Records
An Updated Public Report about the Continuing Lockdown and Torture of the Prisoners at U.S. Penitentiary, Marion
3/26/1984 update on conditions of the Marion Lockdown. Accounts of food tampering, abuse, neglect, isolation and cancel of rehabilitation programs included.
Kuwasi Balagoon — Handwritten Prison Letter (Slogans Into Events)
A handwritten page from one of Kuwasi Balagoon's prison letters (c. 1983–1985, Brink's-case era), containing the often-quoted passage: "The difference between most of us in here and most of the 'revolutionaries' outside is we took the slogans seriously, transforming the slogans into events. Now we must transform a series of events into a deadlier and consist...
Letters: Women Against Imperialism
Letter to the editor describing the mission and actions of Women Against Imperialism. Reproduction.
Marion Prisoners Rights Project update, The Lockdown
10/11/1984 report on the conditions of the Marion Lockdown and the struggle against it's inhumane existance.
Report to the Prisoners at Marion About the Congressional Hearing on March 29, 1984
3/26/1984 Report of testimony to the inumane, unconstitutional and counter-productive conditions of the Marion Lockdown.
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 Improper use of the Federal Grand Jury: An Instrument for The Internment of Political Activists
Reproduction. Article available from Law Collective (link from Internet Archive).
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...