Alice Walker's Blog, page 8

They Are Eating Oaxaca.

I traveled to Oaxaca twice in the Nineties to study Spanish.  My companion and I stayed in the home of an energetic grandmother who taught him how to make mole’ – the chocolatey sauce that covers many dishes there and to which he became somewhat addicted. A Chinese man from peasant roots and a lover of good food, he and the grandmother/teacher spent many happy hours in the kitchen, while I studied in a school nearby. It is painful to hear this story about a city, and a people, and a culture, tha...

Ceasefire Now… Or Else ….the relief of wisdom.

Ceasefire Now… Or Else ….the relief of wisdom.

We Are All In the Same Struggle: Shahid Bolsen teaches

COLORED WOMEN, With Mumia and Che

I am thankful I can remember when signs like this were common in the apartheid Southern United States.  And how our mothers held their heads high in spite of them. Refusing, when possible, to use the decrepit or smelly water fountains and toilets built purposely to insult them. On the altar:Ida B. Wells, who took on the horror of lynching, common in the United States during her lifetime, on a stamp attached to a Mexican Day of the Dead skull; Gloria Steinem, an honorary woman of color, Alice Wal...

Easter Island

Isla de Pascua

Peace is the Only Path Forward: Scott Ritter Teaches

Petition to sign – tell VP Kamala Harris: “Americans want ceasefire & end U.S. arms sales to Israel”

2024-08-05 REPRINT Code Pink, Take Action Campaign to SIGN THE PETITION: “Over the past weeks, we’ve seen Vice President Kamala Harris’s image being portrayed as more sympathetic to Palestinians in comparison to Joe Biden. But in reality she repeats so many of the same anti-Palestinian talking points and hasn’t done anything to move us towards a ceasefire. It’s time to put pressure on the VP! Sign the petition below! Vice President Kamala Harris, As Vice President of the United States, your job ...

Petition to sign – tell VP Kamala Harris: “Americans want ceasefire & end U.S. arms sales to Israel”

2024-08-05 REPRINT Code Pink, Take Action Campaign to SIGN THE PETITION: “Over the past weeks, we’ve seen Vice President Kamala Harris’s image being portrayed as more sympathetic to Palestinians in comparison to Joe Biden. But in reality she repeats so many of the same anti-Palestinian talking points and hasn’t done anything to move us towards a ceasefire. It’s time to put pressure on the VP! Sign the petition below!     Vice President Kamala Harris, As Vice President of the United States, your ...

A Nation Unto Ourselves…

  A Nation Unto Ourselves… I began listening to this teacher because his voice, the assured certainty of it, reminded me of Malcolm X. That same impersonal coolness that has passion as well as stubbornness at its core. And, like Malcolm, when I researched Bolsen, I found a history of trials and tribulations that would have finished off a lesser spirit. In fact, his life, like Malcolm’s, raises the question: is it true that spirit crushing trials, failing to defeat us, can sometimes point us to w...