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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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A Child Lost in the Storm

CollectionWhite Anti-Imperialist Prisoners DateMarch 28, 1990 AuthorsEduardo Galeano (Translated by Marilyn Buck) PublishersEl Pais

Reproduction of Eduardo Galeano's personal essay, excerpted from El Pais (March 28, 1990), translated into English by Marilyn Buck while she was imprisoned. From the Freedom Archives' Marilyn Buck literary file in the White Anti-Imperialist Prisoners collection.

Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman — Susan M. Reverby (2020)

DateJanuary 1, 2020 AuthorsSusan M. Reverby PublishersUniversity of North Carolina Press

Susan Reverby's biography of Dr. Alan Berkman — the May 19th Communist Organization / Resistance Conspiracy defendant, longtime PFOC ally, and movement physician who treated Marilyn Buck after the 1981 Brink's/Nyack action and went underground himself before being captured in 1985. One of the most detailed accounts of the political world Breakthrough magazin...

David Gilbert — A Lifetime of Struggle

CollectionWhite Anti-Imperialist Prisoners DateMarch 1, 2002 PublishersFreedom Archives

Behind-prison-walls discussion with David Gilbert — lifelong anti-imperialist activist and former Weather Underground member then serving a life sentence for his role in the 1981 Brink's robbery in support of the Black Liberation Movement.

Hauling Up the Morning / Izando la Mañana: Writings & Art by Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War in the U.S.

CollectionMovement Reference DateJanuary 1, 1990 AuthorsTim Blunk and Raymond Luc Levasseur (editors) PublishersRed Sea Press / Jacobin Books

Bilingual (English/Spanish) anthology of writings and visual art by approximately 80 U.S.-held political prisoners and prisoners of war, edited by Tim Blunk and Raymond Luc Levasseur — themselves political prisoners at the time (the Resistance Conspiracy and Ohio 7 cases). Published in 1990 by Red Sea Press / Jacobin Books. The book opens with the declaratio...

Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion

CollectionMovement Reference DateJanuary 1, 2003 AuthorsJoy James (ed.) PublishersRowman & Littlefield

2003 anthology (Rowman & Littlefield) edited by political philosopher Joy James. Collects essays, letters, and theoretical writings from incarcerated U.S. political prisoners across the Black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, American Indian Movement, white anti-imperialist, and Black-feminist generations — including Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Davis, Georg...

Marilyn Buck — A Tribute (Video Clip)

CollectionWhite Anti-Imperialist Prisoners PublishersFreedom Archives

Marilyn Buck talks about how she came into her own as a revolutionary and her experience in the anti-Vietnam and Black Liberation movements.

On the Black Liberation Army

CollectionMovement Reference AuthorsPrairie Fire Distribution Group / contributors PublishersPrairie Fire Distribution Group

Movement-published reader on the Black Liberation Army — historical and theoretical writings on the BLA's formation, its political program, the trial cohort of its prisoners, and the post-1981 BLA-era prosecutions including the Brink's-1981 case that landed Mutulu Shakur, Marilyn Buck, Sekou Odinga, and others in federal custody. Compiled and distributed by...

Resistance Is Not A Crime! Stop the Political Show Trial! Drop the Charges Now!

DateJanuary 1, 1988 AuthorsResistance Conspiracy Case Defense Committee PublishersResistance Conspiracy Case Defense Committee

Defense-campaign pamphlet for the Resistance Conspiracy Case 6 (RCC6) — the May 11, 1988 federal indictment that charged Marilyn Buck, Susan Rosenberg, Linda Evans, Timothy Blunk, Laura Whitehorn, and Alan Berkman with conspiracy in connection with the November 1983 U.S. Capitol bombing and a string of other anti-imperialist actions taken in solidarity with...