[Pnews] Remembering a 15 Year Old Palestinian Woman in Prison Chained to the Bed Springs - She Had Refused to Stop Singing

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*Remembering a 15 Year Old Palestinian Woman in Prison Chained to the 
Bed Springs - She Had Refused to Stop Singing*

Marilyn Buck

chained for singing
clear minor notes
still her song soars
skyward

women sing songs
lullabies lovesongs
blues songs
chants of exiled lives
and martyrs' death

voices search out sounds
not yet noted on bars
not yet ordered on scales

to bring down walls
to raise Palestine, free

Summer 1988

Marilyn lived most of her adult life in controlled, restrictive spaces: 
from clandestinity, to prisons, to control units within prisons. Yet 
within those spaces, she developed a richly imaginative, expansive view 
of human liberation, and built a bridge to a world we hunger for but 
have yet to create. She died just days after being released from federal 
prison in 2010.

 From a collection of letters from currently incarcerated US political 
prisoners to their Palestinian sisters and brothers. Our colleagues at 
Birzeit University's Institute for Women's Studies translated the 
letters into Arabic. The solidarity was palpable during the final 
plenary of Birzeit's conference, when the phone rang and we heard the 
voice of US political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal. Mumia was calling from 
Pennsylvania to express solidarity with and love for the people of 
Palestine.

The entire pamphlet can be read here:
http://www.freedomarchives.org/…/PP%20Booklet%20Ar%20and%20… 
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Marilyn's Poetry can be read and heard here:
http://www.freedomarchives.org/wildpoppies/index.html
Marilyn's Poetry can be read and heard here

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