Alice Walker's Blog, page 57

I Am Grieving For Fidel

I AM GRIEVING FOR FIDEL 2016 by Alice Walker I am grieving for Fidel; I am bereft because he left us. Yet, after decades of offering support to more doubtful and less confident souls who called to him from his own country and around the globe wasn’t it time for him to read more »

November 26, bless Fidel, 2016

November 26, bless Fidel, 2016 Dear amazing brother, you made it all the way home! May this be the joy that always greets you. ~

November 25, bless Fidel, 2016

November 25, bless Fidel, 2016 Dear amazing brother, you made it all the way home! May this be the joy that always greets you. ~ Querido asombroso hermano, has hecho todo el trayecto a casa, Que sea el júbilo el que siempre te acompañe. Compassionate Revolutionary En Español Fidel Castro: Compassionate Revolutionary Copyright 2016 read more »

November 22, bless Kennedy, 2016

November 22, bless Kennedy, 2016 Bob Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall, sung by the Staple Singers THE PRIZE IS POETRY POETRY IS THE PRIZE IT NEEDS NO OTHER.

Don’t Despair / No Desesperes

NO DESESPERES en español November 9 2016 Don’t Despair Copyright 2016 by Alice Walker When I was a child growing up in middle Georgia, I thought all white men were like Donald Trump. They too seemed petulant and spoiled, unhappy with everything they were not the center of, brutal toward the feelings of those read more »

Don’t Despair

November 9 2016 Don’t Despair Copyright 2016 by Alice Walker When I was a child growing up in middle Georgia, I thought all white men were like Donald Trump. They too seemed petulant and spoiled, unhappy with everything they were not the center of, brutal toward the feelings of those “beneath” them, and read more »

UNIVERSAL CONDEMNATION OF THE U.S. ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST CUBA

Universal Condemnation of the US Economic Sanctions against Cuba Salim Lamrani Université de La Réunion http://www.globalresearch.ca/universa... Once again the international community has rejected the economic sanctions strangling the Cuban people. For the twenty fifth consecutive year, the UN General Assembly expressed its condemnation of the economic, trade and financial blockade imposed by Washington on Cuba read more »

Spending election day burning a candle for four extraordinary people (November 8, 2016)

November 8 2016 I am spending election day burning a candle for four extraordinary people: Mumia Abu Jamal, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden. I was thinking about all of them this morning in meditation. So I labeled it “thinking,” as we are taught, and went back toOm Nama Shivaya. But they all came read more »

Yemanjá Wisdom from the African Heart of Brazil

Yemanjá Wisdom from the African Heart of Brazil Narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker A film by Donna C. Roberts and Donna Read http://www.yemanjathefilm.com/ Adocumentary film about the Candombléreligion in Bahia, Brazil, a vibrant African-derived culture which evolved from the days of enslaved Africans. Elder women leaderstellstories of Candomblé’s history, social challenges and triumphs, read more »

Buffalo just came out to support the people at Standing Rock

Buffalo just came out to support the people at Standing Rock Source photo of Buffalo at Standing Rock Video source: Vimeo