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Give To Those That Give (IL4)

by Pier Marton | Nov 6, 2013 | Care, Death, Food, France, Health, Highlights, Human Rights, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Women, Youth

“Nobody asks permission to kill. We do not ask permission to save lives.” Through PayPal Special Report by Yaron Shagal: En Français: Flash Video: About IL4 The organization is a not-for-profit, volunteer-based, Non Governmental Organization (NGO) that delivers life...

Center – By Any Means Necessary

by Pier Marton | Nov 6, 2013 | Care, Dance, Health, Human Rights, Middle-East, Mystery, Native, Photo, Politics, Wars, Women

If they can do it… on the rocky terrain… One of the winners of the 2013 Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund: Tanya Habjouqa for Occupied Pleasures From her website: “Occupied pleasures brings together glimmers of hope, dignity and laughter; all of which override the...

Hungary and Anti-Semitism, Again

by Pier Marton | Oct 31, 2013 | Antisemitism, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Magyar, Middle-East, Music, Politics, Racism, Roma, Shoah, Theater, Time

Addendum: Dec. 11, 2013 A letter to The Guardian by Andras Schiff, the Hungarian-born British classical pianist: Hungarians Must Face Their Nazi Past, Not Venerate ItAddendum: Nov. 3, 2013 HU – ES – EN – DE – FR From the New York Times An Opera Fights Hungary’s Rising...

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (Now 110!)

by Pier Marton | Oct 31, 2013 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Doc, Health, History, Humor, Jewish, Middle-East, Music, Mystery, Peace, Poet, Sci/Nat, Time, Women

The World’s Oldest Pianist/Optimist – and Holocaust Survivor – has just died on Sunday Feb. 23 2014 – (she was trailing by 8 months, Dr. Alex Imich, who at 111 is the second oldest second-oldest verified living person in the world) A very strong 2014 Oscar Nominated...

Counter-Jews (Lou Reed, Mclaren & Other Punks Like Alan Vega/Marty Rev from Suicide)

by Pier Marton | Oct 29, 2013 | Antisemitism, Art, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Music, NON, Politics, Popular, Shoah, Spectacle, Youth

I am what I am, it is what it is. Fuck you. Lou Reed (in 2013): 1942-2013 RED SHIRLEY (Shulamit Rabinowitz) by LOU REED AND RALPH GIBSON (the great photographer) – dedicated to Rostowicz, a 1000 year old Jewish town wiped out by the Nazis. From Haaretz Lou Reed, the...

Cairo 672

by Pier Marton | Sep 16, 2013 | Afri, Care, Human Rights, Middle-East, Review, STL, Women

by Mohamed Diab, 2012, Egypt, 100 min. My Review: Based on real events, the film follows the separate lives of three Cairo women – played by three compelling actresses. At first each story is presented as a single strand; slowly though, as through the perspective of...

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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