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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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Found 3,254 records

Assata Bulletin (February 21, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateFebruary 21, 1977 PublishersAssata Shakur Defense Committee

Defense-committee bulletin updating supporters on trial proceedings during Assata Shakur's 1977 New Jersey trial.

Assata Bulletin (March 7, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMarch 7, 1977 PublishersAssata Shakur Defense Committee

Defense-committee bulletin covering Black solidarity demonstrations and legal updates during the Assata Shakur trial.

Assata Bulletin (May 2, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMay 2, 1977 AuthorsAssata Shakur PublishersAssata Shakur Defense Committee

Defense-committee bulletin carrying a statement from Assata Shakur to her supporters during her 1977 New Jersey trial.

Assata Shakur on African Women [mp3]

CollectionAssata Shakur PublishersFreedom Archives

Assata Shakur on the importance of Black women participating and leading the Black Liberation Struggle.

Assata Shakur on her core values [mp3]

CollectionAssata Shakur PublishersFreedom Archives

Assata Shakur speaks on her core values (freedom and justice for all people) and the importance of African women participating in every aspect of the struggle.

Assata Shakur — The Interview (May 2003)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMay 2, 2003 AuthorsAssata Shakur PublishersFreedom Archives

2003 interview with Assata Shakur conducted while she lived in political exile in Cuba.

Assata Shakur: Carry It On (The Tradition) [mp3]

CollectionAssata Shakur PublishersFreedom Archives

The Tradition written by Assata Shakur.

Assata Shakur: clips from her 1980 address to the people after her escape from prison

CollectionAssata Shakur Year1980 PublishersFreedom Archives

This program is an edited version of her address to the people after she escaped. She begins the recording by stating that she loves everyone and encourages everyone to continue to struggle for our liberation. Assata talks about how Black people are constantly under attack by the poor school system, infiltration of drugs, welfare system, police state, etc. S...

Assata-Sundiata Bulletin (August 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateAugust 1, 1977 PublishersAssata Shakur Defense Committee

Joint defense-committee bulletin covering Assata Shakur's New Jersey trial and Sundiata Acoli's confinement conditions.

Assata: An Autobiography

CollectionMovement Reference DateJanuary 1, 1987 AuthorsAssata Shakur PublishersLawrence Hill Books / Zed Books

Assata Shakur's 1987 autobiography (Lawrence Hill Books / Zed). Black Liberation Army member, former Black Panther Party member, convicted in 1977 of the May 2, 1973 killing of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster on the New Jersey Turnpike after a confrontation that left Assata wounded and fellow BLA member Zayd Malik Shakur dead. Sentenced to life in N...

Atlanta Police and Georgia State Patrol Are Guilty of Murder

CollectionCrimethInc. Year2023 PublishersCrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective

Uses the DeKalb County autopsy of Manuel 'Tortuguita' Teran to debunk the police narrative around the January 18, 2023 killing of the forest defender at the Stop Cop City encampment. Foundational document for the Stop Cop City defendants.

Attacking Prisons at the Point of Production

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsVarious PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Collected writings on attacking prisons at the point of production through labor disruption.

Attention Workingmen! Great Mass Meeting Tonight at the Haymarket (English Broadside)

DateMay 4, 1886 PublishersAugust Spies / Chicago anarchist movement

Original 4 May 1886 Haymarket meeting handbill introduced as the state's evidence in the 1886 anarchist trial.

