South Africa
South Africa
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…
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…
Listening to Howie: The Optimism of Uncertainty
Filmmaker Pratibha Parmar and I are in Cape Town South Africa where I am a juror at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. Our first session begins today, November 4th, in District Six a…
Justice for Palestine: A Call to Action from Indigenous and Women of Color Feminists
Please distribute widely : Justice for Palestine A Call to Action from Indigenous and Women of Color Feminists Between June 14 and June 23, 2011, a delegation of 11 scholars, activists, and…
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…
Conversation with Alice Walker
By Marianne Schnall Alice Walker is known for her literary fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple (now a major Broadway play), her many volumes of poetry, and her powerful nonfiction collections.…
Book: Anything We Love Can Be Saved
“Walker’s commitment to activism-in its myriad cultural, political and spiritual forms-shines forth convincingly in this wide-ranging collection of personal essays, remarks, letters, speeches and statements, many previously published. Tracing her advocacy to an…
Coming to See You Since I Was Five Years Old:
An American Poet’s Connection to the South African SoulI have spent most of the early morning thinking of what I want to say to you: there is so much. First of all I want to say that I am in your…
What Changes the World? Bearing Witness to the Truth
Photo and essay ©2009 by Alice Walker Introduction to Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation by Saree Makdisi: (Norton paperback release 2010) I cannot begin my short prefatory note to this…
A Letter from Alice Walker to Aung San Suu Kyi
So Long a Letter to Aung San Suu Kyi (ahng sahn soo chee) Prisoner #1 of Thousands and Millions Rangoon, Burma From Alice Walker In a Country With its Own Afflictions The United…
Human Sunrise
A Letter to the Graduating Class of Naropa University from Alice Walker May 11, 2007 Someone told me Once that Earth is the only planet that has mornings. The only planet that…
Build Alliances on Truth
Lest We Forget: An open letter to my sisters who are brave By Alice Walker The author argues that we must build alliances not on ethnicity or gender, but on truth. March 27,…
