Comrade is as Precious as a Rice Seedling (1984 Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press edition) (Q5424)
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1984 edition, published by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press in New York, NY
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| English | Comrade is as Precious as a Rice Seedling (1984 Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press edition) |
1984 edition, published by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press in New York, NY |
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a comrade | is as precious | as a | rice seedling | poems by | MILA D. AGUILAR | introduction by | AUDRE LORDE | KITCHEN TABLE | WOMEN OF COLOR PRESS | [graphic of pot or basket] | NEW YORK
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[printer's device] Produced at The Print Center, Inc., Box 1050, Brooklyn, N.Y., | 11202, a non-profit printing facility for literary and arts-related | publications.
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Copyright (c) 1984 by Mila D. Aguilar
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1984
"Mila D. Aguilar, 'Damn the Dictatorship', 'For Nelia', 'To A Social Democrat', 'Poem From Sierra Madre', 'A Comrade Is As Precious As A Rice Seedling', 'To A Beloved Friend, On Parting', and 'To a Foreigner', have been published previously in the Philippines and in the United States in various progressive journals."
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[1] ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | We would like to express our thanks, support and sisterly | encouragement, to Mila D. Aguilar for recording with her | poetry the struggle of her people for freedom, and for enhan- | cing with these words the understanding, as Third World people, | of our common battle.
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[2] Thanks to E. San Juan, Jr. and Delia Aguilar for gathering the | manuscript of her poems and entrusting us with its publication, | for their patience, and for their faith in us. | To the Asian sisters, Katherine Ekau Amoy Hall, Chea Villa- | nueva, June Chan, and Kathleen Hin who lent their artwork, | their support, and their strong belief in this project.
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[3] To the Philippine Research Center in Storrs for their efforts | in bringing attention to the encarceration of Mila Aguilar and | other political prisoners in the Philippines. | To Bob Hershon and Diane and Lubarsky at the Print Center in | Brooklyn for their invaluable help.
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[1] "Since martial law was declared 12 years ago, President Marcos has buttressed his dictatorship with billions of dollars in support from the United States. This year Marcos will receive $900 million of taxpayer's money in the form of rental for the U.S. bases"
[2] "Can you allow your tax dollars to be used to brutalize Filipinos-Mila Aguilar is only one recent example. Can you let your silence justify interventionist U.S. foreign policy? Urge your Congress-persons to cut off all aid to Marcos. Demand the immediate release of MILA AGUILAR and all political prisoners."
[3] "Committee to free MILA AGUILAR | Philippine Research Center | P.O. Box 101 | Mansfield Depot, CT 06251"
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