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DON’T MISS LOVING, MOONLIGHT, ET AL

DON’T MISS LOVING DON’T MISS SNOWDEN DON’T MISS QUEEN OF KATWE DON’T MISS 13TH DON’T MISS MOONLIGHT REREAD: 1984, BRAVE NEW WORLD, AND DOWN AND OUT IN LONDON AND PARIS. You’ll just have to take my word for it. I’m overextended and my dog is ill, so I can’t go into all the read more »

DON’T MISS LOVING, ET AL

DON’T MISS LOVING DON’T MISS SNOWDEN DON’T MISS QUEEN OF KATWE DON’T MISS 13TH REREAD: 1984, BRAVE NEW WORLD, AND DOWN AND OUT IN LONDON AND PARIS. You’ll just have to take my word for it. I’m overextended and my dog is ill, so I can’t go into all the reasons I’d like read more »

DON’T MISS QUEEN OF KATWE!

DON’T MISS QUEEN OF KATWE! More soon.

Enemies at the Gate

September 2016 I spent all day last Saturday from ten o’clock in the morning to after ten o’clock at night (with a break for lunch, stretches, walks and a nap in my car) listening to a presentation by David Icke who is traveling the planet with his Phantom Self, World Wake Up Tour. He read more »

WINNIE MANDELA WE LOVE YOU

The name “Lucy,” which appears in the following poem, was given by paleoanthropologists to the fossilized skeleton of the most ancient, recognizably human being ever found. A woman who lived on the African continent some three million years ago. WINNIE MANDELA WE LOVE YOU by Alice Walker Winnie Mandela We love you. If we had read more »

Never Give Up:

Never Give Up: Even when the way of Peace is sabotaged or difficult to read….

Fidel Castro: Compassionate Revolutionary (For a book to be presented to Fidel this week honoring his birth)

En Español Fidel Castro: Compassionate Revolutionary Copyright 2016 by Alice Walker (For a book to be presented to Fidel this week honoring his birth.) Fidel Castro is the most extraordinary person I have encountered, whether in real life, history, or fiction. It is a gift to have been born in his time and to witness read more »

I thank Thich Nhat Hahn

Breathing in I thank Thich Nhat Hahn Breathing Out I thank him more. -AW

Cornel West: Why I Endorse Green Party’s Jill Stein Over “Neoliberal Disaster” Hillary Clinton

Why vote for evil (lesser is still evil) when you can vote for good? Most of us have never won an election anyway. The self-deception is believing you have. And we’ve certainly never “won” democracy. Bernie sure did look good, though. -AW Cornel West: Why I Endorse Green Party’s Jill Stein Over “Neoliberal Disaster” Hillary read more »

Did You See Our Palestine Signs at the DNC? Rabbi Shmuley Did.

This is the news of which tears and smiles are made. As Celie Johnson might say: I loves folks. -AW Did You See Our Palestine Signs at the DNC? Rabbi Shmuley Did. byTamar Ghabin, Government Affairs Associate, and Josh Ruebner, Policy Director July 29th, 2016 WATCH: Visible Support for Palestinian Rights at DNC DNC delegates read more »