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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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Angel Rodriguez Cristobal Commando communique

CollectionFuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) DateDecember 31, 1982 PublishersFALN

Communique taking responsibility for coordinated attacks against US agencies of repression.

Arm the Spirit No. 14

CollectionArm the Spirit DateJanuary 1, 1982 PublishersFreedom Archives

Articles include: Support New African Freedom Fighters; The Necessity of Armed Fighters; From Sekou Odinga- New Afrikan Prisoner of War; New Afrikan Freedom Fighters Day; National Conference Strengths Struggle Against Repression (Jose Lopez); Grand Jury Resistors Arrested; FALN Bombs Wall Street; Statements from Political Prisoners; Zionism is Racism: Palest...

BLA / Revolutionary Armed Task Force — New Afrikan Freedom Fighter Day (August 21, 1982)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateAugust 21, 1982 PublishersBlack Liberation Army / Revolutionary Armed Task Force

BLA / Revolutionary Armed Task Force communique marking New Afrikan Freedom Fighter Day on August 21, 1982.

Breakthrough (Vol. 6 No. 1, Spring 1982) — PFOC

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee — Breakthrough DateMarch 1, 1982 AuthorsPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) PublishersPrairie Fire Organizing Committee VolumeVol. 6 No. 1

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...

Build A Movement Against the Klan

CollectionJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee (Chicago) DateJanuary 1, 1982 PublishersJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee

Flyer promoting the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee's First National Conference on July 4, 1982 in Chicago. This National Conference was called to build a broader and stronger movement against the Klan and white supremacy.

Conciencia Mexicana

CollectionMLN-M DateJanuary 1, 1982 PublishersEl Comite Nacional Contra La Represion

Who we are; Criminal Contempt; New tool for political internment; May 19th CO attacked; Norberto Cintron released; Historic September 16th Demonstration; A history of government harassment; December 10th support demo.

In Defense of the Right to Political Secession for the Afro-American Nation: Papers and Resolutions from the School on the Afro-American National Question

CollectionBlack Power/Black Nation DateJanuary 1, 1982 PublishersMarxist Leninist; Amilcar Cabral/Paul Robeson Collective; Revolutionary Political Organization

Papers and Resolutions from the School on the Afro-American National Question September, 1982

Judgment of the Grand Jury

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee — Breakthrough Year1982 AuthorsCarlos Noya PublishersPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (Breakthrough)

An essay by Carlos Noya, a leading member of the Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña (LSP), a public revolutionary organization in Puerto Rico that argued for a protracted people's war to achieve independence and socialism. Noya was exiled and imprisoned in the United States for refusing to collaborate with a federal grand jury investigating the Puerto Rican arme...

LIBERTAD - Vol. III-I: Special Edition - April 1982

CollectionLibertad DateApril 1, 1982 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

This special edition of LIBERTAD includes a section entitled "Who We Are," with an explanation of the choice to consolidate the National Committee to Free the Four Puerto Rican Prisoners of War and the William Morales Defense Committee in order to broaden political support to all Puerto Rican Prisoners of War. The editorial, "When Collaboration is Treason,"...

LIBERTAD - Vol. NU - XI - March 1982

CollectionLibertad DateMarch 1, 1982 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

All out to Commemorate April 4th!; Letters; INS Threatens Cintron Fiallio with Deportation; Police attack Student Celebration; Message from Felix Rosa, Political Prisoner; Stop Khomieni; Frame-ups expected in Sabana Seca Investigation; Statement from Freedom Fighters Judith Clark and David Gilbert; Chilean Revolutionary Captured!; First National Chicanomexic...

La LSP Ante La ONU 1982

CollectionLiga Socialista Puertorriquena DateSeptember 1, 1982 PublishersLa Liga Socialista Puertorriquena

Contenido: Ponencia Ante La ONU: Leida por nuestro Sec. Gen. Juan Antonio Corretjer el 2 de agosto de 1982 ante el Comite de Descolonizacion. Duelo Y Rectificacion: Por Juan Antonio Corretjer Reproducido de el Nuevo Dia 27 de julio de 1982 Futuro Sin Falla: Prologo a la segunda edicion proxima a salir en Chicago.

