March 1st, it’s International Women of Colour Day! by Marian, at Marian's Blog 1:05 pm / 01 March 2010
Wishing every woman of colour a wonderful International Women of Colour Day, today and for the days, months and years ahead.
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Gaza: “The Other Israel” – Jewish anti-Zionism by Marian, at Marian's Blog 1:11 pm / 02 January 2010
The other evening, the first time ever (and NOT in New York) we came across a street demo by a group of black-hatted, bearded Hasidic Jewish men, complete with hand-drawn campaign placards "against Zionism".Something has happened, shifted, perhaps even cracked - since never before in my life have I seen anything like this. We see the same rebirth & strengthening in the re-emergence of a small yet striking work of independent (& prescient) thinking in an edited volume now online: The Other Israel: The Radical Case Against Zionism.
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Gaza: Reading Robert Fisk on The Independent.co.uk by Marian, at Marian's Blog 9:43 am / 14 January 2009
Some readers of Marian's Blog may be aware that I'm a former journalist (and press secretary, etc.) myself. And yet, being briefly outside the United States, I am experiencing culture shock. In this case the shock is good, due to...
August 7, 1998: Julian Bartley and many other lives by Marian, at Marian's Blog 4:29 am / 07 August 2008
I will never forget that August 7, 1998 was a Friday. In Croatia I finished a report for work. My colleague-friend Melinda and I had taken a day of leave and arrived on Croatia's beautiful, rocky, pine-scented Dalmatian coast to...
March Madness? Bombing, from Belgrade to Baghdad by Marian, at Marian's Blog 6:08 am / 21 March 2008
It's just days after the "Ides of March" - the date when the emperor Giulio Cesare was assassinated in Rome. In English we call him Julius Caesar. In English we also have a saying about March, that it "comes in...
