19 Aug 1970 — Original caption: 8/19/1970-Washington, DC -Angela Yvonne Davis, a self admitted communist, has been added to the FBI’s list of “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.” The FBI issued this wanted flyer August 18. Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS. Angela Davis was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list (credit: Federal Bureau of Investigation)
by moorbey Speaking to the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression recently, Angela Davis renewed her call to release black prisoners she says were convicted for their political beliefs, not because they were guilty. The event was a rally to 
Davis spoke about the need for international solidarity opposing institutionalized police violence against those engaged in political conduct around the world. Davis said, “Anti-Muslim racism, Islamophobia has to be understood as intersecting with and reinvigorating anti-Black, anti-Asian, anti-Latinos racism.”
Davis has her own history with oppression. A Communist leader, Davis was charged in August 1970 with supplying weaponry used in a fatal jailbreak attempt at the Marin County Courthouse in California. Continue reading “Angela Davis Rallies to Free Ed Poindexter, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Leonard Peltier”
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