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“Gracias a la Vida” lyrics

Kaleo and Alice, self portrait 2010 or so, Looking. “Gracias a la vida” (Spanish for “Thanks to life” or “Thanks be to life“) is a song written, composed and performed by Chilean Violeta Parra Thank You to Life music and lyrics by Violeta Parra sung by Mercedes Sosa Thank you to life, that has given me so much: it gave me two bright stars, and when I open them I can perfectly distinguish white from black and in the high heavens, their starry depths and among the multitudes, the man I love. Thank...

No Distance Will Ever Divide Us: Palestine Is In the Heart

REPRINT 2021-12 37 Ambulances Delivered to Gaza Thanks to the US Boats to Gaza supporters who donated to our campaign to raise funds as a part of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla national projects to purchase and outfit one of the 37 ambulances that have now arrived in Gaza. Many ambulances and other medical equipment and facilities were destroyed in the 2021 Israeli attack on Gaza. The UK humanitarian organization Miles of Smiles and the international Medics Worldwide, coordinated the purchase in Egyp...

Her Bright Green Skirt

Feeling Grateful ©2021 by Alice Walker Feeling grateful For rain And therefore No fires Where I live Earth is putting on Her bright green Skirt.

ISraeli Soldiers: Interrogate 8 year old child

Subject: 8 year old interrogated brutally for 5 hours after his father’s killing   Abdallah Fadi Abu Shidam 8. after being told by policemen his father was a terrorist and killed by ISraeli soldiers,  was brought to the Jerusalem Moskobiya, like a criminal, and interrogated for 5 hours without his mother, a social worker or a lawyer at his side. — Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan telefax: ++972-(0)2-5700112 Mobile: ++972-(0)547-578703

Hebron Palestine + Subject: children pulled out of their beds to be photographed by soldiers

Subject: Children of Palestine Elior Levi: Crying and trembling, 13 pre-school and first grade Palestinian children in HEbron were pulled out of their beds in the middle of the night to be photographed by soldiers who ordered them to say “cheese”.     Meir baruchin: teen agers arrested in Biliin agt night.     Breaking the Silence t6h11i58inc8so6ghct26u (facebook link) We’re delighted to be able to share that ‘Mission: Hebron’ was published today in the op-docs section of the New York Times webs...

Subject: children pulled out of their beds to be photographed by soldiers

November 17, 2021 Subject: children pulled out of their beds to be photographed by soldiers Elior Levi: Crying and trembling, 13 pre-school and first grade Palestinian children in HEbron were pulled out of their beds in the middle of the night to be photographed by soldiers who ordered them to say “cheese”. Meir baruchin: teen […]

The Extraordinary Stubbornness of Ai WeiWei

La Extraordinaria Tenacidad De Ai Weiwei Ai WeiWei holding handmade sunflower seeds and standing in an ocean of them. ~aw The Extraordinary Stubbornness of Ai WeiWei Copyright 2021 by Alice Walker What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale. One of the most cal...

Why Some Southerners Are Still Mad

It is rarely as it seems. ~ photo by Alice walker 2020   Why Some Southerners Are Still Mad ©2021 by Alice Walker You are still suffering Because you believe You lost The love Of Black women. Let that thought Take you to the couch. Knowing black women As you do, Even today, Though many try to hide What they are: With wigs and bleach, makeup And boniness, Somewhere in that tangled Rag of memory All Southerners have, You still hold onto your “Grandma” Addie, your “auntie” June, Your Frankie Mae. I...

LOVE IS AN EXPRESSION OF POWER ~Ericka Huggins

The Blue Door Photo by Alice Walker ©2021 LOVE IS AN EXPRESSION OF POWER ~Ericka Huggins If humanity expresses this love, however it might strain us, for every being on Earth, in every moment it is possible to do so, humanity has a chance. The devil is tricky: So tricky it will even try to steal our main tool, Love, and turn it against humans. It will find, however, that true love is sticky. A good thing. But also lethal when misused by its alleged master. May this eve of Day of the Dead bring o...

Reptilian Gods: Is David Icke the “True White Brother” of Hopi Prophecy?

The Hopi Prophecy says that the ‘True White Brother’* would come and create a new sacredness among the people and tell the truth about all things. … The Indigenous Tribal people who lived a healthy and sacred life before the Deinosanthropoids (“Terrible and Half- Human”) arrived became victims of the pathological process of their predatory […]