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![Graphic of Lolita Lebron and Marilyn Buck](images/thumbnails//29592.jpg)
Format: GraphicCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Reproduction. Handwritten caption indicates "mid-70's"
![Marilyn Buck - a Tribute](images/thumbnails//30450.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Marilyn Buck
Marilyn talks about how she grew into her won as a revolutionary, her experience in the anti-Vietnam and Black Liberation movements. She speaks to the revolutionary state where everyone has the right to their own culture, land, and means of production, and how the liberation of women is intrinsically tied to the liberation of all nations.
![La Lucha Continua](images/thumbnails//30471.jpg)
La Lucha Continua/The Struggle Continues; a mural located in the Mission at 3260 23rd St - between Mission and Capp Streets in San Francisco. features 35 portraits of activists, philosophers and artists and their recorded voices accessible via cell phone.
![Wild Poppies](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
Buck recites her poem, "Wild Poppies". This audio was featured on La Luche Continua/The Struggle Continues Talking Mural project, as well as the CD, "Wild Poppies".
Marilyn Buck is a poet, activist and an anti-imperialist political prisoner. She began her anti-racist activism as a teen in Texas, organized against the war in Vietnam, and joined SDS and S. F. Newsreel. She fought for the self-determination for all people, and she aligned herself with the Black Liberation Movement. In 1973 she was convicted of purchasing two boxes of handgun ammunition and was given a ten year sentence. After serving four years in Federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia, she was granted a furlough and did not return. The following eight years she was underground.
![Amiri Baraka introduces Wild Poppies](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Poet, playwright, essayist, teacher and activist Amiri Baraka introduces the audio compendium of poetry, "Wild Poppies", and describes Marilyn Buck's struggle against imperialism with metaphor.
![Genny Lim Reads Rescue the Word](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Poem by Marilyn Buck, as read by American poet, playwright and performer Genny Lim.
![Dennis Brutus Reads One-Hour Yard Poem](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Professor Emeritus Dennis reads Marilyn Buck's poem on her experience in prison.
![Akwasi Evans Reads Space](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
poet, publisher and revolutionary Akwasi Evans reads Marilyn Buck's piece for "Wild Poppies".
![Marilyn Buck Reads Concrete Cocoon](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Producers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
An excerpt from "The Order: 9 AM PDT", read by the author. Part of "Incommunicado: Dispatches from a Political Prisoner"
![Rap for Justice](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
A rap by Marilyn buck on rebellion against the Prison Industrial Complex, from "Incommunicado: Dispatches from a Political Prisoner"