Shirari Industries :: Blog :: Angela Davis Tells It

Earlier this week, on Martin Luther King Day, I happened upon an amazing speech that Angela Davis gave at Duke University in 2005. In an hour she manages to cover racism, homophobia, the war in Iraq, the prison industrial complex, media conglomeration and more (including some prescient shout-outs for Dennis Kucinich and Barack Obama).

Most importantly, Davis calls attention to the worldwide movement for social change, a network of people from around the globe, united in the belief that "Another World Is Possible." It turns out the World Social Forum, the largest annual convening of this movement of movements, is taking place right now, all around the world (in the past, it's been held in particular locations like Porte Alegre, Mumbai and Nairobe). The WSF site hosts an interactive Google map that you can search for actions in your area.

I found the Angela Davis speech on iTunes U, a pretty awesome section of the iTunes store where you can download free audio from various universities, including full courses. To find the speech, open iTunes, click on the store, click on "iTunes U" on the upper left side, then click on "Duke" in the universities list on the left, then on "Campus" in the topics list on the left, and then on "Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration" under Offices and Programs on the bottom. (Yes, it's really annoying that you can't bookmark or hyperlink things in iTunes,unless you know you don't mind installing AppleScripts.)

Does anyone out there know the deal on Shola Lynch's documentary Free Angela & All Political Prisoners? All I can find online is this video interview Shola did for AOL Black Voices about the project. I really want to see it, but I can't find any distribution info.

Ari and I are also working our way through the UC Berkeley class "Introduction to Nonviolence" with professor Michael Nagler. Just go to iTunes and do a search to find it. College without homework - woohoo!

Comments

Angela, I love iTunes U as well. You said, "Yes, it's really annoying that you can't bookmark or hyperlink things in iTunes"

You can actually right-click on anything in iTunes and "Copy iTunes URL" this can then me linked to, bookmarked, etc.

Also, if the link you get has "http" at the beginning simply replace that with "itms" so that it doesn't open up another web-browser window. The result will open up iTunes and highlight that specific track you want. The track you liked is:

itms://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/new.duke.edu.1293697282.01293697292.1310640178?i=1347661563

Posted by: Steve | January 25, 2008 07:35 PM

Shola's is in production on the project. It will be a while before it's done.

Posted by: Angela Tucker | January 26, 2008 01:09 PM