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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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War in America — Stop the Repression of National Liberation Struggles

CollectionPuerto Rican POWs PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

Flyer announcing a Denver national conference against repression May 28-30; covers U.S. intervention in El Salvador and escalating attacks on Third World communities. Co-sponsors include the National Committee to Free PR POWs, National Committee to Defend New Afrikan Freedom Fighters, National Committee Against Repression, and the New Movement in Solidarity...

We Honor Our Freedom Fighters — New York 8

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersNew York 8 defense

Tribute flyer from the New York 8 defense recognizing the defendants as freedom fighters in the New Afrikan Independence Movement.

What You Can Do (Atmore-Holman Brothers)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersAtmore-Holman Brothers support committee

Action flyer outlining how supporters can aid the Atmore-Holman prisoners and challenge conditions in Alabama prisons.

Who Is Chuck Malone? (And Why is He in Jail?) — Malone Defense Fund (1990)

DateJune 1, 1990 AuthorsMalone Defense Fund PublishersMalone Defense Fund (San Francisco)

Single-page Malone Defense Fund flyer issued after the January 1990 arrest and three-day federal trial of San Francisco Irish Republican Chuck Malone in Montgomery, Alabama. Malone, a lifelong Clan na Gael member and former Fianna Eireann scout leader, was charged with conspiracy to ship assault rifles to the IRA. The flyer outlines his 1972 "Golden Gate Gun...

Xinachtli (Alvaro Luna Hernandez) flyer (LA ABCF, July 2024)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Federation (ABCF) DateJuly 29, 2024 AuthorsLA Anarchist Black Cross PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

LA ABCF support flyer for Chicano political prisoner Xinachtli / Alvaro Luna Hernandez.

Young Engineer Jailed Before Appeal Is Even Heard (1990)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1990 PublishersConstitutional Defense Fund

1990 Constitutional Defense Fund flyer protesting the jailing of an Irish American activist before her appeal had been heard (Christina Reid, of the Boston Irish 3 case).

Statement of the Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee (1975)

CollectionLexington Six Year1975 PublishersLexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee

The Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee's statement on the March 8, 1975 jailing of six people — five women and one man, all gay — held in contempt for refusing to answer a federal grand jury in Lexington, Kentucky (the Lexington Six). It argues that using grand juries to coerce testimony, rather than to return indictments, is an abuse of the system...

FBI Harassment / Grand Jury Abuse: A Chronology of Events in Lexington (1975)

CollectionLexington Six Year1975 PublishersLexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee

A printed chronology of the Lexington grand-jury case: the summer/fall 1974 informant tip that two women resembled the fugitives wanted for a 1970 Boston bank robbery; the January 1975 FBI sweep of the Lexington community; the February 3 subpoenas issued by U.S. Attorney Eugene Siler; Judge Bernard Moynahan's refusal to quash them and his grant of "use immun...

National Coalition of Gay Activists — Special Alert on the FBI Grand-Jury Campaign (1975)

CollectionLexington Six Year1975 PublishersNational Coalition of Gay Activists (New York)

A "Special Alert" from the National Coalition of Gay Activists (New York) warning that an FBI campaign against the feminist and gay movements had emerged in New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut, and Lexington, Kentucky, with the jailing of eight people in the Susan Saxe / Katherine Anne Power investigation. It stresses that none of the jailed were accused of...

4StruggleMag Subscription Flyers

Collection4StruggleMag

Subscription and outreach flyers for 4StruggleMag.

Free All Political Prisoners — Poster #4

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Federation (ABCF) PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation VolumePoster

ABCF "Free All Political Prisoners" poster series, design #4. Distributed via the Anarchist Black Cross Federation; sourced from the South Chicago ABC zine library (southchicagoabc.org/abcf-library/).

Solidarity with the 5e3 — Trifold

CollectionAnarchist Zine Library PublishersAnarchist Zine Library (azinelibrary.org)

Trifold pamphlet supporting the "5e3" defendants. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).

Support Marius Mason — Flyer

CollectionDenver Anarchist Black Cross PublishersDenver Anarchist Black Cross (denverabc.wordpress.com)

Flyer in support of Earth Liberation Front political prisoner Marius Mason (Marie at the time of publication). Sourced via denverabc.wordpress.com from supportmarie.files.wordpress.com. Sourced from denverabc.wordpress.com.

Support Marius Mason — Hello Family

CollectionDenver Anarchist Black Cross PublishersDenver Anarchist Black Cross (denverabc.wordpress.com)

Movement-family letter on supporting Earth Liberation Front political prisoner Marius Mason. Sourced via denverabc.wordpress.com. Sourced from denverabc.wordpress.com.

John Graham Defense — Leaflet

CollectionDenver Anarchist Black Cross PublishersDenver Anarchist Black Cross (denverabc.wordpress.com)

Defense leaflet for John Graham, the American Indian Movement member tried for the 1975 killing of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash on the Pine Ridge reservation. Graham, a Yukon native, was extradited to South Dakota in 2007 and convicted in 2010 in a case AIM supporters argued was deeply contaminated by the FBI's long-running infiltration of the movement. Sourced vi...

The Cuban Five — Printable Biographies

CollectionDenver Anarchist Black Cross PublishersDenver Anarchist Black Cross (denverabc.wordpress.com)

Biographical handout on the Cuban Five (Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, René González) — Cuban intelligence officers convicted in 2001 in Miami federal court of conspiracy to commit espionage. International campaigns by 2014 secured their full release. Sourced via denverabc.wordpress.com from freethefive.org. Sourced f...

The Cuban Five — 12th Anniversary Flyer

CollectionDenver Anarchist Black Cross PublishersDenver Anarchist Black Cross (denverabc.wordpress.com)

12th-anniversary flyer (2010) for the Cuban Five international solidarity campaign. Sourced via denverabc.wordpress.com from freethefive.org. Sourced from denverabc.wordpress.com.

The Cuban Five — Olga and Adriana

CollectionDenver Anarchist Black Cross PublishersDenver Anarchist Black Cross (denverabc.wordpress.com)

Solidarity flyer on Olga Salanueva and Adriana Pérez, the wives of imprisoned Cuban Five members denied U.S. visas to visit their husbands. Sourced via denverabc.wordpress.com from freethefive.org. Sourced from denverabc.wordpress.com.