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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…
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…
The Case of Bradley Manning: What Are We Called To Do?
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…
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…
An Open Letter to Nawal El- Saadawi
Alice Walker and Nawal El -Saadawi, Amsterdam, 1990s An Open Letter to Nawal El- Saadawi ©2011 by Alice Walker Dear Nawal El- Saadawi, Remember when we met in Amsterdam many years ago? I…
Alice and Kwamboka
Kwamboka Okari and Alice Walker in Berkeley 2008 ©2011 by Alice Walker This is Alice and Kwamboka Sitting peaceful on a sofa: the green king of blues communing with Lucille just behind us!…
This is a story of how love works
This is a story of how love works. ©2011 by Alice Walker This is the house for orphaned young girls; the house that love built. These are two of the beautiful girls who…
Poem: When you see water
When you see water ©2011 by Alice Walker When you see water in a streamyou say: oh, this is streamwater; When you see water in the riveryou say: oh, this is waterof the…
Word reaches us
Word reaches us that you are sleeping, sleeping. Dismayed we have turned to the sea. We encounter among others walking there a sense of what we have lost: the broad expanse of humanity’s…
