Angela Davis: Now That Obama Has a Second Term, No More "Subordination to Presidential Agendas"

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Channel: Democracy Now! · 2013 · News & Politics

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DemocracyNow.org - Addressing the Peace Ball in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, the renowned author, educator and political activist Angela Davis urges those content with President Obama's re-election to continue pushing him for social change. "This time around we cannot subordinate our aspirations and our hopes to presidential agendas," Davis says. "Our passionate support for President Barack Obama ... should also be expressed in our determination to raise issues that have been largely ignored or not appropriately addressed by the administration."

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