Biography
Mary Patten is an artist and activist associated with the Madame Binh Graphics Collective. She was imprisoned following the 1981 anti-apartheid demonstration at Kennedy Airport.
Separate November 1989 arrest
Patten's A Blade of Grass contributor page identifies her in a Chicago Tribune photograph being arrested at Chicago City Hall in November 1989 during civil disobedience against AIDS policies and discrimination. The photograph is credited to Dan Casper. It supports a separate arrest at MONTH precision, not an exact day, jail admission, discharge, charges or sentence. The existing photograph is retained without copying a new asset. The full memoir passage on printed31/PDF36 has now been visually reviewed: the initial week in jail and later return to custody are distinct. Exact individual endpoints and total served duration remain unresolved.
September1981 initial custody: month precision, not uninterrupted confinement
Larry McDonald's September29,1981 Congressional Record remarks, printed22416, individually report Borup and Patten held without bail after the JFK demonstration. This contemporaneous account supports September1981 initial detention at month precision. It is a legislator's report, not a judicial finding; its broader political allegations are not adopted. September1 is only a storage placeholder, and the exact admission and discharge days remain unknown. Patten's firsthand memoir, printed31, describes an initial week in jail followed by release and separate later confinement. No unbroken September1981-to-final-release counter is inferred.
