“Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944)[3] is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ideologically a Marxist, Davis was a member of the Communist Party USA until 1991, after which she joined the breakaway Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
Back in the U.S., she joined the Communist Party and, as a Marxist feminist, involved herself in a range of leftist causes, including the second-wave feminist movement, the Black Panther Party, and the campaign against the Vietnam War.
UCLA’s governing Board of Regents soon fired her due to her Communist Party membership; after a court ruled this illegal, the university fired her again, this time for her use of inflammatory language.
In 1970, firearms registered to Davis were used in an armed takeover of a courtroom in Marin County, California, in which four people were killed. She was prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder.
Praised by many Marxists and others on the far left, Davis has received various awards, including the Lenin Peace Prize. She has also sustained criticism for her support for political violence and her refusal to advocate for prisoners in Marxist-Leninist countries.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis#Arrest_and_trial
Het racistisch politiegeweld in de VS komt voort uit institutioneel racisme. We mogen en kunnen daar niet van wegkijken of er stil over blijven. Het is onze taak om dag in dag uit te werken aan gelijkwaardige samenlevingen. Voor iedereen, overal. pic.twitter.com/YcsbZgstbf
— Jesse Klaver (@jesseklaver) May 31, 2020
