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About Alice

Internationally Celebrated Writer, Poet and Activist.


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Yes, you've found me, this is my website, Alice Walkers Garden.


I've written on Alice Walker's Garden for many years, sharing my writings, thoughts, what I'm reading, and significant events in and around my life. Take a look around, sign up (coming soon!) to get my latest entries, and most of all, explore.


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El Jardín de Alice Walker

 

Dedicated, with love, to all seven of us: Alice, Amanda, Manuel, Joan, Rebecca, Efrain and Laura. Seven, the number that is sacred.  Seven, the number that gets it done. Transformation. Since 2008.*** ~AW_

 

Dedicado con amor a nosotros siete:
Alice, Amanda. Manuel, Joan,  Rebecca, Efrain y Laura.
Siete, el número que es sagrado. Siete, el número que la logra hacer:
La Transformación. Since 2008.*** ~AW 

  • August 6, 1965 Staughton Lynd at the March Against the Vietnam War, organized by the Assembly of Unrepresented People.

    Staughton Lynd, Rebel Historian, Philosopher, Teacher, and…Poet.

    / March 18, 2023

    This coming week on Law & Disorder, Marjorie and Heidi interview historian Luke Stewart about his new book, “My Country Is the World: Staughton Lynd’s Writings, Speeches, and Statements against the Vietnam War.”…

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  • Alice Walker inside home 2023

    Happy Birthday Astounding One

    / January 29, 2023

    Feliz Cumpleaños Increíble Ser. The Welcome Table for Oprah. January 29th. Photo by Alice Walker 2023 Happy Birthday Astounding One. A phenomenon Of global connectivity As unexpected As a second Moon. You teach…

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  • Blood Batteries Video

    Gravitas Plus: The dark side of Electric Vehicles (Video)

    / January 27, 2023

    Driving the life of a child. ~aw

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  • My Name Is Andrea

    / July 24, 2022

    A film directed  by the genius Pratibha Parmar, and co-produced by the great Shaheen Haq What it means to stand for what you believe, and know.  A powerful film that embraces complexity, courage,…

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  • Sasha Gong social control system cover image to video Alice Walkers Garden 2022-05-31

    Sasha Gong explains the real reason for the extended lockdown of Shanghai

    / May 31, 2022

    Understanding is important. ~aw

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  • song for all beings full live concert 2017

    Song For All Beings, Jennifer Berezan et al

    / March 5, 2022

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  • The Medicine Blow

    / February 26, 2022

    El Golpe De La Medicina                                      Photo by Belvie Rooks 2022 The Medicine Blow © 2022…

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  • A BOOK WORTH THE TREES Wild Tree Press 1980s

    “A Book Worth the Trees,” Wild Trees Press, 1980s.”

    / February 16, 2022

    EL VIAJE DEL ESPÍRITU: CUENTOS Y PINTURAS DE BALI – UN LIBRO QUE VALE LOS ÁRBOLES This article is also offered in a more readable text format further down this page. Also there…

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  • "Your purpose is to be yourself. You don’t have to run anywhere to become someone else You are wonderful just as you are" Thich Nhat Hanh

    Presente! Truly. ~aw

    / January 22, 2022

    Presente! Sinceramente. Presente! Truly. ~aw. Your words fell into my life like the petals of flowers. And now you are Everything Again. ~aw Presente! Sinceramente. ~a.w. Tus palabras cayeron en mi vida como…

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  • Kaleo and Alice, Looking, 2010 or so

    “Gracias a la Vida” lyrics

    / December 27, 2021

    Kaleo and Alice, self portrait 2010 or so, Looking. “Gracias a la vida” (Spanish for “Thanks to life” or “Thanks be to life“) is a song written, composed and performed by Chilean Violeta…

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  • 37 Ambulances Delivered to Gaza video photo 2021-12-05

    No Distance Will Ever Divide Us: Palestine Is In the Heart

    / December 5, 2021

    REPRINT 2021-12 Inguna Distancia Nos Dividirá  Jamás: Palestina Esta En El Corazón 37 Ambulances Delivered to Gaza Thanks to the US Boats to Gaza supporters who donated to our campaign to raise funds…

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  • Sweet People Are Everywhere by Alice Walker 2021

    Introducing Alice Walker’s New Children’s Book:
    Sweet People Are Everywhere

    / November 2, 2021

    By Alice Walker Sweet People Are Everywhere, an illustrated book for children ages 4–8 (and readers of all ages) featuring a poem by internationally renowned writer and activist Alice Walker, locates the “sweet…

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  • Sweet People Are Everywhere by Alice Walker 2021

    Alice reads from her new children’s book
    “Sweet People Are Everywhere”
    October 2021

    / October 8, 2021

    Please Join Alice Walker, Crayola and Tra Publishing as Alice reads from her new children’s book, “Sweet People Are Everywhere” TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2021 AT 11 AM PDT Read Along, Draw Along with…

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  • Mary L. Trump, Ph.D., The Reckoning 2021

    A Meditation on The Reckoning by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.

    / October 3, 2021

    UNA REFLEXIÓN SOBRE THE RECKONING (AJUSTE DE CUENTAS), DE DRA. MARY L. TRUMP A Meditation on THE RECKONING, by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D. ©2021 by Alice Walker Once upon a time, I was…

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  • BOUND to the Fire (book cover)

    BOUND TO THE FIRE: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine, by Kelley Fanto Deetz

    / September 24, 2021

    SE TRATA DE LO QUE HACEMOS   IT IS ALL ABOUT WHAT DO WE DO ©2021 by Alice Walker It is all about what do we do With our sorrow What do we…

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  • Michael Tubbs The Deeper book cover

    Sons of Mothers: Laymon, Moore, and Tubbs

    / September 8, 2021

    It is a delightful reality of Life that something amazing is happening all the time. This time is no different.  Some of us have asked ourselves: What about our sons and grandsons raised…

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  • Abby Ginsberg Presents Barbara Lee, Beautifully.

    / August 25, 2021

    In Speak Truth to Power the new film about Congresswoman Barbara Lee, filmmaker Abby Ginsberg has offered us that bright flower of determination that we thought had, maybe, started to wilt.  The black woman,…

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  • Dapper Dan

    Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem

    / August 24, 2021

    Photograph: The New York Times Somehow, reading Dapper Dan, Made in Harlem, listening to it actually, I didn’t expect Dapper Dan to be so handsome. I’m happy he is.  But what’s so exciting…

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  • Pray Tell wearing gown at awards show

    Pray Tell Has Only Six Months To Live

    / July 29, 2021

    Actor Billy Porter “Pray Tell” dressed to dare.~aw   PRAY TELL HAS ONLY SIX MONTHS TO LIVE ©2021 by Alice Walker I learned last night That Pray Tell Has only six months To…

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  • Daniel Ortega Rosario Murillo Alice Walkers Garden copyright 2021

    My Letter Re: Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo

    / July 11, 2021

    Mi Carta a Daniel Ortega y Rosario Murillo Robert Allen, Rosario Murillo, Unidentified Kind Person, Alice Walker, Daniel Ortega. Mid-Eighties.   MY LETTER RE: DANIEL ORTEGA AND ROSARIO MURILLO I have decided to…

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  • high on the hog Alice Walker Stephen Satterfield

    High on the Hog, Braiding Sweetgrass, The Moor’s Account

    / July 1, 2021

    Stephen Satterfield High On The Hog is one of many distinct gifts to our growth and enlightenment during this peculiar time of angst and confusion.  I watched it with a niece whose father,…

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  • Julian Assange’s Global Family Represented in Oakland 2021-06-28

    Julian Assange’s Global Family Represented in Oakland

    / June 28, 2021

        Source YT: Journalism Is Not A Crime! War Crimes Are! Oakland Meeting For Julian Assange With Assange’s Family

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  • Photograph Martin Luther King at Communist Training School

    Gifts of Spirit: Thoughts On Being Canceled

    / June 19, 2021

    Martin Luther King at Highlander Folk School Gifts of Spirit: Thoughts On Being Canceled ©2021 by Alice walker ‘The Color Purple’ author Alice Walker to deliver keynote address at HVCC despite controversies Pulitzer-winning…

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  • Ralph Ellison (1914 – 1994), January 1963

    Ralph Ellison’s Brain…Could It Be Improved by AI?

