Pier Marton

3 Views of Louis Armstrong

by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Ego, France, Photo, Poet, Racism

Louis Armstrong in Paris by photographer Ervin Marton (with Pearl Bailey?). From Wikipedia: He worked for a Lithuanian-Jewish immigrant family, the Karnofskys, who had a junk hauling business and gave him odd jobs. They took him in and treated him as almost a family...

Hommage(s) à Sotigui Kouyaté

by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2011 | Afri, Care, Death, Film, France, Human Rights, Idées, Native, Poet, Politics, Theater

Une vidéo: & de Fespaco: Le comédien et dramaturge burkinabè Sotigui Kouyaté s’en est allé le samedi 17 avril 2010 à Paris en France, des suites d’une maladie pulmonaire. Ce griot et grand homme de culture âgé de 74 ans, a touché à plusieurs métiers et avait du...

Jews: Free to Question Passover, God & Progress (+ what it is to be “a Jew”)

by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2011 | Antisemitism, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, France, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, KeyText, Magyar, Middle-East, Mystery, Native, Now, Politics, Racism, Roma, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Spectacle, Time, Travel, Wars, Women

¿Passover???oss?d? How can one pass over the fact that the 20th Century was the most murderous so far? The University of Hawai has compiled the disasters, whether through war or political regimes, to a grand total of 262 million killed. Email a link to a friend (Opens...

Jews: A People Free to Question

by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2011 | Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Politics

Supporting Israel (& David Grossman) means questioning its policies by Edgar Bronfman Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...