Vance Miguel Johnson’s Reviews > Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement > Status Update

Davus’ 2013 speech at Birkbeck University, London is an amazing resource to review the history of reparations. My takeaway is that all progress for the most marginalized results in rise in quality of life for everyone, exemplified by the case of white southern children receiving government funded (free) education for the first time after the civil war because of the work of Black Activism to gain education.

The prison company named G3 in 2014 was responsible for growing and operating the prison industrial complex in the United States, UK and Palestine

“It’s important to prevent the term INTERSECTIONALITY from erasing essential histories of activism. There were those of us, who by virtue of are experience […] recognize that we had to figure out a way to bring these issues together. They weren’t separate in our bodies, but also they are not separate in terms of struggles” (Chapter One)

“Progressive struggles whether they are focused on racism, repression, poverty, or other issues are doomed to fail if they do not also attempt to develop a consciousness of the insidious promotion of capitalist individualism. Even as Nelson Mandela always insisted that his accomplishments were collective […] the media attempted to sanctify him as a heroic individual.” (Essay One)