Records
Bulletin — New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence (Jan–Feb 1980)
Memorial issue dedicated to Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal (1946–1979), published weeks after his death in FCI Tallahassee while serving his six-month Vieques trespass sentence as a self-declared Prisoner of War. Carries his statement to the sentencing court, the account of his funeral in Ciales drawing 8,000 people, the Sabana Seca response, the Vieques campaign...
Judgment of the Grand Jury
An essay by Carlos Noya, a leading member of the Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña (LSP), a public revolutionary organization in Puerto Rico that argued for a protracted people's war to achieve independence and socialism. Noya was exiled and imprisoned in the United States for refusing to collaborate with a federal grand jury investigating the Puerto Rican arme...
Murdered by the U.S. Government: Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal
A movement solidarity flyer protesting the November 1979 death of Puerto Rican independence and socialist activist Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal in the federal prison at Tallahassee, Florida. It condemns his death — officially ruled a suicide — as a political killing by the U.S. government, and ties it to the Vieques struggle and the wider movement for Puerto Ri...
National Committee Update — October 1992
October 1992 correspondence and organizing notes from the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners.
National Conference Against Repression — A Call to Resist
Flyer for a national conference against repression and fascism — discussion of U.S. imperialist repression and the development of a national strategy and program against fascism.
POW Update — Vol. 1 No. 1
Inaugural issue of the POW Update newsletter — Puerto Rican Nationalist Prisoners of War Are Free; Vieques Example of Valor; Contradictions of Andres' Funeral; Free Pablo and Nydia; Lares, Cradle of Our Army.
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,...
Sample Letter to President Bill Clinton (July 1996)
July 19, 1996 sample letter calling for unconditional amnesty for the Puerto Rican political prisoners. Addresses Puerto Rico's right to self-determination, UN Special Committee on Decolonization resolutions, and conditions of confinement; includes a message from Barbara Curzi encouraging participation.
Stop the Grand Jury! (November 1984)
The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee's newspaper on the mid-1980s wave of political grand juries: the D.C. grand jury that subpoenaed four JBAKC members (Steven Burke, Julie Nalibov, Christine Rico and Sandra Roland, all later jailed as resisters), the Boston grand jury and Operation BOSLUC manhunt, the Battle Creek grand jury that subpoenaed 200 people from t...
The Insurgent, Vol. 2 No. 3 (Winter 1986)
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...
The Insurgent, Vol. 3 No. 2 (Fall 1987)
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...
The Insurgent, Vol. 4 No. 3 (1988)
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...
The International Campaign for Puerto Rican Prisoners of War
Pamphlet outlining the international campaign to free the Puerto Rican POWs and political prisoners, with calls for unconditional amnesty and immediate release plus prisoner mailing addresses for letter-writing.
The Militant, April 6, 1984
Issue of the Socialist Workers Party newsweekly (vol. 48 no. 12) with the back-page interview "A Puerto Rican activist fights FBI persecution" — Alberto de Jesús Berríos on his nine months' jailing for refusing the Sabana Seca grand jury — plus coverage of the Kathy Boudin trial's security measures, Pam Fadem's criminal-contempt prosecution, the five FALN gr...
The Shame of America — Psychological Torture U.S. Style: The Case of Alejandrina and Susan (1986)
Bilingual (English/Spanish) newsprint article on the cases of political prisoners Alejandrina Torres (FALN) and Susan Rosenberg, documenting conditions of psychological torture in U.S. federal prisons (Lexington High Security Unit).
Towards a 1992 without Puerto Rican Prisoners of War or Political Prisoners
Brochure calling for amnesty and unconditional release of the Puerto Rican POWs and political prisoners and an end to colonialism in Puerto Rico by the 1992 quincentennial. Encourages letter-writing, joining the National Committee, and political education.
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.
US Colonialism in Puerto Rico 1898 -
Nine-question primer pamphlet on U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico — island history, strategic importance to the U.S., effects on Puerto Ricans on the island and in the diaspora, the independence movement, and why North Americans should oppose colonialism.
War in America — Stop the Repression of National Liberation Struggles
Flyer announcing a Denver national conference against repression May 28-30; covers U.S. intervention in El Salvador and escalating attacks on Third World communities. Co-sponsors include the National Committee to Free PR POWs, National Committee to Defend New Afrikan Freedom Fighters, National Committee Against Repression, and the New Movement in Solidarity...
¡Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre! — Speech by Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal (March 4, 1978)
Speech by Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña representative Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal at the March 4, 1978 Chicago demonstration for Puerto Rican independence, freedom for the four Nationalist prisoners and the jailed grand-jury resisters — delivered twenty months before his death in federal custody. As reprinted in Breakthrough, via the Encyclopedia of Anti-Rev...