Commentary: David Icke and Malcolm X
I have not known of David Icke until recently; I owe the introduction to my partner who encouraged me to share a couple of videos with him. What I admire most about David…
Poem at Christmas: And In the Red Box
For Obenewa, African daughter, at Christmas And In the Red Box And in the red box tied with red ribbons tell me justice lies and school books for children tell me there is…
Circulo de Mujeres: Essay/Photographs: Calling All Beings of Fearless Compassion
Calling All Beings of Fearless Compassion Copyright © 2012 by Alice Walker On December 2, 2012, my mother, Minnie Tallulah Grant Walker, who was born in 1912, would have been 100 years old. …
Poem: You Were Sixteen
You Were Sixteen © 2012 by Alice Walker You were sixteen and on your way to pick up your birthday cake. My partner offers photographs of your battered head that I…
Poem: MY 12.12.12
MY 12-12-12 ZAPATA, MEXICO They told us we must be ready before dawn and just at dawn Manuel came for us. We rode in silence as the day was breaking to join…
Native American Activist Leonard Peltier’s Jailhouse Plea for Long-Denied Clemency
Leonard Peltier is someone whose unjust suffering has been present in my consciousness for all of the 37 years he has been in prison. I’ve marveled at his poetry, his paintings, his deep…
Video: SAYING GOOD-BYE TO WENDY
On September 22, 2012, I lost my literary agent of four decades, Wendy Weil, of the Wendy Weil Agency, in New York City. Wendy died suddenly, unexpectedly, of a heart attack. She was at…
Video: Greetings to the World Social Forum Free Palestine, Porto Alegre, Brazil Nov. 28-Dec. 1, 2012
The World Social Forum Free Palestine: ‘It is an expression of the human instinct to unite for justice and freedom and an echo of the World Social Forum’s opposition to neo-liberal hegemony,…
