Records
1990 Tribunal Fundraiser & Registration Letter
September 15, 1990 registration packet and fundraising appeal for the Special International Tribunal on Human Rights Violations of Political Prisoners and POWs in U.S. Prisons, held December 7-10, 1990 at Hunter College, New York City. Signatories include Daniel Berrigan, Margaret Randall, and Rafael Cancel Miranda. Companion piece to the Dec 7 1990 Chicano...
A Decade in Defense of Human Rights 1968-1978
A Decade in Struggle, 1968-1978 NCBL Report
Attica is All of Us
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...
Chicano Political Prisoners — Committee to Free Alvaro Hernandez & Alberto Aranda (Dec 7, 1990 Tribunal)
Submission of the Committee to Free Alvaro Hernandez and Alberto Aranda (Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional Mexicano) to the December 7, 1990 Special International Tribunal on U.S. political prisoners, held on International Human Rights Day. Documents the cases of two Chicano political prisoners held in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice: Alvaro Hernand...
Chokwe Lumumba Interview
Walter Turner's tribute program to Chokwe Lumumba, Black Liberation and Human Rights lawyer, who transitioned in 2014.
Communication on Human Rights On Behalf of Prisoners Held in the United States (1972)
1972 petition to the United Nations from Georgia Jackson (mother of George and Jonathan Jackson) and the National Conference of Black Lawyers documenting human-rights violations against incarcerated people in the wake of George Jackson's killing.
Control Unit Prisons: Health and Human Rights Violations
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...
End the Nationawide Lockdown
A Call to All Those Concerned About Peace, Justice and Human Rights. Includes an original graphic.
For Release AM Newspapers November 14, 1991
Outlines history of Marion and intentions for Florence, CO. Part of packet (enclosure 3)
Francisco 'Kiko' Martinez COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
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...
Free Our Sisters in the Rikers Concentration Camp
This flyer includes a statement in solidarity with the prison rebellion at Attica and the sympathy demonstration by women at Alderson prison. It lists the human rights abuses that take place at Rikers Island and charges Rockefeller for crimes committed against Black and brown populations, as well as the poor.
Free the SF 8 — Black Elders Charged in 37-Year-Old Case
Trifold brochure profiling the SF8 defendants and the 1971 case being revived against them, promoting the Legacy of Torture documentary.
Freedom for the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War
Pamphlet on the campaign to free Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war. 2nd copy incomplete. Includes: What is ProLibertad?; Who Are the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War?; Puerto Rico's colonial case; Arrests; Punitive Sentences; Human Rights violations. Includes call to action.
Geronimo Ji Jaga from COINTELPRO 101 (Video Clip #1)
High-ranking member of the Black Panther Party and human rights activist. Wrongly convicted, through a COINTELPRO operation, of murder and spent 27 years in prison.
Geronimo Ji Jaga from COINTELPRO 101 [Video Clip]
High-ranking member of the Black Panther Party and human rights activist. Wrongly convicted, through a COINTELPRO operation, of murder and spent 27 years in prison.
Geronimo Pratt: National Black Human Rights Coalition (NBHRC) - Video Clip
Lift Every Voice and Sing/Intro -> Illian (entertainment) -> Victor of National Council of Black Lawyers (NCBL) -> Lewis Myers (lawyer for Geronimo Pratt) -> Horace Tapscott (jazz musician) -> Mamado -> Muntu Matsimela (chairman National Black Human Rights Coalition) -> Watani -> Ashaki Pratt (Geronimo's wife) -> Louis Farrakhan -> End.
Human Rights Group Rips Marion Prison
Reproduction from 5/31/1987 article on Amnesty International's report, "Allegations of Ill-treatment at Marion Prison".
Human Rights Violations and Landrights of Native American Nations in the USA: The Case of the Western Shoshone
Sections: I. Legal Foundations II. The Indian Claims Commission III. The case "Damn vs USA" IV. The Bureau of Land Management V. Extinguishment of Western Shoshone Treaty Rights VI. Hr 3897 - the "Vucanovich Bill" VII. The present situation: the impoundment of livestock VIII. Western Shoshone Complaint for Genocide IX. The Western Shoshone's quest for a fair...
Human Rights in the US: The Unfinished Story of Political Prisoners/Victims
This pamphlet was adapted from the transcript of the September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus's legislative weekend in Washington DC. It could not have been published without the expert editorial work of Laura Whitehorn and Susie Day.
International Human Rights Law on Solitary Confinement (HRF 2015)
Legal analysis of solitary under international human rights law.
Kathleen Cleaver COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Kathleen Cleaver became involved in the civil rights movement. In 1967 she left college to work full-time for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The following year she met Eldridge Cleaver and moved from New York to San Francisco to join the Black Panther Party (BPP). Kathleen Cleaver became the BPP's National Communications Secretary and...
LIBERTAD - Vol. IX-V - May 1988
Contents: The Task Before Us; Criminal Negligence and Human Rights; A Farewell to a Patriot; Capture of the Eleven Commemorated; I am Buried in Prison with You: Alejandrina.
LIBERTAD - Vol. VII-X - October 1986
Contents: Felix Rosa- The Unbreakable Will of a Patriot; US Government Intensifies Counter-Insurgency Campaign Against Independence Movement; POW Luis Rosa under 24 hour Lockdown; Luis Lausell Imprisoned for Income Tax Protest; Successful Latin American Encounter Against Repression and For Human Rights; News on the Puerto Rico Independence 16; August 30th Co...
Letter on Human Rights Violations from prisoners in Lucasville, OH
Summary of a document entitled "COMPLAINT Regarding Human Rights Violations at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility" filed to Amnesty International by prisoners incarcerated in the Administrative Control Unit in at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, OH.
Libertad - July 1988
In this issue, a message from the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional Puertorriquena (MLN-PR) announces the release of national hero William Guillermo Morales from the Mexican government; a message prepared for a mobilization to Lexington Prison in protest of the control units demands respect for the human rights of prisoners Alejandrina Torres and Silvia Bara...