Table of Contents
Introduction by Frank Barat
[Forthcoming]
Foreword by Alice Walker
[Forthcoming]
Chapter 1: [Need title]
An interview with Frank Barat
Chapter 2: [Need Title]
September 2014 interview with Angela in Brussels
Chapter 3: [Need Title]
December 2014 interview with Angela in Paris
Chapter 4: On Palestine, G4S and the Prison-Industrial Complex
Angela Davis speech at SOAS in December 2013
Chapter 5: Closures and Continuities
Angela Davis speech at Birkbeck University in December 2013
Chapter 6: Policing the Crisis Today
Angela Davis speech at Goldsmith College
Chapter 7: From Michael Brown to Assata Shakur, America’s Racist
State Persists
Angela Davis article in The Guardian
Chapter 8: Feminism and Abolition
Angela Davis speech at University of Chicago
Chapter 9: Political Activism and Protest from the 1960s to the Age
of Obama
Angela Davis Speech
[Still needs to be transcribed]
Acknowledgements
Notes
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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 the author of several books,
including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is
the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All
Political Prisoners and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the
University of California, Santa Cruz.
One of America's most provocative public intellectuals, Dr. Cornel
West has been a champion for racial justice since childhood. His
writing, speaking, and teaching weave together the traditions of
the black Baptist Church, progressive politics, and jazz. The New
York Times has praised his "ferocious moral vision." His many books
include Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and his new autobiography,
Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud.
Frank Barat is a human rights activist and author. He was the
coordinator of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine and is now the
president of the Palestine Legal Action Network. His books include
Gaza in Crisis and Corporate Complicity in Israel's Occupation.
"Angela Davis new book made me think of what Dear Nelson Mandela
kept reminding us, that we must be willing to embrace that long
walk to freedom. Understanding what it takes to really be free, to
have no fear, is the first and most important step one has to make
before undertaking this journey. Angela is the living proof that
this arduous challenge can also be an exhilarating and beautiful
one."Archbishop Desmond Tutu
"Whether you've grown up with the courage and conscience of Angela
Davis, or are discovering her for the first time, Freedom Is a
Constant Struggle is a small book that will be a huge help in daily
life and action, from exposing the "prison industrial complex" that
she named long ago to understanding that leaders are only leaders
if they empower others. She herself exposes facts and makes
connections, but also leads in the most important wayby
example."Gloria Steinem
"This is vintage Angela: insightful, curious, observant, and
brilliant, asking and answering questions about events in this new
century that look surprisingly similar to the last century."Mumia
Abu-Jamal
"Here is someone worthy of the Ancestors who delivered her. Angela
Davis has stood her ground on every issue important to the health
of our people and the planet. It is impossible to read her words or
hear her voice and not be moved to comprehension and gratitude for
our incredible luck in having her with us."Alice Walker
"Angela Davis once again offers us an incisive, urgent, and
comprehensive understanding of systematic racism, the grounds for
intersectional analysis and solidarity, and the importance of
working together as equals to unmask and depose systems of
injustice. This wide-ranging and brilliant set of essays includes a
trenchant analysis of police violence against people of color, of
the systematic incarceration of black people in America, the
grounds of Palestinian solidarity for the Left, the affirmation of
transgender inclusion, and the necessity of opposing the G4S
corporation and its high-profit empire dedicated to the
institutionalization of racism in the name of security. These
essays take us back in history to the founders of revolutionary and
anti-racist struggle, but they also take us toward the possibility
of ongoing intersectional solidarity and struggle. Angela Davis
gathers in her lucid words our luminous history and the most
promising future of freedom."Judith Butler
"She has eyes in the back of our head. With her we can survive and
resist."John Berger
"In this latest text of her magisterial corpus, Angela Davis puts
forward her brilliant analyses and resilient witness here and
abroad. In a clear and concise manner, she embodies and enacts
intersectionality” a structural intellectual and political
response to the dynamics of violence, White Supremacy, patriarchy,
state power, capitalist markets, and imperial policies."Dr. Cornel
West, from the Foreword
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