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Bill Moyers: Justice & Fairness Against the Lottery!

by Pier Marton | Jul 22, 2013 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Food, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Native, Now, Politics, Quotes, Racism, US, Women, Youth

The fundamental conclusion I’ve reached after 79 years and a lot of work is that life is lottery. I don’t buy this argument that people are self-made; our opportunities are presented to us – how we resolve them, how we exploit them, how we respond to them are the...

Fight Hard the NRA!

by Pier Marton | Apr 18, 2013 | Care, Death, Highlights, Human Rights, Now, Politics, Popular, Wars, Women

[UPDATED WITH A PETITION] “Thoughts and prayers” or real action to stop gun violence? Locate and Contact Those Senators Who Voted Against Gun Control! From Mayors Against Illegal Guns “A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip” by Gabby Giffords in the NYTimes Senators say...

Not a Movie – Syria/Syrie – Pas du Cinéma

by Pier Marton | Mar 8, 2013 | Art, Death, France, Human Rights, Media, Middle-East, Now, Politics, Sounds, Spectacle, Theater, Travel, Video, Wars

Via Le Monde – une propagande qui ne marche pas pour Al-Assad: L’agence ANNA, basée dans le territoire disputé d’Abkhazie (province de Géorgie dont l’indépendance n’est pas reconnue internationalement) diffuse régulièrement sur Internet des reportages consacrés à...

It’s Not Obama’s Fault

by Pier Marton | Nov 5, 2012 | Ego, Media, Now, Politics, Spectacle

Panic time! D-Day minus one! After seeing the Romney ad below, exploiting some unemployed individuals, I too, Pier Marton, had to tell my story in that style of “understanding poverty” – but NOT blaming Obama. There is another one in my head about being driven to a...

Chris Marker’s Vertigo

by Pier Marton | Aug 31, 2012 | Art, Death, Film, France, Future Tech, Idées, KeyFilm, Media, Now, Poet, Spectacle, Time, Travel, Wars, Women

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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

by Pier Marton | Aug 31, 2012 | Afri, Archi, Art, Books, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Health, Highlights, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Native, Now, Politics, Racism, Spectacle, Wars, Women

You may also want to check out a CBC interview around his Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle From Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt From the Introduction: AMONG INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS, THE UNITED STATES HAS THE: • highest poverty...