MECA & the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)
Celebrate his new book: "Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine"
Remi Kanazi's poetry presents an unflinching look at the lives of Palestinians under occupation and as refugees scattered across the globe. He captures the Palestinian people's refusal to be erased, gives voice to the ongoing struggle for liberation, and explores the meaning of international solidarity.
His new book also examines racism in America, police brutality, US militarism at home & wars abroad, and Islamophobia.
MC: Sharif Zakout from AROC
"Kanazi's haunting poems are not written to be consumed. They reserve a place in one's conscience, in one's memory, and-hopefully-in one's praxis."
-Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions movement
"Each verse made me sink deeper into my chair and helped unleash a cascade of relieving tears: in anger, in mourning, and in hope."
-Noura Erakat, George Mason University
Tickets: $15, $10 low-income - available soon!
7pm to 2/23 12 midnight, BerkeleyFellowship of Unitarian Universalists 1924 Cedar Street @ Bonita
$5 adv / $7 door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
7:30pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse,2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States
8pm Cajun/Zydeco dance lesson. $12. 525-5054. www.ashlenaz.com
8:30pm, Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center, 1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States