Episode 2 - The Modern Civil Rights Movement

Guest: Angela Davis

In this special BONUS episode, DA Boudin, Rachel, and special guest, the iconic Professor Angela Davis, build on the conversation from last episode and focus on the movement that the death of George Floyd has spawned.  Professor Davis explains the significance of this moment in the context of the broader Civil Rights Movement.  Professor Davis also discusses the role of intersectionality in past and present movements for justice.  The group also explores the commonalities between abolition and the current movement to defund police, as well as the limitations but also the possibilities of reforms to the justice system.

Episode notes:

• Interview with Angela Davis in the Guardian in 2014 about the connection between policing and slavery

• Video of Angela Davis’s speech on feminism and abolition at the University of Chicago

• Link to purchase Angela Davis’s book Are Prisons Obsolete

• Link to purchase Angela Davis’s autobiography

• Link to purchase Angela Davis’s book Women, Race, and Class

• New York Times op-ed by Mariame Kaba, “Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police” 

• Press release announcing DA Boudin’s office policy not to charge cases relying on officers with previous serious misconduct 

• Press release announcing DA Boudin’s office policy to compensate victims and witnesses of police violence

• Press release announcing DA Boudin and Supervisor Walton’s resolution to prevent San Francisco law enforcement agencies from hiring officers with previous misconduct

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