Records
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.
Acto Politico — Juan Antonio Corretjer (April 1983)
April 1983 program for a cultural and political event in support of Puerto Rican POWs featuring Juan Antonio Corretjer.
Breakthrough (Vol. 7 No. 1, Winter 1983) — 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...
Brinks Trial Testimony — Sundiata Acoli (1983)
Trial transcript of Sundiata Acoli's testimony in the 1983 Brinks armored-truck expropriation case, situating the Revolutionary Armed Task Force action within the history of the Black Liberation Movement.
Capsule Summary of the Marion Lockdown
Includes timeline and description of conditions.
Demonstrate — International Women's Day 1983, In Solidarity With All Freedom Fighters
1983 International Women's Day demonstration flyer in solidarity with women political prisoners and freedom fighters, in the political tradition of PFOC's solidarity work with the Black Liberation Army, the FALN, and the New Afrikan Independence Movement.
Firmes En La No Colaboración (1983)
Spanish-language monograph on the politics of non-collaboration with grand juries, with sections on Albizu Campos and the grand jury.
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Peter Matthiessen's landmark 1983 (Viking) book-length investigation of the FBI's war against the American Indian Movement on the Pine Ridge Lakota reservation in the 1970s, the 1975 Oglala firefight that left FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams and AIM member Joseph Stuntz dead, and the federal frame-up of Leonard Peltier. Held off bookstore shelves f...
LIBERTAD - Spring 1983
COVER: International Demonstrations To Be Held In Support of the MLN 5, The Cat and the Jurors, Statement by Shelley Miller Before the Grand Jury, International Women's Day. INFORMATION SECTION: Demonstrate Your Support for the MLN 5 p.3, Latest News p.4, LSP Denounces Repression Against MLN p.5, On the 3rd Anniversary of the Contamination of Destruction p.7...
LIBERTAD - Vol. IV-V - Winter 1983
MLN Denounces FBI Attacks; All Out on Jan 19th@; Symbols of resistance; Lares Opens the Path to Jayuya; The Vieques Document; Thunder and Lightning; To Cure Haydee is More Thank a Pleasure; In Memory of Angel; POW; Budget to exploit Mines Tripled; Latest News; Mexico: The Frozen Revolution; FALN Communiques.
Libertad — Summer 1983
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 Fighter - V 2-1 - March 1983
Periodical on Black Liberation; containing numerous articles highlighting the right and duty for Black and African peoples' to question and resist the violence of the U.S. government by any means. Also includes messages of solidarity for political prisoners; statements in direct opposition to state collaborators/ infiltrators; as well as articles that advoca...
Statement of Shelley Miller to the Grand Jury (February 2, 1983)
Shelley Miller's statement refusing to testify before a grand jury, framed as a defense of the Puerto Rican nation's right to fight U.S. imperialism.
Statements from International Women's Day, 1983
Statements in honor of International Women's Day, 1983, in solidarity with all freedom fighters and prisoners of war.
Take a Stand Against the Klan! October 1983
Reports on recent incidences of racist attacks against Black people in which the justice system has failed to put away the white attackers. These stories were not carried by most Chicago news outlets, leaving white people with a distorted view of the presence of racism and violence against Black and Third World people around them. Includes a map of the Chica...
The New Afrikan: The Official Organ of the Republic of New Afrika - V 9-3 - Dec 18, 1983
Black Nation Day Brings Unity To RNA. Also, New Afrika Wins Brinks Case, Fulani is Free, Inside the Brinks Story (with specific focus on the political prisoners captured as a result of that action), Dark Days in Grenada (on the US invasion of Grenada), New Afrikan Political Scene, more.
To the People / Al Pueblo
This bilingual (English-Spanish) flyer calls for support of William Guillermo Morales who was arrested by INTERPOL and FBI for his involvement with Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion.
Update - June 18, 1983
15 Year Sentence Reduced to 3 Years Due to Phony Charges in MLN Case; Extradition Delayed William Morales to Face Murder Charges in Mexico!; New Conspiracy Against Haydee Torres; Noya/Ciontron-Fiallo Case Postponed; Alberto De Jesus-Berrios Imprisoned in Miami!
Update - May 21, 1983
Sentencing Date Set for MLN 5; En Route to Miami, Florida Alberto De Jesus-Berros Transferred!; CDP National Tour; New Movement Announces Tour With Shelley Miller; US Increases Militarization of Puerto Rico; Ecumenical Hearing Great Success!;
War on the War Makers: documents and communiques from the West German Left
Anti-NATO demonstration in Berlin, June 11, 1982, summary of a brochure by autonomous and anti-imerialst groups in West Germany; Communiques from the German Armed Movement: attack on U.S. Air Force/NATO headquarters in Ramstein, Red Army Faction, Aug. 31, 1981; Tires Slashed on U.S. government cars in Frankfurt; Assassination Attempt on NATO Commander, U.S....
Brink’s Trial Closing Statement
Kuwasi Balagoon Brink’s Trial Closing Statement September 13, 1983 Sourced from theanarchistlibrary.org.
Brink’s Trial Opening Statement
Kuwasi Balagoon Brink’s Trial Opening Statement July 11, 1983 The electronic version of the source text, Trial Statement of New Afrikan Revolutionary Kuwasi... Sourced from theanarchistlibrary.org.
Letters from Prison
Kuwasi Balagoon Letters from Prison 1983-1985 Sourced from theanarchistlibrary.org.