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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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President to President: On the question of human rights

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1971 PublishersNational RNA-11 Defense Committee

Imari Abubakari Obadele, President of the Provisional Government of New Afrika (named a political prisoner by Amnesty International) Challenges US President Jimmy Carter On Oppression of Blacks, Indians, & Others; Genocide, Slave Labor in Prisons, Prisoner Exchange and the US Silence on the Vicious Anti-Black COINTELPRO. Virtual copy available through The In...

Priscilla Falcon COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Priscilla Falcon is a Chicana activist and professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Northern Colorado. She is the widow of Chicano activist Ricardo Falcon, who was killed in a racially motivated altercation with a gas station attendant in Oro Grande, N.M. in 1972 en route to the La Raza Unida convention in El Paso. She is a lifelong activist for Ch...

Program of the New York Citizens Review Commission on the FBI

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

3 days of hearings on an overview of the FBI harassment of different struggles, placed in a historic context.

RE: Offensive Campaign Against Government Spying and Domestic Violence

CollectionGovernment Repression AuthorsNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation and Research PublishersNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation and Research

Letter to Law Students, Lawyers, Political Organizations, Political Activists, Research Groups, etc RE: Offensive Campaign Against Government Spying and Domestic Violence

Repression Breeds Resistance! Stop the RICO Grand Jury!

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Flyer promoting a Benefit/Forum/Dinner welcoming all progressive people and organizations to take a stand and the resist political repression of revolutionary forces through the use of Grand Juries. With speakers Kwame Kalimara, Jose Lopez, Silvia Baraldini and Alan Berkman,

Ricardo Romero COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Ricardo Romero is a Chicano activist for immigrants rights who, in 1981, refused to testify before a Grand Jury, along with other activists, to provide information on the activities of political activist organizations. He is a lifelong activist for Chican@-Mexican@ liberation.

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a landless farmer and half-Indian mother. Her paternal grandfather, a white settler, farmer, and veterinarian, had been a labor activist and Socialist in Oklahoma with the Industrial Workers of the World in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The stories of her grandfather inspired her t...

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.

Statement of Plaintiffs in Clark V. USA, Targets of FBI COINTELPRO Illegal Activities, in Response to Current Trial of FBI Officials Felt and Miller

CollectionGovernment Repression DateSeptember 23, 1980 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Statement of Plaintiffs in Clark V. USA, Targets of FBI COINTELPRO Illegal Activities, in Response to Current Trial of FBI Officials Felt and Miller.

Stokely Carmichael — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1974 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ file on Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), SNCC and Black Panther leader. COINTELPRO target; file contains memoranda on disruption tactics and travel monitoring.

Stokely Carmichael — Part 05 (Final)

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1974 PublishersFBI Vault

Final part of the FBI Stokely Carmichael file.

Surveillance Targets Push for Trial of Ex-FBI Officials

CollectionGovernment Repression DateMarch 2, 1979 AuthorsRobert Pear PublishersThe Washington Star

reproduction of the original article

Targets of FBI Crimes Charge Collusion Between Prosecution and Defense in Washington Trial of Former FBI Officials

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1979 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Targets of FBI Crimes Charge Collusion Between Prosecution and Defense in Washington Trial of Former FBI Officials.

The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood

Year1929 PublishersInternet Archive (public domain)

Haywood's posthumous autobiography covering the Western Federation of Miners, the IWW, and his 1918 Espionage Act conviction. Haywood was the lead IWW defendant convicted with 100+ Wobblies in the 1918 Chicago mass trial under the Espionage Act — a foundational U.S. PP case.

The Complete Collection of Political Documents Ripped-off from the FBI Office in Media, PA: March 8, 1971

CollectionGovernment Repression DateMarch 1, 1972 PublishersWIN Magazine

The Complete Collection of Political Documents Ripped Off From the FBI Office in Media, PA., March 8, 1971.

The Improper use of the Federal Grand Jury: An Instrument for The Internment of Political Activists

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1984 AuthorsMichael Deutsch PublishersJournal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Reproduction. Article available from Law Collective (link from Internet Archive).

The Political Repression of a Chicano Movement Activist: The Plight of Francisco E. "Kiko" Martínez

CollectionGovernment Repression Year2004 AuthorsJames Barrera PublishersNational Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)

An academic conference paper by James Barrera (South Texas College) examining the decades-long political repression and federal prosecution of Chicano movement attorney and activist Francisco E. "Kiko" Martínez, presented in the NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings. Open-access via SJSU ScholarWorks / the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies A...

Tip of the Iceberg (December 1980)

CollectionGovernment Repression DateDecember 1, 1981 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Formerly Update. Cover Story: Stop the Frame-Up of Eve Rosahn! BLA & Revolutionary Armed Task Force Advance the Struggle (Editorial); COINTELPRO - The War is Raging; Grand Jury Attacks Puerto Rican Independence Movement; Forum Builds Unity Against Repression; Senate Committee - Arm of COINTELPRO; An Open Letter to Friends and Supporters of Clark v. USA; Smas...

Tip of the Iceberg (February 1981)

CollectionGovernment Repression DateFebruary 1, 1981 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Formerly Update. Clark Demands Hearing on FBI Attacks; Editorial on the Iranian Hostage Crisis; Campus Movement Under COINTELPRO Attack; The Case of David Truong: US Continues War Against Vietnam; Free the Pontiac Brothers; Take a Stand Against the Klan; Updates on the fines of FBI agents Mark Felt and William Miller, Amiri Baraka Fights Police Frame Up and...

Tip of the Iceberg (March 1980)

CollectionGovernment Repression DateMarch 1, 1980 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

formerly Update. Nixon's the One-- Or What are They Trying to Hide?; Frame-Up of Shasha Malik Engineered by Top Officials; Government Continues Railroad of Geronimo Pratt; Assata and Sundiata on the Offensive Against COINTELPRO; Freedom of Four Puerto Rican Nationalists Advances Struggle Against Police Terror; FBI to Release More Files-Thousands of deletions...

Tip of the Iceberg (May 1981)

CollectionGovernment Repression DateMay 1, 1981 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Clark Plaintiffs Confront FBI; Victory in Pontiac Trial - State's Strategy Defeated; US "Anti-Terrorism": Counterinsurgency of the 80's; US Gov't Escalates Attacks on Black Liberation Movement; Reagan Pardons Cointelpro Criminals; Arab Student Fights Deportation; Zairean CIA Agents in the US; Red Squad Settlement Continues COINTELPRO Cover-up; Committee Targ...

Tip of the Iceberg (November 1980)

CollectionGovernment Repression DateNovember 1, 1980 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

formerly Update. Special Washington Trial Issue. FBI on Trial? COINTELPRO 1980; Two Press Statements of Clark v. USA Plantiffs on the Washington FBI Trial.

Tip of the Iceberg (Summer 1980)

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1980 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Formerly Update. Cover Story: Government Moves to Consolidate COINTELPRO Cover-Up: Nixon Granted Stay - FBI Trial Postponed. Also: Movement to Exonerate Assata Grows as COINTELPRO Attacks Grow; The Pressure is Mounting to Free Geronimo Pratt; The Puerto Rican Prisoners of War Speak to the People; FOIA Files Reveal Insidious FBI Methods; Updates on RNA-11; Dh...

To Attorney General Griffin Bell

CollectionGovernment Repression DateMarch 1, 1979 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Letter to Attorney General Griffin Bell.

United States Government Conspiracy Against Malcolm X and the Black Community

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation & Research

13th anniversary event of the assassination of Malcolm X. Information about his significance and the event to commemorate his death.