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The White North American Political Prisoners in the U.S. — Rita "Bo" Brown speech (Oct 3, 1992)
Speech delivered by former George Jackson Brigade member Rita "Bo" Brown at the International Tribunal on October 3, 1992, surveying nearly thirty-five white North American political prisoners then held in U.S. prisons and jails. Brown — herself an 8.5-year veteran of federal women's prisons including the Davis Hall control unit at Alderson, held alongside A...
There Are Women Political Prisoners in U.S. — Shut Down the Lexington Women's Control Unit
Single-page organizing flyer issued in 1986-87 demanding the closure of the Lexington High Security Unit (HSU), a basement control unit at the Federal Correctional Institution in Lexington, Kentucky opened in October 1986 specifically to hold women political prisoners under conditions of sensory deprivation. The flyer profiles the three women then incarcerat...
Walkin' Steel (Vol. 1 No. 1, Spring 1991) — CEML
Issue of *Walkin' Steel*, the newsletter of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML). CEML was the principal U.S. campaign of the late 1980s and 1990s against the federal control-unit prison at Marion, Illinois — the post-Alcatraz federal supermax that held political prisoners including Sekou Odinga, Oscar López Rivera, Sundiata Acoli, Bashir Hameed,...
Walkin' Steel (Vol. 1 No. 2, Fall 1991) — CEML
Issue of *Walkin' Steel*, the newsletter of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML). CEML was the principal U.S. campaign of the late 1980s and 1990s against the federal control-unit prison at Marion, Illinois — the post-Alcatraz federal supermax that held political prisoners including Sekou Odinga, Oscar López Rivera, Sundiata Acoli, Bashir Hameed,...
Walkin' Steel (Vol. 1 No. 3, Spring 1992) — CEML
Issue of *Walkin' Steel*, the newsletter of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML). CEML was the principal U.S. campaign of the late 1980s and 1990s against the federal control-unit prison at Marion, Illinois — the post-Alcatraz federal supermax that held political prisoners including Sekou Odinga, Oscar López Rivera, Sundiata Acoli, Bashir Hameed,...