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A Brief History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle

CollectionMovement Reference DateJanuary 1, 1992 AuthorsSundiata Acoli PublishersSpear & Shield Publications

Sundiata Acoli's original 1992 essay tracing the political history of Black political prisoners in U.S. state and federal custody from the late 1960s through the early 1990s. Written from inside, the text articulates the New Afrikan political identity — the post-1968 Republic of New Afrika tradition of Black national consciousness, anti-imperialist alignment...

Arm The Spirit (No. 1, June 1990)

CollectionArm The Spirit (Toronto, 1990–1995) DateJune 1, 1990 AuthorsArm The Spirit Collective (Toronto) PublishersArm The Spirit VolumeNo. 1

Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...

Arm The Spirit (No. 12, March/May 1992)

CollectionArm The Spirit (Toronto, 1990–1995) DateMarch 1, 1992 AuthorsArm The Spirit Collective (Toronto) PublishersArm The Spirit VolumeNo. 12

Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...

Arm The Spirit (No. 16, Fall 1993)

CollectionArm The Spirit (Toronto, 1990–1995) DateSeptember 1, 1993 AuthorsArm The Spirit Collective (Toronto) PublishersArm The Spirit VolumeNo. 16

Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...

Arm The Spirit (No. 18, Winter 1994/1995)

CollectionArm The Spirit (Toronto, 1990–1995) DateDecember 1, 1994 AuthorsArm The Spirit Collective (Toronto) PublishersArm The Spirit VolumeNo. 18

Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...

Arm The Spirit (No. 2, July 1990)

CollectionArm The Spirit (Toronto, 1990–1995) DateJuly 1, 1990 AuthorsArm The Spirit Collective (Toronto) PublishersArm The Spirit VolumeNo. 2

Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...

Arm The Spirit (No. 3, August/September 1990)

CollectionArm The Spirit (Toronto, 1990–1995) DateSeptember 1, 1990 AuthorsArm The Spirit Collective (Toronto) PublishersArm The Spirit VolumeNo. 3

Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...

Arm The Spirit (No. 4, October 1990)

CollectionArm The Spirit (Toronto, 1990–1995) DateOctober 1, 1990 AuthorsArm The Spirit Collective (Toronto) PublishersArm The Spirit VolumeNo. 4

Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...

Arm The Spirit (No. 5, November/December 1990)

CollectionArm The Spirit (Toronto, 1990–1995) DateNovember 1, 1990 AuthorsArm The Spirit Collective (Toronto) PublishersArm The Spirit VolumeNo. 5

Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...

Arm The Spirit (No. 6, January/March 1991)

CollectionArm The Spirit (Toronto, 1990–1995) DateJanuary 1, 1991 AuthorsArm The Spirit Collective (Toronto) PublishersArm The Spirit VolumeNo. 6

Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...

Arm The Spirit (No. 7, April/May 1991)

CollectionArm The Spirit (Toronto, 1990–1995) DateApril 1, 1991 AuthorsArm The Spirit Collective (Toronto) PublishersArm The Spirit VolumeNo. 7

Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...

Arm The Spirit (No. 8, June/July 1991)

CollectionArm The Spirit (Toronto, 1990–1995) DateJune 1, 1991 AuthorsArm The Spirit Collective (Toronto) PublishersArm The Spirit VolumeNo. 8

Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...

Arm The Spirit (No. 9, August/September 1991)

CollectionArm The Spirit (Toronto, 1990–1995) DateAugust 1, 1991 AuthorsArm The Spirit Collective (Toronto) PublishersArm The Spirit VolumeNo. 9

Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...

Arm The Spirit (Nos. 14/15, August–December 1992 (double issue))

CollectionArm The Spirit (Toronto, 1990–1995) DateDecember 1, 1992 AuthorsArm The Spirit Collective (Toronto) PublishersArm The Spirit VolumeNos. 14/15

Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...

Hauling Up the Morning / Izando la Mañana: Writings & Art by Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War in the U.S.

CollectionMovement Reference DateJanuary 1, 1990 AuthorsTim Blunk and Raymond Luc Levasseur (editors) PublishersRed Sea Press / Jacobin Books

Bilingual (English/Spanish) anthology of writings and visual art by approximately 80 U.S.-held political prisoners and prisoners of war, edited by Tim Blunk and Raymond Luc Levasseur — themselves political prisoners at the time (the Resistance Conspiracy and Ohio 7 cases). Published in 1990 by Red Sea Press / Jacobin Books. The book opens with the declaratio...

Judgment of the Grand Jury

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee — Breakthrough Year1982 AuthorsCarlos Noya PublishersPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (Breakthrough)

An essay by Carlos Noya, a leading member of the Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña (LSP), a public revolutionary organization in Puerto Rico that argued for a protracted people's war to achieve independence and socialism. Noya was exiled and imprisoned in the United States for refusing to collaborate with a federal grand jury investigating the Puerto Rican arme...

On the Black Liberation Army

CollectionMovement Reference AuthorsPrairie Fire Distribution Group / contributors PublishersPrairie Fire Distribution Group

Movement-published reader on the Black Liberation Army — historical and theoretical writings on the BLA's formation, its political program, the trial cohort of its prisoners, and the post-1981 BLA-era prosecutions including the Brink's-1981 case that landed Mutulu Shakur, Marilyn Buck, Sekou Odinga, and others in federal custody. Compiled and distributed by...

Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism — The Political Statement of the Weather Underground

CollectionMovement Reference DateJuly 1, 1974 AuthorsWeather Underground Organization (Dohrn, Ayers, Jones, Sojourn) PublishersCommunications Co. (underground)

1974 political statement of the Weather Underground Organization, produced clandestinely and distributed via the U.S. radical-left press during the group's underground period. The 156-page manifesto sets out the WUO's analysis of U.S. imperialism in the wake of Vietnam, the Watergate-era state-crisis, the Indochinese revolutions, the Black liberation movemen...

The Insurgent — Newsletter Proposal

CollectionThe Insurgent PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...

The Insurgent, Vol. 2 No. 3 (Winter 1986)

CollectionThe Insurgent Year1986 PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...

The Insurgent, Vol. 3 No. 2 (Fall 1987)

CollectionThe Insurgent Year1987 PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...

The Insurgent, Vol. 4 No. 1 — International Women's Day Special Issue (Winter 1988)

CollectionThe Insurgent Year1988 PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...

The Insurgent, Vol. 4 No. 3 (1988)

CollectionThe Insurgent Year1988 PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...

The Insurgent, Vol. 5 No. 1 (Spring 1989)

CollectionThe Insurgent Year1989 PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...

You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows (1969)

CollectionMovement Reference DateJune 18, 1969 AuthorsRevolutionary Youth Movement / Weather Underground (Ashley, Ayers, Dohrn, Jacobs, Jones, Long, Machtinger, Mellen, Robbins, Rudd, Tappis) PublishersStudents for a Democratic Society / New Left Notes

The founding political document of the Weather Underground Organization, presented at the June 18, 1969 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) National Convention in Chicago by the faction that called itself the Revolutionary Youth Movement. Co-authored by Karen Ashley, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, Jeff Jones, Gerry Long, Howie Machtinger, Jim...