Biography
Aisha Deborah Buckner, whose name appears in the federal court record as Aiysha Buckner, was one of the New York grand-jury resisters jailed during the federal investigation of the October 1981 Brink’s armored-car robbery and the Black Liberation Army and Republic of New Afrika network. Buckner had been a patient at the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America clinic in Harlem, one focus of the investigation. She refused to comply with a grand-jury subpoena and was confined for civil contempt at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. In July 1983, she joined six other confined witnesses in asking the federal court for temporary furloughs during Ramadan. Contemporary movement records place her resistance and confinement in 1982–83 and report that she was free by December 1983.
The December 1983 New Afrikan names Aisha Buckner among the grand-jury resisters and reports them free except Larry Mack and Richard Delaney.
