Wednesday
Sep022009
Palestine
Wednesday 2 September, 2009 tagged London Events
The next Openned Poetry Reading (Land for Lajee Fundraiser) is on Tuesday 6th October at 7.15 pm. Confirmed poets so far are:
More TBA.
Publishers donating to the book table include:
More TBA.
If there are any other small presses, publishers, who would like to donate books to the book table (all profits going to the Lajee Center) please contact us on our Openned G-mail account.
Also if there are any individuals that would like to donate books to the night that would be much appreciated both by myself and the people at Lajee.
Download the Openned October E-Flyer or for more information go to the Openned Poetry Facebook Event.
Or download the Lajee Project Fact Sheet. Please do feel free to distribute these images.
Also of note is that the Tuesday reading will be held inside a photography exhibition entitled Jerusalem Dispossessed.
JERUSALEM DISPOSED is an exhibition from the photographic collective ActiveStills. It documents different aspects of the on-going expulsion of indigenous Palestinians from their native Jerusalem. A powerful and eerie series of 42 photographs moves between images of Israeli settlements, armed settler youths, uprooted Palestinian olive trees, and the Separation Wall.
On a related but different topic, recently the poet Cathy Wagner suggested I read the blog body on the line. It is a very interesting blog written by an academic Marcy Newman who teaches at An Najah University in Nablus. Recently she posted a very interesting post about the Academic Boycott of Israeli Universities which is worth a read. Also she also posted up videos from the Palestine Festival Of Literature 2009 which I thought might be of interest.
- Sean Bonney
- Sophie Robinson
- Harry Gilonis
- Josh Stanley
- Tim Atkins
- Nat Raha
- Posie Rider
- Peter Philpott
- Alan Hay
- Michael Zand
- Amy De'Ath
- Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
- Frances Kruk
- Raz
- Andrea Brady
- Justin Katko
More TBA.
Publishers donating to the book table include:
- Barque Press
- Reality Street
- Bad Press
- West End Lane Books
- Critical Documents
- Grasp Press
- Hot Gun!
- Veer
More TBA.
If there are any other small presses, publishers, who would like to donate books to the book table (all profits going to the Lajee Center) please contact us on our Openned G-mail account.
Also if there are any individuals that would like to donate books to the night that would be much appreciated both by myself and the people at Lajee.
Download the Openned October E-Flyer or for more information go to the Openned Poetry Facebook Event.
Or download the Lajee Project Fact Sheet. Please do feel free to distribute these images.
Also of note is that the Tuesday reading will be held inside a photography exhibition entitled Jerusalem Dispossessed.
JERUSALEM DISPOSED is an exhibition from the photographic collective ActiveStills. It documents different aspects of the on-going expulsion of indigenous Palestinians from their native Jerusalem. A powerful and eerie series of 42 photographs moves between images of Israeli settlements, armed settler youths, uprooted Palestinian olive trees, and the Separation Wall.
On a related but different topic, recently the poet Cathy Wagner suggested I read the blog body on the line. It is a very interesting blog written by an academic Marcy Newman who teaches at An Najah University in Nablus. Recently she posted a very interesting post about the Academic Boycott of Israeli Universities which is worth a read. Also she also posted up videos from the Palestine Festival Of Literature 2009 which I thought might be of interest.
Reader Comments (4)
Steve, I just read Marcy Newman's article 'no, I don't support "academic freedom” for colonists in the zionist entity' & have to say I found its logic confused, to say the least. Surely, if you are pro-BDS then the more people that support the cause the better? & if those people are Israelis, i.e. people with everything to gain from not speaking out against Israel, then so much the better? Diverting focus away from Palestinian suffering by criticising those who support the criticising of the practices of Israel seems to me to be heaping negativity on negativity & enlarging the gulf between the 2 sides...
The whole argument is somewhat of a distraction I guess from the main issue at hand; the freedom of the Palestinian people. I posted the link because, the article and the various comments, do usefully outline some of the main strands of thought, and difficulties involved when considering an academic boycott. Perhaps post your thoughts on Marcy's blog if you have problems with them. My thoughts on the matter are posted up on the blog along with a strong rebuttal of them by another blogger.
You're linking to the blog of someone who, in the comments of their About page, states:
'yes i am an activist. no i would not protest hamas or islamic jihad. i support all resistance against the zionist entity.'
Earlier on she appears to congratulate someone's involvement in, or at least sympathies with, the IRA.
Um, Steve don't you think you could find a slightly less hysterical blog to link to? It's not as if ever more shouting and screaming is going to be a help to anybody.
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