Sunday, July 12, 2020

Five of the best books about the power of protest

Neha Shah is an activist and researcher at the University of Oxford.

At the Guardian, she tagged five of the best books about the power of protest, including:
Angela Davis’s Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement challenges us to engage with this tradition and join the struggle for liberation from oppression in all its forms. This series of essays, interviews and speeches weaves together the internationalist principles of the anticolonial movements with a sharp analysis of state violence in America, the prison industrial complex and the formative years of Black Lives Matter. Key to Davis’s analysis is the understanding that colonial oppression takes the same basic form across the world, whether in Minneapolis, Jerusalem or the Amazon rainforest.
Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue