by Pier Marton | Jan 2, 2013 | Dance, Film, KeyFilm, Music, Racism, Roma, Wars, Women
From India, through Egypt, Turkey, Hungary, Germany, France and Spain, the Roma have traveled… and now that entire film and others are online, on YouTube. Twenty years later, Latcho Drom’s visual and musical delight echoes through time. Version anglaise,...
by Pier Marton | Dec 30, 2012 | History, Humor, Jewish, Middle-East, Software, Wars, Women
by her… All Creative Work is Derivative Sita Sings the Blues (based on The Ramayana) EFF Celebrates 20th Anniversary Credit is Due (The Attribution Song) Nina Paley’s website The Electronic Frontier Foundation Question Copyright EmailMoreRedditTweetShare...
by Pier Marton | Dec 23, 2012 | Human Rights, Ideas, Podcasts(E), Politics, Quotes, Sci/Nat, Wars
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell Face To Face (a Russell interview at age 90) http://youtu.be/OziPcicgmbw http://youtu.be/TedtMmUq8ig...
by Pier Marton | Dec 22, 2012 | Middle-East, Politics, Wars, Women
From The Guardian: The Israeli and the Palestinian: ‘We have discovered this joint pain’ It was only later, after the intense shock had subsided and a heavy pain was starting to bed in, that Robi Damelin was told what her first words were on hearing...
by Pier Marton | Dec 16, 2012 | Jewish, Politics, Spectacle, Wars
Updated (Feb. 2013) Violence Has a Price. As Arne Naess would have said: EVERYTHING COUNTS – LET US USE EVERYTHING WE HAVE TO STOP THIS. One look, and your life was absolutely changed. Michael McGowan, one of the first police officers to arrive at Sandy Hook...
by Pier Marton | Dec 6, 2012 | Ideas, Idées, Middle-East, Politics, Sci/Nat, Wars, Women
Source: (check out) BBC 4’s Open Sesame – Science in the Desert with David Shukman – Available for the next year. Peace through Science! SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) is a “third-generation”...