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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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Judgment of the Grand Jury

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee — Breakthrough Year1982 AuthorsCarlos Noya PublishersPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (Breakthrough)

An essay by Carlos Noya, a leading member of the Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña (LSP), a public revolutionary organization in Puerto Rico that argued for a protracted people's war to achieve independence and socialism. Noya was exiled and imprisoned in the United States for refusing to collaborate with a federal grand jury investigating the Puerto Rican arme...

Political Prisoners and Environmental Justice

CollectionScholarship Year2018 AuthorsDavid N. Pellow PublishersCapitalism Nature Socialism (Taylor & Francis / Routledge)

David N. Pellow's 2018 article in Capitalism Nature Socialism arguing for a "prisoner-led environmental justice movement." Pellow traces how revolutionary movements of the 20th and 21st centuries — Black Power and Black Liberation, Indigenous and American Indian, Puerto Rican independence, White/European-American anti-imperialist, and radical ecology movemen...

Verdict of the International Tribunal on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in the United States

DateJanuary 1, 1991 AuthorsFrank Badohu, Jawad Boulus, Norman Paech, José R. Rendón, Celina Romany, Toshi Yuki Tanaka, George Wald, Lord Anthony Gifford; coordinated by Luis Nieves Falcón PublishersYale Journal of Law and Liberation VolumeVol. 2, p. 47

Verdict of the Special International Tribunal on the Human Rights Violations of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in the United States, held at Hunter College in New York City from December 7–10, 1990, attended by over 1200 people from 10 countries. The Tribunal examined the situation of the national liberation movements of the New Afrikan, Native Ame...

¡Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre! — Speech by Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal (March 4, 1978)

CollectionPolitical Prisoner Library DateMarch 4, 1978 PublishersPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (Breakthrough)

Speech by Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña representative Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal at the March 4, 1978 Chicago demonstration for Puerto Rican independence, freedom for the four Nationalist prisoners and the jailed grand-jury resisters — delivered twenty months before his death in federal custody. As reprinted in Breakthrough, via the Encyclopedia of Anti-Rev...