Alice Walker's Blog, page 7

Leonard Peltier, self- portrait, master artist, in the month (September) of his birth

Leonard Peltier, a member of AIM, the American Indian Movement, has been in prison since 1976, for a crime he may not have committed. In prison he has worked diligently at his art, becoming a master painter. In this self-portrait we see the resolve of a soul committed to evolving into the self that bars  will never contain. An elder now, at 82 years old, we salute the force of character he is showing us. That even in prison – serving two consecutive life terms and denied parole by presidents Cli...

Guess What? Some of Us Would Like To Live. Campaigning Against Genocide. Jill Stein and Butch Ware, teaching…

Guess What? Some of Us Would Like To Live. Jill Stein Teaches…

Haitians

James Baldwin In Istanbul: He believed the loss of empire meant a revolution of the soul.

JAMES BALDWIN’S ISTANBUL BY SUZY HANSEN This is the latest installment of Public Streets, an urban observation series created by Ellis Avery and curated by Abigail Struhl. “Baby, I’m broke, I’m sick. I need your help,” James Baldwin said to a friend when he landed in Europe, looking for a place to rest. This time, his European city of choice wasn’t Paris. It was Istanbul. Many people might be surprised to learn that James Baldwin lived on and off in Turkey throughout the 1960s, the most dynamic ...

Article 6: Finding a way

Article 6: Finding a way Our sense of helplessness- as we watch Palestinians, a beautiful people, destroyed – is hardest to bear. They are one of many, countless, beautiful peoples wiped out by American savagery and greed. I grieve the cultures, civilizations, dreams, Western domination has erased. I realize I am missing them; the world is missing them. Countless millions of human beings dispatched in horrific ways, their cultures ravaged and expropriated, even their jewelry – after the bloody c...

Cornel West teaches…

The End of Empire? Chris Hedges teaches…

Infanticide Cont. Full Force

Anas Al Akhrs 5 and Berin Muhamad, 4   Tala, Muhaned and Mary al Hanfi   Abu Nada Children     Rama Zakut Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan telefax: ++972-(0)2-5700112 Mobile: ++972-(0)547-578703 AUGUST 2024 Also shared – a Facebook video

THE ELECTION RITUAL….

It is painful to see how hopeful many Americans remain: that somehow, someone they vote for, between the only two parties they know anything about, will make America safer, happier, more comfortable and at ease for them and their children. We used to believe this, in the Sixties, almost desperately. Fannie Lou Hamer’s heart was broken when she realized it was a dream; close to the one Martin Luther King was talking about. I grew up in the South, where we lived half a heartbeat from homelessness....