Reviews tagging 'War'

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

37 reviews

nineinchnails's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

slightly repetitive but a really informative read that gave me optimism and hope at a time where i really need it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Misogyny, and Racism

Moderate: Death, Police brutality, and War

Minor: Sexual assault, Slavery, and Transphobia

sydapel's review against another edition

hopeful informative

Obviously, Angela Davis is an incredibly foundational figure in our efforts to organize community led movements and I've needed to read this for years. However, for my white friends who (like me) think of this as something to check off your list in order to feel better about your role in oppressive cycles at play in America and throughout the world, this is a starting point for further, more in depth reading and reflection. Overall though, this expertly reenforces how movements to end discrimination, genocide and hate start and stop with well organized collective action, even when it disrupts our sense of normalcy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Racism, War, and Classism

dragongirl271's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, and War

booksbeyondthebinary's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Misogyny, and Racism

Moderate: Death, Police brutality, and War

Minor: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Transphobia

modernthymes's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Police brutality, and War

meganpbell's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

In this collection of interviews and speeches, Angela Y. Davis teaches us that freedom is not only a constant struggle—but a global, intersectional, and interconnected one. While like other readers, I would have loved to read this as a more cohesive essay collection amended from her interviews and speeches, I learned a lot from this book and really appreciated how it contextualizes and connects Palestine to BLM, occupy, abolition, and more.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Slavery, Transphobia, Police brutality, Colonisation, and War

peggy_racham's review against another edition

5.0

Reading a book written in 2015, with speeches from 2013, while its all still relative in 2023 is a bit jarring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation

blakeandbooks's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Murder, and War

Minor: Homophobia, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

mattyvreads's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Angela Davis is a gift. Wholly informative, and not a wasted word. This is such a powerful read, and provides much needed context and perspective on the struggle of the Palestinian people and the globalization of the Black liberation movement. She emphasizes the importance and impact of intersectionality, not just as individuals, but in a larger sense, the intersectionality of struggles.

Angela Davis writes, “just as we say ‘never again’ with respect to the facism that produced the Holocaust, we should say ‘never again’ with respect to apartheid in South Africa and in the Southern U.S.. That means, first and foremost, that we will have to expand and deepen our solidarity with the people of Palestine, people of all genders and sexualities, people inside and outside prison walls, people inside and outside of the apartheid wall.”

Each interview and speech enclosed in this collection is as important and poignant as the last.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, and War