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Juliano Mer-Khamis – 1958-2011 – ??????? ??? ????

by Pier Marton | Apr 4, 2011 | Antisemitism, Human Rights, Jewish, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Wars

Israeli arab actor, director, filmmaker and political activist murdered today in Jenin where his Freedom Theater* was set up. Another vital bridge of a person gone, it is clearer and clearer: stupidity kills. A question and answer session in 2006 in NYC. *The Freedom...

Besa in Albania

by Pier Marton | Apr 1, 2011 | Antisemitism, Care, Health, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Photo, Racism, Shoah

From Wikipedia: Besa is an Albanian cultural precept, usually translated as “faith”, that means “to keep the promise” and “word of honor”. The word’s origin can be traced to the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini, a collection of...

A Film Unfinished in St. Louis

by Pier Marton | Mar 29, 2011 | Antisemitism, Art, Ego, Jewish, Media, Middle-East, Shoah, STL

Restricted to the St. Louis University community. Cinema versus History: A Viewing of A Film Unfinished Wednesday, April 6 Time: 7-9 p.m. Location: Carlo Auditorium, Tegeler Hall – St. Louis University My short review of that film. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...

Erich Mühsam (featured by August Sander): 1878-1934

by Pier Marton | Mar 23, 2011 | Antisemitism, Books, Human Rights, Jewish, Politics, Racism, Wars, Women

Erich Mühsam (1878-1934), poet, bohemian, revolutionary, is one of Germany’s most renowned and influential anarchists. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he challenged the conventions of bourgeois society at the turn of the century, engaged in heated...

Depose Netanyahu & Some of the Rabbis: Talking Peace – Making War

by Pier Marton | Mar 23, 2011 | Antisemitism, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Wars

Netanyahu & some of those rabbis: Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Yitzhak Shapira, Dov Lior, Elyakim Levanon… Want to add names to the list of those preaching hatred? In Haaretz (a few of those clear messages): Netanyahu is ignoring Abbas’ efforts to end...

The Ever Present Sexual Violence

by Pier Marton | Mar 21, 2011 | Antisemitism, Books, Death, Doc, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Politics, Roma, Shoah, Wars, Women

The new book, “Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During The Holocaust” (Brandeis, 2010), Sonja M. Hedgepeth, ed.; Rochelle G. Saidel, ed. Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus