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10 de fev. de 2014 · Sunday, June 17, 2012. 3:00 pm until 5:00 pm. East Side Cultural Center. 2266 International Blvd. Oakland CA. Join Us as we Celebrate the East Bay Book Launch of Marilyn Buck’s Inside/ Out: Selected Poems. Readers Include: Maisha Quint, Maria Poblet and Elana Levy. Additional book launches will be held in NYC, Philadelphia, LA, Chicago ...
4 de jun. de 2012 · A Marxist feminist activist who put her actions where her beliefs were, Buck took part in the struggles that shook this country in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. In 1973, Buck, a former member of Students for a Democratic Society, was captured, tried and convicted of purchasing (legal) ammunition using a false ID. She was sentenced to 10 years.
Marilyn Buck (1947-2010) spent over twenty-five years in prison for politically motivated actions against U.S. government policies and in support of the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army. She wrote these poems behind bars, as a way to comprehend the reality of prison and continue her fight as a white woman against injustice, particularly U.S.-generated white supremacy.
Marilyn was born in 1947 in Temple, Texas, to Virginia, a nurse, and Louis, an Episcopal minister. She had three younger brothers. During her early years her father was assigned to minister at a Black church in town. After the family’s move to Austin when she was a teenager, and as the civil rights movement intensified, she became involved in ...
3 de mai. de 2020 · Marilyn Buck, the child of a veterinarian turned Episcopal priest, had an upper-middle-class childhood in Austin, Texas. An excellent student at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, she was accepted ...
7 de ago. de 2010 · Marilyn Buck, a violent leftist incarcerated for 25 years for her role in some of the most notorious radical acts of the 1980s, including the bombing of the U.S. Capitol and a deadly armored car ...
5 de ago. de 2010 · Marilyn Buck died on 3 August 2010, less than a month after her release from federal prison. The interview below was first published in the July-August 2001 issue of Monthly Review. -- Ed. After years of neglect, the issue of women in prison has begun to receive attention in this country. Media accounts of overcrowding,
