Shouts of “Free Palestine” and loud applause. That is how the historic political activist and Afro-descendant feminist Angela Davis (Birmingham, Alabama, USA, 1944) has been fired, and has as soon as once more dazzled a devoted viewers in Barcelona. This Monday, Davis spoke with the journalist Mònica Terribas below the title Civil rights and social justice, earlier than about 350 individuals, within the auditorium of the Pompeu Fabra College (UPF), which in March 2021 awarded her an honorary doctorate. The rector of the UPF, Laia de Nadal, acquired Davis on the Ciutadella campus, that when she was honored, she couldn’t go to the college as a result of pandemic.
Solidarity in direction of the Palestinian individuals and the mobilizations of college college students from the US and in every single place has been one of many first thanks of the thinker, when requested by Terribas who referred to the current assault on the refugee camp of Rafath.
The activist Angela Davis talks with the journalist Mònica Terribas, this Monday within the auditorium of the UPF. / Photograph: Carlos Baglietto
racial capitalism
With agile and important pondering, at 80 years outdated, Angela Davis has denounced what she calls “racial capitalism” and has additionally made individuals snigger when she has assured that “capitalism has lasted too lengthy.” The activist, member of the Communist Celebration of the USA and the Black Panther celebration, didn’t chew his tongue when he said that ““The battle in opposition to the colonialist state of Israel is an emergency,” and that “Europe is now not white and has plenty of work to do in opposition to racism.”
Davis has made a parallel with the Spaniards who needed to to migrate to Germany in the course of the post-war interval and who suffered racism, with which individuals who come from Africa now undergo racism within the Spanish State, as occurs all through Europe. He has insisted thatNew applied sciences and advances “should be for the group”and that nice adjustments include collective actions, and has reminded black girls how they ended racial segregation in the US, though everybody remembers a Martin Luther King. “A person,” Terribas replied in a mocking tone.
And Catalonia?
The North American activist visited Barcelona in 2017, at a convention on the CCCB, simply with the independence course of underway, and invited the Catalans to “complicate it a little bit, making a feminist and anti-racist independence.” On this Monday’s speak, Terribas, taking the sting off, reminded him that independence has not been achieved, and Davis has insisted that “Catalonia additionally has to work to be extra anti-racist.”
“Hope as a self-discipline”
Davis It’s extremely requested and appreciated in Barcelona, in addition to around the globe. This Saturday the Marxist politician participated in one of many debates on the Literal Honest, the exhibition of radical concepts and books, which this yr celebrated its tenth version in Barcelona. In a dialog with TV3 journalist Bea Duodu Owusu and Basque thinker Jule Goikoetxea, he launched certainly one of his praised messages on social networks: “Hope must be understood as a self-discipline; our accountability can be to generate hope.”
There have been thrilling and enjoyable moments, when Bea Duoduva defined that after 40 years of existence of Catalan public tv, she was the primary black presenter on the medium, as not too long ago the primary director at MACBA, Davis congratulated the presenter, however with humor invited her to “refuse” to be the primary or the one one, and to have fun that there are extra.
Within the dialog on the UPF, the veteran activist additionally invited younger individuals to proceed the struggles in order that “the“Freedom be for all of the world”, rremembering what her “good good friend” the African American author mentioned Toni Morrisonthat “freedom just isn’t particular person, however is the battle for the liberty of others.”
The attendees have consistently applauded all of Davis’s claims, this Monday on the UPF. / Photograph: Carlos Baglietto
