Watching the u. K. Or islands its putting them up next. After a time to you know what youre going underground the team and i will be back with a brand new season starting september the 5th but until then well be showing you some of your favorite shows of this past season stay safe coming up in this episode with all that civil war raging in the United States what now for the Global Movement for justice and equality sparked by the Police Murder of george floyd we ask one of the most important activists of all time former black Panther Angela davis about organizing in the face of ahmed vehicles and tear gas and of anything has changed since she was one of the f. B. I. s most wanted plus when the options of the 2020 president ial ballot box man using military style force again. Protesters for a man who was instrumental in policies that resulted in the us having the highest prison population in the world is it time for a new Political Party all the small coming up in todays going on the gro
Police and Police Activities what do you think baldwin may meant when he said he could gauge a Nations Health we can all by examining those people that elected to represent are protected what is the health of your nation right now i think the world is able to see that this nation is far from healthy that our Police Departments are the most dramatic expression of Structural Racism that our prisons are full of black people and latinos that. That we have to have an abolitionist imagination if we want to guarantee a future for our city our standing nation and for the world what does that mean for ill get on to abolitionists as regards the Prison Industrial Complex and the police but obviously the f. B. I. Targeted you set in media circles people know about watergate do you think itll take a lot longer to know about cointelpro well increasing numbers of people are aware. The extent to which the government attempt it to wipe out all of those who were resisting those who actually represented
Using military style force against protesters or a man who was instrumental in policies that resulted in the u. S. Having the highest prison population in the world is it time for a new Political Party. Small coming up in todays going on the ground but 1st as protests continue today around the world in the wake of the murder of george floyd many are now asking how the Political Movement it catalyzed conformant true change and perhaps even revolution one woman who knows exactly how hard the struggle against systematic oppression and racial capitalism is the legendary black panther activist professor angela davis whos fight for equality in the sixtys and seventys led then president Richard Nixon to refer to her as a dangerous terrorist she joins me by skype from oakland in california thank you so much professor davis coming on going underground can i just ask you right at the beginning theres a lot of quoting of the great writer James Baldwin at the moment he actually wrote an open lette
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