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I struggled some with this collection, partly (I think) because it‘s an ebook and a little harder to keep track of sections. There were some fantastic parts, and others that were less so. Davis, as always, does a great job finding connections between struggles: class/race/sex; domestic/international; and so on. Definitely a worthwhile read, but maybe in pieces.

Today, this hits harder.

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Extremely timely. I feel like I should have read this before now, but better late… informative and accessible 🎧

In this collection of interviews and speeches, Angela Y. Davis teaches us that freedom is not only a constant struggle—but a global, intersectional, and interconnected one. While like other readers, I would have loved to read this as a more cohesive essay collection amended from her interviews and speeches, I learned a lot from this book and really appreciated how it contextualizes and connects Palestine to BLM, occupy, abolition, and more.

They say that freedom is a constant struggle.
They say that freedom is a constant struggle.
They say that freedom is a constant struggle.
O Lord, we've struggled so long.
We must be free, we must be free.
. . .
They say freedom is a constant dying/we've died so long we must be free.
. . .
We've struggled so long/we've cried so long/we've sorrowed so long/we've mourned so long/we must be free, we must be free.
- 20th century Freedom Movement

#MayMoms - Iconic: So many strong and brilliant women from which to choose. An awesome prompt. We need at least 365 days of recognition for female iconoclasm and reformation to political, social and patriarchal structure)!
I landed upon Angela Davis. Definitely iconic! I don‘t know if she mothered a child. I do know that she mothered a movement or at least fanned the flames, nursed it to fruition!👇🏽

When I first purchased this I didn‘t realize it was mostly a collection of speeches. Most of the content of this book predates the Trump presidency, so some of it feels surreal given how prescient it was at the time. Given that it‘s mostly speeches there is redundancy here, however the sections on antiracist activism and freeing Palestine are still as relevant as ever.

This was so good! A compilation of interviews & speeches of Angela Davis, read by the author. I need to read (or listen to) more of her work! A fantastic lesson about intersectionality, which she captures by presenting history & emphasizing the importance of collective struggles for freedom, equality, equity & civil rights in America & globally. I can only hope that her visions come to fruition, for peace & reformed justice in the world.

A tightly focused collection of interviews & speeches connecting intersectionality, the militarization of police, the prison system, the education system, and making change while recognizing the work of the past, this is my introduction to this amazing woman. She is commits to challenging ideas (we are catching up to her) &delights praising the hard work of others, I am looking forward to reading more by Davis
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Driving reading.

#bookspin and #doublebookspin for July
I didn‘t participate in June, it took me all month to finish two books which were from the craziness of May. Updating this list helped me feel a bit better since I had read a number of books in May, I just didn‘t spend much time social-media-ing.

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I didn‘t love the format of the first few chapters, but once it got to some of her articles and speeches was really drawn in.
She introduced me to and convinced me about intersectionality.

“Deep understandings of racist violence arm us against deceptive solutions. When we are told that we simply need better police and better prisons, we counter with what we really need...We will say demilitarize the police, disarm the police, abolish the institution of the police as we know it, and abolish imprisonment as the dominant mode of punishment. Be we will have only just begun to tell the truth about violence in America.” -Angela Y. Davis

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https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/112-ten-free-ebooks-from-haymarket-books Haymarket is a great publisher of books on politics, social movements, women , POC etc. Free! Thanks Haymarket!

Continuing my productive day cleaning the house and listening to this amazing book.

It was a good week for nonfiction! 3 out of the 5 books I finished this week are nonfiction. Overall it was a good week of reading.

I‘ve got 3 books not pictured in progress (Joyful Vegan and America for Beginners are the two I‘m furthest along). Hopefully I can finish up some of the in progress books by the end of the month 😄

#bookreport

Whenever you conceptualize social justice struggles, you will always defeat your own purposes if you cannot imagine the people around whom you are struggling as equal partners.
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Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And often we discover that those other stories are actually our own stories.

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Sisters of the revolution,
come with me, escape!
Freedom is a constant struggle.
I'll take you there, pledging allegiance,
children of the new world.

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This is a collection of essays, interviews and speeches by the author. A lot of the emphasise here is on intersectionality on a global scale and seeing how our struggles across the world have a lot of similarities and how we can work together and help each other.
Whilst because of the scope of the book she doesn‘t go into great detail about a lot of things there is a lot here to learn about and from.

Yes! We can‘t just think in individual what will this do for me terms. We need to think as a group to include all of society including the future.
I‘d love to see her speak in person.

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Really wonderful book. So powerful and exactly what I was hoping for, she‘s such an engaging inspiring writer I want to read everything she‘s ever written now. I particularly loved what she said about Nelson Mandela being remembered as an individual by Neoliberals when he would rather have been remembered as one of many activists.

After Z I really needed to read something feminist and powerful, I couldn‘t take any male geniuses. Who better than one of the most intelligent, powerful, inspiring women of the last hundred years telling me about how and why to change the world.

The book is the collection of interviews, essays and speeches given by Angela Y. Davis in and around 2014.

As the title already states, Davis is discussing how people have been struggling for their freedom and she consistently connects the dots between movements in order to explain how similar mechanism are at play no matter were you are in the world and that we can all learn from each other.

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One of our Pride co-chairs had the final meeting with the city this morning, and choosing not to have a beer garden in the festival cut the required police presence in HALF. We‘ve taken a lot of crap over it, but now I‘m even MORE proud of the decision. Accessibility first! Also a reminder that this book is only $5.99 direct from Haymarket. #Blacklivesmatter #Translivesmatter https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/780-freedom-is-a-constant-struggle

It's time for #WriterCrushWednesday! Our pick this week is Angela Y. Davis for Freedom is a Constant Struggle. In this bestselling collection of essays and speeches, activist, author, and scholar Davis discusses systematic oppression of people of color while showing the intersection of black and Palestinian freedom struggles. Pick it up on our bestsellers table on the main floor! •• #freedomisaconstantstruggle #wcw | https://buff.ly/2L9bEWe

Yesterday my alma mater hosted a lecture by Angela Davies about feminism during the Trump era. I was only able to listen online, however I heard enough to run out and get one of her books.

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Seemed apt for #UNITY. This quote is from an interview Davis gave and doesn't appear in the tagged book, but this was a good read.

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Shocking when you think about it now.

Good, informative, but sadly a bit repetitive. It‘s a nice collection of interviews with her and speeches she‘s given, but they needed to order them a bit differently or stagger the two more, because with a bunch of the speeches one after another in the second half, the info got a bit repetition, different speeches, but similar info in each. So definitely things I want to read more info about, but the format could have been a bit better. (Cont)

Very sad and very true....it‘s long been a place holder in lieu of drug and alcohol rehab (and now opiate abuse), mental health services, basic services for those in extreme poverty, etc... and now those displaced from their homeland by environmental, economic, and political upheavals (which sadly I fear are only going to increase as time goes on). Besides which it‘s a huge money making industry, Kids for Cash anyone? (I‘ll tag it below)

Scary thoughts here, but she‘s not wrong.

Another great book I wish more people would read and re-read and that I wish I would have read much sooner.

Starting this one tonight, very interesting so far.