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 angela davis coming on going on the ground 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 letter to you what did he mean when he said our bodies must render impossible the corridors of the gas chamber. Well of course James Baldwin was. Not only with a scent writer but also he was involved in a whole range of social justice issues and he took up my case wrote an open l
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 hand 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 are you man using military style force against protesters for 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 only a 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 oppressi
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