Wednesday, May 22, 2019

* From "The Rag Blog"- In Honor Of Marilyn Buck

Click on the headline to link to a "The Rag Blog" entry on Marilyn Buck.

Markin comment:

Every young leftist militant, hell, every old leftist militant and even those who have lost their way since the 1960s and forgot what we were fighting for then, and now, should read this story. It tells two tales- if you go up against the American imperial state you better be ready to win, or else. And it also tells that there really was some very, very good human material, like Marilyn Buck, in the 1960s with which we could have built that better world we were fighting for if we could have understood the first tale better. I wish, and I wish like crazy, that we had a few more, actually quite a few more, militants like Marilyn Buck these days. Let's get moving. All honor to Marilyn Buck and the other fighters, like Mumia, still behind bars for "seeking that newer world."

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:07 PM

    Thanks for mentioning Marilyn and the profile of her on The Rag Blog. More about her and by her (essays and poems) at marilynbuck.com.

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  2. From the pen of Marilyn Buck:

    Remembering a 15 Year Old Palestinian Woman in Prison Chained to the Bed Springs
    She Had Refused to Stop Singing

    Marilyn Buck
    1988

    Chained for singing
    clear minor notes
    welling from sweet young throats
    and mouths which have tasted
    the tightness of screaming silences
    and still songs soar
    skyward
    reeling remembering revealing

    Women sing songs
    reeling
    remembering
    revealing

    lullabies lovesongs
    blues songs
    chants cantillating songs
    of exiled lives
    and martyrs' death
    Voices search out sounds
    not yet noted on bars
    not yet ordered on scales
    they resound through zionist hell
    demanding Palestine be free

    Summer 1988

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  3. text of 1994 interview with her posted at following blog link might also interest readers: https://wherechangeobama.blogspot.com/2010/08/remembering-marilyn-buck-part-1-of-1994.html

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