"Legendary Activist" comes to the VMFA for sold out Africana Film Festival appearance








California Superior Court Judge Harold Haley with a shotgun Davis purchased two days prior taped around his neck during Jonathan Jackson’s Marin Co. Courthhouse "rebellion". Photo by Jim Kean, Marin Independent Journal.  Haley would later be killed with that weapon.




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Davis: “WE HAVE TO DO WHATEVER IS NECESSARY” TO STOP TRUMP

maybe the VMFA can show the Ruby Ridge documentary and ask Randy Weaver to come speak later on this year?


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Ah such a role model.

Was Bill Ayers busy?

Che declined to attend due to a previous engagement.

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Nothing CoC compliant to say.

let the VMFA know what you think about this speaker here

The racial make up of the people wanting to see this cut is depressing

Cuba[edit]
After her acquittal, Davis visited Cuba. She followed the precedents set by her fellow activists Robert F. Williams, Huey Newton, Stokely Carmichael, and Assata Shakur. Her reception by Afro-Cubans at a mass rally was so enthusiastic that she was reportedly barely able to speak.[39] Davis perceived Cuba to be a racism-free country, which led her to believe that "only under socialism could the fight against racism be successfully executed." When she returned to the United States, her socialist leanings increasingly influenced her understanding of race struggles.[40]

Soviet Union[edit]
In 1979, Davis was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union.[41] She visited Moscow in July of that year to accept the prize.

Jonestown and Peoples Temple[edit]
In the mid-1970s, Jim Jones, who developed the cult Peoples Temple, initiated friendships with progressive leaders in the San Francisco area including Dennis Banks and Davis.[42] On September 10, 1977, 14 months prior to the Temple's mass murder-suicide, Davis spoke via radio-phone dispatch to members of his Peoples Temple living in Guyana within Jonestown.[43][44] In her statement during the "Six Day Siege", she expressed support for the People's Temple anti-racism efforts and told members there was a conspiracy against them. She said that "when you are attacked, it is because of your progressive stand, and we feel that it is directly an attack against us as well."[45]