    / June 8, 2021

    El cerebro de Ralph Ellison… ¿Podría ser mejorado por la IA? Ralph Ellison’s Brain… Could It Be Improved by AI? ©2021 by Alice Walker   I met Ralph Ellison only once. He was…

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  • Vase with womans face on outdoor round wood table old growth tree with the mountain vista asbackdrop alice walkers garden

    We Are the Flag

    / April 21, 2021

    Patriot  (We Are the Flag) © by Alice Walker. With love, and gratitude, for the beauty and color Sikhs contribute to American life. If you Want to show Your love For America Love…

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  • Celeste Solum video - Alice Walkers Garden 2020

    What Does Truth Sound Like? Can We Still Tell? Listen.

    / April 4, 2021

                                                                     …

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  • harry and meghan oprah interview 2021-03

    Meghan and Harry

    / March 10, 2021

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  • Photo: Little boy looking entitled "Trump Gone Yet"

    The Answer Is Yes. Joe Biden and a Different Weather?

    / January 20, 2021

    La Respuesta Es Sí. Joe Biden Y Un Clima Diferente The Answer Is Yes. Joe Biden and a Different Weather? © 2021 by Alice Walker When I was a child my parents were…

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  • Ma Rainey Was An Outlaw

    / December 21, 2020

      Ma Rainey era una proscrita. Ma Rainey was an outlaw. Under her mask of makeup and wanton dress, this is how she is played, by Viola Davis, in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. …

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  • “I may not get there with you.” Voting For Those Who Could Not. Abrams, Warnock, Ossoff

    / December 12, 2020

    “I may not get there with you.”* Voting for Those Who Could Not: Standing With Those Who Know For Stacy Abrams, Raphael Warnock, and Jon Ossoff ©2020 by Alice Walker The Promised Land Is…

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  • Hail Mary (Trump) Full of Grace

    / November 10, 2020

     Hail Mary, Full of Grace ©2020 by Alice Walker   Hail Mary Full of Grace Thank you for demonstrating How to leave By opening the door.

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  • The Black Woman Signifying.

    / October 25, 2020

    Yes, How good to see a public person with their own face. - Mother

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  • I Keep Lighting Candles… by Amy M. Alvarez. Poem for Breonna Taylor

    / October 3, 2020

    Permanezco Prendiendo Velas En La Entrada De Mi Casa Y Viendo El Viento Apagarlas   Poem of the Week Amy M. Alvarez Content Notice: Black death via state-sanctioned violence, grief   I keep…

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  • David Icke – Rose/Icke V: THE ANSWER

    / August 3, 2020

    ROSE/ICKE V: THE ANSWER

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  • American Indian Movement Activists Dancing Down Columbus

    / July 13, 2020

    American Indian Movement Activists Dancing Down a statue of Christopher Columbus, a likeness representative of cruelty and suffering so vast no words can begin to describe it. Only dance might approach if not sufficiently…

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  • Mauna Kea: Sacred Mountain, Sacred Conduct

    / July 13, 2020

        That Mauna Kea, the Mountain, is understood to demand that the people’s protest of protection for Her be rooted in Sacred Conduct, is one of the reasons I love Hawaiian activists.…

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  • Raising A Memorial To The Confederate Soldier Who Did Not Want To Go To War

    / June 26, 2020

    Erigiendo Un Monumento Al Soldado Confederado Que No Quiso Ir A La Guerra Raising A Memorial To The Confederate Soldier Who Did Not Want To Go To War for Larry. Copyright 2018 by…

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  • Community of the Heart: Michael Meade

    / June 25, 2020

    Michael Meade, Living Myth Podcast           One enlightened teacher is worth more than all the warmongering chieftains who’ve ever lived. ~AW   Un maestro ilustrado es más valioso que…

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  • HANDS UP, DON’T SHOP! (From the Archives 2014)

    / June 18, 2020

     Photo Source:  Nation of Change What you have to say, Sister of the arresting sign, is powerful and right.  The moment we begin to see we are being manipulated, set up to riot,…

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  • Maher Al Akhras brutalized by Israeli authorities on the 90th day of his hunger strike (Will anyone alert the world?? Nurit)

    / May 16, 2020

    This post is updated as more information arrives.  2021  –  January  |  February 2020  –  October  |  November  | December   May 07, 2021   SAEED ODEH (16) WAS SHOT DEAD BY ISRAELI…

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  • David Icke London Real Live Stream – May-3-2020

    / May 5, 2020

      DAVID ICKE – LONDON REAL – MAY-3-2020 also ROSE / ICKE III – THE LIVESTREAM: MAY 3, 2020 https://londonreal.tv/1000000-fighting-for-freedom This is the largest livestream, human funded conversation in human history.  It is…

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  • My Daughter Hits It On The Head: Rebecca Walker on Leaving the Intellectual Plantation

    / April 18, 2020

    My Daughter Hits It On The Head: Rebecca Walker on Leaving the  Intellectual Plantation As far as I’m concerned, one of the duties of any child is to help her or his parents whenever…

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  • Wisdom From My Cuban Brother

    / April 4, 2020

    WAR AGAIN, WILL THIS BE THE FINAL ONE? Over the years, greed and fear have turned men into wolves. Instead of living together in harmony and sharing the plentiful resources of Nature in…

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  • True Success

    / April 2, 2020

    El Éxito Verdadero   True Success ©2020 by Alice Walker True success means having enough To share; Someone must have observed This truth. Someone must have Written it down. Perhaps the Essenes, Those…

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  • I Do Not Doubt Jesus Was A Buddhist Monk

    / March 21, 2020

    No Dudo De Que Jesús Fuera Un Monje Budista This rosary has Mary, Jesus’ mother, on it. More and more we feel her pain.   I Do Not Doubt Jesus Was A Buddhist…

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  • My Sister of the White Flowers

    / February 10, 2020

    Mi Hermana De Las Flores Blancas   MY SISTER OF THE WHITE FLOWERS ©2020 by Alice Walker Every turn around the sun, Every year on the date of my birth, No matter where…

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  • The Audacity of the Cruel: Long Live Palestine! (From the Archives)

    / February 5, 2020

    Auntie, I simply Can’t Imagine It! Joining the Freedom Flotilla II To Gaza Auntie, I Simply Can’t Imagine It! Joining the Freedom Flotilla II To Gaza, Aboard The Audacity of Hope June 20.…

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  • Running For Our Lives: The Race For Leadership Of the Unfree World

    / January 22, 2020

    America Never Was America to Me... Langston Hughes. The Red and the Black:  Alice and Native Youth Intertribal Friendship House, Oakland, California, Fall 2019 Photo by Ester Hernandez RUNNING FOR OUR LIVES: THE…

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  • The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

    / January 15, 2020

    La Bailarina Acuática      REWARD  ©2020 by Alice Walker I rarely read reviews, but The Water Dancer, by Ta- Nehisi Coates, moved me so deeply and seemed so extraordinary I was curious…

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  • HINDSIGHT IS 2020: OM NAMA SHIVAYA*: From the Archives

    / December 31, 2019

        FIVE PRINCIPLES FOR GETTING THROUGH THE TRUMP YEARS  An offering to: THE PEACE BALL, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY 19, 2017 Copyright 2017 by Alice Walker   1.  Turn up the KINDNESS volume…

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  • We Were Made For These Times: A Letter from Clarissa, Who Loves Us.

