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…
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,…
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…
Empathy Is A Wave: The Banning of Palestinian Children’s Art (from the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland)
Empathy Is a Wave: The Banning of Palestinian Children’s Art (From the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland) Copyright © 2011 by Alice Walker I was injured as a child; my brother…
And So Our Trails Continue
And So Our Trails Continue Copyright © 2011 by Alice Walker Nella Larsen On the boat to Gaza – as we waited day after day to sail – I…
Windows: Discovering Uri Avnery
Uri Avnery at a check-point demonstration in 2002 My own work has been banned a lot. In fact, there is a book about that called Alice Walker Banned that fascinates me to…
And In That Sacred Time
Hi Penny, Can you pass on these photos to Alice Walker when you get a chance? They are of a mural that the Maia Mural Brigade painted at the kindergarten in Beit Hanoun…
From Alice Walker, at sea on the Audacity of Hope [wesailforjustice]
Today is, I think, the 31st of June (Friday?)or is it the 1st of July? We have been in Athens since the 21st – trying to get to Gaza. Many impediments orchestrated…
Auntie, I simply Can’t Imagine It!
Joining the Freedom Flotilla II To GazaAuntie, 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…
Ending the Age of Waste
Ancestors of here Ending The Age of Waste ©2011 by Alice Walker The most important thing humanity can do is believe in itself. That we can grow, that we can change, and that…
Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit
A Christ. Compassionate artist unknown “Blessed are the poor in spirit (for theirs is the kingdom of heaven).” ©2011 by Alice Walker Did you ever understand this? If my spirit was poor, how…
The tree of life has fallen
Photo by Laura Balandran 2008 ©2011 by Alice Walker The tree of lifehas fallen on my small house.I thought it was so much bigger! But it is not.There in the distance I see…
To Change the World Enough
To change the world enoughyou must cease to be afraidof the poor.We experience your fear as the least pardonable ofhumiliations; in the pastit has sent us scurrying offdaunted and ashamedinto the shadows.Now,the world…
Free Dogs and the Albany Bulb Waterfront Park
Marley Mu, during her last summer. Photo by Vaschelle Andre Free Dogs and the Albany Bulb Waterfront Park ©2011 by Alice Walker — A Dog’s Purpose, a novel for humans by W. Bruce…
Poem: Our Martyrs
Our Martyrs ©2011 by Alice Walker When the peoplehave won a victorywhether smallor largedo you ever wonderat that momentwhere the martyrsmight be? They who sacrificedthemselvesto bring to lifesomething unknownthough nonetheless more preciousthan their…
