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Wild at Heart: Keeping Up With Margie Kidder

St. Clair, Jeffrey
http://www.counterpunch.org/2018/05/18/wild-at-heart-keeping-up-with-margie-kidder

Publisher:  Counter Punch
Date Written:  18/05/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

Margie Kidder died on Sunday in her house in Livingston, Montana. It's not that she hadn’t had close calls with the Reaper before.

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I was stunned at the news that Margie had died on Sunday in her house in Livingston, Montana. It's not that she hadn't had close calls with the Reaper before. Indeed, she'd had several narrow escapes in the last few years. But I’d come to think of her as indestructible. Margie had taken some of the vilest shit the world could throw at anyone and she had remained standing, a little wobbly from time-to-time, but still upright.

Margie had a great capacity to endure pain and because she was so compassionate and empathetic, she also tended to absorb the pain of others, human and canine. This placed a heavy burden on her frail frame. Heavier physically and psychically than many of us knew. To my eyes, Margie hadn't been the same since she traveled to Standing Rock, during the coldest and most intense days of the encampment. After she returned, she told me that she wanted to move back to Canada, that she was sick of the inadequacies and injustices in the US, especially of its health care system which she said "is eager to profit from people's pain until they run out of money." Margie made the personal political in a way that allowed many of her friends to hear the political point and miss the personal distress underneath. That’s the way she wanted it. She was stubborn and wary of asking for help.

Alas, she couldn't get to Canada. Some bureaucratic intransigence with the immigration police kept her from moving to Vancouver. And we were selfishly glad to have her in Montana, sharing a parallel of latitude with Oregon. It was her desire for home that we missed, a desire to return to a more humane place, one that seemed, at least to her in the wake of her experience at Standing Rock, still worth fighting for.
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