I’LL SEE YOU WHEN YOUR TROUBLES GET LIKE MINE (Traditional Blues)
© 2019 by Alice Walker
for John Shipton
I’ll see you when your troubles
Get like mine… lord, lord,
I’ll see you when your troubles
Get like mine.
I was thinking about this song
While watching Julian Assange’s
Father
Being interviewed
By 60 Minutes Australia.
The woman interviewer
Wanted him to
Admit… Continue reading
A wish for you. -AW
Julian Assange spoke from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London on Friday, May 19, 2017
Acts of Truth
©2017 by Alice Walker
Inspired by mythologist, Michael Meade
For Julian Assange
Michael was telling us the other night
About some things that might save the world.
One of them surprised me, but the more I thought about it
The… Continue reading
November 8 2016
I am spending election day burning a candle for four extraordinary people: Mumia Abu Jamal, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden. I was thinking about all of them this morning in meditation. So I labeled it “thinking,” as we are taught, and went back to Om Nama Shivaya. But they all came right… Continue reading
Solstice Greetings and Gratitude 2013, or Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn Playing Tennis!
©2013 by Alice Walker
2013 was a surprising, even astonishing, year whose revelatory power shows no sign of abating in 2014. It is as though we are collectively watching an enormous egg, as big as the sun, cracking open to reveal a golden center. That golden center is Reality. … Continue reading
Recently I’ve taken a few knocks for my liking of David Icke. Well, I can’t help liking him, he’s got cojones for days. Seen many of those lately not backed up by missiles and tanks? Actually and happily, yes, as more silenced people speak and folks on their knees rise, but he’s still special.* Anyway, last night it occurred to me what it is… Continue reading
Pfc. Bradley Manning and friends: Tighe Barry, Medea Benjamin, and Chris Hager
The Case of Bradley Manning: What Are We Called To Do?
©2011 by Alice Walker
As an elder of color born and raised in the United States, I have dreamed of a day when young white men, en masse, might rise to take up the cause of freedom and justice in defense… Continue reading
Tale One: Horse History
© 2010 by Alice Walker
Listening to Bloodhound Bob the other day on the news talking about killing Julian Assange, Grandmother decided she needed to make her thoughts known about Julian, The Dark Knight (as someone commenting on a poem Grandmother posted on her blog calls him). Grandmother likes Julian Assange and hopes he never again dyes his gray… Continue reading
for Julian Assange
© 1986/ 2010 by Alice Walker
Be nobody’s darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm.
Watch the people succumb
To madness
With ample cheer;
Let them look askance at you
And you askance reply.
Be an outcast;
Be pleased to walk alone
(Uncool)
Or line… Continue reading