Buckle in pals, we are sharing a (long) thread on the main points of our resolutions ahead of the May 2nd EGM with Society of Authors and the importance of our Palestine motion.

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1/15 🧵- Read our thread on these vital points ahead of tomorrow's EGM. #MayDay

today, alexispauline reminded us that audre lorde & june jordan met at a student-run campus occupation in new york city. i don't think that'll ever leave my heart.

Monolingualism can damage the mind.

TPFF marks the 76th year of the Nakba with an evening of art and reflection. This year’s program will reflect on the Nabka of the present,and its ties to the Nakba of 1947/8 with Ardi Imseis, one of the foremost legal experts on Palestine.
Register: TPFFNakba76.eventbrite.ca

Publishers are offering free ebooks in solidarity with pro-Palestine campus protests. lithub.com/verso-and-othe… via Literary Hub

Translator friends, please share your talents with
Librarians and Archivists with Palestine
Mosab Abu Toha
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Q: why is PEN America’s stance different from PEN UK & PEN International?

Israel has killed Shaymaa, Refaat Al-Areer's eldest daughter, to whom he had written 'If I Must Die.' Genocide works obsessively at all scales of extermination. Tornoto's public library that banned the poem a few days ago: Are you cmplicit? Who else?

'Suddenly I.'

.@PENAmerica announced today that they have cancelled this year’s World Voices Festival that was scheduled to be held May 8 - 11 in New York City and May 8 - 18 in Los Angeles.

The move came after dozens of authors withdrew from PEN America events in an unprecedented act of…

“what struck me most about those who are protesting is how long they waited. the restraint they showed. not the spontaneity, the restraint. they waited and waited for justice. and it didn’t come. no one talks about that...” - Toni Morrison

Added note from PEN America staff says everything:

« We would have liked to send this statement under our names in order to more clearly stand with these writers, but we fear retaliation and for some of us that would have very serious consequences » lithub.com/the-pen-americ…

Every reporter for every American news site should be covering this developing news story about the mass grave in Nasser. More bodies will be uncovered and there will be more revelations on what exactly happened. aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/24…

Thanks to Ms. Magazine for including 'Poems for Palestine: Recent poems by nine Palestinian poets & actions you can take to stop genocide now' (free on the P4P website), on their Best Poetry of ’23-’24 list! #ReadPalestine #FreePalestine msmagazine.com/2024/04/23/bes…

« Money might purportedly ‘help’ artists on the one hand, while funding war machinery on the other »

—⁦scott miller berry⁩ thegrindmag.ca/the-arts-fundi…

This #WorldBookandCopyrightDay , we’re sharing the impacts generative AI is currently having on Canada's book industry. Everyday publishers are facing new & complex copyright challenges due to AI, all the while having to deal with a broken fair dealing system at the foundation.

This was an incredibly moving panel, such an honour to listen & learn with Nedra, Rahat & Gopika from #riverinanocean