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Bits N Pieces, by Sundiata Acoli
Collected shorter writings, letters, and political statements of Sundiata Acoli — Black Liberation Army member and longtime political prisoner held by New Jersey state corrections from 1973 to 2022. Acoli was convicted in 1974 alongside Assata Shakur for the May 1973 New Jersey Turnpike incident that killed State Trooper Werner Foerster. He was released on p...
Can't Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the U.S. — A Collection of Biographies
Biographical compendium of US political prisoners compiled and published by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML) in 1985. Organized into sections on Native American, New Afrikan/Black, Puerto Rican, North American (white anti-imperialist), and Irish prisoners — including AIM defendants, Black Liberation Army and MOVE prisoners, FALN and Macheteros...
Hauling Up the Morning / Izando la Mañana: Writings & Art by Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War in the U.S.
Bilingual (English/Spanish) anthology of writings and visual art by approximately 80 U.S.-held political prisoners and prisoners of war, edited by Tim Blunk and Raymond Luc Levasseur — themselves political prisoners at the time (the Resistance Conspiracy and Ohio 7 cases). Published in 1990 by Red Sea Press / Jacobin Books. The book opens with the declaratio...
Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners
900+ page omnibus edited by Matt Meyer and published by PM Press / Kersplebedeb in 2008, with a foreword by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and an afterword by Ashanti Alston. The single most comprehensive published anthology of statements, letters, prison writings, support-committee documents, and movement-historical essays on U.S. political prisoners — covering the...
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Nick Estes's 2019 Verso history of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and the longer arc of Lakota / Dakota / Nakota sovereignty struggle. Combines reporting from the 2016–2017 #NoDAPL water-protector camps with deep historical narrative running from the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty through Wounded Knee 1890, the 1973...