    / December 26, 2019

    Reprint: We Were Made For These Times, Clarissa Pinkola Estes   Clarissa Pinkola Estes, one of the greatest teachers our planet has offered. Thank you, Sister. ~AW   My friends, do not lose heart. We…

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  • CANDLES AT CHRISTMASTIME from Staughton and Alice Lynd, Master Teachers of Life and Love

    / December 11, 2019

    CANDLES AT CHRISTMASTIME ©2019 by Staughton and Alice Lynd   Measured by numbers We have lived 89 and 90 years. Strangers ask us, “How long have you two Been married?”  And we answer, “68…

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  • Thanksgiving: I Am Thankful For Artists; I Am Thankful For Books

    / November 30, 2019

    Día de Acción de Gracias y  Por llegar: Pensamientos sobre los libros que siguen                                       …

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  • Kaola Bear, Beloved.

    / November 19, 2019

    With Kaola bear. The outback. Australia. 1990s Photo by Jean Weisinger   Australia Fire Koala Bear – WP article 2019-11-15 Kaola Bear, Beloved © 2019 by Alice Walker   None of this is…

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  • In Cuba: Family: Manuel and Madai.

    / November 12, 2019

    En Cuba: Familia: Manuel y Madai. Manuel and Madai 2019 In Cuba ©2019 by Alice Walker   In Cuba These are the people You wish to hurt. I believe there is a penalty…

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  • Everyone Must Go: How #LetThemIn! Connects With A Letter From A Son

    / August 16, 2019

    The author Julian Aguon with Hawaiian activist/artist Meleanna Meyer  Everyone Must Go ©2019 by Alice Walker It is a great sadness that any American should be denied entry to Palestine, and particularly those,…

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  • You Died, And Then I Understood

    / June 24, 2019

    Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. – Anatole France  You Died, And Then I Understood Copyright © 2019 by Alice Walker Charlie Larson Walker/June 17, 2019/3:15…

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  • Renegade – The Life Story of David Icke

    / June 7, 2019

    Film Trailer [2:30 min] RENEGADE: THE LIFE STORY OF DAVID ICKE, a #1 documentary film in England and climbing the charts in other countries. An example of perseverance over daunting odds from which…

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  • Insult to South Africans: Or, South Africa Libre! What We Were Arrested For

    / May 22, 2019

      Más Pruebas: ¡Somos Quienes Hemos Estado Esperando! More proof:  We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For! Sometime in the late 1980s or early 90s I was arrested for- I believe,…

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  • Two males outdoors at protest Free Julian Assange protest signage

    I’ll See You When Your Troubles Get Like Mine: Julian Assange’s Father

    / May 3, 2019

    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…

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  • READING “OUR NIG” (Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black) DECADES LATER

    / April 22, 2019

    READING “OUR NIG” (Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black) DECADES LATER Copyright 2019 by Alice Walker   Our Nig, the 1859 novel by Harriet E. Wilson, is the saddest book I have…

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  • Free Julian Assange! Use blog “Search” for Posts re: this brave man and great journalist. Also see You Are Being Lied To About Julian Assange: Redacted Tonight. Thank you, Lee Camp!

    / April 18, 2019

    A wish for you. -AW

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  • Reading Evan Osnos: The Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

    / April 8, 2019

    Leyendo a Evan Osnos: La Era de la Ambición: Persiguiendo la Fortuna, La Verdad y La Fe en La Nueva China     Reading Evan Osnos: The Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth,…

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  • An Open Letter to Paris Jackson from Alice Walker

    / March 19, 2019

    Carta Abierta a Paris Jackson An Open Letter to Paris Jackson   Dear Daughter, Dear Paris, Dear Kindred, Take a look at this: Her lowest moment came in 1948, when a vindictive neighbor…

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  • Medicine Art: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind a film by Chiwetel Ejiofor. *****

    / March 6, 2019

      Medicine Art: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Copyright 2019©by Alice Walker   Medicine art has a way of showing up just when you need it most. And so it is with…

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  • What If You Were My Son?

    / March 5, 2019

                    What if you were my son? Copyright © 2019 By Alice Walker   If you were my son, I would wonder How you came to…

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  • The Good Ones, for Hugo Chavez

    / February 27, 2019

    LOS BUENOS Para Hugo Chávez The Good Ones For Hugo Chavez March 5, 2013 ©2013 by Alice Walker The good ones who listen to women to children and the poor die too soon, their…

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  • BECOMING …AWAKE MICHELLE OBAMA AND A VOICE FOR AGES TO COME

    / February 5, 2019

     © 2019 by Alice Walker   Someone wrote about The Color Purple that it is a novel of permanent importance.  This was such a lovely way to think about it!  I was charmed.…

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  • This is why: Credo Mutwa and David Icke: Temples of Peace [Video]

    / January 7, 2019

    Temples of Peace This is why.   ###

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  • An Evening with Alice Walker & Desert Rose – World Peace Day TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART: The Morning After!

    / August 28, 2018

    Sacándose La Flecha Del Corazón TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART An Evening with Alice Walker & Desert Rose World Peace Day Friday, September 21, 2018 7:30 PM “In this time of…

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  • We Can Know the World is Changing When the African Woman Freely Speaks Her Mind, Globally.

    / August 1, 2018

      We Can Know the World is Changing When the African Woman Freely Speaks Her Mind, Globally.  YouTube. The Dr. Mumbi Show is a single black woman, from Kenya, East Africa, teaching. Dr.…

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  • United States Hold Children in Cages Trump 2018 ICE

    Children in Cages: Who Are Americans? What Are They?

    / June 12, 2018

    This appeal from a Senator had one bright spot: he is a Senator. With a heart. -AW Dear MoveOn member, I’m U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, and I believe that in America, we must…

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  • Mai Der Vang Poem (What Do Poets Also Do? They Pick Up the Pieces.)

    / June 3, 2018

    Parte Final Desde Laos   Final Dispatch from Laos by Mai Der Vang Concerning our hollow breasts, Lice factions multiplying in our hair. Concerning our unused stomachs, Molars waiting to chew, taste buds…

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  • How Human Beings Specialize in Being Amazing

    / June 1, 2018

    Sonam Wangchuk: An Ice Fountain Brings Water to the Himalayan Desert Guernica by Teresa Krug “I’m working on [how to adapt to] life without glaciers. I’ve already started experiments to see what can…

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  • Osho on Being a Sufi: Admiring Nexflix’s Wild, Wild, Country

    / May 24, 2018

    Osho en ser un sufí: admirando el país salvaje, salvaje, de Nexflix 11 August 1977 am in Buddha Hall   ONCE a learned Mohammedan came to me and asked, ”You are not a…

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  • Israel’s Chief Rabbi Calls Black People ‘Monkeys’

    / March 22, 2018

    Un Dicho Sabio De Los Antepasados   PRESS STATEMENT Israel’s Chief Rabbi calls black people ‘monkeys’*22 March 2018 | https://goo.gl/CRDgid One Wise Saying Of the Ancestors Is Worth More Than a Thousand Toxic Ideologies…

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  • New Painting. “What is the meaning? Is there one?”

    / March 10, 2018

    by Alice Walker, Casa Madre, Mexico 2018

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  • Alice Walker 2018-02-09 Happy Birthday!!

    / February 24, 2018

    Happy Birthday to the Incomparable Alice / Alicia, con mucho cariño <3 I heard this song the other day and it reminds me of you and wanted to share it with you Some…

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  • Spring Poem

    / February 14, 2018

     Poema De Primavera Photo by Alice Walker Spring Poem  Copyright 2018 by Alice Walker For daisy, zinnia, petunia, jasmine, rose, tenzin, rebecca, rachel, braxton, auden The seed from last year’s garden Has been…

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  • Somebody Died for Us: Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.

