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 is an extremely insightful book into how movements are formed globally and how we need to move away from individualism to create global movements. That we cannot and should not focus on just our own struggles, but that to create change, we must understand that people will never be free until everyone is free — and that there’s a fundamental need to make people understand that what may be happening in another part of the world can, and maybe already is, connected to us as well. This works as a great starting point for anyone who is new to nonfiction and specifically nonfiction on activism, movements and ongoing political issues since it’s a collection of interviews and essays that provide a great foundational understanding — there’s not only an index full of relevant references that you can seek out further information on, but Angela Davies also provides activists and works within the book to explore further.

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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis is a powerful reminder to anyone who cares about society that we are all interconnected no matter how some people wish we weren't. The interview with Davis in the beginning of the book was interesting and thought provoking. The speeches that make up the rest of the book inspired me to keep looking forward in the fight for justice, equality, and true liberation around the world while never forgetting the history that brought us to this point. Davis consistently demonstrates how the struggle for freedom is ongoing but worth the effort. Freedom is a Constant Struggle reminded me that history books might be written by the victor but history is what actually happened not what's in the books and that history has consequences as do the actions we choose every day.

4.8 🌟 Wow, Angela Davis continuously blows me away. Doing what every activist should set out to do; make their audience think. Providing intricate connections to complicated oversimplified issues that bring further context and motivation to issues we are still battling over ten years after the speeches and interviews in this book were given. Most notably she points out the importance of dismantling the individualistic mentality we have towards movements and change. Movements are complicated intersectional tumbleweeds, and they are only brought forward by the collective force of the whole. So while we love, acknowledge, and appreciate the invaluable contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Ida B Wells, Frederick Douglass, and even modern day Angela Davis, we cannot be blind to the global solidarity that elevates these individual voices to the change making stage.

In a climate such as ours having this book as a reminder has been a comfort i never thought I’d find. “Everyone is familiar with the slogan “The personal is political”—not only that what we experience on a personal level has profound political implications, but that our interior lives, our emotional lives are very much informed by ideology. We ourselves often do the work of the state in and through our interior lives. What we often assume belongs most intimately to ourselves and to our emotional life has been produced elsewhere and has been recruited to do the work of racism and repression.” Bless you Angela Y. Davis, you genius.

Well spoken and brings ideas of interconnected need of all peoples to come together to fight systemic oppression. Angela is an American Hero.

This text is something every radical, activist, political enthusiast should read! She provides such a robust wealth of knowledge in such a coherent and logical flow in her insights. She expands on the parallels and intersectional relationships of institutions and movements in America and abroad as well as providing historical references that pose those institutions as abstractions of apartheid, slavery and racism. She deconstructs the "individual" as a destructive result of Capitalism and ultimately a dead end for social mobility. Not only does she point out the injustices but she also lays down what she believes needs to be done in this ongoing march to freedom. Remember that the personal is political and the struggle is intersectional so we must all unite for change. Loved it!

Excelente

UPDATE: WISDOM-MART is a company that ships their products very well and keeps it sustainable for the buyer to see and view their product. Although they tend to ship from Britain (which require longer times for parcel arrival), the condition of the book still remains top-notch and they ensure the best for the package to be very well. To conclude, I am 100% satisfied with my order. With a book being as short as this, but with the magnificient teachings of Angela's experience of freedom and her use of feminist theory and intersectionality towards the issues of G4S security using privatized security in the realms of the health and education sector, the Palestinian prosion system, and so forth, the current US prison system and its formation of slaverys toward marginalized prisoners, and so forth, this book serves many wonders. And for me having experience in the security industry and finding out about the corruption of G4S Security and its corrupt workings, this shocked me as much more as anything else. This book also serves a purpose to understand that the struggle for freedom in a society that still implements slavery in a covert manner and removing the rights of others in other aspects still plays a bigger issue in the idea of all as equal, and acknwoledging the acceptance of others, especially within marginalized groups (ex. poor and working Black women, Black Queers, and Black trans peoples).

This book is absolutely necessary to read. No matter what age, what situation you‘re in, this will fill you with something. if your hand is empty, grab this book; it is a tool.

My granddaughter is very happy with this book as a birthday gift

Angela Davis had my synapses buzzing from the start. So many answers and joining of the dots. what's happening now with the BLM movement wrt George Floyd and talks of defunding the police would not have happened without the movement growing from other racist murders by the police. What is happening now is a continuation of the struggles she speaks about both in the US and Palestine. Globally in fact. Everything is clearer now