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Marilyn Jean Buck (December 13, 1947 – August 3, 2010) was an American Marxist revolutionary, and feminist poet, who was imprisoned Marilyn Buck for her participation in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur, the 1981 Brink's robbery[1] and the 1983 U.S. Senate bombing. Buck received an 80­year sentence, which she served in federal prison, from where she published numerous articles and other texts. She was released on July 15, 2010, less than a month before her death at age 62 from cancer.[2]

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1 Early life and education 2 1960s and 70s activism 3 Support for the New Afrikan Independence Movement 4 Resistance Conspiracy case 5 As an author 6 Death 7 References Born Marilyn Jean Buck 8 Works 9 External links December 13, 1947 Midland, Texas Died August 3, 2010 (aged 62) Early life and education Brooklyn, New York Nationality American [3] Buck was born December 13, 1947 in Midland, Texas, the daughter of Alma mater New College of California Louis Buck, an Episcopalian minister. Her mother was a nurse; both are Occupation poet deceased. The family was active in the civil rights movement; when Dr. Buck opposed segregation at St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Austin, Texas, picketed, and harshly criticized the bishop, crosses were burned on their lawn and he was removed as minister from the congregation of St. James in Austin, Texas, a congregation which had been integrated by the previous clergyman and his family. Dr. Buck returned to his veterinarian career, from which he had entered the clergy, to support his family.[4][5] Buck attended the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Texas at Austin, graduating from New College of California while incarcerated. She subsequently earned a master's degree in Poetics from New College. 1960s and 70s activism

At the University of Texas, Buck was involved in organizing against the Vietnam War, as well as anti­racist activities.[6] She joined Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and worked with Austin's underground newspaper, The Rag. In 1967, Buck moved to Chicago where she edited SDS' New Left Notes and attended an SDS teacher­organizer school.[7] With other SDS women she helped to incorporate women's liberation into the organization's politics.[8] She subsequently returned to San Francisco where she worked with Third World Newsreel in outreach in support of Native American and Palestinian sovereignty and against U.S. intervention in Iran and Vietnam and in solidarity with the Black liberation movement. With colleague Karen Ross, she explained their practice: "We stop people on the street, and confront them with our films. Involve them as participants. It has come to them during a walk down the street, they’ve stumbled upon it. They have been confronted. The decision to watch, to register disgust or interest is now theirs. To those inquisitive, we explain more."[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Buck 1/4 10/7/2016 Marilyn Buck ­ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 1973, Buck was convicted on two counts of purchasing (otherwise legal) ammunition using false identification and sentenced to ten years in prison.[10] In 1977 Buck was given a furlough from prison and went underground instead of returning. Support for the New Afrikan Independence Movement

In 1979, Joanne Chesimard also known as Assata Shakur, who had been convicted of killing a policeman, escaped from a New Jersey prison with help from a number of associates outside. In 1983 Buck was recaptured and convicted of participating in Shakur's escape.[11][12]

Along with a number of BLA members and supporters, Buck was convicted of conspiracies to commit armed robbery in the Brinks robbery of 1981 in which a guard and two police officers were killed. She allegedly drove the getaway car as well as helping to obtain a safe house and weapons. During the investigation into the armed robbery and killings, investigators found weapons and papers[13] in an apartment in East Orange, New Jersey rented by "Carol Durant", an alias of Buck.

Papers there led police to an address in Mount Vernon, New York, where they found bloody clothing and ammunition belonging to Buck.[13] Earlier in 1981, Buck participated in a similar armed robbery of a Brinks truck in the Bronx, during which one of the guards was murdered.[14] The bloodied clothes were from her participation in the armed robbery, in which Buck attempted to draw her weapon and shot herself in the leg. Resistance Conspiracy case

In 1985, Buck and six others were convicted in the Resistance Conspiracy case, a series of bombings in protest of United States foreign policy in the Middle East and Central America.[15][16]

The May 12, 1988 indictment described the goal of the conspiracy as being "to influence, change and protest policies and practices of the United States Government concerning various international and domestic matters through the use of violent and illegal means" and charged the seven with bombing the United States Capitol building, three military installations in the Washington D.C. area, and four sites in New York City. Warnings were called in and no one was injured. The Capitol was targeted in retaliation for recent U.S. military invasions of Grenada and Lebanon.[17] The military sites bombed were the National War College at Fort McNair, the Washington Navy Yard Computer Center, and the Washington Navy Yard Officers Club. In New York City, the Staten Island Federal Building, the Israeli Aircraft Industries Building, the South African consulate, and the offices of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association were bombed or targeted.[16] Six of those charged in the case have since been released from prison and one was never captured. As an author

While in prison, Buck contributed articles on women in prison,[18] solitary confinement,[19] political prisoners[20] and related issues to Sojourners Magazine, Monthly Review,[21] and other journals and anthologies.

