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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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"Dykes to Step Out For": A Lesbian Dance (Flyer)

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

Flyer for dance to benefit the lesbian work of Women Against Imperialism.

"Dykes to Step Out For": A Lesbian Dance (Program)

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

Program for benefit of the Women's Caucus of Women Against Imperialism.

500 Years of Resistance Through Womyn's Eyes Program

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism DateMarch 1, 1900 PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

International Women's Day demonstration plan for 2 rallies.

500 Years of Resistance... Through Women's Eyes

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

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?

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

A brief history of lesbian specific homophobia, ant-gay laws, and its interaction with misogyny.

A Jail is a Jail

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersFreedom Archives

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...

Abolish Rockefeller's Prison Committee: Immediate Implementation of the Prisoner's Demands

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersWomen's Bail Fund

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

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersFreedom Archives

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!

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersThe Women's Bail Fund

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...

Article - Lexington Appeal Decision and Women Political Prisoners

CollectionOut of Control: Lesbian Committee to Support Women Prisoners PublishersFreedom Archives

Includes handwritten notes by Jane Segal. Virtual holding only.

Attica News March 28, 1975

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateMarch 28, 1975 PublishersAttica Brothers Offense Defense/Attica Brothers Legal Defense

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

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateSeptember 30, 1971 PublishersPrisoner Solidarity Committee

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.

Brigada Victoria Mercado: first lesbian and Gay Work Brigade to Nicaragua

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen's Press

Statement of purpose and unity.

Capitalism Plus Dope Equals Genocide

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersFreedom Archives

This pamphlet, written by Michael "Cetewayo" Tabor, a political prisoner part of the Panther 21, deals with heroin and the issue of drug addiction, specifically its effects on the Black community of Harlem. This particular copy was reprinted by the Women's Bail Fund.

Chant For My Sisters: Poems for the New Year -- 1987

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism DateJanuary 1, 1987 PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

A compilation of poems created by Women Against Imperialism. Includes poems by women of the third world and illustrations.

Come to the Citizen's Review Commission on the FBI!

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) PublishersNew York Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)

This flyer exposes the variety of tactics used in state-sponsored repression including grand juries and imprisonment to target as well as dismantle Black Liberation, Chicano, Puerto Rican Independence, and women's movements, among others.

Compilation of Reports on Marianna Prison (prior to its opening)

CollectionControl Units PublishersFreedom Archives

Compilation of Reports about Marianna Prison before its opening. Letter (June 30, 1988) from Jan Susler to the women political prisoners who will be held in Marianna Prison regarding a conversation she had with the warden's executive assistant about the new prison, privileges and more. A report by Sue Sturtz about a tour of the prison, its layout, the visiti...

Conditions Critical: Why Do We Have to Fight for Our Natural Right?

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

Information on International Women's Day demonstration, 1994, celebrating women's resistance.

Control Unit Prisons: Health and Human Rights Violations

CollectionControl Units DateNovember 15, 1988 PublishersHealth Committee of the Campaign to Abolish Lexington Control Unit

Presented to the American Public Health Association on November 15, 1988 by the Socialist Caucus. Contents include: The Health Affects of Control Unit Prisons; APHA Opposes Lexington High Security Unit; The Women of Lexington Prison; Victory in Lexington Lawsuit; The Marion Control Unit; United Nations Position on Puerto Rican POWs; Public Health Decimates P...

Criticism of the Central Committee of the WUO

CollectionWeather Underground Organization (WUO) DateNovember 21, 1976 PublishersWeather Underground Organization

By the Revolutionary Committee. "It is our view that the line of the CC of the WUO, and the entirety of the organization's practice for the past two years has been opportunist and served the US imperialists..." The statement expands on this criticism with specific examples - crimes against National Liberation Struggles; crimes against women and the Women's M...

Cultural Evening in Solidarity with Assata Shakur (Alt Version)

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) PublishersNew York-PFOC Assata Committee; Solidarity with Sisters Inside Committee; NYU Women's Prison Committee

Flyer for a Cultural Evening in Solidarity with Assata Shakur. The reverse side includes information about Assata's arrest and her time spent in jails and prisons, the oppression of women through unwaged labor, and some context around anti-imperialism.

Cultural Evening in Solidarity with Assata and Women in Prison

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) PublishersNew York-PFOC Assata Committee; Solidarity with Sisters Inside Committee; NYU Women's Prison Committee

Flyer for an event in solidarity with Assata Shakur and imprisoned women. Includes context around Assata's case, the anti-imperialist struggle to free third world women, oppression, and more.

Day to Stop Violence Against Women

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

First page of report on march and protest.

December 20 -- Our Theory Will Unite With Our Practice... Afeni Shakur

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersNew York 21 Communications Black Panther Party

This statement emphasizes how economic hardship and the lack of basic necessities such as food and adequate shelter drive women to commit small crimes which lead to their imprisonment. It explores the inhumane treatment of women throughout legal proceedings and jail time when being charged for crimes, and provides information about efforts among an emerging...

Demands of the Sisters Inside

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund DateDecember 18, 1970 PublishersWomen's Bail Fund

A list of grievances and demands addressed to the concerned people of New York relating to medical care, prison food, pests and vermin, physical abuse, and more. It includes a poem by a Vietnamese woman prisoner and a quote by Ho Chi Minh.