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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...

David Ansell’s “County”

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...

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...

Syria’s Naksa Day Protest Organized by Government

by Pier Marton | Jun 15, 2011 | Antisemitism, Human Rights, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Spectacle, Wars

The memorandum outlines how the regime ordered the dispatching of 20 buses, each one with a passenger capacity of 47, to cross the border into Majdal-Shamms in the Golan Heights in order to precipitate a confrontation between Palestinian refugees and Israeli soldiers...

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...

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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