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Palestine Conditions "More Brutal" Than in U.S. South of 50 Years Ago, Says Author Alice Walker
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10:41Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - 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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