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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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Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

CollectionMovement Reference DateMarch 5, 2019 AuthorsNick Estes PublishersVerso

Nick Estes's 2019 Verso history of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and the longer arc of Lakota / Dakota / Nakota sovereignty struggle. Combines reporting from the 2016–2017 #NoDAPL water-protector camps with deep historical narrative running from the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty through Wounded Knee 1890, the 1973...

Autonomous Resistance to Slavery and Colonization

CollectionAnarchist Zine Library PublishersAnarchist Zine Library (azinelibrary.org)

Anarchist analysis of autonomous resistance to slavery and colonization in the United States. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).

The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz

CollectionAnarchist Zine Library

Historical zine on the consequences of the 1969–71 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island and the wave of federal repression — culminating in COINTELPRO actions against the American Indian Movement — that followed. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).

Wobblies and Zapatistas

CollectionAnarchist Zine Library

Dialogue between the IWW tradition of revolutionary unionism and the Zapatista movement in Chiapas — relevant to U.S. political-prisoner history through the IWW's long line of incarcerated organizers from Bill Haywood onward. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).

Leonard Peltier — What Warriors Do

CollectionFreedom Archives

American Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier on what warriors do — from the Freedom Archives audio sample collection. Sourced from search.freedomarchives.org.

John Graham Defense — Leaflet

CollectionDenver Anarchist Black Cross PublishersDenver Anarchist Black Cross (denverabc.wordpress.com)

Defense leaflet for John Graham, the American Indian Movement member tried for the 1975 killing of Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash on the Pine Ridge reservation. Graham, a Yukon native, was extradited to South Dakota in 2007 and convicted in 2010 in a case AIM supporters argued was deeply contaminated by the FBI's long-running infiltration of the movement. Sourced vi...