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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Please circulate
widely!</FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
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<P><STRONG><FONT face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">CUTTING THE TIES TO ISRAELI
APARTHEID: CULTURAL AND ACADEMIC BOYCOTT</FONT></STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Friday, March 9, 7:00 pm @
OISE/University of Toronto Auditorium - 252 Bloor St. West</FONT></STRONG></P>
<P>Hosted by Students Against Israeli Apartheid - a working group of
OPIRG-Toronto </P>
<P>and co-organized by Faculty 4 Palestine</P>
<P><STRONG>Remi Kanazi</STRONG> is a poet, writer, and activist based in New
York City. He is the editor of Poets For Palestine (Al Jisser Group, 2008). His
political commentary has been featured by news outlets throughout the world,
including Al Jazeera English, GRITtv with Laura Flanders, and BBC Radio. His
poetry has taken him across North America, the UK, and the Middle East, and he
recently appeared in the Palestine Festival of Literature as well as Poetry
International. He is a recurring writer in residence and advisory board member
for the Palestine Writing Workshop.</P>
<P><STRONG>Mary-Jo Nadeau</STRONG> is a researcher/writer, and contract lecturer
at University of Toronto Mississauga. She is a co-founder of Faculty for
Palestine (F4P) and is active in the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
(CAIA)</P>
<P><STRONG>Richard Fung</STRONG> is a Toronto-based video artist, writer,
theorist and an associate professor in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University.
His work investigates topics ranging from colonialism, immigration, racism,
homophobia, AIDS and to his own family history and experiences with diaspora.
Richard is a public intellectual who has pushed forward the debates about queer
sexuality, Asian identity and the uneasy borderlands of culture and
politics.</P>
<P><STRONG><FONT face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Sample video clips of Remi
Kanazi performing spoken word</FONT></STRONG>:</P>
<P><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR>A Poem for Gaza (performed in Nablus,
2010)</P>
<P><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJ4bWfPa1k&feature=related"
target=_blank>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJ4bWfPa1k&feature=related</A></P>
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<P>The Dos and Don'ts of Palestine (popular video, circulated widely over the
past year)</P>
<P><A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=WixizuOv2uY"
target=_blank>http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=WixizuOv2uY</A>
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<P>This poem will not end apartheid (also performed in London, see above)</P>
<P><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ60E1Y-yNE&feature=related"
target=_blank>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ60E1Y-yNE&feature=related</A></P>
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<P>Co-existence (performed in London, this past November, on the same stage as
Rafeef Ziadah and Omar Offendum)</P>
<P><A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-8sDYO-EVM"
target=_blank>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-8sDYO-EVM</A></P>
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