Mujeres en Lucha - Patricia Marín, Page 1. October 2, 1952 to December 19, 1995. Text originally published in the October – December 1995 issue of ¡La Verdad! Revised and re-published for aguilaycondor.net on the 15th Anniversary of the passing of Compañera Patricia Marín.
On the evening of December 19, 1995, Patricia Marín passed away in her sleep. Patricia was a leading member of Unión del Barrio, the National Chicano Moratorium Committee, the Chicano Mexicano Prison Project, Unión del Barrio Women's Commission (since renamed the Comité de Mujeres Patricia Marín), the Raza Rights Coalition, and participated in many other ways in the struggle for Raza Liberation. The following is a brief synopsis of her life and what she meant to Unión del Barrio and our gente's struggle for freedom. We proudly dedicate this section of aguilaycondor.net in her honor. Below is a text version of the revised text, and the menu to the right provides an audio version that can be downloaded and listened to, as well as a video version.
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Patricia Marín 1952-1995:
Una Mujer Verdaderamente Revolucionaria
We first came into contact with Compañera Patricia Marín in 1986 while she was attending Rancho Santiago College in Orange County, California. During that period she had been playing a leading role within the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) chapter on that campus, and had served as MEChA advisor during the years 1988 and 1989. It was during this period that she began to work more closely with Unión del Barrio.
In 1990 the Orange County Chicano Moratorium Committee was formed, in which Patricia served as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee (NCMC) Representative. It was from that point in time - a period of reconstruction of a national Chicano Mexicano Movement - that Patricia Marín integrated herself into our peoples liberation movement with a level of dedication and sacrifice that few will be able to match.
20 years have passed since that period of general unity building for our Movimiento. During those years our organization and the Movimiento in general has seen many people come and go, dozens of names and faces that participated for a short time, and for whatever reason, these individuals found a way to rationalize their departure from the Movimiento. At times there is reason to remember them for something they did or said while they were involved, yet more often they quickly fade back in to obscurity. Yet more importantly, and at the same time, throughout those years of building and growth extraordinary persons have also risen, forged from the gains and setbacks of daily struggle. These individuals become part of our collective memory, and they are honored every day that our struggle continues. And since ours is a struggle for liberation, we can rest assured that we will never forget them. Patricia Marín is an among those extraordinary comrades.
Patricia was one of those people who were immediately liked, for her unpretentious ways, her honesty, her character, her naturalness, her selflessness, her understanding, and her general comradely attitude. Many of us had the pleasure and honor of knowing her in a personal way - but these traits in her personality were the first and most apparent of her qualities, even to those who knew her only in passing. What must be recognized is that Patricia was so much more than just a beautiful individual - these wonderful characteristics she expressed were only a foundation upon which was built one of the greatest comrades the Chicano Mexicano struggle has ever produced. It is only by recognizing this can we express fully what Compañera Patricia Marín truly represented to us, Unión del Barrio, and to the liberation struggle she died fighting for.
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