[Fdu] TONITE! on the academic and cultural boycitt

[Cynthia Wright]

Please circulate widely!  
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CUTTING THE TIES TO ISRAELI APARTHEID: CULTURAL AND ACADEMIC BOYCOTT

Friday, March 9, 7:00 pm @ OISE/University of Toronto Auditorium - 252 Bloor St. West

Hosted by Students Against Israeli Apartheid - a working group of OPIRG-Toronto 

and co-organized by Faculty 4 Palestine

Remi Kanazi 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.

Mary-Jo Nadeau 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)

Richard Fung 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.

Sample video clips of Remi Kanazi performing spoken word:


A Poem for Gaza (performed in Nablus, 2010)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJ4bWfPa1k&feature=related



The Dos and Don'ts of Palestine (popular video, circulated widely over the past year)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=WixizuOv2uY 



This poem will not end apartheid (also performed in London, see above)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ60E1Y-yNE&feature=related



Co-existence (performed in London, this past November, on the same stage as Rafeef Ziadah and Omar Offendum)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-8sDYO-EVM





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