Marilyn Buck
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Marilyn Buck is a self-claimed life-long anti-racist and anti-imperialist activist, also a convicted terrorist for her involvement in the 1983 U.S. Senate bombing and other political attacks.
After organizing in support of Native American, Palestinian, Iranian and Vietnamese sovereignty, Buck joined Students for a Democratic Society in 1967. In 1973 she was convicted of purchasing two boxes of handgun ammunition for the Black Liberation Army. Three years into her unusually long, ten-year sentence for that crime, Buck was given a furlough from prison and went underground instead of returning.
In 1983 Buck was recaptured and charged in the successful removal of Assata Shakur from a US federal prison. In 1985, she and 6 others were convicted in the Resistance Conspiracy Case of the bombing of the United States Capitol Building to protest the US invasion of Grenada and US intervention in Latin America in general. Two of those charged in the case have since been released from prison, one was never captured, and the remaining three are still in prison. Buck received an 80-year sentence.
[edit] External links
- Marilyn Buck: Political prisoner, Activist, Poet Artist from the Prison Activist Resource Center.
