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    #13852508 - 01/26/11 07:44 AM (13 years, 5 days ago)

  • 1944:  Angela Davis is born




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Angela Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, scholar, and author. Davis was most politically active during the late 1960s through the 1970s and was associated with the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party. Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests; she is the founder of "Critical Resistance", an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She is presently a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.  Her research interests are in feminism, African American studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music and social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons.

Her membership in the Communist Party led to Ronald Reagan's request in 1969 to have her barred from teaching at any university in the State of California. She was tried and acquitted of suspected involvement in the Soledad brothers' August 1970 abduction and murder of Judge Harold Haley in Marin County, California.

She was twice a candidate for Vice President on the Communist Party USA ticket during the 1980s. In the early 1990s she moved from party communism to other forms of political commitment, and she has identified herself as a democratic socialist.

Arrest and trial

On August 7, 1970, Superior Court Judge Harold Haley, along with several other hostages, was abducted from his Marin County, California, courtroom and murdered during an effort to free a convict.

The firearms used in the attack were purchased by Angela Davis, including the shotgun used to kill Haley, which had been purchased only two days prior and sawed-off.  Numerous letters were found in the prison cell of one of the murderers that were written by Angela Davis as well. The California warrant issued for Davis charged her as an accomplice to conspiracy, kidnapping, and homicide. On August 18, 1970, Davis became the third woman and the 309th person to appear on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List.

Davis became a fugitive and fled California. She evaded the police for more than two months before being captured in New York City. John Abt, general counsel of the Communist Party USA, was one of the first attorneys to represent Davis for her alleged involvement in the shootings.  While being held in the Women's Detention Center there, she was initially segregated from the general population, but with the help of her legal team soon obtained a federal court order to get out of the segregated area.

Her bail was posted by Rodger McAfee, a dairy farmer from Caruthers, California. Portions of her legal defense expenses were paid for by the Presbyterian Church (UPCNA).

During the trial, Davis was sketched by courtroom artists Rosalie Ritz and Walt Stewart.

In 1972, she was tried and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The mere fact that she owned the guns used in the crime was not sufficient to establish her responsibility for the plot. John Lennon and Yoko Ono, wrote the song "Angela" on their 1972 studio album Some Time In New York City to show their support. Mick Jagger, of the Rolling Stones, wrote the song "Sweet Black Angel" in her support. The song was released in 1972 on the album Exile on Main Street.

Activism

Davis ran for Vice President on the Communist Party ticket in 1980 and 1984, along with the veteran party leader, Gus Hall, as the lead candidate. She also won the Lenin Peace Prize from East Germany for her civil rights activism.

Davis has continued a career of activism, and has written several books. A principal focus of her current activism is the state of prisons within the United States. She considers herself an abolitionist, not a "prison reformer," and has referred to the United States prison system as the "prison-industrial complex".  Davis suggested focusing social efforts on education and building "engaged communities" to solve various social problems now handled through state punishment.  Davis was one of the primary founders of Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization dedicated to building a movement to abolish the prison system.

She has lectured at San Francisco State University, Stanford University, Bryn Mawr College, Brown University, Syracuse University, and other schools.  She states that in her teaching, which is mostly at the graduate level, she concentrates more on posing questions that encourage development of critical thinking than on imparting knowledge.  In 1997, she declared herself to be a lesbian in Out magazine.

Davis spoke out against the 1995 Million Man March, arguing that the exclusion of women from this event necessarily promoted male chauvinism and that the organizers, including Louis Farrakhan, preferred women to take subordinate roles in society. Together with Kimberlé Crenshaw and others, she formed the African American Agenda 2000, an alliance of Black feminists.

Davis is no longer a member of the Communist Party, leaving it to help found the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, which broke from the Communist Party USA because of the latter's support of the Soviet coup attempt of 1991 and the Communist parties of the Warsaw Pact.  She remains on the Advisory Board of the Committees.

Davis has continued to speak out against the death penalty. At the University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz), she participated in a 2004 panel concerning Kevin Cooper. She also spoke in defense of Stanley "Tookie" Williams on another panel in 2005, and 2009.

In addition to being the commencement speaker at Grinnell College in 2007, in October of that year, Davis was the keynote speaker at the fifth annual Practical Activism Conference at UC Santa Cruz.

On February 8, 2008, Davis spoke on the campus of Howard University at the invitation of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. On February 24, 2008, she was featured as the closing keynote speaker for the 2008 Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference. On April 14, 2008, she spoke at the College of Charleston as a guest of the Women's and Gender Studies Program. On January 23, 2009, she was the keynote speaker at the Martin Luther King Commemorative Celebration on the campus of Louisiana State University.

On April 16, 2009, she was the keynote speaker at the University of Virginia Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies symposium on The Problem of Punishment: Race, Inequity, and Justice.  On January 20, 2010, Davis was the keynote speaker in San Antonio, Texas, at Trinity University's MLK Day Celebration held in Laurie Auditorium. On January 21, 2011, Davis was the keynote speaker (opened by Good Sista, Bad Sista) in Salem, OR at Willamette University's MLK Week Celebration held in Smith Auditorium where she declared that her biggest goal for the coming years is to shutdown prisons. At the lecture she also stated that while she supports some of Obama's work she feels that he is too conservative.

Davis is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Syracuse University.


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Re: Today in counterculture history (01/26) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #13854623 - 01/26/11 03:01 PM (13 years, 5 days ago)















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Re: Today in counterculture history (01/26) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #15719650 - 01/26/12 05:40 AM (12 years, 5 days ago)

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Re: Today in counterculture history (01/26) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
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Re: Today in counterculture history (01/26) [Re: Learyfan] * 2
    #19475767 - 01/26/14 08:38 AM (10 years, 4 days ago)

Happy 70th Birthday Angela Davis.

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Re: Today in counterculture history (01/26) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #21177816 - 01/26/15 05:41 AM (9 years, 4 days ago)

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    #22825873 - 01/26/16 05:35 AM (8 years, 4 days ago)

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Re: Today in counterculture history (01/26) [Re: Learyfan]
    #22825905 - 01/26/16 06:16 AM (8 years, 4 days ago)

I don't know what to make of this. I mean she's a racist communist serial killer who seems to be trying to fight the privatization of the prison system.. but she's a serial killer who's now a communist politician speaking to people on "Practical Activism"? What the fuck. :lol:

Free Angela my ass. Put her back in.


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Re: Today in counterculture history (01/26) [Re: larry.fisherman]
    #22826184 - 01/26/16 09:51 AM (8 years, 4 days ago)

Fry Angela.  Right after Mumia.


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    #24040439 - 01/26/17 05:43 AM (7 years, 3 days ago)

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    #25769873 - 01/26/19 10:55 AM (5 years, 3 days ago)

Happy 75th Birthday Angela Davis!










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Re: Today in counterculture history (01/26) [Re: Learyfan] * 2
    #26453232 - 01/26/20 09:41 AM (4 years, 3 days ago)

The song Sweet Black Angel on Exile om Mainstreet was written about her.


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    #27633234 - 01/26/22 04:12 AM (2 years, 2 days ago)

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Thanks for the history lesson!

I like history, so thanks for showing me something new!


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Lucis said:
Thanks for the history lesson!

I like history, so thanks for showing me something new!




You're welcome, Lucis!









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