If Canada dropped white phosphorous on your children, prevented them from going to school, jailed 10 year olds, bombed your churches, blew up your police stations, set up 600,000 checkpoints throughout the US, built Canadian-only roads that split you up into Bantustans and ghettos, constructed walls that cordoned off your neighborhoods, slapped sanctions on the West Coast, jailed hundreds of thousands of Americans without charge, stole your water supply, and sent millions of Canadians to forcefully take your land & carry out violent attacks in your cities,  would you be open to boycotting a Canadian dance company that was funded by the Canadian government and was being used as cultural propaganda to rebrand Canada's image throughout the world?

Leonardo DiCaprio celebrates birthday in Israel. This may be a good sequel? Inception 2: Implanting Zionism. An idea is planted into your head, that idea is that Zionism is not racism, that stealing someone's land is ok, and building a system of Apartheid is the only way you can truly wake up.

A donkey, Mahmoud Abbas, and Salam Fayyad walk into a bar.
The donkey sits down at the bar to order a drink. The bartender
comes up to the donkey and says, "Sorry, we don't serve asses."
The donkey gets extremely angry and calls the bartender a bigot,
to which the bartender replies, "Not you donkey! The two asses
behind you."

Hi everyone,

I'll be doing a big North American tour to promote my upcoming book and CD, Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine. Check out some of the tour info below if you're interested in getting a show together in your town or city!

Remi Kanazi will be touring North America this winter and spring on the Poetic Injustice tour. The tour will be promoting the release of Remi’s long awaited collection of poetry and CD, Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine.

Pulitzer Prize winner and Nation Institute senior fellow Chris Hedges said, "There is more truth, and perhaps finally more news, in Remi Kanazi's poems than the pages of your daily newspaper or the sterile reports flashed across your screens." Former US Congresswoman and Green Party nominee for president Cynthia McKinney said Poetic Injustice is, "breathtakingly honest prose that shakes the reader's preconceived notions of the Middle East …run out and get this collection today”

Remi is fresh off his North American Poets For Palestine tour, appearing at more than 150 venues across the US and Canada to highlight the widely acclaimed collection of poetry, hip hop,and art, Poets For Palestine. Poetry pioneer Bob Holman remarked, “If you want to know about Palestine, read this book.” Moustafa Bayoumi, editor of the highly regarded Edward Said Reader and Midnight on the Mavi Marmara, said that Poets For Palestine is “a bold, necessary, and moving collection.”

If you would like to host a performance, book signing, or add Remi to an existing program (i.e. a cultural night, Arab festival, spoken word show, hip hop show, Palestine Awareness Week, or fundraiser) please let me know. Remi’s work is also a great addition to events featuring academics, politicians and activists.

To book Remi or get more information, please email me at Booking@PoeticInjustice.net

*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, includingAl 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. He is a recurring writer in residence and advisory board member for the Palestine Writing Workshop.

I wasn't able to make it to the anti-Muslim rally in downtown Manhattan this weekend. But from what I hear, it was pretty scary. There were swastika sightings, an overflow of fascist rhetoric, people foaming from the mouth talking about "the end of America," and your good old anti-Muslim hatred wrapped in the talk of freedom. This picture of people protesting Muslims "coming to" Lower Manhattan with a halal food cart in the background sums up how ridiculous they are:

Hi everyone,

I’m doing a short tour before the release of my upcoming book and cd, Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine. Below is a abridged version my tour manager sent out.

Remi

Palestinian-American poet Remi Kanazi will be touring the US this fall and I thought you may be interested in hosting him in your town or city.

Remi is fresh off his North American Poets For Palestine tour, appearing at more than 100 venues across the US and Canada to highlight the widely acclaimed collection of poetry, hip hop, and art, Poets For Palestine . Poetry pioneer Bob Holman remarked, “If you want to know about Palestine, read this book." Moustafa Bayoumi, editor of the highly regarded Edward Said Reader and the forthcoming anthology Midnight on the Mavi Marmara, said that Poets For Palestine is “a bold, necessary, and moving collection.”

Remi is a recurring writer-in-residence and advisory board member for the Palestine Writing Workshop. He just returned from Palestine after the conclusion of a two-part class he taught on spoken word poetry. While there, he also participated in Palestine's traveling cultural festival, PalFest.

Remi’s fall U.S. tour will precede the release of his upcoming book and cd, Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine due out in January 2011.

If you would like to host a performance, book signing, or add Remi to an existing program (i.e. a cultural night, Arab festival, spoken word show, hip hop show, Palestine Awareness Week, or fundraiser) please let me know. Remi’s work is also a great addition to events featuring academics, politicians and activists.

Below is a link to one of Remi’s numerous performances on the progressive news show GRITtv with Laura Flanders: http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=xNNIUJIXtLE

To book Remi or get more information, please email me at Rozina@PoeticInjusice.net.

4 bullets to the head  
            this is self defense  
they attacked us with white flags 
            this is self defense  

we are a tiny state 
            this is self defense  
we went through the Holocaust  
            this is self defense  

we will sink the next boat  
and the one after that 
            this is self defense  

we must build new outposts  
and a wall on their land 
            this is self defense  

Haneen Zoabi is a traitor and a terrorist  
Arabs must take loyalty tests 
            this is self defense    

we can’t recognize their villages  
transfer to Jordan is needed  
wheelchairs are a luxury
            this is self defense 

we killed 1400 in Gaza
            this is self defense  

we dropped white phosphorous on their children 
            this is self defense  

Even when there is no defense 
            this is self defense