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On the day that you were married I lit a candle for you A...

On the day that you were married I lit a candle for you And I placed it on the altar Of my heart. Alice walker for Julian and Stella 2022

When I Had My First Abortion: Or, I Was Spared To Be Here For You

                                    To Hell With Dying, illustration of a children’s book, by Catherine Deeter When I Had My First Abortion: Or, I Was Spared To Be Here For You ©2022 by Alice Walker When I had my first abortion, while a student in college and seventeen years old, my biggest worry was that my mother, if she ever learned of it, would consider me evil and would disown me; suicide, prior to the abortion, had seemed my only option. I did not tell her for over a decade.  When I did, s...

Socialist Action Newsletter (June 2022) Assange’s Defense Video – Mexico’s President demands Freedom for Assange

Reprint of Article from Socialist Action Newsletter 2022-June: VIDEO ON ASSANGE’S DEFENSE AT THE PEOPLE’S SUMMIT June 24, 2022 Assange activist and filmmaker Robert Corsini created a video in defense of journalist and whistleblower Julian Assange at the Los Angles People’s Summit. Julian’s father and brother, John and Gabriel Shipton, are featured speakers as well as a terrific Assange table staffed by Assange activist Vincent De Stefano. Some 1,000 activists attended the People’s Summit which w...

There Are Grandfathers Worthy of the Name

HAY ABUELOS DIGNOS DEL NOMBRE The Thankful Poor by Henry Ossawa Tanner There are grandfathers worthy of the name. Noam Chomsky and what love is. ©2022 by Alice Walker It has amused me at times to note some of the places I have been criticized.  The most odd was the mockery for saying I love old men.  This was of course long before I became old myself.  I didn’t understand it.  Why should my love of old men, starting with my devil-as-a-young-man grandfather, raise hackles?  Decades later, looking...

Black Girls Smile interview Alice Walker – May 2022

Tending to Our Gardens: An Interview with Ms. Alice Walker https://alicewalkersgarden.com/vid/20... https://www.blackgirlssmile.org/ https://www.c-span.org/video/?520361-...

Sasha Gong explains the real reason for the extended lockdown of Shanghai

Understanding is important. ~aw

They’re Terrified Of Us Realizing Who’s In Power | DAVID ICKE

“THE WORLD DOES NOT WANT ME ANYMORE”… Chinese woman in chains.

The writer Ding Ling, Alice Walker holding tight to her! Tillie Olsen, Chen Ming (husband of Ding Ling)Paule Marshall, et al.  Beijing, China 1982. More names to come. “THE WORLD DOES NOT WANT ME ANYMORE”... Chinese woman in chains. Sister, if you ever see this, know that the world does want you. And here you see in this photograph that women all over the world understand we are in peril, together.  Here in 1982 we are surrounding the heroic dissident Ding Ling who suffered also from a toxic mal...

Nurit Peled-Elhanan: killing, evicting, murdering – Jewish routine

“Subject: killing, evicting, murdering – Jewish routine” [Also click to see #JusticeForShireen] 16-year-old Nader Rayan. Israeli Border Police officers shot and killed him at the Balata Refugee Camp. He was shot at least 11 times, in all parts of his body: head, chest, pelvis, limbs, buttocks and back “Journalist Sherin Abu Aqla was martyred this morning, the victim of this terrorist occupation. Sherin Abu Aqla is not just a journalist, it’s history, it’s message, it’s humanity, the last thing S...

Pale Face, Forked Tongue, Wasichu* i.e. Fat Taker: Thoughts On Being Slandered

  Pale Face, Forked Tongue, Wasichu* i.e. Fat Taker: Thoughts On Being Slandered (Prepared for, though not delivered, at a gathering at First Congregational Church in Berkeley, California). April 2022. ©2022 by Alice Walker It has occurred to me that the best way to engage the charge of anti-Semitism is to confront it in a public forum.  This is such a space.  Thank you for being here and please do me the courtesy of listening as if our lives depend on what we share; they might.  For we are livi...