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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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Breakthrough (Vol. 9 No. 1, Spring/Summer 1985) — PFOC

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee — Breakthrough DateMarch 1, 1985 AuthorsPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) PublishersPrairie Fire Organizing Committee VolumeVol. 9 No. 1

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...

Can't Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the U.S. — A Collection of Biographies

CollectionMovement Reference DateJanuary 1, 1985 AuthorsCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML) PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

Biographical compendium of US political prisoners compiled and published by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML) in 1985. Organized into sections on Native American, New Afrikan/Black, Puerto Rican, North American (white anti-imperialist), and Irish prisoners — including AIM defendants, Black Liberation Army and MOVE prisoners, FALN and Macheteros...

Conference Calls: What's Cooking at Marion Prison?

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateOctober 1, 1985 PublishersReader

Reproduction of article from 10/25/1985 on the second anniversary of the Marion Lockdown.

FBI File on Russell Means

CollectionFBI FOIA — Consolidated Year1985 PublishersFBI (Internet Archive FOIA release)

FBI file on AIM co-founder Russell Means. Surveillance file on Means around Wounded Knee 1973; directly tied to AIM political-prisoner cases including Leonard Peltier.

LIBERTAD - Vol. V - VII - May 1985

CollectionLibertad DateMay 1, 1985 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

Update on POWs and Political Prisoners; New Movement Leader to be Incarcerated!; Latest News; Biographical Notes on Bob Leader and Terry Bisson; Interview with the FBIs Most Wanted Man; National Committee Notes; April 4th Commemorative Messages; Interview with Civil Engineer Alexis Massol; A Personal Account: Goodbye, Don Juan.

LIBERTAD - Vol. V-VI - March 1985

CollectionLibertad DateMarch 1, 1985 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

Latest News; Hartford Grand Jury Rescinds Subpoenas; April 4th Messages (From POWS); Five Years After: Freedom Fighters, Not Terrorists; Women of Struggle; Armed Clandestine Organizations Salute Corretjer

LIBERTAD - Vol. V-VIII - June 1985

CollectionLibertad DateJune 1, 1985 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

North American Anti-Imperialist movement Under-Attack!; All Out to Federal Court!; Grand Jury Resisters; Lawsuit Charges Political Internment!; Anti-Imperialists Win Open Hearing and Postponement of Grand Jury Case; Prisons: Counter-Insurgency and Resistance; Pabloi Marcano-Garcia and Nydia Cuevas to be Released!; Tribute to Consuelo Lee Corretjer; The Pendi...

LIBERTAD - Vol. VI-XII - November 1985

CollectionLibertad DateNovember 1, 1985 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

POW and Political Prisoners Update; Editorial; Discriminatory Policy toward Grand Jury Resisters- Part of U.S. Strategy; Capitalist Theses; The Glorious Transfiguration.

Libertad — August 1985

CollectionMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño — Libertad DateAugust 1, 1985 AuthorsMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR) PublishersMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño

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...

Libertad — December 1985

CollectionMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño — Libertad DateDecember 1, 1985 AuthorsMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR) PublishersMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño

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...

Libertad — February 1985

CollectionMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño — Libertad DateFebruary 1, 1985 AuthorsMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR) PublishersMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño

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...

Libertad — January 1985

CollectionMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño — Libertad DateJanuary 1, 1985 AuthorsMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR) PublishersMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño

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...

Libertad — June 1985

CollectionMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño — Libertad DateJune 1, 1985 AuthorsMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR) PublishersMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño

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...

Libertad — May 1985

CollectionMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño — Libertad DateMay 1, 1985 AuthorsMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR) PublishersMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño

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...

Libertad — October 1985

CollectionMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño — Libertad DateOctober 1, 1985 AuthorsMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR) PublishersMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño

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...

MOVE — FBI File

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1985 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI file on the MOVE organization, Philadelphia. Surveillance file on MOVE — whose members (MOVE 9, Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters) are core U.S. political prisoners — covering the period of the 1978 Powelton Village confrontation.

Response to Report & Recommendations of Breed and Ward Report to the Judiciary Committee on Marion Federal Prison

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1985 PublishersMarion Prisoners' Rights Project

3/1985 Response to investigation and report by Allen breed and David Ward at the behest of the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the Administration of Jstice

Solidarity Forever: An Oral History of the IWW

Year1985 PublishersIWW

Oral history interviews with IWW members including Espionage-Act-era veterans by Stewart Bird, Dan Georgakas, and Deborah Shaffer. Firsthand accounts from IWW prisoners and defendants of the 1917-1919 federal raids and trials.

Stop the Marion lockdown: A conference for education and action

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1985 PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

Advertisement for conference commemorating the second anniversary of the Marion Prison Lockdown to be held at People's Church, Chicago, IL.