Alice Walker's Blog, page 29

“WEF: The Most Evil Business in the World” Video

To understand this in scary depth, read David Icke’s latest book THE TRAP about where humanity is being taken.  Don’t like David Icke? Oh well. ~aw Source: Samuel Leeds — “The World Economic Forum are a HUGE global network of elitists. They have a world agenda which is absolutely shocking. The want people by 2030 to OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY calling it The Great Reset. In this video I discuss how dangerous this is and what I really believe about The Great Reset. Share this video far and wide to p...

My Mar-a-Lago Raid (Rumble with Michael Moore)

August 2022   There are no words. ~aw   Source: My Mar-a-Lago Raid | Ep. 253 Rumble with Michael Moore podcast, Aug 30, 2022

Mississippi Book Festival 2022: In Conversation with Alice Walker & Kiese Laymon

 In Conversation with Alice Walker,  Mississippi Book Festival

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Life of Howard Zinn, August 24th 1922, rebel historian extraordinaire.

Struggle is great, but absolutely you have to resist. If you don’t resist I really think you lose a part of your own life. We’re not meant to succumb to dictatorial, crazy people. We’re not. In whatever way you can resist, resist. Resistance is the secret of joy. ~aw. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Life of Howard Zinn, August 24th 1922, rebel historian extraordinaire. Howard Zinn, before awakening. ~aw

In Gaza BDS gives us hope

REPRINT OF campaign launched 08-02-2022 by In Gaza BDS gives us hope:   Help us to transform HOPE into LIBERATION. It’s been 15 years since Israel imposed a hermetic, medieval siege on Gaza from all directions, transforming it into the world’s largest and most brutal open-air prison.  For more than seven decades, Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid and military occupation has been ethnically cleansing us, destroying our homes, stealing our land, and violently crushing our lives and...

Brother Russell Means Presente! (in 2012 and now again in 2022)

Highlighting this 2012 post of the teachings of Russell Means on Matriarchy for our world in 2022 Brother Russell Means, Presente! Originally Published on: Oct 22, 2012: With the passing of Russell Means the world has lost one of its great wisdom teachers. A self described “born again Primitive” he honored Feminine guidance as the best option for achieving peaceful success in human affairs, considering it to be utterly, even astonishingly, compatible with the workings of both Universe and Earth;...

Poem As I am dying

Onions on a fence photo by Alice Walker  2022 As I am Dying Copyright 2022 by Alice Walker (For all the farmers of the world who are standing up.)  As I am dying Please place a small earth streaked Onion In my hand. Onion has been my friend Throughout  my long life. From my mother’s soups and stews To my father’s Southern frittatas To my grandmother’s loving Breath. Onion, you have been with me! And what a journey it has been! Pulling you from the dirt As a “tot” Which is what a small person was...

My Name Is Andrea

A film directed  by the genius Pratibha Parmar, and co-produced by the great Shaheen Haq

What it means to stand for what you believe, and know.  A powerful film that embraces complexity, courage, determination and the ability to love in all directions. ~aw

Sending Metta to Brittany

Sending Metta to Brittany © 2022 by Alice Walker   May you be free May you be happy May you be peaceful May you be at rest May you know we are thinking of you   Because you are imprisoned in a country whose writers have meant the world to me, I wish to suggest that while you are there, read (if they are in English and there is a library in the prison) some of the great Russian writers: Tolstoi, Dostoevsky, Gorky, Anna Akhmatova, etc. I would especially recommend a short story by Tolstoi that I r...

What Does the Supreme Court Have Against Happiness?

What Does the Supreme Court Have Against Happiness? Copyright 2022 by Alice Walker I ask this having experienced John Lahr’s book about Tennessee Williams, MAD PILGRIMAGE OF THE FLESH, a story of a gay man, a flaming gay man, a path seeker and truth sharer, who was as well one of the most tortured and brilliant playwrights of the last century.  I refrain from saying he was the greatest American playwright only because to me he is beyond category. Ridiculed by his father who nicknamed him “Miss N...