Last weekend the personal care brand Dove released an ad that went viral. In it, a black woman was transformed into a white woman after using Dove soap. The public outrage was swift and brutal. How could Dove release such a blatantly racist campaign? Surely the commercial had to go through a rigorous review process….
(supplementary material to my review of “Not by Might, nor by Power” – the Zionist betrayal of Judaism) Born in 1893, Moshe Menuhin was part of the inaugural class to attend the first Zionist high school in Palestine, the Herzliya gymnasium in Tel Aviv. He had grown up in a Hasidic home, but eventually rejected…
Recently, Andrew Stewart wrote a counterpoint to my article in Counterpunch – To Punch or Not to Punch – The American Left’s Existential Crisis titled “A Few Things About Nonviolence: A Response to Yoav Litvin”. In theory, I welcome the idea of an engaging and respectful back-and-forth. Counterpoints open the stage for debate, which is…
Defensive behaviors are highly selected reactions to animate and inanimate threats in the environment, which increase the chances of survival/ reproduction of those who perform them appropriately (Blanchard & Blanchard, 2008). Natural environmental threat stimuli may include predators and associated cues, conspecific attack, and dangerous features of the environment. Researchers investigating the innate aspect of…
Last Saturday night, I was fortunate to see Roger Waters, one of my musical and personal idols, perform live. At age 74, the rock legend still puts on the edgiest, most radical performance in town. An old rocker with an old message is the pinnacle of radical art these days. But is that a statement…
How can we collaborate across skills, communities, and history to build new spaces? On this week’s show, we talk to Yoav Litvin, author of 2Create, a book which documents the possibilities of creative collaboration for social and systemic change.
Yoav Litvin is a doctor of psychology, a photographer and writer. In his work, he investigates the intersections of science, the arts and politics and aims to promote creative and radical causes with a focus on urban culture, arts, social movements and peoples.
