W.E. A.L.L. B.E.: Mumia Speaks: Marilyn Buck: Presente!

Monday, August 30, 2010

Mumia Speaks: Marilyn Buck: Presente!

Marilyn Buck: Presente!

[col. writ. 8/14/10] (c) '10 Mumia Abu-Jamal

For nearly 30 long, tortuous years, Marilyn Buck was a political prisoner of the state, a captive in the federal prison system for her role in the liberation of former Black Panther, Assata Shakur.

She wrote gripping lines of radical poetry, often about the lives and plights of her fellow imprisoned women, as well as of prisoners who were active in the Black Freedom and Nationalist movements.

For example, back in 2000 she wrote "Black August", an excerpt of which follows:

Would you hang on a cliff's edge

Sword-sharp, slashing fingers

While jackboot screws stomp heels

on flesh peeled bones

and laugh

"Let go! die, damn you,die!"

could you hold on 20 years, 30 years?

20 years, 30 years and more

brave Black brothers buried

in US concentration camps

they hang on

Black light shining in torture

chambers

Ruchell, Yogi, Sundiata, Sekou

Warren, Chip, Seth, Herman, Jalil

and more and more they resist:

Black August....

Marilyn wrote that poem in 2000.

She was released in July 2010, and recently passed away from the ravages of cancer.

Marilyn Buck was imprisoned so long because of her support of the Black Liberation Movement, which made her a traitor, of sorts, to the White Nation. Like John Brown, she fought to free the unfree.

Her spirit of resistance never left her.

Marilyn was 62.

--(c) '10 maj

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