Records
I am With You in Prison, Alejandrina
Personal account of meeting with Alejandrina Torres at USP Lexington, Kentucky
International Committee to Release Eldridge Cleaver
Lengthy letter requesting support for release from imprisonment of Eldridge Cleaver.
Jean Stewart Reads Bird Watchers
Jean Stewart reads Marilyn Buck's poem. Jean Stewart is a Bay Area poet, novelist, short story writer, and social justice/disability rights activist. Founder of the Disabled Prisoners' Justice Fund, she has been working with disabled prisoners for over a decade.
Jericho Manual: The Movement to Free U.S. Political Prisoners & POWs
Comprehensive organizing manual with PP profiles, history, and support guidance.
Jericho Movement Support Statement for Samidoun (2024)
Statement from the Jericho Movement in solidarity with the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network after the US and Canadian governments moved to designate it a terrorist organization.
Jericho/USHRN Submission on US Political Prisoners (UN OHCHR consultation)
Civil society submission to UN documenting Black PPs of African descent in US.
John Ashcroft: Let the wives and Children of the Cuban Five Enter the US for Family Visits
Flyer focusing on the case of the Cuban 5 and the inability of their families to visit them in prison.
Join a Day of Action to Free All Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War!
Flyer for demonstration in Manhattan, NYC, to free political prisoners and stop FBI/Police Terror.
Join the Control Unit Emergency Response Network
The Control Unit Emergency Response Network consists of a group of people willing to respond to emergency situations inside of control unit prisons by phoning or faxing prison administrators, political figures or media depending on the circumstances.
Jose Lopez COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
José López is the executive director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Under his leadership, the PRCC has developed a number of initiatives in the Humboldt Park community, including an alternative high school, a parent child learning center and day care, a museum and cultural institution, a youth drop-in center and an HIV education and advocacy organizati...
Judge bars US from Isolating Prisoners for Political Beliefs
Reproduction of 7/17/1988 article covering the order by Federal District judge Barrington-Parker to transfer Susan Rosenberg and Silvia Baraldini to "regular cells." Virtual holding only.
Kathleen Cleaver COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Kathleen Cleaver became involved in the civil rights movement. In 1967 she left college to work full-time for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The following year she met Eldridge Cleaver and moved from New York to San Francisco to join the Black Panther Party (BPP). Kathleen Cleaver became the BPP's National Communications Secretary and...
Kiilu Nyasha Reads In Memory of Kuwasi Balagoon
Kiilu Nyasha reads her poem in memory of Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army leader Kuwasi Balagoon, who died in prison in 1986. Kiilu Nyasha is a revolutionary artist, activist and journalist in the liberation struggle for over 35 years. A former Black Panther, she is a radio and newspaper journalist who has done much to keep political prisoners i...
Kuwasi Balagoon — Handwritten Prison Letter (Slogans Into Events)
A handwritten page from one of Kuwasi Balagoon's prison letters (c. 1983–1985, Brink's-case era), containing the often-quoted passage: "The difference between most of us in here and most of the 'revolutionaries' outside is we took the slogans seriously, transforming the slogans into events. Now we must transform a series of events into a deadlier and consist...
LIBERTAD - April 1987
Contents: International Outcry Against Lexington Control Units; FBI Destroys Evidence: US's Case begins to come apart; 9th Anniversary Colonia Andres Figueroa Cordero- 15,000 Denounce Lexington Control Unit; Resistance is not a Crime; News on the Puerto Rican Independence 16; National Committee Salutes Conference on Academic Freedom; 50th Commemoration of th...
LIBERTAD - Special Edition - August 1981
To Oppose the Authority of the US Government by Force; Statement to the Jury; Closing Argument; What Happened to Alfredo Mendez?; Preliminary Autopsy of an Act of Cowardice; The Enemy Visits; A Closer Look at Behavior Modification; Message from Carmen Valentin;
LIBERTAD - Special Supplement - November/December 1989
Bangs and Whimpers. Speech delivered by Judge Bruce Wright on the sixth anniversary of the Marion Lockdown.
LIBERTAD - Spring 1983
COVER: International Demonstrations To Be Held In Support of the MLN 5, The Cat and the Jurors, Statement by Shelley Miller Before the Grand Jury, International Women's Day. INFORMATION SECTION: Demonstrate Your Support for the MLN 5 p.3, Latest News p.4, LSP Denounces Repression Against MLN p.5, On the 3rd Anniversary of the Contamination of Destruction p.7...
LIBERTAD - Summer 1997
This issue includes coverage of several student rallies for the release of Puerto Rican Political Prisoners at UC Berkeley, where activists advocated also for the release of Mumia Abu Jamal and Leonard Peltier, and at the University of Michigan; news briefs on efforts to transfer Oscar Lopez Rivera out of USP Marion; an article by Oscar Lopez Rivera condemni...
LIBERTAD - Update August, 1980
This issue includes updates on the U.S. government's fabrication of sedition charges against the eleven Puerto Rican Prisoners of War; a Communique to the People from the eleven Puerto Rican Prisoners of War calling for the creation of a Pro-Independence Revolutionary Block and National Liberation Front; an article on the heroism of Puerto Rican freedom figh...
LIBERTAD - Vol. I-I - June 1979
Contents: William Guillermo Morales is Free! Libre!;Regarding Carlos Romero Barcelo; Viva Lucha Armada; De Pie y en Guerra.
LIBERTAD - Vol. II-II - June 1980
Contents: Life in Prison for Haydee Torres; Cucre (Unitary Committee Against Repression) Victory; Timeline of the Puerto Rican Independence Struggle; more.
LIBERTAD - Vol. II-III - July-August 1980
Bi-lingual periodical with articles focusing on the Puerto Rican independence struggle, political prisoners and prisoners of war petitioning the United Nations for support in their cause.