Saturday, 11 March 2006 - 9:58 AM EST
Name:
Breeze Harper
Home Page:
https://breezeharper.tripod.com/research
Ladies,
For those contributing to the Sistah Vegan Anthology, here is an Alice Walker article written in 1985 about MOVE and the "radical Black people" who were bombed by the government in Philly in the mid 1980s. For those of you who may not know. Ms. Walker practices veganism and incorporates it into her literary activism against all institutionalized "-isms." In this particualr article, she focuses on the fact that the MOVE community praticed raw foods vegetarianism and didn't believe in killing any animals:
"It appeared that the MOVE people were vegetarians and ate their food raw because they believed raw food healthier for the body and the soul. They believed in letting orange peels, banana peels, and other organic refuse 'cycle' back into the earth. Composting? They did not believe in embalming dead people or burying them in caskets. They thought they should be allowed to 'cycle' back to the earth, too. They loved dogs (their leader, John Africa, was called 'The Dog Man' because he cared for so many) and never killed animals of any kind, not even rats (which infuriated their neighbors), because they believed in the sanctity of all life."
You can read the whole article http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/MOVE-Alice-Walker1988.htm
Hopefully this will help with brainstorming ideas about what to write about.
Peace and Blessing,
Breezie
