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Jun 10, 2020
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transcript of what Angela Davis says in this clip is below in thread.

Channel 4 News

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"I don't know if we have ever experienced this kind of global challenge to racism and to the consequences of slavery." Angela Davis says anti-racism protests around the world are "a very exciting moment".
“Change has to come in many forms. It has to be political, it has to be economic. it has to be social. What we are witnessing now are very new demands...
“For who knows how long, we’ve been calling for accountability for individual police officers responsible for what amounts to lynchings, for continuing the whole tradition of extrajudicial lynching, but under the code of the law...
“What we are seeing now are new demands: demands to demilitarize the police, demands to defund the police, demands to dismantle the police and envision different modes of public safety. We're asked now to consider how we might imagine justice in the future...
“This is a very exciting moment. I don't know if we have ever experienced this kind of global challenge to racism and to the consequences of slavery and colonialism." -Angela Davis
@ProtestAccess a good one to caption if possible. i know y’all are probably swamped!
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