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To paraphrase the brilliant title of Marsden Hartley's autobiography, I have somehow had a life. To try and characterize it would be premature. I will leave that to someone to write fifty years from now, if indeed anyone is interested.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 22, 2007 Shall We Dance? 500 Years of Genocide in Mexico
The indigenous people of Mexico have managed for almost five hundred years now to retain their identity. But their culture continues to be commodified and trivialized in Oaxaca in a commercial mega-event organized for the tourist trade called the Guelaguetza. Efforts this year to mount a Popular Guelaguetza that would be of the people, by the people, and for the people were met by police tear gas and brutality.