{"id":12157,"date":"2011-01-22T16:46:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T21:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/12157\/heros-angela-davis\/"},"modified":"2011-01-22T16:46:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T21:46:34","slug":"heros-angela-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/12157\/heros-angela-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"My Heros &#8211; Angela Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Davis became a <span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><em><strong>cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span> in 1969 when Governor Ronald Reagan ordered the Board of Regents to fire her from her position as associate professor of philosophy at UCLA because she was a member of the Communist Party, USA.  She was later rehired after taking legal action.<\/p>\n<p>She was the Vice Presidential candidate of the Communist Party USA in 1980 and 1984.<\/p>\n<p>She broke with the Communist Party USA because of its support of the coup attempt in 1991.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">A principal focus of her current activism is the state of prisons within the United States. She considers herself an abolitionist, not a &#8220;prison reformer.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span> She is one of the primary founders of Critical Resistance an organization that seeks to abolish the prison system and reform the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Davis became a cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre in 1969 when Governor Ronald Reagan ordered the Board of Regents to fire her from her position as associate professor of philosophy at UCLA because she was a member of the Communist Party, USA. She was later rehired after taking legal action. She was the Vice Presidential candidate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}