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A Tribe Called Red (+ Idle No More)

by Pier Marton | Jan 21, 2013 | History, Human Rights, Music, Native, Politics

From, Ontario, Ottawa From their website: In 2008, DJ’s NDN and Bear Witness founded A Tribe Called Red adding two-time Canadian DMC champ, DJ Shub to the crew in 2010. ATCR creates an never before heard sound made up of a wide variety of musical styles ranging from...

Patricio Guzmán & La Consciencia/Conscience

by Pier Marton | Jan 12, 2013 | Death, Film, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, KeyFilm, Media, Poet, Politics, Sci/Nat

¡La Memoria Existe! Memory Exists! Yo creo que la memoria tiene fuerza de gravedad. Siempre nos atrae. Los que tienen memoria son capaces de vivir en el frágil tiempo presente. Los que no la tienen, no viven en ninguna parte. P.G. Nostalgia de la Luz I am convinced...

This Land is Mine by Nina Paley & More

by Pier Marton | Dec 30, 2012 | History, Humor, Jewish, Middle-East, Software, Wars, Women

by her… All Creative Work is Derivative Sita Sings the Blues (based on The Ramayana) EFF Celebrates 20th Anniversary Credit is Due (The Attribution Song) Nina Paley’s website The Electronic Frontier Foundation Question Copyright Click to email a link to a friend...

Isaac Deutscher & The Non-Jewish Jew/Le Juif Non-Juif/Der Nichtjüdischer Jude/El non-judío Judío/A Nem-Zsidó Zsidó

by Pier Marton | Dec 23, 2012 | Antisemitism, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, Middle-East, Politics, Quotes, Shoah

Who is a Jew? (1954) If it is not race, what then makes a Jew? Religion? I am an atheist. Jewish nationalism? I am an internationalist. In neither sense am I, therefore, a Jew. I am, however, a Jew by force of my unconditional solidarity with the persecuted and...

Asking More (questions) From Zionism

by Pier Marton | Dec 11, 2012 | History, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Women

from Haaretz published 10.12.12 Jewish anti-Zionist academic insists Israeli occupation is un-Jewish by Carlo Strenger Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism, by Judith Butler. Columbia University Press, 256 pages, $28 Judith Butler has rightly been...

Fabulous Trobadors

by Pier Marton | Oct 30, 2012 | France, Hispanic, History, Humor, Music, Native, Site

Les petits-enfants à Nougaro (de Toulouse). Occitanie, Portugal, Brasil… “Qu’est-ce que vous en pensez vous qu’on est au 21ème siècle, et qu’on entre au troisième millénaire, blah, blah, blah? On s’en fout…” Toulousain – “Je ne brandis aucun drapeau, je ne veux suivre...