Around the world in the wake of the murder of george floyd many are now asking how the Political Movement it catalyzed conformant true change and perhaps even revolution one woman who knows exactly how hard the struggle against systematic oppression and racial capitalism is the legendary black panther activist professor angela davis whos fight for equality in the sixtys and seventys led then president Richard Nixon to refer to her as a dangerous terrorist she joins me by skype from oakland in california thank you so much professor angela davis coming on going on the ground can i just ask you right at the beginning theres a lot of quoting of the great writer James Baldwin at the moment he actually wrote an open letter to you what did he mean when he said our bodies must render impossible the corridors of the gas chamber. Well of course James Baldwin was. Not only with a scent writer but also he was involved in a whole range of social justice issues and he took up my case wrote an open l
Angela davis whos fight for equality in the sixtys and seventys led then president Richard Nixon to refer to her as a dangerous terrorist she joins me by skype from oakland in california thank you so much professor davis coming on going on the ground can i just ask you right at the beginning theres a lot of quoting of the great writer James Baldwin at the moment he actually wrote an open letter to you what did he mean when he said our bodies must render impossible the corridors of the gas chamber. Well of course James Baldwin was. Not only with a scent writer but also he was involved in a whole range of social justice issues and he took up my case wrote an open letter to me and. Argued that if they did not protect my life the same would be next if they come for you and the morning he said every do not prevent them from taking you we will be next so that is actually. That is actually very seem of the mass movements have developed against racism against the son ginny against climate inju
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After a time when youre watching going underground the team and i will be back with a brand new season starting september the 5th but until then well be showing you some of your favorite shows of this past star studded season stay safe coming up in this episode is it the end of us a gemini in the western hemisphere now iranian time because of arrived in venezuela with support from nato member turkey and why did Boris Johnson invite attempted coup leader one by doing to downing street as a freedom of information request revealed a secret unit in dominick grabs a Foreign Office to reconstruct a neo liberal venezuela lets go straight to venezuelas capital caracas to speak to the worlds most known oil rich nations foreign minister jorge who joins me now via skype thank you so much for being on the program once again obviously britain and the United States threatening china at the moment over hong kong but the murdoch wall street journal reporting that the u. S. Government is threatening ta
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