• Happy 2015: What Our Taxes Continue to Buy In THE HOLY LAND

    / December 23, 2014

        Children abducted by Israeli soldiers in broad daylight.  A soldier of color among them.  Heartbreaking. Video: Shehab News Agency #شاهد: لحظة قيام قوات الاحتلال بإعتقال طفلين 10 أعوام في الخليل Ten-year-old Palestinian…

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  • Nobility

    / December 20, 2014

    Nobility    My Cuban friend writes:  Christmas is the time of rebirth.  Also:  that your release and arrival back home in Cuba coincided with the day of St. Lazarus. (A day much celebrated…

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  • Gather – Poem and Video

    / December 14, 2014

    Alice Walker – Gather   Gather ©2014 by Alice Walker for  Carl Dix and Cornel West It is still hard to believe that millions of us saw Eric Garner die. He died with…

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  • Dick Gregory – Man of the Years, Poem

    / December 10, 2014

     December 2014 Dick Gregory Man of the Years ©2014 by Alice Walker IN PRAISE OF DICK GREGORY I paraphrase Mari Evans’ great poem, substituting man for woman:   I am a black man……

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