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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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Armed Forces Recruiting Station Bombings — Communiques

Compilation of communiques from a 1980s campaign of bombings against U.S. Armed Forces recruiting stations — actions of the kind for which the Ohio 7 / United Freedom Front and other contemporaneous clandestine formations were prosecuted, and which PFOC covered in Breakthrough's 'armed actions' section.

Can't Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the U.S. — A Collection of Biographies

CollectionMovement Reference DateJanuary 1, 1985 AuthorsCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML) PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

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...

Letters From Exile — Raymond Luc Levasseur (Marion Prison writings)

CollectionMovement Reference AuthorsRaymond Luc Levasseur Publishersself-published / movement zine

Collected Marion-prison-era writings of Raymond Luc Levasseur, United Freedom Front / Sam Melville–Jonathan Jackson Unit prisoner held in U.S. federal custody from 1984 to 2004 (and earlier in Tennessee state custody 1969–1971). Includes 'The Uprising' and Levasseur's letters from Marion, where he was held in the federal control-unit prison's special housing...

Ohio 7 / On Trial For Seditious Conspiracy / Defeat US Imperialism

Defense pamphlet for the Ohio 7 — Raymond Luc Levasseur, Patricia Gros Levasseur, Thomas Manning, Carol Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — the United Freedom Front clandestine cell prosecuted in the late 1980s on federal seditious-conspiracy and RICO charges for a series of 1976–1984 bombings of U.S. military and corporate tar...

The Insurgent, Vol. 2 No. 3 (Winter 1986)

CollectionThe Insurgent Year1986 PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...

The Insurgent, Vol. 4 No. 3 (1988)

CollectionThe Insurgent Year1988 PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...

The Sedition Committee — April 1989 (Ohio 7 Defense)

CollectionOhio 7 Sedition Committee Defense DateApril 1, 1989 AuthorsThe Sedition Committee (Ohio 7 Defense) PublishersThe Sedition Committee

Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...

The Sedition Committee — August 1988 (Ohio 7 Defense)

CollectionOhio 7 Sedition Committee Defense DateAugust 1, 1988 AuthorsThe Sedition Committee (Ohio 7 Defense) PublishersThe Sedition Committee

Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...

The Sedition Committee — December 1988 (Ohio 7 Defense)

CollectionOhio 7 Sedition Committee Defense DateDecember 1, 1988 AuthorsThe Sedition Committee (Ohio 7 Defense) PublishersThe Sedition Committee

Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...

The Sedition Committee — December 1989 (Ohio 7 Defense)

CollectionOhio 7 Sedition Committee Defense DateDecember 1, 1989 AuthorsThe Sedition Committee (Ohio 7 Defense) PublishersThe Sedition Committee

Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...

The Sedition Committee — February 1989 (Ohio 7 Defense)

CollectionOhio 7 Sedition Committee Defense DateFebruary 1, 1989 AuthorsThe Sedition Committee (Ohio 7 Defense) PublishersThe Sedition Committee

Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...

The Sedition Committee — July 1988 (Ohio 7 Defense)

CollectionOhio 7 Sedition Committee Defense DateJuly 1, 1988 AuthorsThe Sedition Committee (Ohio 7 Defense) PublishersThe Sedition Committee

Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...

The Sedition Committee — July 1989 (Ohio 7 Defense)

CollectionOhio 7 Sedition Committee Defense DateJuly 1, 1989 AuthorsThe Sedition Committee (Ohio 7 Defense) PublishersThe Sedition Committee

Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...

The Sedition Committee — June 1988 (Ohio 7 Defense)

CollectionOhio 7 Sedition Committee Defense DateJune 1, 1988 AuthorsThe Sedition Committee (Ohio 7 Defense) PublishersThe Sedition Committee

Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...

The Sedition Committee — June 1989 (Ohio 7 Defense)

CollectionOhio 7 Sedition Committee Defense DateJune 1, 1989 AuthorsThe Sedition Committee (Ohio 7 Defense) PublishersThe Sedition Committee

Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...

The Sedition Committee — May 1988 (Ohio 7 Defense)

CollectionOhio 7 Sedition Committee Defense DateMay 1, 1988 AuthorsThe Sedition Committee (Ohio 7 Defense) PublishersThe Sedition Committee

Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...

The Sedition Committee — May 1989 (Ohio 7 Defense)

CollectionOhio 7 Sedition Committee Defense DateMay 1, 1989 AuthorsThe Sedition Committee (Ohio 7 Defense) PublishersThe Sedition Committee

Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...

The Sedition Committee — November 1988 (Ohio 7 Defense)

CollectionOhio 7 Sedition Committee Defense DateNovember 1, 1988 AuthorsThe Sedition Committee (Ohio 7 Defense) PublishersThe Sedition Committee

Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...

The Sedition Committee — October 1988 (Ohio 7 Defense)

CollectionOhio 7 Sedition Committee Defense DateOctober 1, 1988 AuthorsThe Sedition Committee (Ohio 7 Defense) PublishersThe Sedition Committee

Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...

The Sedition Committee — September 1988 (Ohio 7 Defense)

CollectionOhio 7 Sedition Committee Defense DateSeptember 1, 1988 AuthorsThe Sedition Committee (Ohio 7 Defense) PublishersThe Sedition Committee

Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...

The Sedition Committee — September 1989 (Ohio 7 Defense)

CollectionOhio 7 Sedition Committee Defense DateSeptember 1, 1989 AuthorsThe Sedition Committee (Ohio 7 Defense) PublishersThe Sedition Committee

Monthly defense-campaign newsletter from *The Sedition Committee*, the support formation organizing for the Ohio 7 sedition-conspiracy trial in Springfield, Massachusetts (1988–1989). The Ohio 7 — Ray Luc Levasseur, Tom Manning, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, Carol Manning, Patricia Levasseur, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — were prosecuted on seditious-conspirac...

The Uprising — Raymond Luc Levasseur (Marion Prison, May 1992)

CollectionMovement Memoirs DateMay 1, 1992 AuthorsRaymond Luc Levasseur PublishersFriends of Political Prisoners / Internet Archive (community upload)

Raymond Luc Levasseur's May 1992 essay written from his cell at Marion Federal Prison in the immediate aftermath of the Los Angeles Uprising. Levasseur, a captured United Freedom Front leader serving 45 years for the 1976–1984 bombing campaign in support of Puerto Rican independence, anti-apartheid struggle, and Central American liberation movements, draws e...

The Women of the Ohio 7

CollectionMovement Zines AuthorsPatricia Gros Levasseur, Carol Saucier Manning, Barbara Curzi-Laaman PublishersBulldozer

Zine of statements and autobiographical writings by Patricia Gros Levasseur, Carol Saucier Manning, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — the three women among the seven United Freedom Front / Ohio 7 defendants tried in 1989 in Springfield, Massachusetts on federal sedition and RICO charges. The zine reproduces their pre-trial statements (including Manning's account of...