Records
25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance — Document No. 1 (1978)
Document submitted on behalf of the four imprisoned Puerto Rican Nationalists (Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin Flores, Andres Figueroa Cordero) laying out the factual and legal basis for their release after 25 years.
National Committee Update — October 1992
October 1992 correspondence and organizing notes from the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners.
Petition to the U.N. on P.O.W. Status (FALN 11)
Petition arguing that under international law captured Puerto Rican freedom fighters are entitled to prisoner-of-war status and release from U.S. detention. Covers statement of the case, capture and prosecution of the eleven FALN defendants, petitioners' legal claim, and an appendix.
Release Report Back — Puerto Rican Prisoners of War (1999)
Report to supporters on the September 1999 release of eleven Puerto Rican POWs under conditional clemency from the Clinton administration — Dylcia Pagan, Carmen Valentin, Lucy & Alicia Rodriguez, Elizam Escobar, Adolfo Matos, Luis Rosa, Ricardo Jimenez, Alejandrina Torres, and Alberto Rodriguez. Carlos Alberto Torres, Oscar López Rivera, Juan Segarra Palmer,...
The Insurgent — Newsletter Proposal
The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...
Tribute to Jose E. Lopez — Chicago (October 31, 1999)
Event program from the October 31, 1999 Chicago tribute to Jose E. Lopez, honoring decades of Puerto Rican-independence organizing and the campaign to free the POWs.