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...revolutionary fervor and her associations with the Black Panthers, the Communist Party, and other groups advocating violence to throw off capitalist repression, Angela Davis has managed more than anyone else numbered among these organizations to assuage mainstream America. By the end of her trial, Davis had so moved members of the jury with her political statements that even those who originally appeared prejudiced against both blacks and Communists were thoroughly convinced of her innocence. Some even considered the trial an impetus to their own political action to fight repression. When Davis spoke at the Boston Globe Book Festival several weeks...
...ones. As the trial developed it became obvious that they were merely a facade for political persecution. This in part accounts for the wider base of the Free Angela Davis movement. Still, Angela Davis is a member of the Communist Party USA. She openly denounces the "corporate pigs" and capitalist system that allows them to exploit her brothers and sisters. In 1970, Gov. Ronald Reagan and the UCLA Board of Regents sought to fire her from her teaching post at UCLA and they eventually did not renew her contract because she is a member of the party. Public opinion polls...
...middle-class background, her studies at Brandeis and in Germany and--lamentably--her physical attractiveness probably have much to do with why Davis is afforded a more cordial reception than many of her comrades in struggle. In addition, although Davis is a revolutionary, dedicated to the overthrow of the capitalist oppressors, she does not allow her appeals to the masses to become clogged with abstract rhetoric and petty haranguing over who will lead the revolution, which of the diverse Communist or Socialist groups is right, or any of the other questions that fragment many Marxist organizations. Her immediate struggle...
...novel Reed calls this savory cultural mess of lore and history "the Gumbo"-after the unique and varied Creole dish. But Reed's Gumbo is strongly metaphorical rather than explicitly edible, a sort of royal soul food manufactured at the Solid Gumbo Works by a black capitalist named Ed Yellings. The plot, full of violence, intrigue and high-speed travel, turns on whether the Gumbo Works will be controlled by LaBas' forces of good and healing magic (Gumbo can cure heroin addiction) or the perversion of the ancient mysteries led by the Louisiana Red Corp. and its sinister...
...there are jokes about Philosopher Ayn Rand's becoming the Ford Administration's primary behind-the-scenes adviser now that her friend Alan Greenspan heads the President's Council of Economic Advisers. If previous Administrations had taken Rand's advice to stop interfering in the capitalist system, the U.S. wouldn't be in its present economic mess. Woolsey Teller Indianapolis...