September 17, 2022 Evening of Unity and Solidarity“Free Assange! Free Mumia! Free Palestine!” featured speaker Alice Walker
LAP Progressive presents, An Evening of Unity and Solidarity…featured speaker Alice Walker Free Assange! Free Mumia! Free Palestine! Join us Saturday, September 17, 2022 at 7:00 pm Event was recorded! Alice Walker at…
I was asked recently to name my favorite novel about justice. My favorite novel about justice is Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. In the character of Jean Val jean Hugo shows how what…
For the Rachel Corrie Flotilla Enroute to Gaza
Goddess Speed your boat. You are doing the work of The Collective as it attempts to bring Comfort, Support and Abiding Love and Solidarity to Itself. What you demonstrate is what we all,…
To the Wife and Children
©2010 by Alice Walker Dear Ones, I realize you and your mother have been hurt and embarrassed by the infidelities and bizarre behaviors of your father. This is a common problem for many.…
If I Was President ("Were" May Be Substituted by Those who Prefer It)
© 2010 by Alice Walker If I was PresidentThe first thing I would dois call Mumia Abu-Jamal.No,if I was presidentthe first thing I would dois call Leonard Peltier.No,if I was presidentthe first person…
Edwidge Danticat, the Quiet Stream
©2010 by Alice Walker All this time, silenced, speechless, grateful for my meditation cushion, I have been thinking about the writer, Edwidge Danticat, whose writing for me, so pure and grounded and wise,…
“Re: Haiti: Passing on to you something that may help lift us from this sorrow.”
Sasha Kramer sent a message to the members of Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL). ——————– Subject: Kouraj cherie: Update from Port au Prince This afternoon, feeling helpless, we decided to take a van…
Mommy Is Not Pure!
Garrett Larson, Mommy, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Devaki Jain, Mommy and Daddie’s newest beloved friend! Christmas With His Holiness/Dharamsala, India, December 25, 2009 © 2009 by Lhamo Tsering The Chicken Chronicles…
Gandhi Samadhi
The Chicken Chronicles Chapter Thirteen © 2009 by Alice Walker The elephant makes a gurgling sound, from the throat, on seeing his favorite mahout or owner. Similarly it may excrete dung, or urinate,…
Historic Gaza Freedom March to Israeli Border Set For December 31
Global grassroots initiative in spirit of Gandhi aims to break blockade The Gaza Freedom March that will take place in Gaza on December 31 is an historic initiative to break the siege that…
Well Done – Obama and the Nobel Prize
When I think of Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, for which, after all, he didn’t audition, I think about that photograph of him with his feet up on a desk, and there’s…
To The Editors of Ms. Magazine, 1982, regarding Palestine & Israel
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Evolution – Dedicated to the Honorable Cynthia McKinney
Dedicated to the Honorable Cynthia McKinney and Everyone from the Free Gaza 21 Movement now incarcerated in an Israeli jail. Your bodies are imprisoned but you demonstrate to the entire planet…
Frozen River Is A Moving Surprise: Journal
The film Frozen River is a moving surprise. I’d never heard of it, but once we got our Netflix going, there it was to be considered. It is such a relief to see…
A Few Monks Need a Cuddle Buddy
A Few Monks Need a Cuddle Buddy©2009 by Alice Walker Having livedAs a monkMyself: I recognize us. Those long decadesOf soundlessTrekking throughThe squealingForests. Those pre-dawnMeditationsWhoseInsightsRamble onFor years. The young onesLeftBehind usabject:Their well aimedCursesHurledWith…
