by Pier Marton | Feb 12, 2013 | Afri, France, Human Rights, Poet, Politics
Madame la Ministre de la Justice, Garde des Sceaux, en quelques minutes: Voilà son blog… Elle cite René Char, Paul Ricœur et Léon-Gontran Damas (Nous les gueux/ nous les rien/ nous les peu/ nous les chiens/ nous les maigres/nous les Nègres/ Qu’attendons-nous/...
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...
by Pier Marton | Dec 4, 2012 | Afri, Hispanic, Middle-East, Music, Women
Jon Balke & Amina Alaoui & Jon Hassell & Kheir Eddine M’Kachiche – Itimad (Reliance) Gharnati/Al Andalus/Andalusian music (730 to 1492), Sufi & Lope de Vega & St John of the Cross texts for another wondrous ECM collaborative project....
by Pier Marton | Nov 18, 2012 | Afri, Asia, Doc, France, Human Rights, Middle-East, Review, STL
The St. Louis International Film Festival is rounding up; as always an amazing round-up of jewels from all around the world… I wish I could have found the time to write individual longer reviews this year. Below, based on what I was able to watch, my own...
by Pier Marton | Oct 26, 2012 | Afri, Death, Music, Native
The Guinean singer, composer, and alto saxophonist: Jazz was born with you, but I brought it home, in Africa, because that is where its source sprang forth from/Le jazz est né chez vous, mais, moi je l’ai ramené chez moi, en Afrique, car c’est de là...
by Pier Marton | Oct 7, 2012 | Afri, Care, Film, France, Human Rights, Humor, Music, Mystery, Native, Popular
I am human and I find injustice and stupidity revolting. A big injustice, and a big stupidity, is that half of the humans try to put down the other half instead of being HAPPY that they are there. – Michel Ocelot Je suis humain et l’injustice et la bêtise...