    / January 16, 2018

    Somebody Died for Us:  Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. We are the Ones We have been Waiting For Alice Walker speaking about Martin Luther King, Jr (start time 9:37 to 39.25 end time)…

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  • It Is Here Now: Censorship

    / January 16, 2018

    Ley Es Aquí y Ahora; Quizás Lo Hayas Notado  It Is Here Now; Maybe You Have Noticed It Copyright © 2018 by Alice Walker You could always tell Where it was going: Censorship. Free…

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  • Lesson: Never Wander Into the Marketplace After a Silent Retreat

    / January 12, 2018

    Leer esto, Una Leccion: Nunca Vayas Por El Mercado, en español Lesson:  Never Wander Into the Marketplace After a Silent Retreat. Or During.  Which Is What I Just Did. Copyright ©2018 by Alice Walker…

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  • COCO the movie: A Good Prayer For Starting One’s Day…

    / December 14, 2017

    UNA BUENA ORACIÓN PARA EMPEZAR NUESTRO DÍA EN ESTOS TIEMPOS A Good Prayer For Starting One’s Day In These Times … Humans are amazing.  Thank You For Making Us!  Whoever or Whatever You…

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  • Shug Avery’s Coming To Town: The Color Purple Musical

    / December 3, 2017

     NUESTRAS VIDAS ERRANTES: IDEAS SOBRE EL COLOR PÚRPURA Word that the Texas prison system has banned The Color Purple this week, made me wish to share the thoughts below.  I am off to a…

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  • I Live Now As If I Will Never See You Again

    / December 3, 2017

    Leer en español  I Live Now As If I Will Never See You Again Copyright 2017 by Alice Walker I live now As if I will never see you again; I should have…

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  • Ayobami Adebayo, Ai Wei Wei, Oliver Stone, Ishiguro, Loving Vincent, The House on Coco Road, The Rainbow Comes and Goes

    / November 29, 2017

    Stay With Me is a fabulous novel. Ayobami Adebayo has made such a moving commitment to fierceness and truth that the tenderness that emerges also in her characters is as welcome as a spring…

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  • It Is Our (Frightful) Duty To Study They Talmud

    / November 2, 2017

    It Is Our (Frightful) Duty ©2017 by Alice Walker To Study The Talmud ©2017 by Alice Walker   The first time I was accused Of appearing to be anti-Semitic The shock did not…

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  • A Branch: Sexual Assault in the Present Time

    / October 20, 2017

    A Branch:  Sexual Assault In the Present Time ©2017 by Alice Walker   Decades later I would undertake As a course of personal study Why they told us nothing Whatsoever about it. We…

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  • And Then There Were the Fires…

    / October 16, 2017

    En Español AND THEN THERE WERE THE FIRES… ©2017 by Alice Walker   I never experience October 9th Without giving thanks For John Lennon Someone who had his head On straight. This year…

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  • Or Were You Once A Child?

    / October 15, 2017

    Or Were You Once A Child? ©2017 by Alice Walker If you were once a child Remember how it was When the big men Who were not smiling Came for you? They were…

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  • Ain’t Too Proud, The Life and Times of the Temptations!

    / October 3, 2017

    A dozen of us took ourselves to see Ain’t Too Proud, The Life and Times of The Temptations, now playing at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley.  It was wonderful.  And so was…

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  • A Trinity of Enlightenment: Never Caught, Life’s Work, and Black Ink

    / September 29, 2017

    En español It is a delight to know that Never Caught is being taken up by readers as food for the merciless journey of our people in these United States.  Erica Armstrong Dunbar has pulled…

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  • Leaving Managua

    / September 24, 2017

    Robert Allen, Rosario Ortega, Unrecalled Kind Person, Alice, Daniel Ortega Managua, Nicaragua, mid- Eighties   Leaving Managua ©2017 by Alice Walker You were never to know, until now perhaps, that I was weeping…

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  • Don’t Miss DOLORES!

    / September 19, 2017

    ¡HUELGA! DOLORES HUERTA Strike!  Dolores Huerta A Virgin de Guadaloupe, with Children ©by Alice Walker 2017 DOLORES, the movie Some recent movies have been overwhelmingly encouraging, like the “horror movie” Get Out.  A…

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  • Break My Heart Again

    / September 17, 2017

    Rompe Mi Corazon De Nuevo Break My Heart Again ©2017 by Alice Walker September 2017 for Aung San Suu Kyi and the Rohingya People We travelled far To stand before your door A…

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  • Something Inside So Strong

    / August 31, 2017

    For Heather Heyer and her mother. With love, from Alice

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  • What is Wisdom? Where Can it be Found? Ken O’Keefe and Michael Meade

    / July 26, 2017

    What is Wisdom? Where Can it be Found? It is such a blessing to have magnificent teachers!  Two of them I fantasize having an intense conversation for the world to overhear happen to…

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  • My Net Worth According To The Internet

    / July 24, 2017

    Leer el poema en Español, Mi Riqueza Neta Según Internet   My Net Worth   According to the Internet ©2017 by Alice Walker   Learning from the Internet That I have a net worth…

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  • Alice and Jung

    / July 12, 2017

    Ley Alice and Jung en Español A Role For Psychoanalysis In Healing the Trauma of Female Genital Mutilation? Carl Jung As the subject of Female Genital Mutilation returns to the minds and hearts of…

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  • THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS: Arundhati and Alice at the Norse Theatre: San Francisco 2017

    / June 29, 2017

    En español Photo by Laura Balandran THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS:  ARUNDHATI AND ALICE at the Nourse Theatre in San Francisco June 28, 2017 Arundhati Roy, irrepressible and truly brilliant, read from her…

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  • We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 with Alice Walker Brooklyn Museum (May 25, 2017)

    / June 2, 2017

    An Evening with Alice Walker Thu, May 25 from 7:30 – 9:30pm EDT Arts & Entertainment Celebrate our exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 with acclaimed poet, novelist, activist, and…

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  • “Nigger” In the Language of Love

    / May 8, 2017

    En Español   “Nigger” In the Language of Love (Turning a poison into medicine) ©2017 by Alice Walker   For all those who remind us how this works.   Pretty soon we might…

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  • Find Your Parents, and Help Them

    / February 25, 2017

    Busca A Tus Padres y Ayúdalos Photo by Dorothea Lange   FIND YOUR PARENTS, AND HELP THEM ©2017by Alice Walker   Somewhere on this green earth your parents are still alive; why we…

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  • What To Do With The Mind?

    / February 8, 2017

    What To Do With The Mind? ©2017 by Alice Walker I have not been this depressed since President John Kennedy was assassinated; no, I have not been this depressed since Dr. Martin Luther…

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  • Sobonfu Somé

    / January 25, 2017

    En español Sobonfu Somé You left us on the day women all over the world Are rising. Well, you rose too, sweetest Of sisters. You rose and I can see you smiling As…

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  • The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

    / January 1, 2017

    The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen   Was the Civil Rights Movement a politically orchestrated distraction from the wars on the citizens, lands and cultures of yellow people half a world away? We…

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  • December Month of Resistance We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America (2016)

    / December 26, 2016

    En español, Lee y Firma El Llamado a la acción para detener a Trump y Pence antes de que asuman el poder   I love the truth of this woman.  She has always been…

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  • Don’t Miss: Born A Crime and The Fishermen

    / December 18, 2016

    It is a great experience to find one’s self taken over by a book, and that was my experience of BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah.  There’s no more fascinating a relationship between mother and…

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  • I Am Happy To Report I Am Not Going Anywhere!

