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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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Hauling Up the Morning / Izando la Mañana: Writings & Art by Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War in the U.S.

CollectionMovement Reference DateJanuary 1, 1990 AuthorsTim Blunk and Raymond Luc Levasseur (editors) PublishersRed Sea Press / Jacobin Books

Bilingual (English/Spanish) anthology of writings and visual art by approximately 80 U.S.-held political prisoners and prisoners of war, edited by Tim Blunk and Raymond Luc Levasseur — themselves political prisoners at the time (the Resistance Conspiracy and Ohio 7 cases). Published in 1990 by Red Sea Press / Jacobin Books. The book opens with the declaratio...

Kuwasi Balagoon — Handwritten Prison Letter (Slogans Into Events)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1984 AuthorsKuwasi Balagoon Publishers@Workshops4Gaza (community share)

A handwritten page from one of Kuwasi Balagoon's prison letters (c. 1983–1985, Brink's-case era), containing the often-quoted passage: "The difference between most of us in here and most of the 'revolutionaries' outside is we took the slogans seriously, transforming the slogans into events. Now we must transform a series of events into a deadlier and consist...

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...