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A Brief Report on the April 1 Appeals Hearing
4/1/1988 appeal of the denial of the class action suit filed by the prisoners at Marion to end the lockdown
A Living Tomb — The Nation on the Lexington Women's Control Unit (1988)
March 26, 1988 reprint of The Nation's investigative report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Lexington High Security Unit, the basement control unit at FCI Lexington, Kentucky used to hold women political prisoners Susan Rosenberg, Alejandrina Torres, and Silvia Baraldini under sensory-deprivation conditions. Distributed by the National Campaign to Abolish...
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
Foundational 1988 movement history by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall (South End Press). Documents the FBI's COINTELPRO and post-COINTELPRO operations against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, drawing on Bureau records released under FOIA, court records, and movement testimony. Part I covers the FBI as political police, the COINTEL...
Aids in Prison: A forum for Education and Action
Flyer for educational event on Aids in the prison environment. Includes list of events.
America bars Cuban Prison Experts
Reproduction of 6/25/1988 article on US State Department's denial of visas to a delegation of Cubans requesting visits in American prisons.
Brainwashing in America? — The Women of Lexington Prison (June 1988)
Investigative article from The Nation examining isolation and sensory-deprivation conditions at the Lexington Women's Control Unit.
Breakthrough (Vol. 12 No. 1, Summer 1988) — PFOC
Issue of *Breakthrough*, the magazine of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) — the above-ground white anti-imperialist organization that emerged in 1975 from the Weather Underground's 1974 Prairie Fire manifesto. PFOC was the principal U.S. white-radical formation supporting Black, Puerto Rican, Native American, and Chicano national liberation movem...
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...
Genocide Through Behavior Modification — Mutulu Shakur et al. (December 1988)
Collective 1988 analysis by seven political prisoners charging the U.S. with using behavior-modification techniques as a form of genocide against the Black nation.
Judge bars US from Isolating Prisoners for Political Beliefs
Reproduction of 7/17/1988 article covering the order by Federal District judge Barrington-Parker to transfer Susan Rosenberg and Silvia Baraldini to "regular cells." Virtual holding only.
LIBERTAD - Vol. IX-III - March 1988
Table of Contents: Guilty Before Proven Innocent: Jaime, Dora, Oscar and Kojo - Indicted, Tried and Sentenced in Government Conspiracy; A Essay on Moral Courage (Alberto Rodriguez); Message - International Women's Day (Carmen Valentin); Golpes de Rejas Premiers in Puerto Rico: A Stupendous Opening Night! (Jose Torres); Opening - From Behind Prison Walls; Pal...
LIBERTAD - Vol. IX-IX - September 1988
Contents: Alejandrina Has Been Transferred!; While Hundreds Plan Activities in Protest of 2nd Invasion Filiberto Ojeda-Rios Arrested Again!; FALN and EPB-Macheteros Propose Decolonization Plan to the UN; Delegation Formally Presents Political Asylum Petition on Behalf of Puerto Rican Prisoners of War; In Defense of the Cuban Revolution; News briefs.
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 - 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...
Marion Appeal Press Conference
Press conference on the appeal of Bureau of Prisons decision to keep the Marion Lock down, they're treatment of prisoners in violation of Human Rights standards and the 8th Amendment, and the classification of prisoners or lack thereof. Speakers include Dr. Steve Whitman and Attorney Jan Susler.
Racism in Prison System is Topic of Lawyers Guild Meet
Reproduction of 7/23/1988 article on the Lawyers Guild luncheon discussion of the disproportionate numbers of African Americans in the US prison system
Request for Donations**
Reproduction of 3/15/1988 open letter requesting donations to help with advertising.
Resistance Is Not A Crime! Stop the Political Show Trial! Drop the Charges Now!
Defense-campaign pamphlet for the Resistance Conspiracy Case 6 (RCC6) — the May 11, 1988 federal indictment that charged Marilyn Buck, Susan Rosenberg, Linda Evans, Timothy Blunk, Laura Whitehorn, and Alan Berkman with conspiracy in connection with the November 1983 U.S. Capitol bombing and a string of other anti-imperialist actions taken in solidarity with...
The Insurgent, Vol. 4 No. 1 — International Women's Day Special Issue (Winter 1988)
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)
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 Sedition Committee — August 1988 (Ohio 7 Defense)
Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...
The Sedition Committee — December 1988 (Ohio 7 Defense)
Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...
The Sedition Committee — July 1988 (Ohio 7 Defense)
Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...
The Sedition Committee — June 1988 (Ohio 7 Defense)
Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...
The Sedition Committee — May 1988 (Ohio 7 Defense)
Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...