Attica Memorial NYC Flyer

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion PublishersFreedom Archives

Small sized black and white flyer with red and black text reading "ATTICA MEMORIAL NYC SEPT 13 Union Theological Seminary Broadway at 120th St. 7:30 to Midnight $3.00 RALLY BUFFALO SEPT 14 BUSSES $15 662-1192 677-1552"

Attica News April 28, 1975

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateApril 28, 1975 PublishersAttica Brothers Offense Defense/Attica Brothers Legal Defense

Contents include: Amnesty Now!!; Is This a Fair Jury for the Attica Brothers?; "They were there and that's enough"; Splitting the Sky

Attica News June 26, 1975

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateJune 26, 1975 PublishersAttica Brothers Offense Defense/Attica Brothers Legal Defense

Contents include: Summing Up a Frameup; 'Guilty of being conscious...'; 3 Bros. Acquitted; Racists Creeping, Mayor Sleeping; SWAT-- alive and well in Buffalo; Inside the Walls; The Death of Tony Williams; Joann's Trial Begins; Keeping up with the news-- cover-ups; The Truth of the Matter

Attica News March 1973

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateMarch 1, 1973 PublishersAttica Defense Committee

Contents include: Brothers in Court; Brothers' Letters; What Happened at Attica?; 'Law and Order'; State Launches Second Attack on Brothers; Poems from Inside; Attica Guards May Stand Trial for Brutality; Letters from Family and Friends.

Attica News March 28, 1975

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateMarch 28, 1975 PublishersAttica Brothers Offense Defense/Attica Brothers Legal Defense

Contents include: New Attica Trial Will Expose State Crimes; From the Belly of the Whale; KKK Repression at Napanoch; A Black Woman's Perspective; Women's Action Puts Davits on the Spot; Who is Governor Carey?; Human Beings--Not Machines; Letter From Jail- Prison Economics; Criticism of Attica Now- Support Struggle in the Courtroom

Attica Prison Rebellion

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion PublishersFreedom Archives

Frank "Big Black" Smith and L.D. Barkley, who proclaimed the Attica Manifesto, and Elizabeth Fink, an attorney for the Attica Brothers. Barkley was killed in the massacre. Smith survived mass torture to help lead the eventually successful legal battle on behalf of the Attica Brothers.

Attica Since the Massacre

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateSeptember 30, 1971 PublishersPrisoner Solidarity Committee

Second 8-page newsletter on Attica. Attica executions, terror, continue; Oppressed bury their Attica Dead; Prison Rebellions erupt nationwide; Attica Liberation Faction Statement; Hassan of Auburn Six Speaks; Rockefeller's Other Massacre (Ludlow Colorado, 1914); Bail Fund Women Aid Imprisoned Sisters; Women Prisoners rebel in West Virginia; more.

Attica is All of Us

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion PublishersFreedom Archives

September 9-13 mark the 44th anniversary of the Attica Rebellion. This massive prison takeover by hundreds of inmates and the callous repression and murders by the state of New York are part of a unique moment in US history. The legacy of Attica and the fight for human rights is carried on in the prisons of Georgia, Ohio, California and wherever people are c...

Attica: Chronology of Events 1971-1974

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion Year1974 PublishersAttica Brothers Legal Defense

A detailed chronology of events leading up to, during, and following the Attica Rebellion.

Attica: Then and Now

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersFreedom Archives

Monograph focusing on the Attica Prison Rebellion, its causes, the aftermath and the campaign to free Dacajeweiah. Contents include: Introduction; Prisons: Who Goes and Why?; The Movement Grows; The Uprising; The Prosecution; Who is Dacajeweiah; What is Being Done; Epilogue.

Attica: Two Decades of Prison Resistance

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateJanuary 1, 1993 PublishersBlack Cat Collective, Nightcrawler ABC; Paterson anarchist Collective

Reproduction of transcript from speech given at Seton hall Law School, NJ

Audio Interference 17: Diana Block (June 23, 2016)

DateJune 23, 2016 AuthorsInterference Archive (interviewer); Diana Block (interviewee) PublishersInterference Archive

Interference Archive's 2016 podcast interview with Diana Block — longtime Prairie Fire Organizing Committee member, author of *Arm the Spirit: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back* (AK Press, 2009), and longtime political-prisoner support organizer. The interview covers Block's nine years living clandestinely after a 1985 FBI sting, her decades of work sup...