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Is Celie Actually Ugly?

Is Celie Actually Ugly? 2015 by Alice Walker for Cynthia Erivo Is Celie actually ugly? Asks the charismatic star playing her on Broadway. How many times over the years I have explained this. Celie and her “prettier” sister Nettie are practically identical. They might be twins. But Life has forced on Celie all the read more »

Airline Workers At JFK, LaGuardia To Go On 24-Hour Hunger Strike For Higher Wages

Airline Workers At JFK, LaGuardia To Go On 24-Hour Hunger Strike For Higher Wages byEmma WhitfordinNewsonNov 24, 2015 12:10 pm BAD NEWS ABOUT GOOD PEOPLE It is always sad to hear bad news about good people. I’m over seventy and it still makes me feel like crying. In the morning I am scheduled to fly read more »

Our Children Deserve a Better World; Talking About Paris With a Five Year Old

ALL CHILDREN DESERVE A BETTER WORLD Talking About Paris To A Five Year Old 2015 by Frank Barat I had a pretty fascinating chat with Ted, my 5 years old son, this morning when he woke up. I am sharing this because while I have no problem trying to explain what happened in read more »

Wherever You Are Grieving

Wherever You Are Grieving 2015 by Alice Walker It does not matter to me: Wherever you are grieving Whether Paris, Damascus, Jerusalem, Bamako, Mexico or Beirut or New York City My heart, too, is bruised And dragging. There used to be such a thing As melodrama When feelings could be Made up, But now there read more »

After Attacks, France Increases Its Commitment To Refugees

After Attacks, France Increases Its Commitment To Refugees Nation of Change What Sanity Looks Like.

THE WORLD IS STANDING UP FOR PALESTINE

Suad Amiry THE WORLD IS STANDING UP FOR PALESTINE 2015 by Alice Walker The world is standing up for Palestine; I realized this today when I discovered a book group where people from my own hoodwinked country have decided to offer a “humorous” book to its readers about Palestine. Honestly, by now it is an read more »

To Have Once

Photo: by Manuel Vejar Castañeda To Have Once 2015 by Alice Walker For years I meditated Peacefully In this small ruined retreat. It was whole until the hurricane. All around it now are fallen trees, Broken limbs, Broken windows Broken doors. Many roofs in the neighborhood And in thepueblo, both palapa And tile, are read more »

They Will Always Be More Beautiful Than You

THEY WILL ALWAYS BE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN YOU 2015 by Alice Walker They will always be More beautiful Than you The people you are killing. You think it is hatred That you feel But it is really envy. You imagine if you destroy them We will forget How tall they stood How level Their gaze read more »

This Changes Everything

This Changes Everything Film Website A film that brings our peril into focus and what we might learn from despair. -AW This Changes Everything Film Trailer

From A Palestinian Student in America

http://www.indystar.com/story/opinion... Palestinian: ‘I shall sing and continue what I’ve started’ Indystar, October 17, 2015 My Facebook feed is filled with terrifying videos. Fadi, a 19-year old Palestinian youth, is chased by a lynch mob of Israeli settlers in Jerusalem screaming for his death and is shot, execution-style by Israeli forces. Ahmad, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy read more »