Pier Marton

Ervin Marton featured on Wikipedia

by Pier Marton | Jan 27, 2013 | Art, Ego, France, Highlights, Jewish, Photo

Besides my website about my father, Ervin Marton, is featured right now on the main English Wikipedia page – as part of the… “Did you know?” that Ervin Marton (his Wikipedia entry), an internationally known Hungarian photographer based in...

Frederick Douglass in 1857: “If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress”

by Pier Marton | Jan 26, 2013 | Afri, History, Human Rights, Politics, Quotes, Site

(1857) Frederick Douglass, “If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress” a Wikipedia entry + More below. On August 3, 1857, Frederick Douglass delivered a “West India Emancipation” speech at Canandaigua, New York, on the twenty-third anniversary of the event. Most...

A Tribe Called Red (+ Idle No More)

by Pier Marton | Jan 21, 2013 | History, Human Rights, Music, Native, Politics

From, Ontario, Ottawa From their website: In 2008, DJ’s NDN and Bear Witness founded A Tribe Called Red adding two-time Canadian DMC champ, DJ Shub to the crew in 2010. ATCR creates an never before heard sound made up of a wide variety of musical styles ranging from...

Patricio Guzmán & La Consciencia/Conscience

by Pier Marton | Jan 12, 2013 | Death, Film, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, KeyFilm, Media, Poet, Politics, Sci/Nat

¡La Memoria Existe! Memory Exists! Yo creo que la memoria tiene fuerza de gravedad. Siempre nos atrae. Los que tienen memoria son capaces de vivir en el frágil tiempo presente. Los que no la tienen, no viven en ninguna parte. P.G. Nostalgia de la Luz I am convinced...

Amazing Grace in Budapest

by Pier Marton | Jan 10, 2013 | Care, Humor, Magyar, Music, Spectacle, Theater

Bolyki Balázs, frónt ember (a Bolyki Soul & Gospel Kórus) Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind but now I see. Shout, shout for glory, Shout, shout aloud for glory; Brother, sister, mourner,...