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"The roots of sexism and homophobia are found in the same economic and political institutions that serve as the foundation of racism in this country and, more often than not, the same extremist circles that inflict violence on people of color are responsible for the eruptions of violence inspired by sexist and homophobic biases. Our political activism must clearly manifest our understanding of these connections." ― #AngelaDavis #BlackHistory
Today in Labor History March 5 1968: The first Chicano student walkout in East Lost Angeles occurred on this date. The Walkouts, or Chicano Blowouts, occurred throughout 1968 in protest of unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. Chicanos were often in classes of 40 students. Teachers often treated them with contempt. Drop-out rates were high. At Garfield High School, 58% of Chicano students dropped out each year. Thousands of students participated in the Blowouts. On March 4, 1968, J. Edgar Hoover sent out a memo to law enforcement, nationwide, warning them to be extra vigilant against “nationalist” movements in “minority” communities. Harry Gamboa Jr., one of the organizers of the first walkout, was placed on the list of 100 Most Dangerous & Violent Subversives, by the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, along with Angela Davis & Eldridge Cleaver.
"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time."
- Angela Davis
[Thread] So, it took having to do a search on the website, but I managed to find the #BlackHistoryMonth audio archives on the #WMPG website. Hopefully, the ones from 2025 will also be posted on their website (and the ones already posted won't disappear...).
Black History month - daily short history audio features
Posted February 3, 2021 by 'mpger
"Everyday in the month of February (Black history month), WMPG is airing a short audio feature about an influential Black man or woman in history. We’ll hear about people from Maine to Malawi. We celebrate scientists, radicals, teachers, preachers, musicians, athletes, and those who fought to followed their dreams. You can hear them all again right here: #BillieHoliday , #LeonardCummings , #MaconBollingAllen , #HarrietTubman , #NelsonMandela , #ShirleyChisholm , #MarshaPJohnson , #GordonParks , #JackieRobinson, #AngelaDavis , #ThurgoodMarshall , #StevieWonder , #Lizzo , #CornellWest , #TrevorNoah , #MaeJemison , #TaranaBurke , #AlvinAiley , #JosephineBaker, #RhiannonGiddens, #SunRa, and #LaverneCox."
Link to mp3 audio files:
https://www.wmpg.org/black-history-month-daily-short-history-audio-features/
#BlackHistory #BlackMusicians #BlackHistoricalFigures #CommunityRadio #WMPGFM
#art #history: she's 81 today & she will never die.
celebrate the life of indefatigable activist, author, philosopher, academic, vegan, marxist & full-time badarse ANGELA DAVIS.
as far as i'm concerned, she's rarely wrong.
#angelaDavis #activist #marxist #writer #academic #illustration #palestine #gaza #vegan
"That's why when someone asks me about violence -- I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person who's asking that question has absolutely no idea what Black people have gone through, what Black people have experienced in this country; since the time the first Black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa."
Angela Davis on Violence and Revolution
https://youtu.be/2HnDONDvJVE
Intro: Starting fresh in the ‘verse for privacy. Dark times ahead, comrades.
Dial up the feminism. Midwest. #Vegan. Married. 55. White. I’ve lived on three continents, in five different countries. My perspective is not a typical American viewpoint.
Born in California. All my ancestors are immigrants. Books inoculated me against neoliberals & republicans. #AngelaDavis #UrsulaLeguin #MichelleAlexander
Here for #Solidarity
'we deposit our dreams in palestine.' -
angela davis in conversation with frank barat
#freePalestine #gaza #angelaDavis #frankBarat
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RT4ydTwfXXg
#NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Angela Davis:
Moving Towards Home
show playlist 
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6G4PaS9BNkIuGqMo44rbfZ
KEXP playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
"... Are you simply going to ask those who have been marginalized or subjugated to come inside of the institution and participate in the same process that led precisely to their marginalization? ..."
“‘Justice’ is the key word. How do we begin to transform the institutions themselves? How do we change this society? We don’t want to be participants in the exploitation of capitalism. We don’t want to be participants in the marginalization of immigrants. And so there has to be a way to think about the connection among all of these issues and how we can begin to imagine a very different kind of society.”
– Angela Davis
https://jezebel.com/angela-davis-on-racial-reckoning-diversity-and-inclusi-1844853369
“Virtually every institution seized upon that term, ‘diversity.’ And I always ask, ‘Well, where is justice here?’ Are you simply going to ask those who have been marginalized or subjugated to come inside of the institution and participate in the same process that led precisely to their marginalization? Diversity and inclusion without substantive change, without radical change, accomplishes nothing.”
– Angela Davis
https://jezebel.com/angela-davis-on-racial-reckoning-diversity-and-inclusi-1844853369
@abolitionbb Thanks for the disclosure.
Curious to hear your favorite takeaways from #MariameKaba #AngelaDavis and #RuthWilsonGilmore
I'll have to read more about #Balagoon
I often think of Kaba's assertion that #HopeIsADiscipline when I get overwhelmed from doing too much #doomscrolling
Kaba posted the following questions on another platform and it's been a really helpful approach toward understanding sociopolitical issues and holding myself accountable for the ways I show up in the movement space
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Repost from #MariameKaba
Questions I ask myself when outraged about injustice:
1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?