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Welcome to the NPPC Archive. This Archive is a searchable index of the National Political Prisoner Coalition’s records: prisoner profiles, case files, movement periodicals, court documents, and oral histories. It collects, in one place, the materials that document the history of U.S. political imprisonment from the late nineteenth century to the present.

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Akinyele Umoja COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Educator and activist - worked with the New Afrikan Independence Movement and founding member of New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.

Bring War Criminal Nixon to Trial! Smash COINTELPRO!

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Flyer for demonstration against Nixon at Federal Courthouse, Foley Square

COINTELPRO - Domestic Subverside Warfare: The Case of Clark, et. al. v. The United States

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Pamphlet laying out the background of COINTELPRO and Clark v. USA

COINTELPRO 101 Trailer

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Cointelpro 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Cointelpro refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the gov...

COINTELPRO 1980: Blueprint for Facism

CollectionGovernment Repression Year1980 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Flyer for COINTELPRO 1980 Forum A Blueprint for Facism. On the back of the flyer is a text about the main themes of the forum.

COINTELPRO: A Brief Overview

CollectionGovernment Repression DateNovember 8, 1989 AuthorsDhoruba Bin Wahad PublishersFreedom Archives

Short report deals with a background on COINTELPRO, its true purposes and objectives, and how COINTELPRO operations influenced future political and social opinions.

FBI Secret COINTELPRO Documents Against Black Community

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation & Research

reproduction of FBI documents.

Form Letter to Judge Kathleen Parker

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1980 PublishersNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation & Research

Form letter urging Judge Kathleen Parker to release Geronimo Pratt from prison

Francisco 'Kiko' Martinez COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

In 1973, Chicano activist and lawyer Francisco "Kiko" Martinez was indicted in Colorado on trumped-up bombing charges and suspended from the bar. He was forced to leave the United States for fear of assassination by police directed to shoot him "on sight." When Martinez was eventually brought to trial in the 1980s, many of the charges against him were droppe...

Free Geronimo Pratt!

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct and the National Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation and Research

Flyer urging support for Geronimo Pratt, imprisoned as a result of COINTELPRO activities.

Jose Lopez COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

José López is the executive director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Under his leadership, the PRCC has developed a number of initiatives in the Humboldt Park community, including an alternative high school, a parent child learning center and day care, a museum and cultural institution, a youth drop-in center and an HIV education and advocacy organizati...

Kathleen Cleaver COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Kathleen Cleaver became involved in the civil rights movement. In 1967 she left college to work full-time for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The following year she met Eldridge Cleaver and moved from New York to San Francisco to join the Black Panther Party (BPP). Kathleen Cleaver became the BPP's National Communications Secretary and...

Laura Whitehorn COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Radical activist and former political prisoner/WUO member who was targeted by the federal government.

Los Derechos Humanos en los Estados Unidos: El Relato Inconcluso Sobre Los Presos Politicos y de las Victimas de Cointelpro

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 2001 AuthorsBruce Ellison, Geronimo ji Jaga, Kathleen Cleaver, Laura Whitehorn, Michael Tarif Warren, Nkechi Taifa PublishersHuman Rights Research Fund, Release 2001

In Spanish. This pamphlet was adapted from the transcript of the September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus's legislative weekend in Washington DC. It could not have been published without the expert editorial work of Laura Whitehorn and Susie Day.

Muhammad Ahmad COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Muhammad Ahmad (formerly Max Stanford Jr.) was a pivotal figure within the Black Liberation Movement and struggle for Black Power in the 1960s and 70s; notably, he was the national field chairman of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and a direct target of J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO. He is a professor at Temple University.

National Task Force for Cointelpro Litigation and Research

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation & Research

Statement with background information about COINTELPRO and the goals of the National Task Force for Cointelpro Litigation and Research

President to President: On the question of human rights

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1971 PublishersNational RNA-11 Defense Committee

Imari Abubakari Obadele, President of the Provisional Government of New Afrika (named a political prisoner by Amnesty International) Challenges US President Jimmy Carter On Oppression of Blacks, Indians, & Others; Genocide, Slave Labor in Prisons, Prisoner Exchange and the US Silence on the Vicious Anti-Black COINTELPRO. Virtual copy available through The In...

Priscilla Falcon COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Priscilla Falcon is a Chicana activist and professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Northern Colorado. She is the widow of Chicano activist Ricardo Falcon, who was killed in a racially motivated altercation with a gas station attendant in Oro Grande, N.M. in 1972 en route to the La Raza Unida convention in El Paso. She is a lifelong activist for Ch...

RE: Offensive Campaign Against Government Spying and Domestic Violence

CollectionGovernment Repression AuthorsNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation and Research PublishersNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation and Research

Letter to Law Students, Lawyers, Political Organizations, Political Activists, Research Groups, etc RE: Offensive Campaign Against Government Spying and Domestic Violence

Ricardo Romero COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Ricardo Romero is a Chicano activist for immigrants rights who, in 1981, refused to testify before a Grand Jury, along with other activists, to provide information on the activities of political activist organizations. He is a lifelong activist for Chican@-Mexican@ liberation.

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a landless farmer and half-Indian mother. Her paternal grandfather, a white settler, farmer, and veterinarian, had been a labor activist and Socialist in Oklahoma with the Industrial Workers of the World in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The stories of her grandfather inspired her t...

Statement of Plaintiffs in Clark V. USA, Targets of FBI COINTELPRO Illegal Activities, in Response to Current Trial of FBI Officials Felt and Miller

CollectionGovernment Repression DateSeptember 23, 1980 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Statement of Plaintiffs in Clark V. USA, Targets of FBI COINTELPRO Illegal Activities, in Response to Current Trial of FBI Officials Felt and Miller.

Tip of the Iceberg (December 1980)

CollectionGovernment Repression DateDecember 1, 1981 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Formerly Update. Cover Story: Stop the Frame-Up of Eve Rosahn! BLA & Revolutionary Armed Task Force Advance the Struggle (Editorial); COINTELPRO - The War is Raging; Grand Jury Attacks Puerto Rican Independence Movement; Forum Builds Unity Against Repression; Senate Committee - Arm of COINTELPRO; An Open Letter to Friends and Supporters of Clark v. USA; Smas...

Tip of the Iceberg (February 1981)

CollectionGovernment Repression DateFebruary 1, 1981 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Formerly Update. Clark Demands Hearing on FBI Attacks; Editorial on the Iranian Hostage Crisis; Campus Movement Under COINTELPRO Attack; The Case of David Truong: US Continues War Against Vietnam; Free the Pontiac Brothers; Take a Stand Against the Klan; Updates on the fines of FBI agents Mark Felt and William Miller, Amiri Baraka Fights Police Frame Up and...

Tip of the Iceberg (March 1980)

CollectionGovernment Repression DateMarch 1, 1980 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

formerly Update. Nixon's the One-- Or What are They Trying to Hide?; Frame-Up of Shasha Malik Engineered by Top Officials; Government Continues Railroad of Geronimo Pratt; Assata and Sundiata on the Offensive Against COINTELPRO; Freedom of Four Puerto Rican Nationalists Advances Struggle Against Police Terror; FBI to Release More Files-Thousands of deletions...