Democracy Now!
"We continue our conversation with the legendary poet, author and activist
Alice Walker, who has also been a long-time advocate for the rights of
Palestinians. Last summer, she was one of the activists on the U.S. ship that
attempted to sail to Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla aimed at challenging
Israel’s embargo of the Gaza Strip. Alice Walker also serves on the jury of the
Russell Tribunal on Palestine, an international people’s tribunal created in
2009 to bring attention to the responsibility other states bear for Israel’s
violations of international law. Walker describes her upbringing in the
segregated South, then goes on to discuss today’s segregation in the Occupied
Territories. “The unfairness of it is so much like the South, it’s so much like
the South of 50 years ago, really, and actually more brutal, because in
Palestine so many more people are wounded, shot, shot and killed, imprisoned,
you know, there are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no
reason,” Walker says....."
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