WILD POPPIES: Marilyn Buck CD release, October 10th

WILD POPPIES: Marilyn Buck CD release, October 10th
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The CDs have arrived! So if you can't make the event, you can order them
from us ($12).

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 Poblet; Maisha Quint;
Samsara; Staajabu; Jean Stewart; Piri Thomas; Nellie Wong; Merle Woo;
Mitsuye Yamada.

Hosted by Maisha Quint 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.

http://www.freedomarchives.org