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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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Found 31 records

Non-Collaboration — The Only Answer to Political Investigations (1985)

CollectionGrand Jury / FBI Repression DateJanuary 1, 1985 AuthorsBob Lederer; Sandra Roland; Steven Burke; Julie Nalibov; Christine Rico PublishersStop The Witch Hunts

Statements from JBAKC-connected grand-jury resisters refusing to cooperate with the federal probe into the 1983 Capitol / War College / Navy Officers Club / Navy computer bombings claimed by the Armed Resistance Unit and Red Guerrilla Resistance. Includes a Terry Bisson poem.

Resistance Conspiracy Case — Arraignment Statement of Dr. Alan Berkman

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1985 AuthorsAlan Berkman PublishersResistance Conspiracy defense committee

Resistance Conspiracy Case defendant Dr. Alan Berkman's arraignment statement framing his armed actions as resistance to U.S. government atrocities in Central America, Southern Africa, and at home. Berkman, suffering from Hodgkin's Disease, would nearly die several times in federal custody due to deliberately withheld medical treatment.

Response to Report & Recommendations of Breed and Ward Report to the Judiciary Committee on Marion Federal Prison

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1985 PublishersMarion Prisoners' Rights Project

3/1985 Response to investigation and report by Allen breed and David Ward at the behest of the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the Administration of Jstice

Solidarity Forever: An Oral History of the IWW

Year1985 PublishersIWW

Oral history interviews with IWW members including Espionage-Act-era veterans by Stewart Bird, Dan Georgakas, and Deborah Shaffer. Firsthand accounts from IWW prisoners and defendants of the 1917-1919 federal raids and trials.

Stop the Marion lockdown: A conference for education and action

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1985 PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

Advertisement for conference commemorating the second anniversary of the Marion Prison Lockdown to be held at People's Church, Chicago, IL.

The New State Repression — Ken Lawrence (1985)

CollectionGrand Jury / FBI Repression DateJanuary 1, 1985 AuthorsKen Lawrence PublishersInternational Network Against New State Repression

Analyzes political repression in three forms: police brutality, vigilantism, and secret police. Covers the strategy of permanent repression, Frank Kitson's counterinsurgency theory, and Louis Giuffrida under Reagan.