Records
Can't Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the U.S. — A Collection of Biographies
Biographical compendium of US political prisoners compiled and published by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML) in 1985. Organized into sections on Native American, New Afrikan/Black, Puerto Rican, North American (white anti-imperialist), and Irish prisoners — including AIM defendants, Black Liberation Army and MOVE prisoners, FALN and Macheteros...
Florence Prison and the Fight to Free Oscar López — Out of Control Audio
Audio recording with Lugo Lopez and Alejandro Molina of the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and POWs (Chicago) protesting Oscar López Rivera's imprisonment at ADX Florence, where he served 75+ years on seditious-conspiracy charges.
La Patria Radical — April/May 1992 (Vol. 4 No. 9/10)
Issue of *La Patria Radical*, the bulletin of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN) — the U.S.-based above-ground Puerto Rican independence organization in close political alignment with PFOC throughout the 1970s–90s. Carries POW updates from the Macheteros and FALN prisoners, movement news, and analysis of the Puerto Rican plebiscite debate.
Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners
900+ page omnibus edited by Matt Meyer and published by PM Press / Kersplebedeb in 2008, with a foreword by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and an afterword by Ashanti Alston. The single most comprehensive published anthology of statements, letters, prison writings, support-committee documents, and movement-historical essays on U.S. political prisoners — covering the...
Libertad Update — January 25, 1986
Local bulletin of the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War, dated January 25, 1986 — written in the immediate aftermath of the August 1985 Hartford 13 / Wells Fargo arrests of the Macheteros leadership and the parallel sweep of the FALN POWs.
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.
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 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...