Washington, D.C. Public Library to Host Discussion With Angela Davis
“Through her activism and scholarship over many decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world”
There will be no protests over this because Davis is a darling of the left.
FOX News reports:
DC Public Library to host Angela Davis, former fugitive Communist Party member
The D.C. Public Library (DCPL) is hosting a discussion next week with Angela Davis, a former Communist Party member and fugitive from the FBI.
Davis, who was an active member of the Black Panther Party and the Communist Party of the United States of America, will speak on March 15 to a sold-out crowd at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, the taxpayer-funded DCPL’s central facility.
Davis, 78, an abolitionist who gained notoriety in the 1960s and ’70s, was charged with murder, kidnapping and criminal conspiracy in 1970 after authorities linked her to the purchase of weapons that were later used by three inmates, who took a judge and juror hostage during their trial for killing a prison guard.
Law enforcement officials responded with a barrage of bullets and the inmates and judge died. Davis was accused of providing weapons used in the incident and was put on the FBI list until she was captured in 1972. She spent 16 months in prison before she was acquitted of all charges.
Davis has since authored ten books and become a leading activist of the abolitionist movement, which seeks to abolish U.S. policing and prisons. In 1997, she co-founded Critical Resistance, a national organization that seeks to dismantle what it describes as the prison industrial complex.
The DCPL’s event description for its “conversation” with Davis next week makes no mention of her past affiliation with the Communist and Black Panther parties.
“Through her activism and scholarship over many decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world,” the event description reads. “Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice.”
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I have always believed Jerry Brown colluded with a federal judge to essentially institute a prison abolitionism system in California (2010?). Of course he never referred to it as such. According to Jerry, it was a “humanitarian” measure to relieve prison overpopulation forced on him by a federal judge. This happened during his third term – at first releasing thousands of petty criminals from state prisons – followed by the release of hardened, violent, repeat offenders.
So, recalling from my dusty old memory – Angela Davis bought shotguns and somehow got those guns into the hands of her black panther confederates while they were at the Marin County Courthouse. I think they were sawed off shotguns.
Her confederates grabbed the presiding judge – they then duct taped the shotgun muzzles to the judge’s neck and prodded him through the buildong while demanding safe passage from the courthouse to a getaway van.
Don’t rely on my foggy recollections – search out the photos and articles yourself.
Does this still count as a diversity event? She’s more than 1/1024th white, did we not learn recently?