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July 19, 2013
David Icke: The People’s Voice
Recently I’ve taken a few knocks for my liking of David Icke. Well, I can’t help liking him, he’s got cojones for days. Seen many of those lately not backed up by missiles and tanks? Actually and happily, yes, as more silenced people speak and folks on their knees rise, but he’s still special.* Anyway, more »
The people’s voice: David Icke
We are changeDavid Icke on his new tv stationThe People’s VoiceA bit of bloody uplift! David Icke is starting a new television/internet station that promises to offer news we can use.Check out the video below.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOce1T...
July 15, 2013
Thoughts On Our Sorrow: Trayvon Martin and Troy Davis
Thoughts On Our Sorrow: Troy Davis and Trayvon Martin © 2013 by Alice Walker I deliberately watched none of the Zimmerman trial, just as I have deliberately not read a draft of a new book by Jen Marlowe, soon to be published: I Am Troy Davis, about a young black man in Georgia who was more »
July 5, 2013
A Yellow Rose for Texas: Sharing the poem “Cowgirl Filibuster” by Lisa L. Moore
Cowgirl FilibusterCouplets for heroic Texas womenJune 26, 2013Word got out about the bad bill.College students packed up their bikinis,went back to Austin to tell those men whywomen need abortions. Seven hundredwere already there. Story after storyfor the record: citizen filibuster.Three a.m. The Speaker tells the crowdhe’s heard it all before. They roar.The floor is cleared. more »
June 17, 2013
Blessed Unhingedness and the Struggle to Free Palestine
Martin Luther King, Jr. at homeBelow is a recently published article by Richard Friedman of the Federation of Jews in Birmingham, Alabama that brings to mind Martin Luther King, Jr. whom he mentions. King wrote his famous Letter From A Birmingham Jail when he was imprisoned in Birmingham for political activities against American apartheid, known more »
June 11, 2013
On Hearing You Will Sing
The gorgeous ancestor Marian Anderson who found a place to stand and sing at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939On hearing you will sing ©2013 by Alice WalkerIt has been told to me that you will be singing as planned in Tel Aviv next month, by someone who thought I would be concerned. I am concerned, more »
June 2, 2013
Taking Care of the Truth #2: The non-encounter at the 92nd St. Y
On Friday night, the 30th of May, I was onstage in conversation with Eve Ensler at the 92nd St. Y in New York City. I had read her stark and perceptive memoir IN THE BODY OF THE WORLD about her bout with cancer two years ago within a couple of hours of meeting her backstage. more »
Taking Care of the Truth #2
On Friday night, the 30th of May, I was onstage in conversation with Eve Ensler at the 92nd St. Y in New York City. I had read her stark and perceptive memoir THE BODY OF THE WORLD about her bout with cancer two years ago, within a couple of hours of meeting her backstage. I more »
May 9, 2013
May 7, 2013
POEM: Going Out to the Garden
From new book of poems, Spring 2013 THE WORLD WILL FOLLOW JOY: Turning Madness Into Flowers Going out to the garden ©2012 by Alice Walker Going out to the gardenthis morningto plant seedsfor my winter greens-the strong, fiery mustard& the milderbroadleaf turnip-I saw a geckowholike the rest of ushas beenreelingfrom the heat. Geckos like heatI more »
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