She published her poetry in journals, anthologies, a chapbook, and an audio CD. She received a PEN American Center prize for poetry in 2001. Her poems appeared in the anthologies Hauling Up the Morning,[22] Wall Tappings,[23] Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth,[24] Seeds of Fire,[25] and in her chapbook, Rescue the Word.[26] Her poems appear on the audio CD Wild Poppies (Freedom Archives 2004).

Her translations and introduction to Cristina Peri Rossi's poetry appeared in State of Exile, Number 58 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series.[27] Death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Buck 2/4 10/7/2016 Marilyn Buck ­ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia She died at home in Brooklyn on August 3, 2010, after a long battle with uterine cancer, having been released from the Federal Medical Center, Carswell due to her illness on July 15.[3] References

1. Lubasch, Arnold H. (May 12, 1988). "2 Ex­fugitives 16. Shenon, Philip (1988­05­12). "U.S. Charges 7 In the Convicted of Roles in Fatal Armored­Truck Robbery.". New Bombing At U.S. Capitol". The New York Times. Retrieved York Times. Retrieved 2008­04­18. 2007­12­01. "Seven members of a group describing itself as a 2. http://www.marilynbuck.com/ "Communist politico­military organization" were charged 3. Fox, Margalit. "Marilyn Buck" (http://www.nytimes.com/201 today with the 1983 bombing of the Capitol and attacks on 0/08/06/nyregion/06buck.html), The New York Times, August several other buildings, including at least four in New York 5, 2010. Accessed August 5, 2010. City, according to the Justice Department." 4. Wizard, Mariann G. (19 May 2010). "Warrior­Poet Marilyn 17. "November 7, 1983: Bomb Explodes in Capitol". United Buck: No Wall Too Tall". The Rag Blog. States Senate. Retrieved February 14, 2010. 5. Billingsley, Jake. "Black History Month ­ A White Minister 18. Day, Susie. "Cruel but Not Unusual: The Punishment of Speaks Against Segregation ­1960". Family friend, co Women in U.S. Prisons. An Interview with Marilyn Buck and activist, and church member. Facebook. Retrieved Laura Whitehorn", Monthly Review July–August 2001. February 10, 2011. Reprinted in Joy James, ed., NeoSlave Narratives: Prison 6. James, Joy (2005). The New Abolitionists (Neo)Slave Writing and Abolitionism. SUNY Press, 2004. Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings. Albany: State http://www.monthlyreview.org/0701day.htm University of New York Press. p. 259. ISBN 0­7914­6486­5. 19. Buck, Marilyn. "Incommunicado: Dispatches from a Political 7. James, Joy (2003). Imprisoned Intellectuals ­ America's Prisoner" in Joy James, editor, Imprisoned Intellectuals: Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion. America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0­7425­2027­7. Rebellion. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. 8. CEML (2002). Can't Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in ISBN 0­7425­2027­7. the U.S. Chicago: CEML. p. 192. http://marilynbuck.com/incommunicado.html 9. Fruchter, Norm (1968). Interview with Marilyn Buck and 20. Buck, Marilyn. "Prisons, Social Control and Political Karen Ross. New York: Film Quarterly (No. 44). Retrieved Prisoners", Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & 2010­05­03. World Order, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2000. A fuller version is at 10. "WOMAN IS JAILED AS A GUNRUNNER; Says She http://www.prisonactivist.org/archive/pps+pows/marilynbuck/Prisons_Control_PPs.html Changed Returned to Texas Mysteries Remain Once an 21. Buck, Marilyn. "The U.S. Prison State", Monthly Review Honor Student, She Draws 10 Years on Coast". The New February 2004. http://www.monthlyreview.org/0204buck.htm York Times. October 28, 1973. 22. Blunk, Tim, and Ray Luc Levasseur, eds. Hauling Up the 11. The New York Times. (November 29, 1979). "Bail Set at Morning. New Jersey: The Red Sea Press, 1990. ISBN 0­ $2,500 In Chesimard Case". Section 2, p. 4, column 4. 932415­60­1. 12. ones, Charles Earl. (1998). The Black Panther Party 23. Scheffler, Judith A., ed. Wall Tappings: Women's Prison (reconsidered). Black Classic Press. ISBN 0­933121­96­2., Writings. 2d ed. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY. p. 425. 2002. ISBN 1­55861­273­4. 13. The Brinks Robbery of 1981 ­ The Crime Library on 24. Buck, Marilyn. "Poems From Prison", in Igniting a truTV.com (http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terr Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth Steven Best and orists/brinks/8.html) Anthony J. Nocella II, eds. Oakland, California: AK Press, 14. Lubasch, Arnold H. (May 12, 1988). "2 Ex­Fugitives 2006. ISBN 978­1­904859­56­7. Convicted of Roles In Fatal Armored­Truck Robbery (http://q 25. Andersen, Jon, ed. Seeds of Fire: Poetry from the Other USA. uery.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEED61E3AF93 England: Smokestack Books, 2008. ISBN 0­9554028­2­4. 1A25756C0A96E948260)." The New York Times. Retrieved 26. Buck, Marilyn (2001). "Rescue the Word". Friends of on 2010­08­18. Marilyn Buck. 15. Associated Press (May 26, 1988). "6 Radicals Deny Charges 27. Peri Rossi, Cristina, translated with an introduction by in '83 Capitol Bombing". The New York Times. Retrieved Marilyn Buck. State of Exile.Pocket Poets Number 58. San 2008­04­18. Francisco, California: City Lights, 2008. ISBN 0­87286­463­ 4. 16. Shenon, Philip (1988­05­12). "U.S. Charges 7 In the Works

