Angela Davis

 The name of the subjet that Ienjoyed to study is Angela Davis. She was a marxist political activist of the United States which was related with the Black Panter Party and is a member of the Communist Party of USA (CPUSA).

For the class we had to expose one book among diferent authors and we choose "Prisions Obsolete?" from the 2003, wrote by Angela Davis. In this book she criticize the prision system advocating for the decarceration of the penal scheme. Besides, she also criticized their profound discrimination against prisioners based on their social class, sex, or ethnicity. Also, she advocated for a abolitionalist srategy to repeal repressive laws, which are applied in an arbitrary and discriminatory manner.

I like Angela Davis because she currently still being a important political activist in a capitalist country like the USA, she developed a community-centered policy and criticized hard the prevailing penal system in the western culture. Presently she is a emeritus teacher by the Univerity of California, Santa Cruz, because her contribution of the developement of the critical thinking.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Autobiography

Image
Hi everyone and welcome to my first blog: I was born in Santiago de Chile, in 1995, and I have lived here all my life. Initially I lived with my two parents in the commune of Lo Prado, but they separated when I was four years old and I went together with my mom and my brother to my maternal grandparents' house in Quinta Normal. I have always lived in the same neighborhoods and I like to live in this part of the city. During my education I went through many colleges in the sector. In the elementary school I went through the Villa España, Principe de Gales and Madre Vicencia schools in the commune of Estación Central. While during high school I continued for a few years at the Liceo Madre Vicense, but I changed to the Liceo Manuel Barros Borgoño to finish the high school after the student mobilizations of 2011. In 2014 I began to study a Bachelor's degree in History at the University of Chile, but I did not like the degree and I entered Social Work in 2016 at the same university....
Read more

My favorite piece of technology

 I think that currently my favorite piece of tecnology is our big lcd television. My maternal family bought it taking adventage of the sales of the Soccer World Cup of South Africa in 2010. It is the only big tv that we have, because the other televisions are more old, have a small screen and are big in the back part, besides not capture the signal so well. How is our only big TV we have a shared use, so we have to agreed when each member of the family use it. I use to play some movies and series on it, usually in the night, with the lights of the living room off. We use it a pair of times in the week, normaly in the weekend or when we have free times. I like it because is fun to see any serie or movie on it, like if we have our own personal cinema in our living room. Currently this television break down at the begining of the quarantine and we send it to the mechanic to repair it and he said us to we need to replace the motherboard because it blew by a excessive use and because th...
Read more

Music

Image
I don't use to listen a lot of music in my daily life, but currently my favorite group is Rapalapar Rockers, a rap group by Santiago of Chile. I like their lyrics since in their songs they convey certain content about ways of life critical to the materialism of today's society, in addition to including a lot of cultural references to cult movies, animated series broadcast in the 90s and even books that I had to read for school.  His records have gone through different keys, since Ars Moriendi (2011) with dark songs like Aguaturbia ; going through a very active period with the publication of Pet cementerio  (2014) and  Mixtape Vol. 1 (2014), including songs that I like a lot, like Los pájaros and Pdi hija del Fbi , respectively. Lastly they publish his most recent album El agua de los océanos vino del espacio  (2018) in which they experimented with songs of a calmer and more cheerful key, like El etc de virgilio  and D12 .   In the last years I h...
Read more