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Oppose Racist Violence!
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!
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
Discusses prison rates and the link to race.
Prison Group Report on Marion: Calls for Continued Monitoring, Report Cites "Uneasy calm"
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
Article in the Chicago Tribune covering the Stamp Out Racist Graffiti protest on June 21.
Racist Gangs in Chicago Are Growing More Arrogant
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
Flyer advertising a memorial event in honor of Malcolm X's Birth.
Say No To Racist Violence
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
4/19/1986 Message of solidarity to Marion/lexington protestors. Part of packet.
Stamp Out Racist Graffiti June 21, 1986
Sticker promoting the Stamp Out Racist Graffiti event on June 21.
Stop Nazi Rally!
Flyer calling for unity to stop the Klan and Nazi groups who are holding a rally in Lincoln Park.
The Brother from Another Planet
Flyer advertising the 3/15/1986 spaghetti dinner and showing of the John Sayles film.
The Insurgent, Vol. 2 No. 3 (Winter 1986)
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)
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
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
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
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
Regarding the 4/19/1985 protest, lockdown conditions, and voices of dissent
White, Right, and Looking for a Fight
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
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
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
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
JoNina M. Abron The Legacy of the Black Panther Party 1986 Sourced from theanarchistlibrary.org.
In Memory of Kuwasi Balagoon
Marilyn Buck In Memory of Kuwasi Balagoon December 13, 1986 Sourced from theanarchistlibrary.org.