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

5.0

I think that solidarity always implies a kind of mutuality... I think we share our experiences. Just as I think the development of Black feminism and women-of-colour feminisms can offer ideas, experiences, analyses to Palestinians, so can Black feminisms and women-of-colour feminisms learn from the struggle of the Palestinian people and Palestinian feminists.

Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect. What has kept me going has been the development of new modes of community. I don’t know whether I would have survived had not movements survived, had not communities of resistance, communities of struggle. So whatever I’m doing I always feel myself directly connected to those communities... we have to encourage that sense of community particularly at a time when neoliberalism attempts to force people to think of themselves only in individual terms and not in collective terms. It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.

Angela Davis is brilliant. A must read.