by Pier Marton | Jan 13, 2011 | Afri, Death, Doc, Film, Health, History, Human Rights, KeyFilm, Racism, Women
Long Night’s Journey into Day, the website (with excerpts) for this most important film and its distributor, California Newsreel. The BBC report. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...
by Pier Marton | Jan 12, 2011 | Antisemitism, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Wars
From the founder of Esperanto, an ophthalmologist of great vision: “I am profoundly convinced that every nationalism offers humanity only the greatest unhappiness… It is true that the nationalism of oppressed peoples — as a natural self-defensive...
by Pier Marton | Jan 11, 2011 | Afri, Death, Human Rights, Media, Politics, Racism, Spectacle
To Understand Assassination Threat, Look Beyond Tucson by Nate Silver in the NYTimes “If it turns out, for instance, that Democratic members of Congress are much more likely to receive such threats than Republican ones, that might tell us something meaningful....
by Pier Marton | Jan 9, 2011 | Antisemitism, Death, Hispanic, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Politics, Racism, Spectacle, Women
Sign this petition calling on every member of Congress, as well as the major TV news networks, to put an end to any overt or implied appeals to violence in our political debate. From my friend AR: “Been viewing the news from Arizona. Four of the people who died...
by Pier Marton | Jan 4, 2011 | France, Music, Politics, Racism, Spectacle
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by Pier Marton | Jan 4, 2011 | Antisemitism, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Middle-East, Racism, Time
“In the corners of the living quarters of the Africans … you will find the filth, card games played for money, residents getting drunk, and prostitution. … The Africans bring this way of life with them when they migrate, and it is no wonder that...