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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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!Hacia un Grito de Lares Sin Prisioneros de Guerra ni Prisioneros Politicos!

CollectionMovimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN) DateJanuary 1, 1985 PublishersMLN-PR, Partido Socialista Puertorriqueno, (PSP)

Introduction of Jose Luis Rodriguez, a 24 year old independientista, to speak at a cultural event dedicated to Don Juan Antonio Corretjer and celebrating "el Grito de Lares"

"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.

1990 Tribunal Fundraiser & Registration Letter

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateSeptember 15, 1990 AuthorsDaniel Berrigan; Margaret Randall; Rafael Cancel Miranda PublishersSpecial International Tribunal Organizing Committee

September 15, 1990 registration packet and fundraising appeal for the Special International Tribunal on Human Rights Violations of Political Prisoners and POWs in U.S. Prisons, held December 7-10, 1990 at Hunter College, New York City. Signatories include Daniel Berrigan, Margaret Randall, and Rafael Cancel Miranda. Companion piece to the Dec 7 1990 Chicano...

200 Years of Oppression is Enough

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) DateJanuary 1, 1976 PublishersPrarie Fire Organizing Committee

Statement about the July 4th coalition intended to challenge the bi-centennial in 1976.

25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance — Document No. 1 (1978)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersNational Committee to Free the Four Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

Document submitted on behalf of the four imprisoned Puerto Rican Nationalists (Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin Flores, Andres Figueroa Cordero) laying out the factual and legal basis for their release after 25 years.

25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance — Document No. 2 (Lolita Lebron, 1978)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1978 AuthorsLolita Lebron PublishersNational Committee to Free the Four Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

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.

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.

6th Anniversary of the Assassination of George Jackson — San Quentin Demonstration

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1977 AuthorsAugust 21 Coalition PublishersAugust 21 Coalition

August 21 Coalition demonstration flyer commemorating the 6th anniversary of George Jackson's August 21, 1971 killing by San Quentin guards. Includes a fact sheet on white-supremacist attacks against Black prisoners in the California system.

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 Brief Report on the April 1 Appeals Hearing

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1988 PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

4/1/1988 appeal of the denial of the class action suit filed by the prisoners at Marion to end the lockdown

A Decade in Defense of Human Rights 1968-1978

CollectionNational Lawyers Guild DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersNational Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL)

A Decade in Struggle, 1968-1978 NCBL Report

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...

A Living Tomb — The Nation on the Lexington Women's Control Unit (1988)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMarch 26, 1988 AuthorsNational Campaign to Abolish the Lexington Women's Control Unit PublishersThe Nation (reprint)

March 26, 1988 reprint of The Nation's investigative report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Lexington High Security Unit, the basement control unit at FCI Lexington, Kentucky used to hold women political prisoners Susan Rosenberg, Alejandrina Torres, and Silvia Baraldini under sensory-deprivation conditions. Distributed by the National Campaign to Abolish...

A Prisoner Remembers the Attica Massacre

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion PublishersLiberation News Service

An interview conducted by Liberation News Service with Chris Reed, a 23 year old black inmate who participated in the rebellion and was indicted with 18 other inmates on 34 counts of first degree kidnapping.

A Public Report About Violent Mass Assault Against Prisoners and Continuing Illegal Punishment & Torture of the Prison Population at the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1983 PublishersMarion Prisoners' Rights Project

Details events and conditions of the initial Marion Lockdown.

A Report From Inside Attica

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateSeptember 17, 1971 PublishersPrisoners Solidarity Committee

A special 8 paged newsletter on Attica. Contents include: Unity and Courage vs. Rockefeller's Machine Guns; Report from inside Attica; Prisoners' Relatives Tell Their Story; Protests over Massacre Erupt in Many Cities; For These Demands They Died

A Report on the Marion/Lexington Demonstration (with media reports and solidarity messages from prisoners)

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersIn These Times; Lexington Herald Leader; Arizona Daily Star; Daily Egyptian; SF Guardian; Committee to End the Marion Lockdown; Southern Illinoisian; Chicago Defender

Details history of CEML, the Conference for Education in 1985, and preparations for the demonstration at Lexington and Marion on 4/19/1986.

A Single Spark: Internal Newsletter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) DateMay 1, 1976 PublishersPrarie Fire Organizing Committee

In this Issue: The main thrust of this issue of the newsletter is rectification. It contains a political history of the two line struggle in the organization, self-criticisms from National Committee members who take main responsibility for leading in the incorrect line; evaluations of the process of rectification in the chapters. There are three articles dea...

A Single Spark: Newsletter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) DateJanuary 1, 1976 PublishersPrarie Fire Organizing Committee

In this Issue: The White Oppressor Nation; The National Question: Some Recent Positions; Rectification and PFOC's Analysis of July 4th; July 4th: National Evaluation; July 4th: New York Chapter; Rectification in Boston: The Anti-Racism Committee; A Report on the Native American Treaty Conference.

ATTICA: "We are men. We are not beasts and will not be driven as such"

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion PublishersPontiac Prisoners Support Coalition

See the Movie "Attica" and learn about the Pontiac Rebellion.

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.

Abolish!

CollectionNational Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons DateJanuary 1, 1996 PublishersNational Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons

A Call to Action; No Exit Criteria: Northeast Hearings on control unit prisons; Midwest Regional Hearing: Control Units, Prisons and Political Prisoners; Seeking Justice for the Imprisoned: West Coast builds anti-control unit work; Colorado's People's Hearing: The People speak out on the racist imprisonment binge, control units and political prisoners.

About the New York Three

CollectionPolitical Prisoners AuthorsNY3 Freedom Campaign West Coast Committee PublishersNY3 Freedom Campaign West Coast Committee

Informational pamphlet from the New York Three Freedom Campaign West Coast Committee on the case of Black Panther political prisoners Herman Bell, Anthony 'Jalil' Bottom, and Albert 'Nuh' Washington — convicted of the 1971 deaths of NYPD officers Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini.