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 30, 2011 | Antisemitism, Art, France, Human Rights, Humor, Idées, Jewish, Juif, Poet, Politics, Shoah, Theater
A friend forwarded me this biography of Marceau: Marcel Marceau was a Holocaust hero. He was born Marcel Mangel on March 22, 1923, in Strasbourg, Alsace. His father Charles, was a kosher butcher who loved the arts. Marcel’s mother Anne née Werzberger, took him to a...
by Pier Marton | May 24, 2011 | Art, Galleries, Health, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Spectacle
“And it’s funny. I discovered five years ago that the truth is funny. Not everything that’s funny is true, for sure. But whatever is not funny is not true. That’s why truth has never been revealed, because scientists don’t understand that the end product needs...
by Pier Marton | May 23, 2011 | Antisemitism, Books, Death, Human Rights, Jewish, Juif, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars
[Ed. while campus politics were in full gear, this speech was given] In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it. — Leo Tolstoy From the campus paper, The Record: Do not stand idly by if you witness injustice, Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and human rights...