[News] CD Release Party for Marilyn Buck, Oct 10, Berkeley

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Wild Poppies -- A Poetry Jam Across Prison Walls

A CD release celebration of love, poetry, and revolution honoring poet and 
political prisoner Marilyn Buck, who has spent more than 20 years in US 
prisons for her antiimperialist politics and actions.

Sunday, October 10, 2004
5:00-7:30 PM
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley

The Bay Area CD release party features the poets and activists below, some 
of the many who contributed to Wild Poppies, a new audio CD of poetry and 
music, reading their own and Marilyn's poetry:

      Marilyn Buck (recorded)
      Uchechi Kalu
      Barbara Lubinski
      devorah major
      David Meltzer
      Sarah Menefee
      Kiilu Nyasha
      Maria Poblett
      Maisha Quint
      Samsara
      Staajabu
      Jean Stewart
      Piri Thomas
      Nellie Wong
      Merle  Woo
      Mitsuye Yamada

Hosted by Alicia Rodriguez and Donna Willmott, with Linda Evans from 
Friends of Marilyn Buck. Sponsored by Freedom Archives and Friends of 
Marilyn Buck.

$5-$15 sliding scale, no one turned away. Made possible in part by a grant 
from the Vanguard Public Foundation. For more information, call 415-863-9977.

The Wild Poppies CD is available from The Freedom Archives for $10 + $2 
shipping ($3 international) http://www.freedomarchives.org/wildpoppies.htm 
-- it features 46 tracks, Including Marilyn Buck, many poets and spoken 
tributes from Amiri Baraka and the late Kwame Ture.

In the eyes of the government, Marilyn is an enemy of the state, despised 
for her role in freeing Black Liberation leader Assata Shakur, hated for 
her willingness to risk her life and freedom for a world imaginable only to 
a revolutionary-or a poet.

Yet for the poets who lend their voices and their words to this collection, 
Marilyn is someone very different-a woman who lives for transformation. 
Through her political activism and writing, she creates the possibility of 
a world of social justice and peace. Through her approach to prison, she 
transforms the repression and censorship of imprisonment and, in the 
process, has become a poet.




The Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 863-9977
www.freedomarchives.org 
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