Arianna Huffington: HuffPost’s Latest e-Book: OCCUPY: Why It Started. Who’s Behind It. What’s Next..

Person of the Year Runner-Up: Ai Weiwei – Person of the Year 2011 – TIME.

]]> http://rising2life.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/times-person-of-2011-the-protester/feed/ 0 bluelife66 http://rising2life.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/god-bless-your-hands-ali/ http://rising2life.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/god-bless-your-hands-ali/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:58:22 +0000 Stefano Paolinelli http://rising2life.wordpress.com/?p=354 ]]> Ali Farzat’s drawings confront you with the bare truth, no more and no less. For Ali Farzat, cartoons are not just an art form that pleases and he never aims to amuse or make people laugh. Cartoons are a very sensitive and effective weapon in the struggle for humanity. Ali Farzat’s primary cause is freedom, and he defends human rights and human dignity whatever the consequences and whatever the price.

God Bless Your Hands, Ali | World Affairs Journal

Who Is Ai Weiwei? | Artinfo

According to Chinese authorities, he is a dissident to be watched, one whose inflammatory blog needed to be silenced. But to others, the Chinese conceptual artist, architect, photographer, and curator — loathed and loved for his human rights activism — is the courageous voice needed in today’s repressive China.

 The Bankers and the Revolutionaries – NYTimes.com.

Hélène Grimaud’s Life as a Concert Pianist : The New Yorker.

A complicated and exhausting man who knew how  to make things better – Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker