Records
Breakthrough (Vol. 5 No. 1, Spring 1981) — 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...
Coming of Age: A New Afrikan Revolutionary
BPP member Safiya Bukhari's memoir of her radicalization and imprisonment.
Dona Consuelo Speaks...
This pamphlet includes a message written by the 11 Puerto Rican Prisoners of War to Dona Consuelo regarding the rededication of a childcare center in Dona's name. It also features a short essay from an interview with Dona Consuelo. Contents: Solidarity Message from the 11 Puerto Rican POWs; Interview with Dona Consuelo (taken from El Nuevo Dia); Talking with...
Hunger Strike Halted statement by the 10 P.O.W.
Statement of the FALN regarding ending of 10 day hunger strike in protest of denying Alfredo Mendez Habeas Corpus.
International Day of Support for the Puerto Rican POW Hunger Strike (May 26, 1981)
Bilingual mobilization document for the May 26, 1981 international day of support for the Puerto Rican POWs' hunger strike, including messages of solidarity with Irish liberation prisoners.
LIBERTAD - Special Edition - August 1981
To Oppose the Authority of the US Government by Force; Statement to the Jury; Closing Argument; What Happened to Alfredo Mendez?; Preliminary Autopsy of an Act of Cowardice; The Enemy Visits; A Closer Look at Behavior Modification; Message from Carmen Valentin;
LIBERTAD - Vol. II-V - September 1981
Repression Escalates in Puerto Rico; More Visits from the Enemy; Vieques: Resistance Grows; Chronology of Repression; Letter to the Decolonization Committee; Tal Al-Zaatar: The Legend; Speech at Guanica; Questions and Answers About the Irish Struggle; Letters; Poetry
LIBERTAD - Vol. II-VI - October 1981
All out to Leavenworth!; New York Campaign of Police Terror; From occupied Mexico on Police Brutality; Message to the Grito De Lares; Pages from History: El Grito De Jayuya; From the 11 POW\\'s Grito de Lares Part I; Apartheid Rugby Tour Defeated; Poetry; Write to Companeros; More Visits from he Enemy;
LIBERTAD - Vol. II-VII - November 1981
Grand Jury Subpoenas Ricardo Romero Julio Rosady and Andres Rosado; Massive Repression Sweeps New York City Following the Capture of Combatants; Government to use Puppet Mendez at Witness in Negron-Rosa Case; Declararaciones messages grito de Jayuya; Successful Tour in Support of Mobilization for Leavenworth by Nat\\'l Committee; Declaration against Police S...
Libertad (Vol. 2 No. 8, December 1981)
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...
Statement by the Eleven Puerto Rican Prisoners of War
Affirmation the legitimacy of the Puerto Rican independence struggle and that FALN 11 are prisoners of war.
Statement of the 10 Puerto Rican Prisoners of War
Statement of concern for the disappearance of Alfredo Mendez.
Update - January 1981
This issue was published shortly after ten of the eleven Puerto Rican Prisoners of War were arraigned on the Seditious Conspiracy law and provides information about the charges, including the shift from criminal to political charges, as well as information about their defense, citing UN resolution 33/24 which articulates the legitimacy of anti-colonial armed...
Update - May 1981
National Committee Launches Mass Offensive Against US Government; Solidarity Message from Nydia Cuevas; Civic-Religious Committee in Support of the Puerto Rican Prisoners of War; International Day of Support for Hunger Strike by the Puerto Rican Prisoners of War - All Out Tuesday May 26!; Message from the MLN in Support of the Irish Liberation Struggle; Mess...