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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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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...

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

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.

Human Rights in the US: The Unfinished Story of Political Prisoners/Victims

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

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.

Join a Day of Action to Free All Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War!

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Flyer for demonstration in Manhattan, NYC, to free political prisoners and stop FBI/Police Terror.

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.

Murdered by the U.S. Government: Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal

CollectionGovernment Repression Year1979 PublishersFreedom Archives

A movement solidarity flyer protesting the November 1979 death of Puerto Rican independence and socialist activist Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal in the federal prison at Tallahassee, Florida. It condemns his death — officially ruled a suicide — as a political killing by the U.S. government, and ties it to the Vieques struggle and the wider movement for Puerto Ri...

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...

The Political Conviction of R. Dhoruba Moore and the Repression of the Black Liberation Movement

CollectionGovernment Repression Year1980 PublishersInternational Committee to Free Dhoruba Moore

An eight-page tabloid newspaper from the International Committee to Free Dhoruba Moore (Brooklyn, 1980): one long article on the political conviction of Richard "Dhoruba" Moore (Dhoruba Bin Wahad), the New York Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member convicted in the 1971 killing of two police officers and freed in 1990 after years of appeals, togethe...

Tip of the Iceberg (Summer 1980)

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

Formerly Update. Cover Story: Government Moves to Consolidate COINTELPRO Cover-Up: Nixon Granted Stay - FBI Trial Postponed. Also: Movement to Exonerate Assata Grows as COINTELPRO Attacks Grow; The Pressure is Mounting to Free Geronimo Pratt; The Puerto Rican Prisoners of War Speak to the People; FOIA Files Reveal Insidious FBI Methods; Updates on RNA-11; Dh...