Carsie Blanton needed to say farewell to her guitar. The singer-songwriter was somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean sea on a sailboat last week when the 10-person crew decided to play some music. They passed around the guitar, sang a song or two, including Blanton’s “ Little Flame ” (sample lyric: “Prison cells/Freedom Rides/Keep the little flame alive”), then decided to give Blanton’s instrument a proper burial at sea.

The reason? Blanton’s boat, part of a 40-plus-ship, nearly 500-person coalition traveling towards Gaza as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was anticipating being intercepted by the Israeli military later that evening.

A week or so later, Blanton is speaking to Rolling Stone , back in the United States after she and several hundred others were detained at Ketzio

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