Freedom Is a Constant Struggle : Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement carries a lot of important information that we should know. In “Freedom is a Constant Struggle”, she underlines the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.

NID cookie, set by Google, is used for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to mute unwanted ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads. When we recognize how intricately the forces against poor people of color throughout the world work together, it's easier to unite against them. As much as this collection felt like constant deja vu, it hammers home the cyclical and interconnected nature of marginalized communities on a historical and international level.Du Bois to the Black Panther Party, than it is today, when we are led to imagine that racial discrimination is primarily a matter of individual attitudes, that colonialism is past, and that existing capitalism is the only horizon of reasonable struggles for justice. Du Bois, whom Davis recognizes throughout this work as a central intellectual forebear, once described colonies as “the slums of the world,” that is, places populated by peoples, upon which extractive economies backed by extreme police measures could be given the greatest latitude. The speeches she gives are honestly the better part of this book, not only for the theoretical connections Davis makes but because it gives insight into her speech patterns. from Davis that discusses the intersections of struggle, the international effects of threats to freedom, and inversely, the effect of international collaboration for freedom.

If Davis would pay more attention to Israel, she'd know that Israeli-Arabs/48 Palestinians have been begging the Israeli government for more policing, not less. Prison eradication, the proliferation of G4S, and the need for collectivism in the age of individualism are all topics I have taken away from this book. This short book encouraged me to continue on with my own activism and get more involved in the global struggle of people fighting for their own freedom.Watch the full video of our event with Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Covid-19, Decarceration, and Abolition, hosted by Naomi Murakawa. 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. This felt a lot like having coffee with a friend who's letting you ask them all the questions about something they're an expert in. I use three different library systems, and between them ONE library had a few of her books, and this was the only one available in the next 6 months. 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.