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Activism conference at UCSC draws hundreds; young activists inspired by keynote speaker Angela Davis
Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 10/20/2012 | Shanna McCord

Posted on 10/21/2012 8:08:11 AM PDT by artichokegrower

SANTA CRUZ -- Famed activist Angela Davis shared her decades of experience working on social justice issues, namely prisoner rights, with a standing-room only crowd gathered for the 10th annual Practical Activism Conference at UC Santa Cruz.

Davis, 68, who is considered a celebrity of sorts among the university crowd, was chosen as the conference's keynote speaker on Saturday largely for the radical actions she under took during the 1960s.

Davis held membership with the Communist Party, aligned herself with the Black Panthers and was named to the FBI's Most Wanted list for an alleged role in the murder of a Marin County judge in 1970, which she was acquitted.

She's become one of the most well-known female scholars in the country for championing civil liberties and speaking out on class, race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation.

Davis, an East Bay resident who retired in 2008 after 17 years as a professor at UCSC, drew a standing ovation as she approached the conference podium.

(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...


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Sigh. Young rich useful idiots for the cause. I guess the only consolation if the revolution did come Davis's state provided pension and health care for life would be cut off.
1 posted on 10/21/2012 8:08:18 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Federal prison would be too good for her.


2 posted on 10/21/2012 8:09:26 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (In the game of life, there are no betting limits)
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To: artichokegrower

Those are evil people.

Or seriously misguided.


3 posted on 10/21/2012 8:12:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

A Communist “speaking out on class, race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation.”

Where else have we seen that before? I’m surprised she isn’t one of Obama’s Czars.


4 posted on 10/21/2012 8:12:57 AM PDT by Pelham (Liberate the White House)
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To: artichokegrower
Famed activist Angela Davis ...
An activist for black power and anti-VN war. And just how "famed" are her results?
It's been proven that North VN only stayed in the war after 1968 because of the anti-war scumbags. Tens of thousands died in the next 5 years.
And you only need to look at "black america" today to see how successful that cause was.
FAIL.
5 posted on 10/21/2012 8:16:30 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Pelham
She's even too high profile for the Bamster. Van Jones was the stealth Czar but his past caught up with him. Romney has better suss out ALL the traitors in this Admin and replace them with America-loving patriots!
6 posted on 10/21/2012 8:17:44 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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7 posted on 10/21/2012 8:21:59 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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I don’t think 4 years will be enough. Heck there are still clintonistas still in place that haven’t been excorcised yet. Day one, suspend all EO’s issued by uncle obie until they are “vetted”. Then trash them anyway. Suspend funding to the EPA, suspend any further contributions to the UN, put a hold on obiecare. The list just goes on and on. Probably take 2 days to do all the needed items.

Helping keep mankind warm for 65 years.


8 posted on 10/21/2012 8:25:28 AM PDT by rktman
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Love the comments section. This one sums it up for me.

jaj48 (signed in using yahoo) "one of the most well-known female scholars..."
What scholarly work is attributed to her? She is a communist hack who has no ideas other than totalitarian. The Black Panthers were and are a fascist bunch of extortionists who masquerade as social justice advocates. Her cry for global citizenship and international solidarity is rewashed communist blither.And we pay her a retirement bundle. Lenin said we'd sell him the rope to hang us and she proves it.

9 posted on 10/21/2012 8:50:57 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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Her retirement should be paid in North Korean currency. Let her go to that Commie paradise to spend it.


10 posted on 10/21/2012 9:49:14 AM PDT by cgbg (No bailouts for New York and California. Let them eat debt.)
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Her retirement should be paid in North Korean currency. Let her go to that Commie paradise to spend it.

That's exactly where that commie b***h should spend her remaining days, let her get a taste of the real commie world before she burns in hell for her many criminal acts.

11 posted on 10/21/2012 10:00:11 AM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: martin_fierro
Gee, guess I gotta check the schedule over there occasionally.

Would have been nice to show up and stage a counter-demonstration, demand our money back for having had to fund this little hatefest.

12 posted on 10/21/2012 10:04:31 AM PDT by Regulator
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Where would that b****h be at if she was found guilty of murder ?


13 posted on 10/21/2012 10:52:33 AM PDT by CORedneck
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To: rktman; originalbuckeye

“Heck there are still clintonistas still in place that haven’t been excorcised yet”

Dubya couldn’t be bothered with rooting them out. Just like he couldn’t be bothered with deporting the millions of illegals who add to Obama’s army.


14 posted on 10/21/2012 11:15:12 AM PDT by Pelham (Liberate the White House)
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