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Murder on a Sunday Morning (Un Coupable Idéal)

by Pier Marton | Jun 20, 2011 | Afri, Death, Doc, France, History, Human Rights, Racism

This important documentary was started by the French filmmaker, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, who switched from one documentary to this one after noticing the eyes of a terrified teenager: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z2jtha8Oqg EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...

Eugenics and Sterilization until 1979 in the U.S.

by Pier Marton | Jun 15, 2011 | Afri, History, Human Rights, Politics, Racism, Women

More than 60,000 Americans were sterilised, many against their will, as part of a eugenics movement that finished in 1979: some of the visible racism. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...

Nino Bitton

by Pier Marton | Jun 15, 2011 | Care, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Middle-East, Music

Teacher of Bassist Omer Avital, Pianist Omri Mor and Vocalist Yasmine Levi, Master Oud player has just released his first CD, with a large sample on this page. + “I sleep with a beat” article in Haaretz. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...

Women for Peace: Code Pink

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...

Why (Some) Women Should Govern

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...

Mubi for Cinephiles and Film Buffs

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...

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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