Sistersongs of Liberation Mural

Nice to hear, very. I get reports from folks from time to time saying they still have that poster on their walls. I do have copies, both original and from SCW edition and am happy to send. God the photo/printing is so dark. Dark ages of copy photography among the left.

Road not taken--studying Arabic, or Chinese for that matter. This 63-yr old mind is losing track of English and Spanish much less start a new system of writing/language.

I'll look into this over next week.

See you,
Jane
On Nov 5, 2010, at 8:15 AM, Dan Walsh wrote:

Hi Jane,

I loved your note. As a student of Arabic (at Georgetown and elsewhere...thirty years plus wrestling with that bear!)
let me urge you not to sweat your version which is not only not terrible it may not even be wrong. There are a thousand ways to say everything in Arabic and besides, even the Palestinians wrestled with the very idea of recognizing IWD. Don't believe me? I have the poster to prove it (posters prove/disprove everything in my particular discourse!):

http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/yes-to-the-dedication-of-ma...

Here's what Dr. Rochelle Davis, my academic advisor at Georgetown said this am:

"It's a beautiful poster, nonetheless, bayonnet or not, ladies or women."

Here's what I said:

"...the larger point is that these artists have their hearts in the right place and they did speak out and they did produce Palestine work at times when doing so took enormous courage, mazboot?"

Q: Do you have any copies left? If yes, I can get them into some important collections, such as at Georgetown, the Museum of Design Zurich and the Library of Congress.

If you have ANY copies/jpegs/slides of ANY of your other Palestine posters I would be delighted to add them to the PPPA. Just send along whenever you find them. I'll send you a head's up email when I upload them.

stay strong,

Dan

On Nov 5, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Jane Norling wrote:

Hi Dan,

1. Painted on canvas stretched into hallway in the offices of Jennie Rhine and Mary Morgan on Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, 1975. Tim Drescher photographed it, has entire set of images of the 3-wall piece. When offices closed, mural was given to SF Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, where I lost track of it. This prompts me to continue the search....

2. Swahili. And as much as I'm embarrassed by the bayonet-weilding Palestinian (popular imagery among the left of the day) and because of that, do not distribute the copies I have, I regret the Arabic says "International Ladies Day."

3. 1977, my best recollection. Peoples Press published. Gail Dolgin and I designed. Syracuse Cultural Workers republished in 1983 or so, for which I received no royalties.

4. I designed some posters for Palestinian Cultural Day in SF for some years in the mid-late 1970's, printed offset and at my job at SF Neighborhood Arts Printshop on the Gestetner (Lincoln Cushing interviewed me for his article on the Gestetner process, ). I can put my hands on at least one.

I'm sure Lincoln shot the primary one among Michael Rossman's collection.

Let me know what you want me to do on this.

Peace, Jane

On Nov 5, 2010, at 1:12 AM, Dan Walsh wrote:

http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/sistersongs-of-liberation-m...

1) Where is/was the Sistersongs of Liberation mural? Is it viewable online?

2) What is the fifth language featured...Swahili?

3) What year was this poster published?

4) (I just remembered this) ... have you done any other Palestine works, in addition to this one and "Jabalya Street"?

in solidarity,

Dan

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