Records
Arm the Spirit (August 1979)
Revolutionary prisoners' newspaper covering political-prisoner organizing inside U.S. prisons.
Black News - V 4-5 - February 1979
Editorial: Repression of Blacks; FBI Sued for $100 Million; and Who Really Killed Malcolm? Also- Cointelpro Continues; Assata Shakur; Political Prisoners in US; National Notes; Jitu Weusi on Cointelpro; P.O.W. Forum; Dhoruba Moore: P .O .D .W.; B.U.F.M.L.King March; Forum Exposes NCLC group; Letters to the Editor; Ethiopian Foreign Minister; I.R.S. Spys on B...
Breakthrough (Vol. 3 No. 1, Spring 1979) — 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...
Death to the Klan! November 1979
This is the first issue of the newsletter of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. Articles include Assata Shakur's escape from prison, an overview of advances in the Black liberation movement, an update on the fight to free the Pontiac Brothers, the murder by white police of a Black man in Texas, an editorial about Klan terror, the fight against white suprema...
LIBERTAD - Vol. I-I - June 1979
Contents: William Guillermo Morales is Free! Libre!;Regarding Carlos Romero Barcelo; Viva Lucha Armada; De Pie y en Guerra.
Libertad (Vol. 1 No. 2, January 1979)
Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...
Murdered by the U.S. Government: Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal
A movement solidarity flyer protesting the November 1979 death of Puerto Rican independence and socialist activist Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal in the federal prison at Tallahassee, Florida. It condemns his death — officially ruled a suicide — as a political killing by the U.S. government, and ties it to the Vieques struggle and the wider movement for Puerto Ri...
Pontiac Prisoners Support Coalition Newsletter No. 10 (December 1979)
December 1979 newsletter from the Pontiac Prisoners Support Coalition examining state tactics, trial proceedings, and calls for community participation in defense of the Pontiac Brothers.
Pontiac Prisoners Support Coalition Newsletter No. 8 (October 1979)
October 1979 Pontiac Brothers support newsletter covering trial venue changes, the mobilization of white-supremacist groups outside the courthouse, and the coalition's analysis of the alleged frame-up of the 31 prisoners charged with murder, conspiracy, and mob action over the 1978 Pontiac prison rebellion.
The Fuse No. 11
"The People Are the Best Judges! Part 2" is a continuation of an article printed previously that rallies the people in supporting the Pontiac Brothers and judge the evidence put forth by the state. It continues by stating the New Afrikan Prisoners Organization's (NAPO) position on the struggle to free the Pontiac Brothers. "The Struggle to Free Jomo Joka Omo...
The Fuse No. 12
"Build Campaign to Dismiss Pontiac 31 Indictments" discusses the New Afrikan Prisoner Organization's (NAPO) decision to support the "Stateville Four" and expose the political frame-up enacted by the state of Illinois. As a result, the charges against the Four were dismissed. The charges brought against the 31 Pontiac Brothers was another example of this oppr...
The Fuse No. 9
"Update on the Pontiac 31" provides an update on the case against the Pontiac Brothers. Seventeen of them were moved to Chicago where their trials will be held. The article lists the charges against some of the Pontiac Brothers and asserts the fact that the state is trying to rush the trials before the prisoners can gain support. The situation of the Pontiac...