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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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Continuing 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance: Exposing Columbus and 500 Years of Genocide

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism DateOctober 1, 1900 PublishersInternational Indian Treaty Council

Information on an international tribunal, bringing charges by the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas vs. US and European government.

Dissing the Discovery

Collection1992 Tribunal DateJanuary 1, 1992 PublishersThe International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples' and Oppressed Nationalities in the U.S.

U.S. PPs and POWs De-Celebrate the Columbus Quincentenary and affirm 500 years of resistance. With contributions from Sundiata Acoli,Marilyn Buck, Mark Cook, Edwin Cortes, Elizam Escobar, Larry Giddings, David Gilbert, Jaan Laaman, Mondo Langa, Ray Levasseaur, Alberto Rodriguez, and updates on Mumia Abu-Jamal, Norma Jean Croy,and Leonard Peltier. Includes po...

Free Oso Blanco

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross Year2025 AuthorsChicago ABC PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Support zine for Indigenous political prisoner Byron "Oso Blanco" Chubbuck.

From the Arawak Indians to Norma Jean Croy — 500 Years of Resistance (1992)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1992 PublishersNorma Jean Croy Defense Committee

1992 pamphlet placing the Norma Jean Croy case in the context of 500 years of Indigenous resistance to colonization.

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

CollectionMovement Reference DateMarch 5, 2019 AuthorsNick Estes PublishersVerso

Nick Estes's 2019 Verso history of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and the longer arc of Lakota / Dakota / Nakota sovereignty struggle. Combines reporting from the 2016–2017 #NoDAPL water-protector camps with deep historical narrative running from the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty through Wounded Knee 1890, the 1973...

Political Prisoners and Environmental Justice

CollectionScholarship Year2018 AuthorsDavid N. Pellow PublishersCapitalism Nature Socialism (Taylor & Francis / Routledge)

David N. Pellow's 2018 article in Capitalism Nature Socialism arguing for a "prisoner-led environmental justice movement." Pellow traces how revolutionary movements of the 20th and 21st centuries — Black Power and Black Liberation, Indigenous and American Indian, Puerto Rican independence, White/European-American anti-imperialist, and radical ecology movemen...

Program for International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nations in the USA

Collection1992 Tribunal DateOctober 1, 1992 PublishersInternational Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nations in the U.S.

Program from the 1992 International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nations in the United States. Includes information on the event, political prisoners and sponsors.

The Uprising — Raymond Luc Levasseur (Marion Prison, May 1992)

CollectionMovement Memoirs DateMay 1, 1992 AuthorsRaymond Luc Levasseur PublishersFriends of Political Prisoners / Internet Archive (community upload)

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...

Verdict of the International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nations in the USA

Collection1992 Tribunal DateOctober 4, 1992 PublishersInternational Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nations in the U.S.

Verdict of the 1992 Tribunal - in English.

Ward Churchill COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Ward Churchill is a prolific American Indian scholar/activist, Ward Churchill is a founding member of the Rainbow Council of Elders, and longtime member of the leadership council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado. In addition to his numerous works on Indigenous history, he has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy and the repression of politic...

NYC ABC U.S. Political Prisoner and Prisoner of War Listing (Ed. 10.3)

DateMay 11, 2015 PublishersNYC Anarchist Black Cross VolumeEdition 10.3

NYC Anarchist Black Cross's periodically-updated directory of U.S.-held political prisoners and prisoners of war, current as of May 2015. Includes mailing addresses, birthdays, case summaries, and contact information across sections including Black/New Afrikan Liberation, Anarchist Movement, Indigenous Resistance, Hacks/Information Leaks, Green Scare, Puerto...