Update as of 4/2007: Our apologies! To our knowledge, this content is no longer available from Free Speech Television. However, Aya de Leon appears here in the kinté space in our streaming audio compilation Women 3.0.
What appears below is the original introduction from June of 2003:
COLLISION COURSE VIDEO PRODUCTIONS and Free Speech Television produced this video segment of a reading by Aya de Leon during the Poetry for Palestine event that took place at Harvard University (in 2002?). Aya de Leon deftly insinuates her African-Puerto-Rican-American experience into the struggle and tragedy of the Palestenians.
From freespeech.org: “The most basic form of deception is fabricating the false symmetry between occupier and occupied, oppressor and victim. The violence of the powerful Israeli occupation army using live ammunition, tanks and helicopter gunships is equated with Palestinians protesting against the loss of their rights, lands and lives.”
