S.O.U.L Sisters Leadership Collective

As part of our #BlackAugust series, we’re sharing knowledge and lessons about Black revolutionary figures past and present. Today’s revolutionary is #ANGELADAVIS. Previously we shared abolitionist #GeorgeJackson’s history organizing within #SoledadPrison, and that Angela Davis had been targeted and added to the FBI’s most wanted list for owning the guns used during the Marin courthouse takeover, which organizers intended to lead to the release of the Soledad Brothers (George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clutchette).

Davis, who had studied philosophy in East and West Berlin before moving back to the united states, taught philosophy and was a vocal supporter of the #Antiwar Vietnam movement and #BlackPanthers. After the Marin courthouse takeover, she spent 18 months imprisoned before being found not guilty on all charges. Davis was one of the leading figures campaigning to free George Jackson, and they wrote to one another during his imprisonment.

Angela Davis continues to be committed to the importance of political education, especially within prisons. Davis teaches how #neoliberalism, global #capitalism, and american exceptionalism lead to isolation and deepened structural inequality. At a time when the prison industrial complex steals the labor and humanity of its victims and communities, we must remember to dream with Angela Davis as she calls on us to imagine a "future that will allow us to begin to move beyond capitalism." That future is abolitionist, care-based, and community-centered. ... See MoreSee Less

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