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...know, we must fight for your life as though it were our own--which it is--and render impassible with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night. letter from James Baldwin to Angela Davis...
PERHAPS--AS SHE contends--the international movement to free Angela Davis that sprang up in 1970 after her arrest on charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy would have been just as massive if it had been centered around some other political prisoner. The era of massive political protests was still in full force and during the previous year there had been a number of strong defense committees set up for several comrades--the Soledad Brothers, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Erica Huggins. But the millions of people who signed petitions and donated money to over 200 chapters of the National United...
After Rockefeller was excused, 22 witnesses got their chance to air their views on his nomination. Chief among them was Angela Davis, the black radical, who attacked Rockefeller for having permitted "one of the most wanton massacres in the history of the United States" at New York's Attica prison in 1971 during a revolt in which 32 prisoners and eleven hostages died. Rockefeller had told the Senators that while he deeply regretted the bloodshed, he still felt justified in having sent in the police to try to rescue the hostages. Said Rocky: "I do not believe in negotiating...
...will continue to work with the Indochina Peace Campaign and the Chilean Action Group to demand the freeing of all political prisoners in both areas and will help sponsor a rally for Puerto Rican Independence on Monday October 6 with Angela Davis and Alfredo Lopez as speakers, Steven J. Carlip '75 said...
...went to Stanford University to teach law in 1969 but has spent as much time in court as in the classroom. One of the nation's ranking experts in criminal law and civil rights, he has defended Chicago Seven Attorney William Kunstler, Black Panther Bobby Seale and Militant Angela Davis. He became principal architect of the campaign to abolish the death penalty, successfully arguing his case before the Supreme Court in 1972. A former clerk for the late Felix Frankfurter and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Amsterdam has a passion for underdogs of any kind. "After...