'Bury me furiously' — the eloquence of anger

On November 2nd, the day before the 1992 US Election, the body of AIDS activist Mark Fisher was taken to Bush campaign HQ in accordance with his wishes. Bob Rafsky delivered a famous speech.

Today is the ‘speech anniversary’ of ‘Bury me furiously’ — one of the most startling, brilliant, devastating and controversial speeches in Ameican history. It’s a highly political speech, delivered at a public rally, beside the body of a man who had died of AIDS, by a man who was dying of AIDS, and it directly accuses the sitting president of killing th…