Let Our Motto Be… No. 1 (January 1982)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1982 PublishersCoalition to Defend October 20th Freedom Fighters

January 1982 first issue of the Coalition to Defend October 20th Freedom Fighters newsletter.

Libertad — June/July 1982

CollectionMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño — Libertad DateJune 1, 1982 AuthorsMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR) PublishersMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño

Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...

Libertad — May 1982

CollectionMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño — Libertad DateMay 1, 1982 AuthorsMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR) PublishersMovimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño

Issue of *Libertad*, the newspaper of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño (MLN-PR). Libertad was the primary U.S.-based organ of the Puerto Rican independence movement aligned with the FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña) and the support work for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war — including Os...

New Afrikan Freedom Fighters - V 1-1 - June 1982

DateJune 1, 1982 PublishersFreedom Archives

Statement of Purpose; Principles of Unity; FBI Terrorize Black Health Center; New Afrikan Prisoners of War: United States Has No Jurisdiction; Sundiata Acoli in daring Escape Attempt; The Necessity of Armed Freedom Fighters; The Saga of Twyman Myers; New Afrikan Freedom Fighters Day; Speech by Julio Rosado Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional [MLN]; War, Undecl...

Notes on Revolutionary Morals

CollectionMovimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN) DateApril 1, 1982 PublishersMovimiento de Liberacion Nacional

In English. Table of Contents: Importance and limitation of the problem; Proletarization and Union of the masses; Individualism and revolutionary organizations; The family in the revolutionary perspective; The raising of children; The role of women; self-criticism.

Palestine Will Be Free! Zionism, White Supremacy and the Palestinian Revolution

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) DateJanuary 1, 1982 PublishersPrairie Fire Organizing Committee

This pamphlet is a reprint of an editorial in Breakthrough, the political journal of Prairie Fire Organizing Committee. It was written in the spring of 1982, before the genocidal Israeli invasion of Lebanon. The US backed invasion continued the Camp David strategy of attempting to isolate and destroy the Palestine Liberation Organization.

The issue of Zionism in the Women's Movement

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism DateApril 1, 1982 PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

On the intersection of Palestinian liberation, Zionism and Women's liberation.

Transcript of Ricardo Romero, San Francisco

CollectionMLN-M DateMay 22, 1982 PublishersFreedom Archives

Transcript of a speech by Ricardo Romero about the repression of Chicano and Mexicano people in the U.S.

Update - December 18, 1982

CollectionLibertad DateDecember 18, 1982 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

Washington Approves Haydee's Transfer; CDP Sponsors Huge Demonstration in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico!; Raymond Soto Goes Before Grand Jury!; Ad-Hoc Committee Formed in Baraldini Case; FBI Harasses Albizu Ortai; Negron-Rosa Update;

Update - June 1982

CollectionLibertad DateJune 1, 1982 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

Contents: Administration Plans to Incite Riot at Pontiac Prison; Over 1 thousand Participate in People's Parade; Rosa Family Visits Revoked; Update on Negron-Rosa Frame-Up; Update from Puerto Rico; POW Haydee Torres Health Again in Danger; Shameful FBI Petition to Mexican Government

Update - October 2, 1982

CollectionLibertad DateOctober 2, 1982 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

Contents: All Out OCT. 8th!; Stop Grand Jury and FBI Terrorism!; Massive Support for Arrested MLN Leadership!; Grito de Lares Celebration: Great Success!; Free Norberto Cintron-Fiallo

Update - October 9, 1982

CollectionLibertad DateOctober 9, 1982 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

Contents: Support the October 20th Freedom Fighters; Unable to Argue Case Prosecution Stalls; William Quinn to be Extradited!; POW Torres' Health endangered; National Committee Launches Subscription Drive!; Calendar of Events

Update - September 25, 1982

CollectionLibertad DateSeptember 25, 1982 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

In this issue, the FALN attacks the Bankers Trust in Manhattan in support of the Palestinian struggle; the October 20th Freedom Fighters receive support outside of the courthouse while they refuse to participate in the trial, challenging the legitimacy of the US government to try them; indictments on six people including Sekou Odinga, Kuwasi Balagoon, Susan...