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A Liberdade é uma Luta Constante by Angela Y. Davis

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kshertz's review against another edition

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4.0

There’s so many important facts and information here. Reading her words on Palestine during their genocide is even more devastating. I am taking this information and using it in my daily volunteering. It helped me to understand how to relate to others and the need to align myself with the most needy. No one is free until we are all . A great book to learn so much.

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razmo's review against another edition

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4.75

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5.0

don't have anything else to say except Angela Davis is fucking brilliant

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createandchaos's review against another edition

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5.0

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle is a must read for those who want to understand the genocide occurring in Palestine and how it effects the world as well. Angela Davis explains how the history of anti-blackness in America and apartheid in Israel is a reflection of the ongoing western imperial project while opening the door for independent research. History can't be forgotten because it intersects in so many paths.

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3.5

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5.0

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bessjoyce's review against another edition

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3.75

Good content but as a collection of essays/speeches gets a bit repetitive

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4.25

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fromthefoxhole's review against another edition

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4.5

So I listened to the audiobook, and let me say up front: Angela Davis could read me her grocery list and I'd enjoy it. Every word is measured, pronunciations were clearly studied in advance, and her timbre is warm and authoritative.

4.5 - half star removed mostly because this has multiple chapters that are speeches she has given at various conferences and events. In a few cases I've either watched the speech on YouTube or read it as a one off, and some of the material overlaps in a way that makes it slightly less impactful overall. I think it could also have used a final chapter that acted as a final summarization/call to further education at the very least.

Despite this slight grievance, I think this book does well in its undertaking to relate struggle across location, gender, race, religion, nationality, or whatever divides humanity might face. Davis utilizes the wealth of own-voices books, movements across history, and anecdotes from her own past to present to the reader a framework within which we can find our foothold as activists. She speaks on trans and queer liberation, the occupation of Palestine, the ongoing struggle of Black people and people of color in the US. She briefly touches on disability rights and mental health institutionalization as well. She never shies away from the fact that there might be more points of intersectionality than previously understood, and I think that openness serves the reader well in providing external context to her works.

Anyway, I love Angela Davis. I've added so many books from her references here to my own reading list, and I'm excited to get cracking on those.

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