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when #angeladavis was unjustly incarcerated her sister, fania, toured the world to help spread awareness about angela’s case & the human rights abuses the U.S. was committing against its own citizens. #faniadavis “was active in the civil rights, Black liberation, women’s, prisoners’, peace, anti-racial violence and anti-apartheid movements.” she also spent almost 27 years as a civil rights trial lawyer. fania THEN taught courses on restorative justice and peace building within the community. | there are so many who don’t get recognized for their work. be like fania davis! be #yoursisterskeeper. recognize the importance of a multifaceted approach to Black freedom. #dothework #weallwegot #bhm #sisters #queens #love #kiq
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Happy Birthday Angela Davis. Thank you for leading this movement with such grace and wisdom. I’ll never forget sharing space with you at the #WomensMarch or your insightful words. “At a challenging moment in our history, let us remind ourselves that we the hundreds of thousands, the millions of women, trans-people, men and youth who are here at the Women’s March, we represent the powerful forces of change that are determined to prevent the dying cultures of racism, hetero-patriarchy from rising again.
#AngelaDavis #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #FolksLikeUs #MrsBikoWorldTour #ChernoBiko #WomensMarch (at The Women’s March on Washington - District of Columbia)
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Happy Birthday Angela Davis. Thank you for leading this movement with such grace and wisdom. I’ll never forget sharing space with you at the #WomensMarch or your insightful words.
“At a challenging moment in our history, let us remind ourselves that we the hundreds of thousands, the millions of women, trans-people, men and youth who are here at the Women’s March, we represent the powerful forces of change that are determined to prevent the dying cultures of racism, hetero-patriarchy from rising again.
#AngelaDavis #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #FolksLikeUs #MrsBikoWorldTour #ChernoBiko #WomensMarch (at The Women’s March on Washington - District of Columbia)
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“… In the beginning, I was not a political person at all. I had no interest in the struggle. My life at the time had been such a mess and I was so unhappy with myself. One day I saw MOVE demonstrating in front of a police precinct and I was just struck. It wasn’t necessarily what they were saying but the way they were talking and these were women, powerful women. I had never seen a woman get on a bullhorn in front of all these people and the police and talk so confident and assertive. This is what drew me to them”
- Janine Africa, 2019
Janine Africa was one of 9 MOVE members who (in an effort by the city of Philadelphia to destroy the MOVE organization) was framed for the murder of a cop and imprisoned in the year 1978. They were routinely beaten, tortured, poisoned and made subject to the most inhumane living conditions all in attempt to break them.They were told that if they renounced their beliefs, they’d be released. They refused and so they remained imprisoned, enduring all manner of brutal treatment for over 40 years. As of 2019, Janine has been released and remains committed- mind, body and soul to the struggle to liberate all black and oppressed people.
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#OnThisDay in 1972, Angela Davis was acquitted of murder, kidnapping, and criminal conspiracy after guns registered in her name was used in an armed takeover and shootout at a Marin County, California, courthouse in 1970. By taking hostages the gunmen hoped to liberate Black Panther Party member George Jackson and two other inmates from Soledad State Prison. Davis denied any involvement in the plot. Supporters called her a political prisoner and advocated for her freedom.
Video: Angela Davis - interview 1972
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