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Oldest Woman in the World: 121 Year Old Indigenous Brazilian

by Pier Marton | Sep 13, 2011 | Care, Eco, Health, Hispanic, History, Native, Politics, Time, Women

Maria Lucimar Pereira is one of the Kaxinawá tribe, and lives in the western Brazilian Amazon. She says she will spend her birthday, on September 3rd , with her family. Maria has never lived in a city and puts her longevity of life down to a healthy lifestyle. She...

The School of No-Media © Marton 2011

by Pier Marton | Sep 13, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Care, Dance, Eco, Ego, Food, Future Tech, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Spectacle, Teach, Women

A free online university?! Want to join? The universe is watching the sprouts grow… ____________________ ____________________ “Substance is what remains when everything you can think of has gone.” Eli Siegel “Technology… the knack of so...

’11 SLIFF BUZZ: To Be Heard

by Pier Marton | Aug 30, 2011 | Afri, Death, Doc, Eco, Film, Future Tech, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Music, Poet, Racism, Review, STL

Short review: Power Writing to create that safe place to be in/out of the hood. A student shouts “Poetry is rehab!” – a teacher inspires students to “pass the test of life… at a very special level, far beyond their subsistence” and...

Criminal Language: “Roadkill/Collateral Damage/Trash”

by Pier Marton | Aug 25, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Ego, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Juif, Media, Middle-East, Now, Objects, Politics, Quotes, Roma, Shoah, Spectacle, Theater, Wars, Women

For more about escaping language/words: the Dictionary of Imploded Meanings. If you think the system is working, ask someone who isn’t or who was stopped “dead in his tracks.” An excerpt from Beyond Belief (Against the Weapons of Mass Distraction):...

Inequality (and Irrationality) in the Face

by Pier Marton | Aug 18, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Food, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Now, Politics, Quotes, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Wars, Women

If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists. Cecil Rhodes 1895 Land of the free, home of the poor on the PBS Newshour. Summary: Financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the “tippy-top” of the...

Carlos Gardel: Ventarrón

by Pier Marton | Aug 13, 2011 | Hispanic, Music, Poet

Por tu fama, por tu estampa, sos el malevo mentado del hampa; sos el más taura entre todos los tauras, sos el mismo Ventarrón. ¿Quién te iguala por tu rango en las canyengues quebradas del tango, en la conquista de los corazones, si se da la ocasión? Entre el...