Alice Walker
Alice Walker
Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights
Alice Walker was a signatory on a May 2022 statement issued by Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, a Revolutionary Communist Party front group.[1] The statement called for "abortion on demand and without apology" and was issued in the wake of a leak of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which forced states to accommodate the killing of unborn children.
"Follow Me Home"
With Deb Haaland, Jessica Thompson, Alfre Woodard, Alice Walker, Judith LeBlanc, Bakari Sellars, Angela Davis, Dahlia Ferlito, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Edgar Villanueva, Dolores Huerta.
In These Times
Over the years, socialist journal In These Times has published the work of a wide range of noted writers, including fiction by Alice Walker and Kurt Vonnegut; reporting by Clinton speechwriter David Kusnet, former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan, and current Salon Editor-in-Chief Joan Walsh; and political commentary by former presidential candidate George McGovern, environmentalist Sandra Steingraber, the late Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, novelists Barbara Kingsolver and Dorothy Allison, and a number of contemporary members of the House of Representatives who contribute to the magazine’s “House Call” column.
The late Sen. Paul Wellstone, one of the first subscribers to In These Times, put it this way: “Meaningful democracy cannot survive without the free flow of information, even (or especially) when that information threatens the privileged and the powerful. At a time of growing media concentration, In These Times is an invaluable source of news and information that the corporate media would too often prefer to ignore.”[2]
"Solidarity"
Circa 1984, July 17, at the Great Electronic Underground, San Francisco, Democratic Socialists of America's American Solidarity Movement organized a reception "Solidarity"at the Democratic Party Convention, in support of US labor.
Sponsors included Alice Walker.[3]
Opposing loans to Chile
In 1987, Joanne Landy, Thomas Harrison and Gail Daneker, Directors, Campaign for Peace and Democracy/East and West, New York, circulated a statement Against Loans to Chile calling upon the Reagan Administration to oppose all loans to Chile.
It has been signed by leading "peace, labor, human rights, religious and cultural figures from the United States, Western Europe and Latin America." They were "joined by a large number of activists and writers from the USSR and Eastern Europe, many of whom have been persecuted in their own countries for work in independent peace and human rights movements."
Alice Walker endorsed the call.
The majority of signatories were affiliated with Democratic Socialists of America.[4]
Peace for Cuba Appeal
In 1994 Alice Walker was an initiator of the International Peace for Cuba Appeal, an affiliate of the Workers World Party dominated International Action Center.
Other prominent initiators included Cuban Intelligence agent Philip Agee, academic Noam Chomsky, Congressman John Conyers and Charles Rangel[5].
The Black Scholar
Walker was a contributor to The Black Scholar.[6]
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
In 2008 Alice Walker, Berkeley, CA signed a statement circulated by the Partisan Defense Committee calling for the release of convicted “cop-killer” Mumia Abu-Jamal.[7]
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References
- ↑ https://riseup4abortionrights.org/we-refuse-to-let-the-u-s-supreme-court-deny-womens-humanity-and-decimate-their-rights/ WE REFUSE TO LET THE U.S. SUPREME COURT DENY WOMEN’S HUMANITY AND DECIMATE THEIR RIGHTS! JOIN US IN FIGHTING FOR: ABORTION ON DEMAND AND WITHOUT APOLOGY! (Accessed on June 25 2022)]
- ↑ [1] In These times, About US, accessed May 27, 2010
- ↑ American Solidarity Movement flyer]
- ↑ New York review of books, Vol 34, Number 10, June 11, 1987
- ↑ International Peace for Cuba Appeal - letterhead, Nov. 14, 1994
- ↑ The Black Scholar
- ↑ Signers of Campaign to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Now