    / December 9, 2016

    Poema, SOY FELIZ DE ANUNCIAR QUE NO VOY A NINGUNA PARTE!, en Español  Photo by Alice Walker I Am Happy To Report I Am Not Going Anywhere! ©2016 by Alice Walker for Joan I…

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  • I Am Grieving For Fidel

    / December 5, 2016

    El poema ESTOY AFLIGIDA POR FIDEL en Español I AM GRIEVING FOR FIDEL and for Raul ©2016 by Alice Walker   I am grieving for Fidel; I am bereft because he left us. Yet, after…

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  • UNIVERSAL CONDEMNATION OF THE U.S. ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST CUBA

    / November 8, 2016

    Universal Condemnation of the US Economic Sanctions against Cuba Salim Lamrani Université de La Réunion http://www.globalresearch.ca/universal-condemnation-of-the-us-economic-sanctions-against-cuba/5555570 Once again the international community has rejected the economic sanctions strangling the Cuban people. For the twenty…

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  • Yemanjá Wisdom from the African Heart of Brazil

    / November 3, 2016

    Yemanjá  Wisdom from the African Heart of Brazil Narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker A film by Donna C. Roberts and Donna Read http://www.yemanjathefilm.com/ A documentary film about the Candomblé religion in Bahia, Brazil,…

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  • DON’T MISS LOVING, MOONLIGHT, ET AL

    / October 3, 2016

      DON’T MISS LOVING DON’T MISS SNOWDEN DON’T MISS QUEEN OF KATWE DON’T MISS 13TH DON’T MISS  MOONLIGHT REREAD:  1984, BRAVE NEW WORLD, AND DOWN AND OUT IN LONDON AND PARIS.   You’ll…

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  • In these times of woe, trust in what you love that loves you back

    / June 27, 2016

    en español In these times of woe, trust in what you love that loves you back ©2016 by Alice Walker And though I’ve been there only once, for such a brief visit (!)…

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  • Keeping Up With Two People I Love: Miko and Nurit, An Israeli General’s Inspiring Offspring

    / June 22, 2016

    Miko Peled and Alice Walker In this post, Miko Peled, author of The General’s Son, Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, laments the death of Muhammed Ali and wishes he had stayed a…

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  • People, Keep On Thinking…

    / June 13, 2016

    SANDERS WANTS TO DEBATE REAL ISSUES BY MANUEL E. YEPE http://manuelyepe.wordpress.com/ A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann. Another novelty introduced by the campaign of Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in his…

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  • THE PEOPLE OF THE USA WILL HAVE THE FINAL WORD

    / April 28, 2016

    THE PEOPLE OF USA WILL HAVE THE FINAL WORD By Manuel E. Yepe http://manuelyepe.wordpress.com A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann. It has been repeatedly said that the American people are the only…

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  • 2015 The Year of Changes

    / December 31, 2015

    2015 The Year of Changes ©2015 by Alice Walker Grace Paley, the writer of great short stories, named two of her collections The Little Disturbances of Man and Enormous Changes At the Last…

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  • Our Children Deserve a Better World; Talking About Paris With a Five Year Old

    / November 27, 2015

      ALL CHILDREN DESERVE A BETTER WORLD Talking About Paris To A Five Year Old ©2015 by Frank Barat   I had a pretty fascinating chat with Ted, my 5 years old son,…

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    Wherever You Are Grieving

    / November 20, 2015

    Wherever You Are Grieving ©2015 by Alice Walker It does not matter to me: Wherever you are grieving Whether Paris, Damascus, Jerusalem, Bamako, Mexico or Beirut or New York City My heart, too,…

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  • After Attacks, France Increases Its Commitment To Refugees

    / November 19, 2015

    After Attacks, France Increases Its Commitment To Refugees Nation of Change   What Sanity Looks Like. http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/11/18/after-attacks-france-increases-its-commitment-to-refugees/ <http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/11/18/after-attacks-france-increases-its-commitment-to-refugees/>

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  • They Will Always Be More Beautiful Than You

    / October 23, 2015

      October 2015 THEY WILL ALWAYS BE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN YOU ©2015 by Alice Walker They will always be More beautiful Than you The people you are killing. You think it is hatred…

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  • From A Palestinian Student in America

    / October 20, 2015

    http://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/readers/2015/10/17/palestinian-shall-sing-and-continue-what-ve-started/74137268/ Palestinian: ‘I shall sing and continue what I’ve started’ Indystar, October 17, 2015 My Facebook feed is filled with terrifying videos. Fadi, a 19-year old Palestinian youth, is chased by a lynch…

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  • Happy 10th Anniversary, Busboys and Poets!

    / October 2, 2015

     Happy Tenth Anniversary, Busboys and Poets! Greetings Everyone, I was on my way to be with you tonight, but did not want to risk being trapped, in mid journey, with my partner and…

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  • PALESTINE: REVISITED POST WITH NEW MATERIALS: At Sea on the Audacity of Hope, 2011, Athens, Greece

    / October 1, 2015

    RISE UP, OCTOBER! Be On YouR Side.                     End Police Terrorism              Embrace Black Lives Matter Release All Political Prisoners  Stop the…

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  • Four Insightful Pieces About Cuba by Manuel E. Yepe

    / September 23, 2015

                          The Island That Sleeps Like a Wing, Cuban poet, Nancy Morejon   WHY THREE POPES IN 20 YEARS? By Manuel E. Yepe http://manuelyepe.wordpress.com/…

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  • United States one dollar bills are inspected under a magnifying glass during production at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington

    Don’t Be Fooled By “Inclusive Capitalism” It’s Still A Disaster, by Cynthia McKinney

    / September 23, 2015

    Don’t be fooled by “Inclusive Capitalism” It’s still a disaster! By Cynthia McKinney Published time: 15 Sep, 2015 10:26  (en español) Signs of Deep Awakening ….AW  © Gary Cameron / Reuters   According…

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  • NAACP Julius Rosenwald posted to Alice Walker Website Sept 18 2015

    ROSENWALD, a film by Aviva Kempner

    / September 18, 2015

    ROSENWALD, UN FILME DE AVIVA KEMPNER   Los amigos le cuentan a los amigos, de otro modo ¿cómo podrían saber? Una vieja amiga reapareció campantemente en mi vida para alejarme de un par…

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  • Waging Empathy: Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and the Global Movement to Ban FGM

    / September 10, 2015

      WAGING EMPATHY: ALICE WALKER, POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY, AND THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT TO BAN FGM Edited by Tobe Levin http://uncutvoices.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/waging-empathy-order-info.pdf I met Tobe Levin in London at the 2013 premier of Pratibha…

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  • Robert Hemenway 1941-2015: The Fiesta of Rediscovering America

    / August 20, 2015

      The Fiesta of Rediscovering America: An Open Letter To Robert Hemenway, Passing: 1941-2015 © 2015 by Alice Walker   Dear Bob, Since I was a child I’ve wondered where the spirit goes…

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  • A Good Teacher Never Quits

    / July 16, 2015

    A good teacher never quits. That Is Who I Thought You Were ©2015 by Alice Walker Tell me please Why are you not speaking? When we stood together In our bloodied land You…

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  • White fear and greed holding us back

    / May 22, 2015

    Shall We Go Down Asleep?      Or Awake? Until I met the historian Howard Zinn, at seventeen, I had never encountered a white person, especially a white man who identified as white,…

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  • Beyond: about marriage

    / May 7, 2015

    Beyond ©2015 by Alice Walker   The old experienced ones Never said You must marry. They never said What will your husband think? There was always so much Work to do Offering advice…

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    Michael Jackson Gives A Talk

    / April 17, 2015

    Michael Jackson Gives a Talk ©2015 by Alice Walker   At the oddest times Sometimes in the middle Of the night I hear Michael Jackson’s voice, The one you only hear On YouTube: …

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    Why “Womanism” Exists”: Hillary Clinton and the Old World Order

    / April 12, 2015

    Why “Womanism” Exists:  Hillary Clinton and the Old World Order Artículo en español Added Feb. 2016: Hillary Clinton’s Empowerment Hillary Clinton isn’t a champion of women’s rights. She’s the embodiment of corporate feminism. by Kevin…

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  • If I Was President: MUMIA AND CO.

