Records
The Symbionese Liberation Army: Documents and Communiques (1974)
Collected communiques, taped statements, and historical documents of the Symbionese Liberation Army — the small Bay Area armed group founded in 1973 whose actions included the November 1973 killing of Oakland school superintendent Marcus Foster and the February 1974 kidnapping of Patricia Hearst. The collection includes the SLA's foundational political docum...
Voice of the Voiceless: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Case-history and movement-statement collection on Mumia Abu-Jamal — journalist, former Black Panther Party member, longtime MOVE supporter, and U.S. political prisoner held by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since 1981 on a conviction arising from the December 9, 1981 killing of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Combines case documents, trial-rec...
War at Home: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do About It
Brian Glick's 1989 South End Press handbook on FBI/COINTELPRO-style covert action against U.S. social movements, written for movement participants. Combines a historical synthesis of COINTELPRO and its successors with concrete advice for activists on recognizing infiltrators and provocateurs, defending against grand juries, protecting communications, support...
You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows (1969)
The founding political document of the Weather Underground Organization, presented at the June 18, 1969 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) National Convention in Chicago by the faction that called itself the Revolutionary Youth Movement. Co-authored by Karen Ashley, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, Jeff Jones, Gerry Long, Howie Machtinger, Jim...