Records
A Decade in Defense of Human Rights 1968-1978
A Decade in Struggle, 1968-1978 NCBL Report
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.
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.
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...
Los Derechos Humanos en los Estados Unidos: El Relato Inconcluso Sobre Los Presos Politicos y de las Victimas de Cointelpro
In Spanish. 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.
Morton Sobell--Human Rights Activist--To Visit Chicago
6/1/1987 Announcement of Morton Sobell speaking engagement
Oppose Racist Violence!
An update on the Klan and Nazi racist activity, attacks, and murders against in and around Chicago. It's stated that the way to stop the Klan and Nazis is not to ignore them but to show the Klan that they, JBAKC members and those who oppose racism in any form, they will not tolerate their presence in their neighborhoods and schools and will not tolerate the...
President to President: On the question of human rights
Imari Abubakari Obadele, President of the Provisional Government of New Afrika (named a political prisoner by Amnesty International) Challenges US President Jimmy Carter On Oppression of Blacks, Indians, & Others; Genocide, Slave Labor in Prisons, Prisoner Exchange and the US Silence on the Vicious Anti-Black COINTELPRO. Virtual copy available through The In...
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a landless farmer and half-Indian mother. Her paternal grandfather, a white settler, farmer, and veterinarian, had been a labor activist and Socialist in Oklahoma with the Industrial Workers of the World in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The stories of her grandfather inspired her t...
Stop Police Terror!
Flyer promoting a demonstration at the Belmont police station in Chicago to stop police terror, defend the human rights of Black and Third World people, and to remember Fred Hampton who gave his life for the liberation of Black people.
The Uprising — Raymond Luc Levasseur (Marion Prison, May 1992)
Raymond Luc Levasseur's May 1992 essay written from his cell at Marion Federal Prison in the immediate aftermath of the Los Angeles Uprising. Levasseur, a captured United Freedom Front leader serving 45 years for the 1976–1984 bombing campaign in support of Puerto Rican independence, anti-apartheid struggle, and Central American liberation movements, draws e...
Tip of the Iceberg (May 1981)
Clark Plaintiffs Confront FBI; Victory in Pontiac Trial - State's Strategy Defeated; US "Anti-Terrorism": Counterinsurgency of the 80's; US Gov't Escalates Attacks on Black Liberation Movement; Reagan Pardons Cointelpro Criminals; Arab Student Fights Deportation; Zairean CIA Agents in the US; Red Squad Settlement Continues COINTELPRO Cover-up; Committee Targ...
US Political Prisoners — Joint Stakeholder Report to the UN UPR (Annex 23)
Joint stakeholder report submitted by the U.S. Human Rights Network (USHRN) and partner organizations to the United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Session 09 in 2010. Annex 23 documents the continued imprisonment of U.S. political prisoners — including former Black Panther Party members, Puerto Rican independentistas, MOVE mem...