    / April 10, 2015

    If I Was President (Were for those who prefer it.) ©2010 by Alice Walker ( from Hard Times Require Furious Dancing)   If I was President The first thing I would do is call…

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  • INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL FORUM TUNISIA: EVERY WORD THIS WOMAN SAYS…

    / March 30, 2015

    EVERY WORD THIS WOMAN SAYS IS SACRED IN THE BOOK OF PEACE The duty to support the BDS movement Nurit Peled-Elhanan. EP laureate  of the Skharov prize for human rights and the freedom…

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  • Poems To Welcome Spring!

    / March 23, 2015

      New Poems To Welcome Spring! © 2015 by Alice Walker   Morning In the Village ©2015 by Alice Walker This morning In the  village Where I live* I saw an old man…

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  • Peace As The Intelligent Option, by Manuel E.Yepe and a Look at House of Cards

    / March 3, 2015

      PEACE AS THE INTELLIGENT OPTION By Manuel E. Yepe http://englishmanuelyepe.wordpress.com A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann. http://www.walterlippmann.com/docs4299.html At the end of World War II, the United States was in much better…

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  • The Slain Children of Palestine Hold Council In Paradise

    / February 25, 2015

    THE SLAIN CHILDREN OF PALESTINE HOLD COUNCIL IN PARADISE   THE SLAIN CHILDREN OF PALESTINE HOLD COUNCIL IN PARADISE ©2015 by Alice Walker Who knew death would be like this? A young boy…

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  • Mongers of War

    / February 8, 2015

       This photo is called:  Surprised Iranian Children   Mongers of War ©2015 by Alice Walker Are you awake yet? How awake are you? Do you know what War is? How well do…

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  • To Win (for Bob Marley’s Birthday, February 6th)

    / February 7, 2015

    Bob Nesta Marley, Siempre  To Win (for Bob Marley’s birthday:  February 6th) ©2015 by Alice Walker Be what they do not want: Be thoughtful. Be skilled at loving. Be of good heart. Be…

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  • Suppose There Really Is Justice In the Universe

    / January 16, 2015

    3 years since the murder of Abir Aramin, 10 years old. Abir Aramin was shot in the head but nobody shot her Please also read, A Propos IASA Letter of Refusal  http://iasa-refuse.org/a-propos-iasa-letter-of-refusal Nurit…

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  • Farrakhan at Tuskegee: An Elder Speaks on Depopulation

    / November 26, 2014

    An Elder Speaks Depopulation Blues©2014 by Alice Walker It makes you thinkof years gone bywhen we dreamedwhatever we could not imagine:but we could never, useless eaters, have dreamed or imaginedthis.  Maybe we could…

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  • Boys for Sale (What truly grown-up men discuss)

    / November 25, 2014

    What is to be done?  Who is to do it? ©2014 by Alice Walker My friend says to me: But what can we do?  Already giving up. To be aware is already something,…

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  • Revolution and Religion: a Dialogue Between Cornel West and Bob Avakian

    / November 25, 2014

        [link to watch film on Revcom.us]   ©2014 by Alice Walker If the murder of our youth is considered insignificant to those in American society who make the laws, those of…

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  • Notes for EARTH AT RISK: PALACE OF FINE ARTS, SF,NOV 23, 2014

    / November 24, 2014

        I said yes to the invitation to speak at the recent EARTH AT RISK event in San Francisco because I deeply respect Vandana Shiva, Derrick Jensen, Chris Hedges, and the members…

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  • No Comment/Updated

    / October 12, 2014

    Child Hunting More than 180 Palestinian children have been kidnapped by Israeli occupation forces in the past 45 days. The only Hebrew-Arabic kindergarten in Jerusalem was burned last night and covered with Death…

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  • Miko Peled’s Prize

    / October 9, 2014

    > Miko Peled and Alice Walker Northern California 2013 The Prize Itself  Poem for Miko ©2014 by Alice Walker  There are many awardsthat are not worth receiving;they can be handed to youby someone whose…

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  • My Neighbor, the Great Being and Artist, Sue Hoya Sellars, Has Left Us To Our Own Devices

    / October 1, 2014

    Shiloh and Sue in front of the Mona Lisa, Paris, 2014   There is more to come, but here is an offering of spirit to tide us over.  Sue’s body was cremated this…

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  • Making Frittatas

    / September 25, 2014

     Alice and Rebecca, Careyes, the mid 1980s Making Frittatas©2014 by Alice Walker For Rebecca   Ten years is a long time and I have missed you. I thought of this this morning as…

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  • At the Door of Pollsmoor Prison

    / September 19, 2014

    Kaleo and Alice, Robben Island 2011 At The Door Of Pollsmoor Prison for Kaleo,  for Madiba ©2014 by Alice Walker   When we arrived at the door of Pollsmoor prison we were already…

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  • Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration, Police Terror, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation

    / September 12, 2014

    Gather©2014 by Alice Walkerfor  Carl Dix and Cornel West It is still hard to believethat millions of us saw Eric Garner die.He died with what looked like a half dozen heavily cladpolicemenstanding on…

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  • AMERICANAH by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    / August 27, 2014

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche’s AMERICANAH is one of the best novels ever.  I “read” it on audio (Recorded Books) which made  it even more satisfying. The reader skillfully creates all the right languages, dialects,…

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  • When a Poet Dies, for Samih al-Qasim

    / August 25, 2014

    A friend sent this beautiful poem by Palestinian poet Samih Al Qasim.  The poem below "When a Poet Dies" is written for him. -AW A friend sent this beautiful poem by Palestinian poet…

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  • The Iron Age, The Age of Sorrow

    / August 22, 2014

    Photojournalist James Foley  1973-2014 The Iron Age, The Age of Sorrow for Yusuf ©2014 by Alice Walker Where do we go when we die? the little child asked. And the Ancient One who…

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  • The Language of Bombs

    / August 21, 2014

    The Language of Bombs ©2014  by Alice Walker   Dearest Zainab, Whenever my country bombs your country, I think of you. Which means you are frequently on my mind. I often think of…

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  • Don’t Break Your Heart, Again (Thank You, Zillah Eisenstein)

    / August 21, 2014

    Don’t Break Your Heart Again, I Couldn’t Bear It. – AW She’s In: Anti-Racist, Anti-Imperial Feminists Against War August 21, 2014By Guest Contributor By Zillah Eisenstein Hillary Rodham Clinton (un)officially entered the 2016 presidential…

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  • Talking to Hamas

    / August 19, 2014

    Alice Walker and Huda Naim, Palestinian member of parliament and mother of five  2010 in Gaza  Talking To Hamas©2014 by Alice Walker  Huda Naim, democratically elected official, I do not know how it…

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  • Don’t Give Up (Beautiful Child, Other Self)

    / August 10, 2014

    Don’t Give Up (Beautiful Child, Other Self)  ©2014 by Alice Walker   What they will pretend not to know When you are injured Is how ugly you feel now. It is hard to…

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  • Unarmed Truth and Unconditional Love… Happy Birthday, Fidel!

    / August 8, 2014

    “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.  This is why right, though temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”-Martin Luther King, Jr.Above photo:  Among other…

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  • Letter From Gaza

    / July 26, 2014

    Letter from Gaza  Ellen CantarowJuly 23, 2014Le Monde diplomatique – English Edition Ellen Cantarow reports on the email Dr. Mads Gilbert sent to friends July 19 from Gaza. “The last night was extreme.…

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  • The Parable of the Sower: What Octavia Butler, Master Visionary, Saw

    / July 17, 2014

    Many years ago I read Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred, about a time traveller who returns to the past to visit ancestors who were enslaved; because I was apparently born with an ear turned…

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  • We Are Not Alone: Rumi Whirls With Us

    / July 17, 2014

    AND… For all of us who are suffering so deeply now, fearing our faith in humanity has been cruelly misplaced, even lost, there will always be the poets, and poetry itself to remind…

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  • Some Light: Thank you, Phylllis Bennis and The Nation. Whew!

