Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Examining the Foundations of the Ferguson and Palestine Movements

Miduc: My granddaughter is very happy with this book as a birthday gift

Belgium on Mar 11, 2024

Avid Reader: I've heard the name Angela Y. Davis a plot over the past five months. Being one of her most well-known works, and in light of the genocide happening in Gaza, I felt compelled to read this book. I'm glad I did. Intersectionality is something that is becoming a more prevalent part of the English lexicon. Between the interviews and her speeches, the book provides a depth and breadth of information all peoples should educate themselves on.

United States on Mar 08, 2024

Lesly: 4.8 🌟 Wow, Angela Davis continuously blows me away. Doing what every activist should set out to do; make their audience think. Providing intricate connections to complicated oversimplified issues that bring further context and motivation to issues we are still battling over ten years after the speeches and interviews in this book were given.

Most notably she points out the importance of dismantling the individualistic mentality we have towards movements and change. Movements are complicated intersectional tumbleweeds, and they are only brought forward by the collective force of the whole. So while we love, acknowledge, and appreciate the invaluable contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Ida B Wells, Frederick Douglass, and even modern day Angela Davis, we cannot be blind to the global solidarity that elevates these individual voices to the change making stage.

United States on Feb 12, 2024

Ania: Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement is an extremely insightful book into how movements are formed globally and how we need to move away from individualism to create global movements. That we cannot and should not focus on just our own struggles, but that to create change, we must understand that people will never be free until everyone is free — and that there’s a fundamental need to make people understand that what may be happening in another part of the world can, and maybe already is, connected to us as well.

This works as a great starting point for anyone who is new to nonfiction and specifically nonfiction on activism, movements and ongoing political issues since it’s a collection of interviews and essays that provide a great foundational understanding — there’s not only an index full of relevant references that you can seek out further information on, but Angela Davies also provides activists and works within the book to explore further.

United States on Jan 15, 2024

K. Chambers: So much is happening and I’d rather be overwhelmingly informed than blissfully ignorant. Enjoyed the connection of freedom, and intersectionality of struggle through a feminist framework.

I will definitely be picking up more of this authors work!

United States on Oct 31, 2023

Man On A Mission: The reason why I gave this book 4 stars and not 5 stars, is because it is quite repetitive. Other than that, it is an awesome read!

United States on Oct 07, 2023

Kate: Angela Davis had my synapses buzzing from the start. So many answers and joining of the dots. what's happening now with the BLM movement wrt George Floyd and talks of defunding the police would not have happened without the movement growing from other racist murders by the police. What is happening now is a continuation of the struggles she speaks about both in the US and Palestine. Globally in fact. Everything is clearer now

United Kingdom on May 26, 2021

Josie Boyce: Activism via interviews and speeches by Angela Davis. You can if you have her voice in your mind clearly hear her speak he words written. Well spoken

Canada on May 17, 2021

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With a book being as short as this, but with the magnificient teachings of Angela's experience of freedom and her use of feminist theory and intersectionality towards the issues of G4S security using privatized security in the realms of the health and education sector, the Palestinian prosion system, and so forth, the current US prison system and its formation of slaverys toward marginalized prisoners, and so forth, this book serves many wonders. And for me having experience in the security industry and finding out about the corruption of G4S Security and its corrupt workings, this shocked me as much more as anything else.

This book also serves a purpose to understand that the struggle for freedom in a society that still implements slavery in a covert manner and removing the rights of...

Canada on Aug 20, 2020

Amazon Kunde: Frau Davis ist eine der erfahrensten und geschätztesten Frauen der amerikanischen Bürgerrechtsbewegungen, was in ihrem Buch "Freedom is a constant struggle" nur allzu deutlich wird. Sie erklärt, was die Kämpfe nach Freiheit und Gleichheit in verschiedenen Regionen der Welt miteinander verbindet und gibt auch in ihr ereignisreiches Leben einige Einblicke. Das Buch als Interview aufzubauen erschien mir im ersten Moment zwar etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig, jedoch passt es gut, da die typische Erzählform etwas aufgebrochen wird.
Aufgrund der Argumente und der Erfahrungen, die die Autorin aufweist, halte ich dieses Buch für eine Pflichtlektüre für jeden, der sich über Bürgerrechtsbewegungen vor allem im 21. Jhd informieren möchte.

Germany on Nov 24, 2016