Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Paperback, 176 pages

English language

Published Feb. 9, 2016 by Haymarket Books.

ISBN:
978-1-60846-564-4
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OCLC Number:
907653030

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4 stars (25 reviews)

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 anti-Apartheid 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."

Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, and class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is …

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Interesting as usual with Angela Davis but the format is not the best

3 stars

I enjoyed reading "Freedom Is a Constant Struggle", it is a short and easy to read book about the fight for freedom, jail, and more generally social and political change. Angela Davis has a long history of activism and a deep knowledge of political history and social change. That said, this book is actually a collection of interviews and speeches she has done, which makes it easy to read but also quite disorganized and repetitive. The book does not address questions in a structured way but rather present Angela Davis speeches one after the other, based on the main topic they covered. I would have appreciated a more structured book (which I may find in other books from Angela Davis, but not this one)

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5 stars

There's a reason Angela Davis is considered such a champion in the movement for prison abolition, anti-racism, feminism, and equality. This book is a collection of her essays and speeches where she speaks her mind on these subjects and also the liberation of Palestine.
It is moving and inspiring, clear-sighted, and a great introduction to these struggles. She makes a strong case for international solidarity and links the cause of freedom in Palestine to the Prison Industrial Complex in the United States and along with the world.
She highlights the need for collective movements and points out how even if we tend to remember individuals like MLK, it is actually that they are just the memorable face of a huge collective movement that formed and supported them.
Powerful words from a legendary woman with a brilliant mind.

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5 stars

This was an eye opening experience for me. This is a collection of speeches and interviews in which Angela Y. Davis eloquently expresses the importance of mass movements, and that everyone see the connections between all the movements that are taking place around the world. Freedom is indeed a constant struggle, and it is a global one. One thing I'd never thought about was the parallels between Apartheid in South Africa, and what is happening in Palestine. And right now, American policemen are using the same tactics against protesters that Israel uses in Palestine.

Another topic that will stick with me is that G4S is the largest security company in the world, they are everywhere, but I've never heard that name, until now. The disturbing militarization of the police, and the racist system behind it, are responsible for imprisoning African Americans at a rate that is impossible to justify.

"The …

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