* 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."
Labels: BLACK LIBERATION FIGHTER, communism, JOHN BROWN, leon trotsky, SDS, urban guerilla warfare
posted by Markin at
3:50 AM
2 Comments:
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.
11:07 PM
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
3:26 PM
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