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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...
Erosion of Law Enforcement Intelligence and its Impact on the Public Security — Senate Hearings, 1978
1978 Senate Subcommittee hearings (95th Congress) lamenting the post-Church Committee curtailment of FBI domestic intelligence. PFOC, the Weather Underground, the FALN, and the BLA are repeatedly cited as the threats the committee believed the FBI was no longer monitoring adequately. A key document for understanding the political backlash that fed the FBI's...
FALN / Puerto Rico Materials — Finding Aid
Collection guide to FALN and Puerto Rican POW materials in the Freedom Archives holdings.
Florence Prison and the Fight to Free Oscar López — Out of Control Audio
Audio recording with Lugo Lopez and Alejandro Molina of the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and POWs (Chicago) protesting Oscar López Rivera's imprisonment at ADX Florence, where he served 75+ years on seditious-conspiracy charges.
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...
La Patria Radical — April/May 1992 (Vol. 4 No. 9/10)
Issue of *La Patria Radical*, the bulletin of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN) — the U.S.-based above-ground Puerto Rican independence organization in close political alignment with PFOC throughout the 1970s–90s. Carries POW updates from the Macheteros and FALN prisoners, movement news, and analysis of the Puerto Rican plebiscite debate.
La Patria Radical — August 1989 (Vol. 2 No. 1)
Issue of *La Patria Radical*, the bulletin of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN). Carries movement news and POW updates from the Puerto Rican independentista prisoners then concentrated at FCI Lexington's High Security Unit and other federal facilities.
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...
Libertad (Vol. 1 No. 2, January 1979)
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Libertad (Vol. 2 No. 8, December 1981)
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Libertad Update — January 25, 1986
Local bulletin of the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War, dated January 25, 1986 — written in the immediate aftermath of the August 1985 Hartford 13 / Wells Fargo arrests of the Macheteros leadership and the parallel sweep of the FALN POWs.
Libertad — April/May 1989
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Libertad — August 1985
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Libertad — December 1985
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Libertad — December 1987
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Libertad — Fall 1990
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Libertad — Fall/Winter 1984
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Libertad — February 1985
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Libertad — February 1987
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Libertad — February 1989
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Libertad — January 1985
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Libertad — January 1987
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Libertad — January 1988
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Libertad — January 1989
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Libertad — July 1989
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...