“Her energy for her work, her energy for her people, and her energy for the people all emanated from the same core of idealism.” rachaelbedard remembers the revolutionary Kathy Boudin, who died on May 1st.
Kathy Boudin, the teacher, organizer, and revolutionary, died on May 1st, after a seven-year battle with cancer. She’d been in hospice care at a friend’s apartment in New York City. More than one person close to her, including her son,, the San Francisco district attorney, remarked to me that it felt appropriate that she had died on May Day, the annual occasion that marks the struggle for workers’ rights.
In college, Boudin was “really one of the most charismatic people I’ve ever known,” Friedman said. She was an excellent student and an avid organizer of conferences and student actions, feverishly involved in bringing the politics of the moment to campus. Boudin spent her senior year in Russia and Friedman spent hers at Brandeis University, where she’d transferred after marrying my father-in-law. After that, the two women lost touch for a few decades.
One reads this and imagines a person who was brainwashed, maybe, or at least very unsure of what she believed. This was not true of Boudin, however. The Brink’s truck incident and her arrest provoked crisis and transformation, but not total disavowal of her central commitments. “The lesson she learned wasn’t ‘I shouldn’t dedicate my life to the struggle,’ ” Chesa told me. “The lesson she learned, definitively and through tragedy, was ‘Violence is not productive.
Boudin became the first woman to earn a master’s degree while behind bars in the New York State prison system. In 1994, during Mario Cuomo’s last days as governor, she applied for clemency. In a version of her application statement, Boudin wrote that she had “come to accept a more realistic role” and felt “satisfaction in the immediate ways that people found strength in their own abilities.
Boudin was freed in 2003. The decision to release her was so controversial, in part owing to opposition voiced by some of the victims’ family members, that two parole-board members who voted in favor of her release lost their jobs in the aftermath. Chesa was in upstate New York visiting his father, David Gilbert, who was also incarcerated for his participation in the Brink’s heist, on the day that she came home, and he flew to meet her in New York City.
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