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Posts Tagged ‘hip-hop’

Of Sabras & Rappers: Cultural Appropriation & Orientalism in Invincible's "People Not Places"

By Guest Post • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Michelle J. Kinnucan
Author's note: This article was started and mostly completed in December 2008. Then the Israeli massacre in Gaza intervened, followed by an intensification of organizing efforts for the Batsheva Dance Company protests After that, it gathered dust in the Drafts folder while I moved cross-country. An extended, remix version of "People [...]

Nizar Wattad (aka Ragtop) Free the P

By Guest Post • Jul 29th, 2009 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Features, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

I Place my palms to the East
where my people seek peace
And freedom from police control, checkpoints and patrols
Domination from another nation
We used to be brothers like Cain
Now they got us living under occupation the pain
Is just a feeling I can't possibly explain
But the population of Palestine could probably paint
A proper picture of their predicament to [...]