    / July 17, 2014

    Why Opposing the Israel Lobby Is No Longer Political Suicide by Phyllis Bennis July 16, 2014 The Nation Our movement isn’t strong enough yet to end US enabling of the carnage in Gaza—but…

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  • Casa Madre: My Beloved Mexican Retreat, Se Vende

    / July 14, 2014

    In the late Eighties I bought a then isolated house within view of the ocean in the very upscale environment of Costa Careyes, Mexico.  I was drawn to the area simply because it…

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  • A Brave Mother Who Knows the Pain of Losing a Child Calling Once Again On the Unbrave World

    / July 7, 2014

      You were so thin.  This is why we were bringing food. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/intcoop/sakharov/home_en.html — EP SAKHAROV PRIZE NETWORK NEWSLETTER JUNE 2014 Nurit Peled Elhanan draws attention to human rights violations in Palestine 04-07-2014: 2001…

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  • The Music of Archie Roach

    / June 1, 2014

    Alice Walker and Archie Roach: Sydney Opera House 5/14Photo by Karen Villanueva  The Music of Archie Roach Seams Of Gold:  Was the Gold We Seek Once Inside Us? ©2014 by Alice Walker Twenty-…

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  • Maya Angelou: A General of Compassion Offering An Army of Words

    / May 29, 2014

    Maya Angelou was an indomitable spirit of great generosity, kindness, and love.  Her work, both written and spoken, has inspired, and actually helped, the lives of millions.  When I think of tribute, I…

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  • Never Pass Up An Opportunity To Kiss!

    / May 14, 2014

    Especially for our daughtersand their families in Nigeria Never Pass Up An Opportunity To Kiss ©2014 by Alice Walker Never pass up an opportunity to kiss: the world has ended & begun again…

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  • The War Against (in this case Semitic/Palestinian) Children

    / April 30, 2014

    There are almost no words when the war is against children, and against even younger children than presented in videos available to view on Facebook and YouTube.  Unfortunately two videos I had mounted…

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  • My Letter to The IRS

    / April 9, 2014

                                                              My Letter to the IRS…

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  • Ecological Wisdom From the Heart of Brazil

    / April 1, 2014

    Ecological Wisdom From the Heart of Brazil  (from the coming film) What a miracle is presented here: more of the revelation of who the Africans were, and, if not destroyed completely by Western…

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  • The Economic War Against Cuba, by Salim Lamrani

    / March 31, 2014

     Sisyphus by Mañuel Verdecia it’s not the rock, sisyphus of demolishing weight of cutting edges and rough shape cruelly indifferent to your tenacity nor is it the mountain reaching the clouds from where everything…

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  • 33 Literary Geniuses Who Happen To Be Super Hot

    / March 24, 2014

    Article source*: 33 Literary Geniuses Who Happen To Be Super Hot I was surprised to find myself on this list, of course.  But, being there, I looked round. Hemingway, for instance, was really…

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  • A Grievous Wrong Has Been Done to 5 of Our Cuban Brothers: Such Good Men Are Hard To Find

    / March 17, 2014

    A Grievous Wrong Has Been Done To 5 Of Our Cuban Brothers:  Such Good Men Are Hard To Find ©2014 by Alice Walker It was an odd sensation in London recently to be…

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  • As Our Hearts Break for the people….

    / March 14, 2014

    As Our Hearts Break for the people of Syria, Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, the United States, Palestine and so many others… Israeli Youth Take a Stand for What is Right Published on…

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  • The Mother of Trees

    / March 5, 2014

    A Palestinian child kidnapped from school by Israeli soldiers The Mother of Trees©2014 by Alice Walker  If I could be the mother of Wind I would blow all fear away from you.  …

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  • Our Humanity Unchained: Jane Goodall and Wounda Soul

    / February 18, 2014

    Our Humanity Unchained:  Jane Goodall and Wounda Soul Subject: A chimpanzee hugs Jane Goodall after being released into the wild.

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  • Our Humanity in Chains

    / February 13, 2014

    Dear friends,   Thousands of East Africans have been kidnapped by sadistic gangs, and tortured in Egypt’s Sinai until their families pay huge ransoms for their freedom. If we show Egypt’s leaders that this dirty secret…

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  • Confident Anticipation of Joy (Health Care)

    / February 7, 2014

    An Iraqi child standing in her parents’ blood  (The NY Times) Photo by Chris Hondros Confident Anticipation of Joy©2014 by Alice Walker How peculiar it feels to speak about  health care in America…

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  • And When They Spy On Us (In English y Español)

    / January 25, 2014

    Alice and Kaleo 2007 photo by Vaschelle André of Divine Photography And When They Spy On Us For Snowden Copyright©2014 by Alice Walker And when they spy on us let them discover us…

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  • NOW IS THE TIME TO OPEN YOUR HEART: To the Cuban Reader

    / January 6, 2014

    To the Cuban Reader ©2014 by Alice Walker Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart is my seventh novel, and, unless I am mistaken, it is my last. I wrote it toward…

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  • Solstice Greetings and Gratitude 2013, or Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn Playing Tennis!

    / December 24, 2013

    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…

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  • Muriel and I Had A Terrible Fight But Love Remained

    / December 22, 2013

        Muriel Rukeyser and I had a terrible, painful parting of the ways, so many years ago now that it seems impossible to imagine that we did. But speaking of  her recently…

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  • Things We Can Do For Each Other: Honoring the Hopi by Protecting What They Believe

    / December 18, 2013

      Things We Can Do For Each Other:  Honoring the Hopi by Protecting What They Believe.   AW  Secret Bids Guide Hopi Indians’ Spirits Home Joel Saget/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Alain Leroy,…

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  • You Grew More Beautiful Still… Waving Goodbye to Nelson Mandela, in Sacred Flight

    / December 5, 2013

    I am so happy that Nelson Mandela is at last truly free.  I will wave to him as he transforms into Everything around me and on into the Cosmos. What a race to run,…

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  • Sweet People Are Everywhere

    / November 30, 2013

    Sweet People Are Everywhere ©2013 by Alice Walker   For Young Brian Who Is Getting a Passport   Some of the people in Turkey are very sweet. Some of those in Afghanistan are…

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  • History as Friend: Engaging OBLIVION: The David Icke Epic

    / November 14, 2013

      My love of story, my enthralled absorption in the study of History, as soon as I realized it existed, my delight in fresh ways of looking at everything, leads me to much…

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  • Our grandmothers are blameless and moreover they are sisters

    / November 8, 2013

      Malala and Nabila: worlds apart Unlike Malala Yousafzai, Nabila Rehman did not receive a welcoming greeting in Washington DC. Last Modified: 01 Nov 2013 09:57 “Nabila, a slight girl of nine with striking…

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  • Filling Our Hearts With Beauty: The Legacy of Those Who Believed

    / November 3, 2013

    Today I am in Atlanta visiting one of my oldest friends, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, who directs Spelman College’s vibrant and creative Women’s Center.  We have known each other since our college days at…

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  • Change Overthrow to Outgrow & I’m With Him: Russell Brand ( new to me until this moment) making sense

    / November 1, 2013

    See Video below.  From  NATION OF CHANGE Published: Friday 1 November 2013 “When I was asked to edit an issue of the New Statesman I said yes because it was a beautiful woman…

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  • Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker

    / October 13, 2013

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact:Paul OlsewskiVP, Publicity Director212-698-7089paul.olsewski@simonandschuster.com For rights Information:Lisa Keim212-698- 7397Lisa.keim@simonandschuster.com 37 INK TO PUBLISH ALICE WALKER’S JOURNALS (NEW YORK) – October 7, 2013.  Dawn Davis, Publisher and Vice President of 37 INK/ Atria…

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  • Necessary Light: Max Blumenthal’s New Book on Israel (Democracy Now! interview, Oct. 4, 2013)

    / October 7, 2013

    Source: DemocracyNow!  

