1 Million Roses for Angela Davis - edited by Kathleen Reinhardt (Mousse Publishing) MIT Press Yusuf Idris and Hanan al-Shaykh

Yusuf Idris and Hanan al-Shaykh

as an act against oppression

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Nora Schultz

Edited by Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin

1 Million Roses for Angela Davis - edited by Kathleen Reinhardt (Mousse Publishing) MIT Press Yusuf Idris and Hanan al-ShaykhA Million Roses for Angela Davis was the motto of a 197072 solidarity campaign in East Germany in support of US philosopher, Communist, and Black Power revolutionary Angela Davis, who at the time was being held on terrorism charges in California. The large scale movement firmly anchored the heroine of the other America within the cultural memory of a now vanished social utopia, which after her acquittal welcomed her as a state guest. For her part,