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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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Oppose Racist Violence!

CollectionJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee (Chicago) DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee

An update on the Klan and Nazi racist activity, attacks, and murders against in and around Chicago. It's stated that the way to stop the Klan and Nazis is not to ignore them but to show the Klan that they, JBAKC members and those who oppose racism in any form, they will not tolerate their presence in their neighborhoods and schools and will not tolerate the...

Oppose The Klan and Nazis on Gay Pride Day!

CollectionJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee (Chicago) DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee

Flyer promoting a counter-rally to oppose the KKK and take a stand against all acts of racist, anti-woman and anti-gay violence in Lincoln Park in Sunday, June 29 1986.

Presentation by Steve Whitman to the November 1, 1986 Conference to end the Marion Lockdown as {art of the Workshop on the Changing Nature of the US Prison System

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

Discusses prison rates and the link to race.

Prison Group Report on Marion: Calls for Continued Monitoring, Report Cites "Uneasy calm"

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersJohn Howard Association; the prison reform group

Reproduction of press release 1/9/1986. "A 20-page document released today… reports on the prison watchdog's recent inspection of the super-maximum security United States Penitentiary in Marion Illinois."

Protesters Fight Paint With Paint

CollectionJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee (Chicago) DateJune 22, 1986 PublishersChicago Tribune

Article in the Chicago Tribune covering the Stamp Out Racist Graffiti protest on June 21.

Racist Gangs in Chicago Are Growing More Arrogant

CollectionJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee (Chicago) DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersMarxist-Leninist Party

Flyer promoting protests against the KKK's "white pride" rally on June 28 and "anti-queer" rally on June 29. Calling for workers, Black people, immigrants, and all anti-racists to stand up in militant protest.

Report Back from the Marion/Lexington Demonstration

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

Flyer advertising a memorial event in honor of Malcolm X's Birth.

Say No To Racist Violence

CollectionJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee (Chicago) DateJune 20, 1986 PublishersJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee

An open letter to the people of Chicago concerning the escalation of racist activity by the white supremacist groups in Chicago published in the Chicago Reader. It also promotes the Stamp Out Racist Graffiti event on Saturday, June 21 and the Oppose the Klan and Nazis on Gay Pride Day event on Sunday, June 29.

Solidarity statement to the April 19th demonstration from North American Anti-Imperialist political prisoners

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersOhio 7; CEML

4/19/1986 Message of solidarity to Marion/lexington protestors. Part of packet.

Stamp Out Racist Graffiti June 21, 1986

CollectionJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee (Chicago) DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee

Sticker promoting the Stamp Out Racist Graffiti event on June 21.

Stop Nazi Rally!

CollectionJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee (Chicago) DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersAnti-Imperialist Group

Flyer calling for unity to stop the Klan and Nazi groups who are holding a rally in Lincoln Park.

The Brother from Another Planet

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

Flyer advertising the 3/15/1986 spaghetti dinner and showing of the John Sayles film.

The Insurgent, Vol. 2 No. 3 (Winter 1986)

CollectionThe Insurgent Year1986 PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...

The Shame of America — Psychological Torture U.S. Style: The Case of Alejandrina and Susan (1986)

CollectionPuerto Rican POWs DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs

Bilingual (English/Spanish) newsprint article on the cases of political prisoners Alejandrina Torres (FALN) and Susan Rosenberg, documenting conditions of psychological torture in U.S. federal prisons (Lexington High Security Unit).

There Are Women Political Prisoners in U.S. — Shut Down the Lexington Women's Control Unit

DateDecember 1, 1986 AuthorsCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown / Lexington HSU support coalition

Single-page organizing flyer issued in 1986-87 demanding the closure of the Lexington High Security Unit (HSU), a basement control unit at the Federal Correctional Institution in Lexington, Kentucky opened in October 1986 specifically to hold women political prisoners under conditions of sensory deprivation. The flyer profiles the three women then incarcerat...

Vita Wa Watu Book Nine

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateAugust 1, 1986 PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Notes on the Link Between Oppression of New Afrikan Women and the New Afrikan National Liberation Revolution Part One: The Origin and Nature of Women's Oppression; ending Colonial Police Violence in the African Community by Community Self-Defense Program, NY; Organization Means Commitment; On the RNA and the Provisional Government.

Vita Wa Watu: More Notes from a New Afrikan POW Journal Book Eight

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

About These Notes; Black Liberation, A Speech by James Forman; Afterwords: Notes on the Transition of the "Black Liberation" Phrase, Concept, and Movement by Mwalimu Shanna and Seldom Seen; A Letter from the Creative Image Scholarship Fund

Wall of Silence Will Work Only if We Let It

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersUnited Methodist Review

Regarding the 4/19/1985 protest, lockdown conditions, and voices of dissent

White, Right, and Looking for a Fight

CollectionJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee (Chicago) DateJune 27, 1986 PublishersChicago Reader

The Chicago Reader's cover story "White, Right, and Looking for a Fight: Has Chicago been targeted by a new alliance of white supremacists?" examines the recent confrontations between the antiracist marchers of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and a coalition of Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis at the "Stamp Out Racist Graffiti" event on June 21, 1986. It also t...

The Bomb at Haymarket

CollectionThe Anarchist Library Year1986 AuthorsSidney Lens PublishersThe Anarchist Library

Sidney Lens The Bomb at Haymarket 1986 Published in Roediger, Dave, and Franklin Rosemont, eds. Haymarket Scrapbook. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing... Sourced from theanarchistlibrary.org.

Haymarket Widows

CollectionThe Anarchist Library Year1986 AuthorsCarolyn Ashbaugh PublishersThe Anarchist Library

Carolyn Ashbaugh Haymarket Widows 1986 Published in Roediger, Dave, and Franklin Rosemont, eds. Haymarket Scrapbook. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing... Sourced from theanarchistlibrary.org.

Radical Women: The Haymarket Tradition

CollectionThe Anarchist Library Year1986 AuthorsCarolyn Ashbaugh PublishersThe Anarchist Library

Carolyn Ashbaugh Radical Women: The Haymarket Tradition 1986 Published in Roediger, Dave, and Franklin Rosemont, eds. Haymarket Scrapbook. Chicago: Charles... Sourced from theanarchistlibrary.org.

The Legacy of the Black Panther Party

CollectionThe Anarchist Library Year1986 AuthorsJoNina M. Abron PublishersThe Anarchist Library

JoNina M. Abron The Legacy of the Black Panther Party 1986 Sourced from theanarchistlibrary.org.

In Memory of Kuwasi Balagoon

CollectionThe Anarchist Library Year1986 AuthorsMarilyn Buck PublishersThe Anarchist Library

Marilyn Buck In Memory of Kuwasi Balagoon December 13, 1986 Sourced from theanarchistlibrary.org.