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<p><b><big>Remembering a 15 Year Old Palestinian Woman in Prison
Chained to the Bed Springs - She Had Refused to Stop Singing</big></b></p>
<p> Marilyn Buck</p>
<p> chained for singing<span class="text_exposed_show"><br>
clear minor notes<br>
still her song soars<br>
skyward</span></p>
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<p> women sing songs<br>
lullabies lovesongs<br>
blues songs<br>
chants of exiled lives<br>
and martyrs' death</p>
<p> voices search out sounds<br>
not yet noted on bars<br>
not yet ordered on scales</p>
<p> to bring down walls<br>
to raise Palestine, free</p>
<p> Summer 1988</p>
<p> 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.</p>
<p> 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.</p>
<p> The entire pamphlet can be read here: <br>
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<p> Marilyn's Poetry can be read and heard here:<br>
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Marilyn's Poetry can be read and heard here</p>
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