVOLUTION ❤️🖤💚✊🏿👊🏿🫵🏿