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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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Francisco 'Kiko' Martinez COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

In 1973, Chicano activist and lawyer Francisco "Kiko" Martinez was indicted in Colorado on trumped-up bombing charges and suspended from the bar. He was forced to leave the United States for fear of assassination by police directed to shoot him "on sight." When Martinez was eventually brought to trial in the 1980s, many of the charges against him were droppe...

Priscilla Falcon COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Priscilla Falcon is a Chicana activist and professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Northern Colorado. She is the widow of Chicano activist Ricardo Falcon, who was killed in a racially motivated altercation with a gas station attendant in Oro Grande, N.M. in 1972 en route to the La Raza Unida convention in El Paso. She is a lifelong activist for Ch...

RDTW 2024 Solidarity Statement — Xinachtli

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Philly Year2024 PublishersPhiladelphia Anarchist Black Cross

Statement from Chicano political prisoner Alvaro Luna Hernandez (Xinachtli) on conditions in supermax confinement, recorded for Running Down The Walls 2024.

Ricardo Romero COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Ricardo Romero is a Chicano activist for immigrants rights who, in 1981, refused to testify before a Grand Jury, along with other activists, to provide information on the activities of political activist organizations. He is a lifelong activist for Chican@-Mexican@ liberation.