To see this nation is far from healthy that our Police Departments are the most dramatic expression of Structural Racism that our prisons are full of black people and latinos that. That we have to have an abolitionist imagination if we want to guarantee a future for our city i was standing nation and for the world what does that mean for ill get on to abolitionists as regards the Prison Industrial Complex and the police but obviously the f. B. I. Targeted you set in media circles people know about watergate do you think itll take a lot longer to know about cointelpro well increasing numbers of people are aware. The extent to which show the government attempt it to wipe out all of those who were resisting those who actually represented the possible future of democracy in this country it usually takes a very long. Long time for radical change to begin to be made but then on the other hand there are moments such as the current conjunct show were bringing together. A range of struggles a r
Watching the u. K. Or islands its putting them up next. After a time to you know what youre 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 season stay safe coming up in this episode with all that civil war raging in the United States what now for the Global Movement for justice and equality sparked by the Police Murder of george floyd we ask one of the most important activists of all time former black Panther Angela davis about organizing in the face of ahmed vehicles and tear gas and of anything has changed since she was one of the f. B. I. s most wanted plus when the options of the 2020 president ial ballot box man using military style force again. Protesters for a man who was instrumental in policies that resulted in the us having the highest prison population in the world is it time for a new Political Party all the small coming up in todays going on the gro
Using military style force against protesters or a man who was instrumental in policies that resulted in the u. S. Having the highest prison population in the world is it time for a new Political Party. Small coming up in todays going on the ground but 1st as protests continue today 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 davis coming on going underground 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 lette
A dangerous terrorist she joins me by skype from oakland in california thank you so much professor davis coming on going underground 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 corridor to 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. Argue 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 signage and any against climate injustice etc of course the words reverberate starkly today because of the use of the word gas chamber in the state of
Is not entirely correct to our United Nations investigation has concluded, israel violated the right to life of, ill just say the gentlest shooting of alaska she was killed last year by is really forces for reporting on raids in the occupied westbank. She advertising has more on the findings presented to the Un General Assembly. This is just the latest investigation to conclude, that is ray, the forces are responsible for the killing of elders 0 drum listerine. Ok. This mike is ready to governments. Insistence of no conclusion is possible. We conclude on the evidence we found and on reasonable grounds that these of ab Security Forces used the so false without justification on the International Human rights law. And intentionally or recklessly violated shooting will actually is right to life view and independent International Commission of inquiry on the occupied palestinian territory presented its investigation. Industry is coming to the Un General Assembly as part of its regular repor