Records
25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance — Document No. 2 (Lolita Lebron, 1978)
Memorandum from imprisoned Puerto Rican Nationalist Lolita Lebron on Puerto Rico and the Nationalist prisoners taken after the November 1, 1954 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
BLA / Revolutionary Armed Task Force — New Afrikan Freedom Fighter Day (August 21, 1982)
BLA / Revolutionary Armed Task Force communique marking New Afrikan Freedom Fighter Day on August 21, 1982.
BLA Communique No. 14
BLA Communique No. 14, part of the Black Liberation Army's series of underground political statements.
BLA Communiques (Nos. 1-5 and 12)
Compiled set of Black Liberation Army communiques numbered 1 through 5 and 12.
Black Liberation Army Communique (November 5, 1981)
BLA Coordinating Committee communique issued shortly after the October 20, 1981 Rockland County Brink's expropriation, including an essay on the Strategic Alliance of the Armed Military Forces of the Revolutionary Nationalist and Anti-Imperialist Movement.
Brinks Trial Testimony — Sundiata Acoli (1983)
Trial transcript of Sundiata Acoli's testimony in the 1983 Brinks armored-truck expropriation case, situating the Revolutionary Armed Task Force action within the history of the Black Liberation Movement.
Build a Revolutionary Resistance Movement Against US Imperialism — Blunk & Rosenberg
Joint political statement by Resistance Conspiracy Case defendants Tim Blunk and Susan Rosenberg outlining anti-imperialist politics.
CCPO — Press Release on Violence at San Quentin (August 24, 1971)
CCPO press release of August 24, 1971, responding to the killing of George Jackson at San Quentin three days earlier.
Construction Moratorium — Coordinating Council of Prisoner Organizations
Coordinating Council of Prisoner Organizations statement calling for a moratorium on new prison construction in California, supported by cost statistics.
Herman Bell — Sentencing Statement (October 4, 1974)
Herman Bell's statement at sentencing on October 4, 1974 for bank expropriation.
Joint Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex
Joint statement by Incite! and Critical Resistance addressing the relationship between gender violence and the prison-industrial complex.
Our Constitutional Rights — Statement to SF Grand Jury (Clayton Van Lydegraf, 1973)
Reproduction of Clayton Van Lydegraf's statement before a San Francisco grand jury in January-February 1973.
Resistance Conspiracy Case — Arraignment Statement of Dr. Alan Berkman
Resistance Conspiracy Case defendant Dr. Alan Berkman's arraignment statement framing his armed actions as resistance to U.S. government atrocities in Central America, Southern Africa, and at home. Berkman, suffering from Hodgkin's Disease, would nearly die several times in federal custody due to deliberately withheld medical treatment.
Resistance Grows from the Strategy to Win — Judy Clark
Political statement by Judy Clark articulating the strategy of armed anti-imperialist resistance in the U.S.
Statement from US Political Prisoners to Nelson Mandela (June 1990)
Joint statement from U.S. political prisoners delivered to Nelson Mandela on his June 1990 visit to the United States after his release.
Statement from the POWs in the Rockland County Jail
Collective statement from the October 20th defendants held as prisoners of war in the Rockland County Jail after the Nyack expropriation.
Statement of Facts — Norma Jean Croy
Defense-committee narrative of events surrounding the 1978 arrest of Karuk siblings Norma Jean and Patrick 'Hooty' Croy, framing the case as a wrongful prosecution rooted in anti-Native racism.
Statement of Shelley Miller to the Grand Jury (February 2, 1983)
Shelley Miller's statement refusing to testify before a grand jury, framed as a defense of the Puerto Rican nation's right to fight U.S. imperialism.
The Folsom Prisoners Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Oppression Platform (November 1970)
Foundational 31-point manifesto issued during the November 1970 Folsom Prison strike, articulating prisoner demands and conditions.
The Nature of Black Revolution — BLA Coordinating Committee
Theoretical statement from the BLA Coordinating Committee framing Black Revolution as a national-liberation struggle rather than a class-based proletarian struggle.
Why Assata Shakur Must Be Supported
This statement includes analysis of Assata Shakur's case in the context of rising support among feminist groups. The statement asserts the primary importance of her case in relationship to the Black Liberation Movement.
Why I Am Facing 75 Years
First-person statement by J20 defendant Carlo Piantini on the charges he faced.