Records
Assata Shakur: clips from her 1980 address to the people after her escape from prison
This program is an edited version of her address to the people after she escaped. She begins the recording by stating that she loves everyone and encourages everyone to continue to struggle for our liberation. Assata talks about how Black people are constantly under attack by the poor school system, infiltration of drugs, welfare system, police state, etc. S...
Breakthrough (Vol. 4 No. 1, Winter 1980) — PFOC
Issue of *Breakthrough*, the magazine of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) — the above-ground white anti-imperialist organization that emerged in 1975 from the Weather Underground's 1974 Prairie Fire manifesto. PFOC was the principal U.S. white-radical formation supporting Black, Puerto Rican, Native American, and Chicano national liberation movem...
Bulletin — New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence (Jan–Feb 1980)
Memorial issue dedicated to Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal (1946–1979), published weeks after his death in FCI Tallahassee while serving his six-month Vieques trespass sentence as a self-declared Prisoner of War. Carries his statement to the sentencing court, the account of his funeral in Ciales drawing 8,000 people, the Sabana Seca response, the Vieques campaign...
CCPO 1980 Conference Workshop Summaries
Workshop summaries from the CCPO May 10 1980 conference at Laney College, Oakland — legislative, community organizing, and self-help groups workshops.
COINTELPRO 1980: Blueprint for Facism
Flyer for COINTELPRO 1980 Forum A Blueprint for Facism. On the back of the flyer is a text about the main themes of the forum.
De Pie Y En Lucha - Fall 1980
Contents: Desde El Foro Internacional - Quebec and the National Question; Desde Las Rejas - Communique from the Eleven POWs to the People; Desde la Clandestinidad - Colonial Elections and the Struggle of the Working Class, Statehood and Cultural Aggression, Dogmatism and the Armed Struggle; Desde La Tribuna - Statements to the United Nations Decolonization C...
Desde Las Rejas: Statements by the Eleven Puerto Rican Prisoners of War In the Concentration Camp of Cook County
Statements and Declarations by the FALN 11.
Electoral Politics: Its Problems & Prospects
Towards Clarity around Electoral Action; Ruling Class not always united; Apathy Among the People; Some partially successful campaigns in the past; the question of the slogan: don't vote, organize; the role of radicals in electoral struggle; parliamentarianism; a revolutionary electoral program; A brief summation of electoral action and the Philadelphia Black...
Federal Appeals Court Gives Richard Nixon Extra-Legal Rights To Immediate Appeal of Denial of Absolute Immunity for Crimes
Federal Appeals Court Gives Richard Nixon Extra-Legal Rights To Immediate Appeal of Denial of Absolute Immunity for Crimes.
Form Letter to Judge Kathleen Parker
Form letter urging Judge Kathleen Parker to release Geronimo Pratt from prison
Geronimo Pratt: National Black Human Rights Coalition (NBHRC) - Video Clip
Lift Every Voice and Sing/Intro -> Illian (entertainment) -> Victor of National Council of Black Lawyers (NCBL) -> Lewis Myers (lawyer for Geronimo Pratt) -> Horace Tapscott (jazz musician) -> Mamado -> Muntu Matsimela (chairman National Black Human Rights Coalition) -> Watani -> Ashaki Pratt (Geronimo's wife) -> Louis Farrakhan -> End.
In Total Resistance — Statements & Poetry from Peltier, Standing Deer, and Garcia (1980)
Memorial booklet in honor of Bobby Gene Garcia, who died under suspicious circumstances at USP Terre Haute in December 1980, collecting statements and poetry from Garcia, Standing Deer, and Leonard Peltier.
LIBERTAD - Update August, 1980
This issue includes updates on the U.S. government's fabrication of sedition charges against the eleven Puerto Rican Prisoners of War; a Communique to the People from the eleven Puerto Rican Prisoners of War calling for the creation of a Pro-Independence Revolutionary Block and National Liberation Front; an article on the heroism of Puerto Rican freedom figh...
LIBERTAD - Vol. II-II - June 1980
Contents: Life in Prison for Haydee Torres; Cucre (Unitary Committee Against Repression) Victory; Timeline of the Puerto Rican Independence Struggle; more.
LIBERTAD - Vol. II-III - July-August 1980
Bi-lingual periodical with articles focusing on the Puerto Rican independence struggle, political prisoners and prisoners of war petitioning the United Nations for support in their cause.
La Guerrilla Urbana
Prologo por Juan Antonio Corretjer I. De la guerra de guerrillas a la guerra de movimientos II. La Estrategia de la guerrilla III. Las tacticas de la guerrilla; las tacticas que usa la guerrilla urbana IV. La organizacion de la guerrilla V. El metodo de la guerrilla VI. Revaloracion de la guerrilla Tupamara VII. Examen Critico de Revolucion en la Revolucion...
La Peña Newsletter — October 1980
Newsletter of La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, California, October 1980. La Peña — founded in 1975 by Chilean exiles and U.S. Latin American solidarity activists — was one of the principal Bay Area sites of the cross-movement organizing milieu that PFOC, the Puerto Rican independence movement, and Central American solidarity worked through.
Long live the Heroic FALN! Free the 11! Free Puerto Rico!
Includes statement from FALN 11 and an article written by a companero entitle Who Are the Real Terrorists?
Palestine! Zionism! Black America!
The following speeches by Mr. Alphonso Pinkney, sociology professor at Hunter College, Patrice Wagner, representing the Black New York Action Committee) and the honorable Zehdi Terzi, the Palestine Liberation Organization's observer to the United Nations represent one of the clearest and in-depth examinations on the question of Zionism and its relationship t...
Political Prisoners: Racism and the Politics of Imprisonment
41-page report issued in August 1980 by the National Minority Advisory Council on Criminal Justice (NMAC). Notable as a federally-funded document — produced under contract J-LEAA-009-79 with the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration of the U.S. Department of Justice — that took the existence of political prisoners in the United States seriously. The repo...
Pontiac Prisoners Support Coalition Newsletter No. 12 (September 1980)
September 1980 issue of the Pontiac Prisoners Support Coalition newsletter, reporting on the ongoing mass death-penalty trial.
Pontiac Prisoners Support Coalition Newsletter No. 13 (December 1980)
December 1980 newsletter reporting on jury selection, courtroom proceedings, prisoner correspondence, and case-dismissal victories for the Pontiac Brothers defendants.
Statement of Plaintiffs in Clark V. USA, Targets of FBI COINTELPRO Illegal Activities, in Response to Current Trial of FBI Officials Felt and Miller
Statement of Plaintiffs in Clark V. USA, Targets of FBI COINTELPRO Illegal Activities, in Response to Current Trial of FBI Officials Felt and Miller.
Statement of the Case
Statement of the case for release and treatment of the Flan 11 as Political Prisoners. Includes historical context