Angela Davis- The Prison: Criminal Justice Lecture

Thank you for listening to Public Access America. here is some information. Now go use it. What I had noticed was groups talking to like minded groups. Nothing gets done and everyone stays mad at everyone. my thought was, what if we all had the same information, what if. it's a scary thing to open your eyes one day to realize that every decision i have ever made was influenced by someone or something. Ads, commercials, politics, pop culture. all of that infecting our choices, and the choices of those around us. Like being underwater with a snorkel. right above us is everything we need but we would rather have it feed to us pre-opinionated so we don't have to think. Your elected officials consider you an afterthought, a political football, a hurdle to overcome every so often. Doesn't that make you sad? Here is some information. now go use it! UC Santa Cruz professor Angela Davis explores the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She urges her audience to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement. https://www.biography.com/people/angela-davis-9267589 Angela Davis, born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama, became a master scholar who studied at the Sorbonne. She joined the U.S. Communist Party and was jailed for charges related to a prison outbreak, though ultimately cleared. Known for books like Women, Race & Class, she has worked as a professor and activist who advocates gender equity, prison reform and alliances across color lines. As a result of purchasing firearms used in the 1970 armed take-over of a Marin County, California courtroom, in which four persons were killed, she was prosecuted for conspiracy. She was later acquitted of this charge. Davis's membership in the CPUSA led California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1969 to attempt to have her barred from teaching at any university in the State of California. She supported the governments of the Soviet Bloc for several decades. During the 1980s, she was twice a candidate for Vice President on the CPUSA ticket. She left the party in 1991 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis Body sourced: https://youtu.be/Q25-KJ55k_0 The Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz presents" [2/2008] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 13826] http://www.uctv.tv Public Access America 
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