Records
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...
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.
Out of Control Lesbian Committee
Rita Brown and Jane Segal discuss the Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. They organize to support women political prisoners, publish a newsletter and are organizing a grassroots movement. The interview includes a discussion of their lives as political activists.
Out of Control Lesbian Committee [mp3]
Rita Brown and Jane Segal discuss the Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. They organize to support women political prisoners, publish a newsletter and are organizing a grassroots movement.
Interview with Herman Bell
Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Prisoners interview with Herman Bell, the Black Liberation Army veteran imprisoned from 1973 until his 2018 parole for his role in the BLA's 1971 Foster-Laurie case in New York. Sourced from search.freedomarchives.org.
The Case of Silvia Baraldini
Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Prisoners audio program on Italian anti-imperialist political prisoner Silvia Baraldini, held in the U.S. from 1982 to 1999 (including in the notorious Lexington High Security Unit) before her transfer to Italy. Sourced from search.freedomarchives.org.
NPR Report on the Lexington Control Unit
NPR radio report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Women's High Security Unit at Lexington, Kentucky — the underground control unit Amnesty International condemned as violating UN minimum rules and that was eventually closed in 1988 after sustained national and international human-rights pressure. Sourced from search.freedomarchives.org.
Interview with Susan Rosenberg about Conditions in Lexington Control Unit
Interview with anti-imperialist political prisoner Susan Rosenberg on conditions in the Lexington Women's High Security Unit, where she was held from 1986 to 1988. Sourced from search.freedomarchives.org.
Lexington Prison Interviews (1987)
1987 interviews with the women held at the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Lexington High Security Unit — Susan Rosenberg, Silvia Baraldini, and Alejandrina Torres — documenting the underground control unit's sensory deprivation, 23-hour cell time, strip searches by male guards, and other conditions condemned by Amnesty International. Sourced from search.freedoma...