Buck, Marilyn. 2002. Rescue the Word. San Francisco, California: Friends Of Marilyn Buck. NoISBN. Buck, Marilyn. 2003. "The Struggle for Status under International Law U.S. Political Prisoners and The Political Offense Exception to Extradition" in Joy James, ed., Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, ISBN 0­7425­2027­7, ISBN 978­0­7425­2027­1). Retrieved from http://marilynbuck.com/PP_status_international_law.html on May 1, 2010. Buck, Marilyn. 2004. "The U.S. Prison State". Monthly Review February. Retrieved from http://www.monthlyreview.org/0204buck.htm on March 20, 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Buck 3/4 10/7/2016 Marilyn Buck ­ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Buck, Marilyn. 2008. Introduction and translation in Peri Rossi (2008). Buck, Marilyn, Laura Whitehorn, and Susie Day. 2001. "An Interview with Marilyn Buck and Laura Whitehorn: Cruel But Not Unusual: The Punishment of Women in U.S. Prisons". Reprinted in the Wayland Faculty Seminar 2003­2004, Incarceration, Narrative, and Performance. Rhode Island: Brown University. Retrieved March 26, 2008 from http://www.brown.edu/Departments/African_American_Studies/wayland_fac_seminar/interview/laura_whitehorn.html. Freedom Archives, ed. 2004. Wild Poppies: A Poetry Jam Across Prison Walls ­ Poets And Musicians Honor Poet And Political Prisoner Marilyn Buck. San Francisco, California: Freedom Archives. Audio CD. ISBN 0­9727422­4­7. Available as mp3 downloads at http://freedomarchives.org/wildpoppies. Buck, Marilyn. 2012. Inside/Out: Selected Poems. City Lights. ISBN 0­87286­577­0, ISBN 978­0­87286­577­8. External links

Marilyn Buck: Political Prisoner, Poet, Writer, Translator, Teacher (http://www.marilynbuck.com/) from the Friends of Marilyn Buck Wizard, Mariann G. "Warrior­Poet Marilyn Buck: No Wall Too Tall," (http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/warrior­ poet­marliyn­buck­no­wall­too.html) The Rag Blog, May 19, 2010 Dreyer, Thorne, "Poet Marilyn Buck Freed After 25 Years in Prison," (http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/thorne­ dreyer­poet­marilyn­buck­freed.html) The Rag Blog, July 19, 2010 Articles by and about Marilyn Buck at The Rag Blog (http://theragblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Marilyn%20Buck) National Jericho Movement (http://www.thejerichomovement.com/) Joy James, ed. (2007). Warfare in the American homeland: policing and prison in a penal democracy. Duke University Press. ISBN 978­0­8223­3923­6.

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