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Abolition Democracy - Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture by Angela Y. Davis
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Open Media Ser.
Revelations about U.S policies and practices of torture and abuse have captured headlines ever since the breaking of the Abu Ghraib prison story in April 2004. Since then, a debate has raged regarding what is and what is not acceptable behavior for the world's leading democracy. It is within this contex ...Show more
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Open Media Ser.
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggle ...Show more
Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, Expanded Edition by Abu-Jamal, Mumia, West, Cornel, Wright, Julia, Abu-Jamal, Mumia
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: City Lights Open Media Ser.
Profound meditations on life, death, freedom, family, and faith written by radical, Black journalist Abu-Jamal, while he was awaiting his execution.
Media Control - The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda by Noam Chomsky
Category: Reference | Series: Open Media Ser.
Noam Chomsky's backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy--one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a tota ...Show more
The Black History of the White House by Clarence Lusane
Category: History | Series: City Lights Open Media Ser.
The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the Obamas.Cla ...Show more
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Davis
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: City Lights Open Media Ser.
"Davis' arguments for justice are formidable. . . . The power of her historical insights and the sweetness of her dream cannot be denied."—The New York Times What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms ...Show more
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