Video: Being Here
It is such a joy to see this young man, Burnell Taylor, talk about his experience of enduring and subsequently surviving hurricane Katrina, and moving on with life, and to hear him sing…
Video: Alice Walker talks about “Long Distance Revolutionary”
Please see this remarkable film when it opens in New York City at the Cinema Village on February 1st, 2013. https://mumia-themovie.com
Video: A Billion Women Rising – Dance is Love Generated By Self
Visit website: http://onebillionrising.org/
Poem: Fullness of Heart (For Bab Al Shams/Gate of the Sun in Palestine)
Fullness of Heart (For the people of Bab Al Shams, Gate of the Sun encampment in Palestine). Watch the video below and glory in the magnificent voice of Bernice Johnson Reagon formerly of…
Essay/Video: Breaking the Taboo, a film about the failed war on drugs
Breaking the Taboo, a film about the failed war on drugs, is a must see for everyone. It is narrated beautifully by Morgan Freeman and tells the compelling story of how out of…
Comment on New Book: Howard Zinn Speaks Collected Speeches 1963 to 2009
“The first time I heard Howard Zinn speak I was a student in the deep South, and amazed that anyone could stay alive long enough to say such things. He was completely fearless,…
Poem: Aloisea Inyumba, Presente
Aloisea Inyumba, presente Aloisea, my younger sister, it was love at first sight. For there you stood in the garden of the presidential compound along with its sister occupant and you were…
Poem: I Confess I Do Not Understand the Mind That Needs to Cause This Suffering
I Confess I Do Not Understand the Mind That Needs to Cause This Suffering ©2013 by Alice Walker For Nurit Peled who sent me the photograph: Palestinians Going to Work – Morning Routine …
