Angela Davis our Freind the Communist!

Communist professor at the University of California's Santa Cruz campus
Recipient of the Lenin "Peace Prize" from the police state of East Germany.
Provided an arsenal of weapons to Black Panthers who used them to kill a Marin Country judge in a failed attempt to free her imprisoned lover, Black Panther murderer George Jackson
A highly paid professor at UC Santa Cruz and icon of the campus left and frequent guest speaker at anti-war rallies
Leader of a movement to free all criminals who are minorities claiming that they are political prisoners of the racist United States
"The only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class."




Born into a middle-class family in Birmingham, Alabama in 1944, Angela Davis attended segregated schools in that city until she was selected for a special life of radical privilege, becoming a student at New York's Little Red Schoolhouse (LRS), famous for its Communist faculty and student body Kathy Boudin of the terrorist Weather Underground attended the school). Having been exposed to the Marxist classics at the LRS, Davis was moved on to a full scholarship at Elisabeth Irwin High School in New York, an adjunct of the Little Red Schoolhouse. While attending these schools she was a house guest of the Aptheker family. Herbert Aptheker was the Communist Party's chief theoretician.

In 1961 Davis enrolled at Brandeis University, where she majored in French. She spent her junior year studying in Paris, where she came into contact with Algerian revolutionaries. She graduated from Brandeis in 1965, and then spent two years on the faculty of Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. She then returned to the U.S. to take another faculty job at UCLA, working with radical professor Herbert Marcuse. In 1968, as Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague spring," she joined the Communist Party, voicing her belief that "the only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class." In September 1969 Davis was fired from UCLA when her membership in the Communist Party became known. This resulted in a celebrated First Amendment battle that made Angela Davis a national figure and forced UCLA to rehire her. This victory for free speech however had no effect on Davis' low opinion of American democracy, which she ritually denounced on ceremonial occasions as when she received a "Lenin Prize" from the East German Communist police state.

In 1970 Davis was implicated by more than 20 witnesses in a plot to free her imprisoned lover, Black Panther and prison thug George Jackson by hijacking a Marin County, California courtroom and taking the judge, the prosecuting assistant district attorney, and two jurors hostage. In an ensuing gun battle outside the court building, Judge Harold Haley's head was blown off by a sawed-off shotgun owned by Ms. Davis. The assistant district attorney, Gary Thomas, shot and killed the driver of the getaway car and two convicts the hijackers had freed, wounding a third. But he himself was tragically struck and paralyzed by the wild shooting of San Quentin guards. To avoid arrest for her alleged complicity in the plot (she supplied the hijackers with a small arsenal, but claimed not to know the purposes for which it was used) Ms. Davis fled California, where she used aliases and changed her appearance to avoid detection. Two months later she was arrested by the FBI in New York City.

At her trial, Davis presented her version of where she had been and what she had been doing at the time of the shootout; because she was acting as her own attorney, she could not be cross-examined. She presented a number of alibi witnesses, almost all Communist friends, who testified that she had been with them in Los Angeles playing Scrabble at the time of the Marin slaughter. Witnesses who placed her in Marin were dismissed by Davis and her fellow attorneys as being unable to accurately identify blacks - because they were white. Davis' case was further aided by the pliant nature of the jury, which acquitted her. Following the verdict, one juror faced news cameras and gave a revolutionary's clenched-fist salute. He laughed at the justice system, saying that prosecutors had been mistaken to expect that the "middle-class jury" would convict Davis. He and most of the jurors then went off to partake in a Davis victory party.

The heroic Gary Thomas was eventually appointed a superior court judge, and he sat at the bench in his wheelchair for several decades. A street at Marin Civic Center was named in honor of the murdered Judge Haley. Ms. Davis's love interest, George Jackson, was killed at San Quentin in 1971 when he and several other prisoners tried to escape. During their failed attempt they slit the throats of three guards and two convicts, who begged for their lives to no avail.

Ms. Davis ran for Vice President of the United States in 1980 and 1984 on the Communist Party ticket. She is currently a "University Professor," one of only seven in the entire California University system, which entitles her to a six-figure salary and a research assistant. This income is supplemented by speaking fees ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 per appearance on college campuses, where she is an icon of radical faculty, administrators, and students. Her professorship is in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz - a program that gave a PhD to Black Panther rapist, crack addict, and murderer Huey P. Newton, while Davis was on the faculty. The Provost at UC Santa Cruz is Conn Hallinan, who joined the Communist Party in 1963 at Berkeley and was a an editor of the Communist Party newspaper, People's World.

During the months preceding the 2003 war in Iraq, Davis was a frequent guest speaker at anti-war rallies sponsored by such pro-Communist groups as International ANSWER and United For Peace and Justice. She is the leader of her own movement against "The Prison-Industrial Complex," claiming that all minorities in jail are actually "political prisoners."