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An Ever-Expanding Carceral System: Angela Davis on Liberation

When I spoke with renowned professor, activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis for the inaugural episode of Laura Flanders & Friends in 2024, decades of activism were seeing results: support for Palestine was growing, calls for criminal justice reform were growing, and Davis had just released a book of essays discussing the intersections between feminism and prison abolition.

Today we find ourselves in a new era of chaos: AI data megacenters are sucking up resources, immigration police are killing people, rapists are enjoying impunity — and throughout it all the for-profit incarceration system expands.

The number of ICE detention facilities has nearly doubled over the last two years.........

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