Records
"Dykes to Step Out For": A Lesbian Dance (Flyer)
Flyer for dance to benefit the lesbian work of Women Against Imperialism.
"Dykes to Step Out For": A Lesbian Dance (Program)
Program for benefit of the Women's Caucus of Women Against Imperialism.
500 Years of Resistance Through Womyn's Eyes Program
International Women's Day demonstration plan for 2 rallies.
500 Years of Resistance... Through Women's Eyes
Advertisement for International Women's Day demonstration 1992.
A Brief History of Lesbian Oppression: Or, If Lesbianism is so Groovy, How Come Everybody Hates Us?
A brief history of lesbian specific homophobia, ant-gay laws, and its interaction with misogyny.
A Jail is a Jail
Typed flyer on a sheet of blue paper, double-sided. Opens with a discussion of the June 1971 transfer of inmates from NYC's infamous Women's House of Detention to the newly constructed New York City Correctional Facility for Women, which was done suddenly to try to avoid protests. The new facility at Rikers Island is described as an "isolated penal colony" w...
A Living Tomb — The Nation on the Lexington Women's Control Unit (1988)
March 26, 1988 reprint of The Nation's investigative report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Lexington High Security Unit, the basement control unit at FCI Lexington, Kentucky used to hold women political prisoners Susan Rosenberg, Alejandrina Torres, and Silvia Baraldini under sensory-deprivation conditions. Distributed by the National Campaign to Abolish...
Abolish Rockefeller's Prison Committee: Immediate Implementation of the Prisoner's Demands
This flyer calls for Rockefeller's Prison Committee to be abolished, providing context for some of the crimes related to Attica which took place under Rockefeller, and for the immediate implementation of prisoner's demands.
Alderson Attica Demands
This pamphlet includes a list of twenty-eight demands issued by prisoners at Attica State Prison in New York in May, 1971, and 42 demands issued by women prisoners at Alderson Federal Prison, which were presented during a four day sit-in in solidarity with Attica prisoners during the week of September 14, 1971. Many of these demands refer to basic rights suc...
Angela is free! Now we must free Ruchell and all political prisoners!
Flyer with handwritten title announcing Angela Davis' release from prison while demanding the same for Ruchell Magee. Three typed paragraphs about Ruchell, Angela's codefendent, whose trial for murder-kidnap-consipiracy is to begin on August 1. Magee was the only person to survive the attempt to escape from the Marin County Courthouse in 1970, which was led...
Arm the Spirit: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back — Diana Block (2009)
Memoir by Diana Block — a longtime PFOC member and one of the four women (with Donna Willmott, Claude Marks, and Robert McBride) who lived underground in the 1980s after being named as material witnesses in the 1986 Chicago grand jury investigating the FALN-PRO/PFOC alleged conspiracy to free Oscar López Rivera. The most detailed first-person account of PFOC...
Article - Lexington Appeal Decision and Women Political Prisoners
Includes handwritten notes by Jane Segal. Virtual holding only.
Assata Shakur on African Women [mp3]
Assata Shakur on the importance of Black women participating and leading the Black Liberation Struggle.
Assata Shakur on her core values [mp3]
Assata Shakur speaks on her core values (freedom and justice for all people) and the importance of African women participating in every aspect of the struggle.
Assata Shakur: clips from her 1980 address to the people after her escape from prison
This program is an edited version of her address to the people after she escaped. She begins the recording by stating that she loves everyone and encourages everyone to continue to struggle for our liberation. Assata talks about how Black people are constantly under attack by the poor school system, infiltration of drugs, welfare system, police state, etc. S...
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur's 1987 autobiography (Lawrence Hill Books / Zed). Black Liberation Army member, former Black Panther Party member, convicted in 1977 of the May 2, 1973 killing of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster on the New Jersey Turnpike after a confrontation that left Assata wounded and fellow BLA member Zayd Malik Shakur dead. Sentenced to life in N...
Attica News March 28, 1975
Contents include: New Attica Trial Will Expose State Crimes; From the Belly of the Whale; KKK Repression at Napanoch; A Black Woman's Perspective; Women's Action Puts Davits on the Spot; Who is Governor Carey?; Human Beings--Not Machines; Letter From Jail- Prison Economics; Criticism of Attica Now- Support Struggle in the Courtroom
Attica Since the Massacre
Second 8-page newsletter on Attica. Attica executions, terror, continue; Oppressed bury their Attica Dead; Prison Rebellions erupt nationwide; Attica Liberation Faction Statement; Hassan of Auburn Six Speaks; Rockefeller's Other Massacre (Ludlow Colorado, 1914); Bail Fund Women Aid Imprisoned Sisters; Women Prisoners rebel in West Virginia; more.
Audio Interference 17: Diana Block (June 23, 2016)
Interference Archive's 2016 podcast interview with Diana Block — longtime Prairie Fire Organizing Committee member, author of *Arm the Spirit: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back* (AK Press, 2009), and longtime political-prisoner support organizer. The interview covers Block's nine years living clandestinely after a 1985 FBI sting, her decades of work sup...
Bernardine Dorhn [mp3]
Sent on international Women's Day, 1975 by the Weather Underground, this includes a statement by Bernardine Dohrn and a poem to Assata Shakur by Kathy Boudin, who is herself now a political prisoner. the audio quality reflects the less than ideal recording conditions, but the message comes through.
Bound Struggles: Voices of Women in Prison
Testimonies from women incarcerated in Illinois.
Brainwashing in America? — The Women of Lexington Prison (June 1988)
Investigative article from The Nation examining isolation and sensory-deprivation conditions at the Lexington Women's Control Unit.
Breakthrough (June-July 1977)
Introducing Breakthrough No. 2 p. 1 - On the Conviction of Leonard Peltier with a reprint of a support statement by the Native Study Group of Vancouver, British Columbia p. 4 - The Guardian Sets Out to Build Itself a Party, a PFOC critique p. 9 - The Guardian on Women's "Emancipation" - a proposal to move backwards by Flynn and friends - Burning Spear: repri...
Breakthrough (March 1977)
Breakthrough - an Introduction p. 2 - Provisional Statement of PFOC p. 6 section on women's oppression & liberation p. 28 - Meaning of Chicago (class and revolutionary politics) p. 57 - Open Letter to the RC from Native American Warriors p. 59 - To My People by Assata Shakur p. 61
Brigada Victoria Mercado: first lesbian and Gay Work Brigade to Nicaragua
Statement of purpose and unity.