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| July 25, 2009 Permalink The best place one could be on Earth: by Alice Walker Quicklink submitted by Meryl Ann Butler (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| In March, poet, novelist and feminist Alice Walker joined a Code Pink delegation to travel to the Gaza Strip just weeks after the 22-day Israeli bombardment and invasion. In this excerpt, Walker recounts the stories of the people she met, and offers a lyrical analysis that ties their oppression and struggles to what she and her community experienced growing up in the violence and fear of the segregated American South. |
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