We Will Not Be Silenced - Ali Burns Street Choirs Festival Bradford 2025

Описание: This song written for us by Ali Burns is an expression of our determination to keep speaking (and singing) out for Palestine. The poem read during the song is by Fatema Zainab Rajwani, a member of Palestine Action, who is currently in prison on remand under counter-terror powers, accused of destroying Israeli quadcopter drones.

Video by Paul Horobin

We Will Not Be Silenced Alison Burns

We will not be silent, we will not be quiet
We will not be silent, we will not be quiet

When the world’s in danger, when the world’s in pain
We will not be silent, when the world’s in pain

Words of Fatema Zainab Rajwani

To the people of Gaza I write to you in my state of love and grief. At night I dream of a love so wide and so deep it frees us all. It stretches across continents to fill the space between my brown body and yours. I wish the love I dream of was enough. I wish the love I dream of would hold your grief the same way that our silence holds violence. When there’s nothing else to write about, I write about love because there is no life worth living, no strength worth perception if not for love. The kind of love that forces you to witness, the kind of love that does not stay silent. Love that is not patient or kind but relentless and harsh.......
There is no greater act of love than standing uncompromising between all which you know and that destroys and all which could be rebuilt anew.

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