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Angela Davis on Prison Abolition, the War on Drugs and Why Social Movements Shouldn't Wait on Obama
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March 6, 2014
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10:58Now PlayingFor more than four decades, the worldrenowned author, activist and scholar Angela Davis has been one of most influential activists and intellectuals in the United States. An icon of the 1970s black liberation movement, Davis' work around issues of gender, race, class and prisons has influenced critical thought and social movements across several generations. She is a leading advocate for prison abolition, a position informed by her own experience as a fugitive on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list more than 40 years ago. Davis, a professor emerita at University of California, Santa Cruz and the subject of the recent documentary, "Free Angela and All Political Prisoners," joins us to discuss prison abolition, mass incarceration, the socalled war on drugs, International Women's Day, and why President Obama's second term should see a greater wave of activism than in his first.
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