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Angela Davis tours the nation calling for the abolition of prisons: reports from the University of Virginia and Chicago’s South Side

April 22, 2009

Angela Davis called for a new movement to abolish what she called “the prison-industrial complex” in the U.S., which has become the largest jailer in the world. “Racism is directly responsible for the fact that the U.S. has become the great incarcerator.”

The ambivalent silences of the left: Lovelle Mixon, police and the politics of race and rape

April 21, 2009

Many TV channels broadcast live the entire funeral for four Oakland police officers killed March 21, news anchors calling them “heroes” and “angels.” Police funerals are intended to legitimize past and future police violence and tell the public to shut up. The spineless left complies – no mention of Oscar Grant … or Lovelle Mixon.

Wanda’s Picks for April

April 3, 2009

Dressed in black leotards, Jetaun Maxwell, dancer-choreographer, has a red ribbon, a strip of cloth representing the blood, the noose and rein society places on girls who seek freedom. – from Wanda’s review of “Invisible Womb”

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Wanda’s Picks for Feb. 14

February 14, 2009

Be sure to listen to the archived Wanda’s Picks Radio for Feb. 11, when the guests are Cynthia McKinney in the first hour and Guy Patrice Lumumba and Lisa F. Jackson, director of the film, “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo,” in the second. Extraordinary radio! Superb mix of arts and politics!

March for Justice for Oscar Grant III

January 19, 2009

Mayor Dellums decided to look to law enforcement as a model for healing the community in 2007. Today, we are still at war, our youth the casualties of this war.

The state-sponsored murder of Tookie Williams, cofounder of the Crips

December 13, 2008

Schwarzenegger’s excuse for murdering Tookie: “But the inclusion of George Jackson on this list defies reason and is a significant indicator that Williams is not reformed and that he still sees violence and lawlessness as a legitimate means to address societal problems.”

The Black/Afrikan community and the death penalty

November 17, 2008

“Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. In Virginia, before the end of slavery, there was only one crime for which a white person could be executed. But there were 66 crimes for which a slave could be executed.” – Sis. Angela Davis, 2003

The New Jersey 4: Correcting the injustice

July 17, 2008

At the Women’s Building on June 24 are Kimma Walker (left) and her daughter, Terrain Dandridge of the New Jersey 4, who had just been released from prison in New York the day before the event. Dr. Angela Davis (right)… Read the rest »

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