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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 1,046 records

Church Committee Hearings Vol. 6 — Federal Bureau of Investigation

CollectionChurch Committee Reports Year1975 PublishersU.S. Senate

Senate hearings on FBI intelligence activities. Testimony documenting FBI operations against political prisoners (King, BPP, SDS); foundational for COINTELPRO-era PP cases.

Church Committee Hearings Vol. 7 — Covert Action

CollectionChurch Committee Reports Year1975 PublishersU.S. Senate

Senate hearings on covert action. Companion to the FBI volume; addresses CIA and FBI surveillance overlap relevant to MLK and antiwar prosecutions.

Close Marion and Lexington Control Unit Prisons

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1987 PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

Information on Control Unit Prisons at Marion and Lexington.

Come to the Citizen's Review Commission on the FBI!

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) PublishersNew York Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)

This flyer exposes the variety of tactics used in state-sponsored repression including grand juries and imprisonment to target as well as dismantle Black Liberation, Chicano, Puerto Rican Independence, and women's movements, among others.

Coming Out of Concrete Closets - National LGBTQ Prisoner Survey

Year2015 PublishersBlack and Pink

National survey of LGBTQ prisoners on conditions, abuse, and healthcare.

Committee to End Lockdown to Protest

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1992 PublishersMarion Daily Republican

Article in Marion Daily Republican on the 5/2/1992 demonstration at USP Dwight, Menard, and Marion.

Common Sense Security: Tip Sheet for Staff Organizers

CollectionGovernment Repression AuthorsSheila O'Donnel PublishersNational Lawyers Guild Civil Liberties Committee

Useful suggestions to resist repressive techniques of the state, corporations and the right wing. Also suggestions if you are visited by the FBI.

Common Victories

CollectionWeather Underground Organization (WUO) DateFebruary 23, 1973 PublishersWeather Underground Organization

Communique #13: Concerning the Vietnam Peace Agreement - Distrust of the Nixon-rulers must not blind us to the light of Vietnam. Without savoring our common victories, we become cynical and paralyzed. Expecting everything, we discard anything less.

Communique - From some warriors in South Dakota

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) DateJuly 9, 1975 PublishersFreedom Archives

Written to prairie fire, the weather underground and all third world and anti-imperialist allies. Native American Warriors from South Dakota express support and connect the Vietnamese Victory to their struggle against US empire and imperialism.

Community Learning Center

CollectionBlack Panther Party (Northern California) PublishersEducational Opportunities Corp.

Re: this non-profit community center "established to provide quality educational and recreational resources for Oakland's Black and poor community"

Compilation of Reports on Marianna Prison (prior to its opening)

CollectionControl Units PublishersFreedom Archives

Compilation of Reports about Marianna Prison before its opening. Letter (June 30, 1988) from Jan Susler to the women political prisoners who will be held in Marianna Prison regarding a conversation she had with the warden's executive assistant about the new prison, privileges and more. A report by Sue Sturtz about a tour of the prison, its layout, the visiti...

Computer Security Handout

CollectionMidnight Special Law Collective AuthorsMidnight Special Law Collective PublishersMidnight Special Law Collective

Covers secure passwords, data creation and destruction, and email security for activists.

Computer Security Trainer's Guide

CollectionMidnight Special Law Collective AuthorsMidnight Special Law Collective PublishersMidnight Special Law Collective

Two-hour training teaching computer users how to protect their data and communications via good security habits.

Conciencia Mexicana

CollectionMLN-M DateJanuary 1, 1982 PublishersEl Comite Nacional Contra La Represion

Who we are; Criminal Contempt; New tool for political internment; May 19th CO attacked; Norberto Cintron released; Historic September 16th Demonstration; A history of government harassment; December 10th support demo.

Conditions Critical: Why Do We Have to Fight for Our Natural Right?

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

Information on International Women's Day demonstration, 1994, celebrating women's resistance.

Conference Calls: What's Cooking at Marion Prison?

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateOctober 1, 1985 PublishersReader

Reproduction of article from 10/25/1985 on the second anniversary of the Marion Lockdown.

Conference on Racism and the Criminal Justice System

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1989 PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

Flyer for conference. Includes information on keynote speaker Judge Bruce Wright and list of workshops.

Connection of Certain Department of Labor Employees with the Case of Thomas J. Mooney

CollectionLibrary of Congress — Espionage/Sedition Era Year1919 PublishersU.S. House of Representatives (66th Cong.)

Congressional report into Labor Department contacts with the Mooney defense after the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing conviction.

Constructive Criticism

CollectionWeather Underground Organization (WUO) PublishersFreedom Archives

A pamphlet containing advice on how to avoid categorical thinking and provide constructive criticism.

Continuing 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance: Exposing Columbus and 500 Years of Genocide

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism DateOctober 1, 1900 PublishersInternational Indian Treaty Council

Information on an international tribunal, bringing charges by the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas vs. US and European government.

Control Unit Prisons

CollectionControl Units PublishersCLAWS

A brief factsheet about Control Unit Prisons and their conditions.

Control Unit Prisons: Health and Human Rights Violations

CollectionControl Units DateNovember 15, 1988 PublishersHealth Committee of the Campaign to Abolish Lexington Control Unit

Presented to the American Public Health Association on November 15, 1988 by the Socialist Caucus. Contents include: The Health Affects of Control Unit Prisons; APHA Opposes Lexington High Security Unit; The Women of Lexington Prison; Victory in Lexington Lawsuit; The Marion Control Unit; United Nations Position on Puerto Rican POWs; Public Health Decimates P...

Control Units: An Opressive New Order in US Prisons

CollectionControl Units PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

Brief article by Nancy Kurshan about the proliferation of control units with specific focus on Marion and Florence and organizing against them.

Correspondence Between Cardiss Collins and Edward Corwin

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1987 PublishersUnited States House of Representatives

Reproduction of letters of Protest and response regarding the Lockdown at Marion and Lewisburg and the appointment of Harold Miller as Warden

Correspondence Packet on Censorship of CEML Letters to Marion Inmates

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown PublishersFreedom Archives