Records
Working Paper on Federal Parole/Release for U.S. Political Prisoners and POWs (1989)
Strategic working paper by imprisoned anti-imperialists Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg, and Timothy Blunk analyzing federal parole and release mechanisms for political prisoners and prisoners of war.
Writing to Prisoners: Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ zine on letter-writing to incarcerated people.
Xinachtli (Alvaro Luna Hernandez) flyer (LA ABCF, July 2024)
LA ABCF support flyer for Chicano political prisoner Xinachtli / Alvaro Luna Hernandez.
Xinachtli Speaks Zine (TFSR)
Statements/interview zine with Texas PP Xinachtli (Alvaro Luna Hernandez).
Xinachtli pamphlet (NYC ABCF, November 2023)
NYC ABC tri-fold support pamphlet for Xinachtli / Alvaro Luna Hernandez.
Yalensky's Fable: The History of the Anarchist Black Cross
Historical zine on origins of the Anarchist Black Cross prisoner-support network.
Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957)
Supreme Court narrowing the Smith Act and reversing convictions of California 'second-string' CP leaders.
Yates v. United States, 355 U.S. 66 (1957)
Companion Yates ruling on the contempt convictions.
Young Engineer Jailed Before Appeal Is Even Heard (1990)
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).
Your Rights and the Grand Jury
Pamphlet covering grand juries, fighting subpoenas, preparing for the grand jury, refusing to testify, and mounting an offensive campaign.
Yours in Solidarity: Alternative Media Projects with North American Political Prisoners
Sara Falconer's MA thesis (Concordia University, Department of Communication Studies) examining how international activist networks use alternative media to advocate for imprisoned activists, with particular focus on media projects created by political prisoners themselves from the 1960s onward.
Youth Institute on Prisons, Racism and Society
Sponsored by the National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons, participants develop an understanding of crime, prisons, and racisms through readings, discussions and presentations as well as gain the skills necessary to organize and participate in campaigns to change the current criminal justice system.
[Graphic: Control Unit]
Reproduction. A lot of the Prisoners cant cope with the constant lockdown. They deteriorate mentally.- Ojore N. Lutalo
¡Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre! — Speech by Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal (March 4, 1978)
Speech by Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña representative Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal at the March 4, 1978 Chicago demonstration for Puerto Rican independence, freedom for the four Nationalist prisoners and the jailed grand-jury resisters — delivered twenty months before his death in federal custody. As reprinted in Breakthrough, via the Encyclopedia of Anti-Rev...
4StruggleMag, Issue #12 (Winter 2008–09)
4StruggleMag was an independent, non-sectarian revolutionary magazine produced by the Toronto chapter of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation and edited by anti-imperialist political prisoner Jaan Laaman. It featured writing from North American political prisoners and their supporters on justice, equality, socialism, and national-liberation struggles.
Statement of the Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee (1975)
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...
4StruggleMag, Issue #13 (Spring 2009)
4StruggleMag was an independent, non-sectarian revolutionary magazine produced by the Toronto chapter of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation and edited by anti-imperialist political prisoner Jaan Laaman. It featured writing from North American political prisoners and their supporters on justice, equality, socialism, and national-liberation struggles.
FBI Harassment / Grand Jury Abuse: A Chronology of Events in Lexington (1975)
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...
4StruggleMag, Issue #14 (Winter 2009)
4StruggleMag was an independent, non-sectarian revolutionary magazine produced by the Toronto chapter of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation and edited by anti-imperialist political prisoner Jaan Laaman. It featured writing from North American political prisoners and their supporters on justice, equality, socialism, and national-liberation struggles.
National Coalition of Gay Activists — Special Alert on the FBI Grand-Jury Campaign (1975)
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, Issue #15 (Spring 2010)
4StruggleMag was an independent, non-sectarian revolutionary magazine produced by the Toronto chapter of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation and edited by anti-imperialist political prisoner Jaan Laaman. It featured writing from North American political prisoners and their supporters on justice, equality, socialism, and national-liberation struggles.
4StruggleMag, Issue #16 (Summer 2010)
4StruggleMag was an independent, non-sectarian revolutionary magazine produced by the Toronto chapter of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation and edited by anti-imperialist political prisoner Jaan Laaman. It featured writing from North American political prisoners and their supporters on justice, equality, socialism, and national-liberation struggles.
4StruggleMag, Issue #17 (Fall 2010)
4StruggleMag was an independent, non-sectarian revolutionary magazine produced by the Toronto chapter of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation and edited by anti-imperialist political prisoner Jaan Laaman. It featured writing from North American political prisoners and their supporters on justice, equality, socialism, and national-liberation struggles.
4StruggleMag, Issue #18 (Spring 2011)
4StruggleMag was an independent, non-sectarian revolutionary magazine produced by the Toronto chapter of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation and edited by anti-imperialist political prisoner Jaan Laaman. It featured writing from North American political prisoners and their supporters on justice, equality, socialism, and national-liberation struggles.
4StruggleMag, Issue #19 (Summer 2011)
4StruggleMag was an independent, non-sectarian revolutionary magazine produced by the Toronto chapter of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation and edited by anti-imperialist political prisoner Jaan Laaman. It featured writing from North American political prisoners and their supporters on justice, equality, socialism, and national-liberation struggles.