Abolition Democracy - Open Media Series: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

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Revelations about US policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Graib prison story in April 2004. It is within this context that African-American intellectual Angela Davis gave a series of interviews to discuss resistance and law, institutional sexual coercion, politics and prison. She talks about her own incarceration as well as her experience as 'enemy of the state' and about having been put on the FBI's most wanted list. Davis returns to her critique of a democracy that has been compromised by its racist origins.

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"[O]ne of America's last truly fearless public intellectuals."Rep. Cynthia McKinney [D-Georgia]

"The Afro that blossomed around her face in the '70s has morphed into a contemporary natural, its sandy-colored hair flecked with gray. But there is no mistaking the consistency of her message, a pursuit of justice for those she believes are victimized by governmental policies and structures."Newsday

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Angela Yvonne Davis is a professor of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Over the last 30 years, she has been active in numerous organizations challenging prison-related repression. Her advocacy on behalf of political prisoners led to three capital charges, 16 months in jail awaiting trial and a highly publicized campaign then acquittal in 1972. Her books include Are Prisons Obsolete, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday and forthcoming from Random House, Prisons and Democracy.