by Pier Marton | Jun 21, 2011 | Death, Hispanic, Music, Roma, Women
Beyond The Horizon (an excerpt from the their website). Ausencia with the Doch Gypsy Orchestra (from Brisbane) EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Jun 15, 2011 | Afri, Books, Death, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Politics, Racism
Visible racism, in the flesh, with the public hospitals: an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Jun 13, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Roma, Spectacle, Theater, Wars, Women
CODEPINK emerged out of a desperate desire by a group of American women to stop the Bush administration from invading Iraq. The name CODEPINK plays on the Bush Administration’s color-coded homeland security alerts — yellow, orange, red — that signal terrorist...
by Pier Marton | Jun 13, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Books, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Roma, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Wars, Women
From the NYTimes: Kathryn Pearson, an expert on Congress at the University of Minnesota: her studies of the House show women introduce more bills, participate more vigorously in key legislative debates. From the Harper Collins website for the book “Why Women...
by Pier Marton | Jun 12, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Doc, Film, France, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Magyar, Media, Middle-East, Politics, Shoah, Site, Time, Wars, Women
The “online cinematheque” presents until December 11, Cannes’ La Semaine de la Critique offers a retrospective with many free features. Where you will NOT see the blockbusters but the richer, rarer treasures. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | May 14, 2011 | Death, Hispanic, Humor
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