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

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She also points out the dangers of tying down entire revolt movements to single, deified individuals. In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y.

Does she know that one state binational solutions are unpopular, both among Israelis and among Palestinians?This book promises so much and yet fails itself in the opening of the first chapter, and it’s very unfortunate. I appreciated how straight forward she is throughout: the audience/listeners/readers are assumed to have sufficient knowledge and be sufficiently engaged in the struggle to need no coddling. 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. While these individuals (like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr) certainly had prominent roles to play, these movements are a collective phenomena, and to identify them with single, monumental personas is to remove our own personal agencies from an expanding community struggle. This felt a lot like having coffee with a friend who's letting you ask them all the questions about something they're an expert in.

I read this over a period of two days but I think it would be better to read an interview or essay a week as it becomes repetitive after a while if you read them all at once. She suggests that atomising and divorcing them from one another only serves the interests of the white-supremacist-patriarchal-capitalist classes. But this book really enables readers to apply the arguments as they are presented to their everyday lives. It's dangerous to forget that people were the driving force behind the civil rights movement in the United States, including many black women.

Her conversations/speeches around the legacy and influence of Assata Shakur and place she holds/what she means to the idea of resistance and how that's linked to black women is just — it's everything. Communalism, or at least organising along shared interests, is the direct antithesis to the logic that is at the root of capitalism: individualism. I appreciated the interviews more because of the questions asked along them, which allowed me to ask myself questions and get a broader understanding of the point trying to be made.

She is incredible, compassionate, intelligent, insightful, and passionate about creating an equal world for all.Only by connecting struggles in places imagined as discrete will it be possible to recognize and confront these renovated forms of spatial apartheid, and the renewed forms of racial/nationalist supremacy that increasingly hold sway in the shrinking kingdoms of Western prosperity—in the United States, Israel, Britain, and beyond.

Every single humans and especially advocate/activist for social justice change must take in this book and the message behind it, if we are ever going to strive for real change. Every year we publish a selection of books and pamphlets that address the key issues facing activists and trade unionists.

It is not a question of whether or not one should prioritize a movement, be it a feminist movement or a black freedom movement—there should be BOTH. 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. The speeches and the interviews in this book left their mark, but they would have been even more powerful had they included more context.