[-empyre-] Agnes Varda and Angela Davis

[Maria Damon]

beautiful reflections

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:02 PM Timothy Conway Murray <tcm1 at cornell.edu>
wrote:

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> Ana,
>
> It's amazing that Angela Davis frames your memory of Agnes Varda.  I was
> active in the Vietnam resistance movement in the San Francisco Bay Area at
> the time of Angela's arrest.  One of my most vivid memories was the shock
> across the activist communities over her arrest.  One of my friends
> happened to live across the street was the county jail where she was said
> to be held while in transport.  I'll never forget the night where we sat on
> that porch serenading Angela with songs of protest and struggles, as if she
> could hear us.  It is this same spirit that Agnes Varda lent to the memory
> of the Panthers whose contributions to the communities of the Bay Area were
> legendary.
>
> Tim
>
> Timothy Murray
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> Professor of Comparative Literature and English
>
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>
>
> On 4/9/19, 8:51 PM, "empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on
> behalf of Ana Valdés" <empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on
> behalf of agora158 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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