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Thank you, Ching-in,
for that going to make

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me cry kind of introduction.

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I really appreciate it.

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I'm really honored to be with
the writers, and thinkers,

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and cultural workers, and
teachers in this room.

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I am very excited to get
to speak with all of you.

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I'm very thankful for the labor
that Prageeta, and Hannah,

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and Becka, and
Tyler, and Ching-in

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have done to get my ass from
[INAUDIBLE] and [INAUDIBLE]

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of the new credit territory
to where we are now.

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Yeah.

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I'm going to read some
stuff from different moments

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and I suppose they're
fragments of some archives.

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I'll start with a
little chap book

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that my friend Faizal Deen,
who was in Thomas Glave's

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book on the queer Caribbean some
years ago put together in 2013.

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And this poem is
called "Land Day."

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And it's attractively packaged
in remaindered pamphlets

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from the Leddy Library at
Wilfrid Laurier in Ontario.

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"Land Day," March 30th, 1976.

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And this is for Halid, who spoke
so powerfully earlier today.

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The government said
security, and settlement,

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and called curfew for Sakhnin,
Arraba, Deir Henna, Tamra,

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Tu'ran, Kabul, sent in
4,000 police and the IDF.

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Ysrael Koenig
advised they, quote,

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cement long-term Jewish
national interests, end quote.

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And quote, examine
the possibility

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of diluting existing Arab
population concentrations,

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end quote.

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Without land and your
fear you are not you.

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Robbed of your face,
spirit, and in no place

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to lie down, how to turn,
rise, fly upon the moment.

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We all want to be light.

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Know light's
plummet, lose ground.

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This is to come to land.

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If a child is a
land you cannot own.

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If this child is called
impossible morning,

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if our histories
make us lie, if down,

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if in home blood-soaked,
if too many

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trampled and trampling feet,
too many laws, bulldozers, laws,

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bulldozers, soldiers,
laws, bulldozers.

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Crowd where your house,
your olive fig or lemon.

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Trees should grow.

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How might you live if you
do not take back the land?

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You may not own, but
for land they mass.

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It is a word stolen.

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