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December 23, 2011
Despair is the Ground Bounced Back From
Despair is the Ground Bounced Back From Copyright © 2011 by Alice Walker When the best mothering you can muster is kicked to the curb with a sneer; when the best fathering you have in you to provide is banished and ridiculed; there is still something to be gained to be learned to be [...]
November 16, 2011
The Foolishness of Captivity
The Foolishness of Captivity An Open Poem for Who the Shoe Fit Copyright © 2011 by Alice Walker Younger brother, it is plain as day to those who love you that you have fallen into the devil's hands. It can happen, all too easily, to good people; [...]
November 13, 2011
To the Freedom Riders of Palestine
To the Freedom Riders of Palestine Copyright©2011 by Alice Walker – Black and indigenous people in the American South had suffered humiliation and brutality for hundreds of years (including literal enslavement) before our Freedom Riders (with the support of the Civil Rights Movement) arrived in the 1960s to challenge the status quo. [...]
November 10, 2011
To Whom It May Concern: With Special Attention to The Prime Minister, Attorney General and Speaker of the Knesset in Israel
November 10, 2011 To Whom It May Concern With Special Attention to: The Prime-Minister of Israel The Attorney General of Israel MK Reuven Rivlin, Speaker of the Knesset From Alice Walker, American Author and Jurist for the Russell Tribunal, Cape Town, South Africa November 5-7, 2011. It is with grave concern for MK Haneen more »
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine finds Israel guilty of the crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
Date: 8 November 2011 1:32:27 PM PST Subject: [AL-AWDA-News] Russell Tribunal on Palestine finds Israel guilty of the crimes of Apartheid and Persecution Dr. Hanan Chehata –November 7, 2011 – The Russell Tribunal on Palestine and its eminent panel of jurists has determined that Israel’s practices against the Palestinian people are in breach of the more »
November 4, 2011
Listening to Howie: The Optimism of Uncertainty
Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar and I are in Cape Town South Africa where I am a juror at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. Our first session begins today, November 4th, in District Six a place that used to be home to a mixture of all colors and kinds of people until the white supremacist government of more »
September 19, 2011
Honoring Cicely Tyson
Honoring Cicely Tyson Copyright © 2011 by Alice Walker Cicely Tyson plays the role of Constantine, the disappeared maid who raised Skeeter in the novel THE HELP by Kathryn Stockett. She plays her as a very old woman, barely able to carry the dish of peas and potatoes she’s attempting to serve to the more »
July 27, 2011
Life Lessons
LIFE LESSONS: Gratitude is my only prayer Copyright 2011 by Alice Walker Many years ago I was drubbed by a mysterious illness (later self-diagnosed as Lyme disease) that brought me to my knees. At the same time critics pilloried me: my work, it appeared, severely offended them. Moreover, my love life crashed around my feet. more »
July 22, 2011
Justice for Palestine: A Call to Action from Indigenous and Women of Color Feminists
Please distribute widely : Justice for Palestine A Call to Action from Indigenous and Women of Color Feminists Between June 14 and June 23, 2011, a delegation of 11 scholars, activists, and artists visited occupied Palestine. As indigenous and women of color feminists involved in multiple social justice struggles, we sought to affirm our more »
June 20, 2011
Auntie, I simply Can’t Imagine It! Joining the Freedom Flotilla II To Gaza
Auntie, I Simply Can’t Imagine It! Joining the Freedom Flotilla II To Gaza, Aboard The Audacity of Hope June 20. 2011 – ©2011 by Alice Walker I Why am I going on the Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza? I ask myself this, even though the answer is: What else would I do? I am in more »
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