Records
!Hacia un Grito de Lares Sin Prisioneros de Guerra ni Prisioneros Politicos!
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)
Flyer for dance to benefit the lesbian work of Women Against Imperialism.
"Dykes to Step Out For": A Lesbian Dance (Program)
Program for benefit of the Women's Caucus of Women Against Imperialism.
"Scottsboro Boys Must Not Die" — Mass Meeting Broadside
International Labor Defense broadside calling DC working people to a 1934 Scottsboro defense rally with Ruby Bates and Allan Taub.
1990 Tribunal Fundraiser & Registration Letter
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
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)
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)
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.
4StruggleMag, Issue #11 (Fall 2008)
4StruggleMag was an independent, non-sectarian revolutionary magazine produced by the Toronto chapter of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation and edited by anti-imperialist political prisoner Jaan Laaman. It featured writing from North American political prisoners and their supporters on justice, equality, socialism, and national-liberation struggles.
500 Years of Resistance Through Womyn's Eyes Program
International Women's Day demonstration plan for 2 rallies.
500 Years of Resistance... Through Women's Eyes
Advertisement for International Women's Day demonstration 1992.
6th Anniversary of the Assassination of George Jackson — San Quentin Demonstration
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?
A brief history of lesbian specific homophobia, ant-gay laws, and its interaction with misogyny.
A Brief History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle
Sundiata Acoli's original 1992 essay tracing the political history of Black political prisoners in U.S. state and federal custody from the late 1960s through the early 1990s. Written from inside, the text articulates the New Afrikan political identity — the post-1968 Republic of New Afrika tradition of Black national consciousness, anti-imperialist alignment...
A Brief Report on the April 1 Appeals Hearing
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
A Decade in Struggle, 1968-1978 NCBL Report
A Fragment of the Prison Experiences of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman
Pamphlet documenting Goldman and Berkman's imprisonment at Jefferson City and Atlanta for anti-conscription organizing. Directly about two of the most famous U.S. political prisoners; both convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act and deported in 1919.
A History of the NLG 1937-1987
Historical document covering NLG defense of PPs across 50 years (Smith Act, Panthers, AIM).
A Jail is a Jail
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)
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
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
Details events and conditions of the initial Marion Lockdown.
A Report From Inside Attica
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)
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
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...