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As Soon As I Got Out Of Jail, As Soon As My Trial Was Over, First Of All, During The Time I Was In Jail, There Was An Organization Called The National United Committee To Free Angela Davis, And I Insisted That It Be Called National United Committee To Free Angela Davis And All Political Prisoners.

One Of The Reasons That So Many People Of Color And Poor People Are In Prison Is That The Deindustrialization Of The Economy Has Led To The Creation Of New Economies And The Expansion Of Some Old Ones – I Have Already Mentioned The Drug Trade And The Market For Sexual Services. At The Same Time, Though, There Are Any Number Of Communities That More Than Welcome Prisons As A Source Of Employment. Communities Even Compete With One Another To Be The Site Where New Prisons Will Be Constructed Because Prisons Create A Significant Number Of Relatively Good Jobs For Their Residents

We Have Accumulated A Wealth Of Historical Experience Which Confirms Our Belief That The Scales Of American Justice Are Out Of Balance.

My Name Became Known Because I Was, One Might Say Accidentally The Target Of State Repression And Because So Many People Throughout The Country And Other Parts Of The World Organized Around The Demand For My Freedom.

Where Cultural Representations Do Not Reach Out Beyond Themselves, There Is The Danger That They Will Function As The Surrogates For Activism, That They Will Constitute Both The Beginning And The End Of Political Practice.