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  • Hope Is A Woman Who Has Lost Her Fear

    / October 3, 2013

     Sundus Shaker Saleh and her children  Hope Is a Woman Who Has Lost Her Fear for Sundus Shaker Saleh, Iraqi Mother, with my love.©2013 by Alice Walker In our despair that justice is…

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  • Who the Annunaki Saw?

    / September 26, 2013

    Who the Annunaki Saw?©2013 by Alice Walker  Tiny Mother,I knew you had to existbehind all the liesabout you.I knew you would live somewhere freshwildwith the sun dancing with your earth colored skin.I knew you would…

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  • We Alone Can Devalue Gold

    / September 17, 2013

    We Alone: from Her Blue Body Everything We Know:  Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete  © 1991 by Alice Walker We alone can devalue gold by not caring  if it falls or risesin the marketplace.Wherever there…

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  • This is What an Elder Looks Like: DemocracyNow! September 11, 2013

    / September 12, 2013

    Thanking the Goddess for Noam Chomsky: This is what an Elder looks like. Part 2  Noam Chomsky on 9/11, Syria’s “Bloody Partition” and Why U.S. Role Ensures Failure of Mideast Talks Part 3…

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  • Depopulation, Everyone? (Sincerity in Discussing What Frightens Us Is a Good Start)

    / September 9, 2013

    Neurologist Warns of Neurodegenerative Disease Surge Due to Chemtrail Spraying Christina Sarich, News Analysis: Any skeptic will conscientiously question the doom and gloom scenarios being touted by the anti-geoengineering groups. Geoengineering Watch, Aircrap.org, and…

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  • Oppressed Hair Puts a Ceiling On the Brain

    / September 6, 2013

    OPPRESSED HAIR PUTS A CEILING ON THE BRAIN  A talk given on Founders’ Day, April 11, 1987, at Spelman College in Atlanta.  From Living By The Word: Selected Writings 1973-1987 by Alice Walker. As some…

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  • Inner Landscape

    / September 5, 2013

    Inner Landscape ©2013 by Alice Walker For S and C   We have not seen each other in over a decade;  your son is very tall, you say, your daughter, learning to ride…

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  • The Magic of Women

    / August 30, 2013

    Dear Sisters at the University of Michigan, I accept your invitation to visit with you in the coming year: I believe we have all learned something from our efforts to reach out to…

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  • The Butler Did It

    / August 28, 2013

      The Butler Did It ©2013 by Alice walker   Lee Daniels’ The Butler was received in my neighborhood by a packed house, all colors and kinds, almost all of them, at different…

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  • Later We Would Miss You So Much: Remembering August 28, 1963

    / August 27, 2013

      LATER WE WOULD MISS YOU SO MUCH © 2013 by Alice Walker For Chelsea Manning Later we would miss you so much. But on that day we had you with us &…

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  • The Mud of Being

    / August 13, 2013

    Alice carrying a sculpture of pregnant African women in a circle, dancing. Necks of Clay©2013 by Alice Walker Someone said to me: Oh, stop that!  He has feet of clay. This person’s clay…

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  • Why Women Need Their Own Money

    / August 8, 2013

    In Case You’ve Ever Wondered How It Is Done: Censorship by Purse StringAn Invitation to speak at the 50th Anniversary for the Center for Education of Women at the University of Michigan has…

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  • David Icke: The People’s Voice

    / July 19, 2013

      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…

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  • Thoughts On Our Sorrow: Trayvon Martin and Troy Davis

    / July 15, 2013

    Thoughts On Our Sorrow:  Troy Davis and Trayvon Martin © 2013 by Alice Walker I deliberately watched none of the Zimmerman trial, just as I have deliberately not read a draft of a…

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  • A Yellow Rose for Texas: Sharing the poem “Cowgirl Filibuster” by Lisa L. Moore

    / July 5, 2013

    Cowgirl Filibuster    Couplets for heroic Texas women June 26, 2013   Word got out about the bad bill. College students packed up their bikinis,   went back to Austin to tell those…

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  • Beloved Young Trans People

    / March 26, 2023

    Photo by Alice Walker, Cambodia Beloved Young Trans People who may be suffering from a misunderstanding of where I stand: Know I am with you, whatever you choose to do and whatever age…

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  • Beloved Gloria Steinem

    / March 24, 2023

    Encouraged Happy Birthday (March 25th) Beloved Gloria Steinem, Encouraged by your generous way With Life We are baptized into a deeper Of Loving Friendship. Thank you.~aw Gloria, Alice, Roberto Early 90s, Mexico

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  • Our Health & Environment We Are The Guinea Pigs (Video share)

    / March 23, 2023

    Source: Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, @MSLawdotedu

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  • Weather Modification And The U.S. Military

    / March 23, 2023

    Source: Massachusetts School of Law at Andover @MSLawdotedu (youtube channel)

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  • Encouraged

    / March 23, 2023

     March Happy Birthday!  (March 25th) Beloved Gloria. Encouraged by your generous way  With Life We are baptized into a deeper  Affirmation  Of  Loving Friendship.  Thank you.~aw Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, and Roberto Allen…

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  • "No2Nato No2War 2023-02-25 London Rally"

    “No To NATO, No To War – Fiona Edwards speech at London Rally” (2023)

    / March 20, 2023

    No To NATO, No To War – Fiona Edwards speech at London Rally Source: @NoColdWar

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  • Beyond the Page Interview with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Alice Walker

    / March 18, 2023

    Beyond the Page with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Alice Walker Duration: 57:47 minutes Source: @GBH on Youtube

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  • AMLO President of Mexico speaking 2023-03

    Mexico. Excellent, impassioned information!

    / March 17, 2023

    UNDERSTANDING MEXICO

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  • “Lawyer Mel” (Leventhal) March 18

    / March 16, 2023

    The Sacred Journey Into Love “Lawyer Mel” (Leventhal) March 18 With daughter, Rebecca Leventhal Walker mid-1980s, the South   On the 17th (’67) we married. On the 18th you were born. (80 years…

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  • Quincy Jones March 14

    / March 14, 2023

    Your Teacher Will Have Come Through a Lot Quincy Jones March 14 Happy Birthday! Ninety years of being you. Amazing. We are grateful. And we thank you for the teachings  in this book …

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  • Zainab-Salbi-Video-Poster-Daughters-for-Earth-Bioneers

    Zainab Salbi – “Daughters for Earth” Bioneers

    / March 9, 2023

        Video credit: Bioneers Youtube Channel

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  • Nakawe, Huichol Goddess of Vegetation, i.e., Nature

    / March 8, 2023

    Nawake, diosa huichol de la vegetación, o sea de la Naturaleza Some Lucky Ones Have Sussed Who “God” Is Nakawe, Huichol Goddess of Vegetation, i.e., Nature  Photo by Alice Walker Peace is all around…

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  • They’re trying to burn the WRONG Witch – The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling | Redacted | Video

    / March 4, 2023

    Women were burned as “witches” for some 500 years in Europe, and, though not as meticulously recorded by the Church, which wanted their lands and other goods, burned also in other parts of…

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  • The CRAZY TRUTH
    in new spending bill
    Redacted with Clayton & Natali Morris

    / March 1, 2023

      One of the most moving things about humans is our desire to know.  Here we encounter a bill that basically enslaves Americans for generations; most of us knew nothing about it.  Have…

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