Angela Davis and The Election Aftermath

Angela Davis speaking in Chicago on “what to do in the the face of a Trump presidency. Davis didn’t have any easy answers. “Whatever we are already doing, we need to do more,” she said. “We need to accelerate our activism.” Davis also said that we should be cautious of views of Trump as a “wake-up call” that might finally bring the country to mobilize behind a progressive agenda. “I remember the Nixon era, when we all went to jail,” she said. Too much time and energy had to be spent on legal defense then, to the detriment of the various radical movements of the era, she explained.
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