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"
Breakthrough (Vol. 9 No. 1, Spring/Summer 1985) — 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...
Can't Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the U.S. — A Collection of Biographies
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...
Chicago Guild Update — National Lawyers Guild (February 1985)
NLG Chicago Chapter newsletter (Feb 1985) covering highlights from the 1985 National Lawyers Guild Conference in Atlanta. (Note: cataloged filename references 'criminal justice' but the document is the Chicago Guild Update — Freedom Archives source data has crossed URLs for two records in this collection.)
Conference Calls: What's Cooking at Marion Prison?
Reproduction of article from 10/25/1985 on the second anniversary of the Marion Lockdown.
FBI File on Russell Means
FBI file on AIM co-founder Russell Means. Surveillance file on Means around Wounded Knee 1973; directly tied to AIM political-prisoner cases including Leonard Peltier.
Free to Protest — Dissent, Prophetic Ministry and the Bill of Rights (August 1985)
Pamphlet covering the history of political repression, new repression, legislative/executive acts, grand juries, prosecutors and agents, the Bill of Rights, and FBI visits.
If an Agent Knocks — Federal Investigators and Your Rights (March 1985)
March 1985 Center for Constitutional Rights pamphlet with frequently asked questions about the FBI and your rights when approached by federal investigators.
In Commemoration of his Life: Don Juan Antonio Corretjer 1908-1985
Announcement to a tribute to Don Juan Antonio Corretjer. Don Juan Antonio Corretjer 1908-1985.Commemorative Program with Poetry, Music, & Film at the Women's Building in San Francisco.
LIBERTAD - Vol. V - VII - May 1985
Update on POWs and Political Prisoners; New Movement Leader to be Incarcerated!; Latest News; Biographical Notes on Bob Leader and Terry Bisson; Interview with the FBIs Most Wanted Man; National Committee Notes; April 4th Commemorative Messages; Interview with Civil Engineer Alexis Massol; A Personal Account: Goodbye, Don Juan.
LIBERTAD - Vol. V-VI - March 1985
Latest News; Hartford Grand Jury Rescinds Subpoenas; April 4th Messages (From POWS); Five Years After: Freedom Fighters, Not Terrorists; Women of Struggle; Armed Clandestine Organizations Salute Corretjer
LIBERTAD - Vol. V-VIII - June 1985
North American Anti-Imperialist movement Under-Attack!; All Out to Federal Court!; Grand Jury Resisters; Lawsuit Charges Political Internment!; Anti-Imperialists Win Open Hearing and Postponement of Grand Jury Case; Prisons: Counter-Insurgency and Resistance; Pabloi Marcano-Garcia and Nydia Cuevas to be Released!; Tribute to Consuelo Lee Corretjer; The Pendi...
LIBERTAD - Vol. VI-XII - November 1985
POW and Political Prisoners Update; Editorial; Discriminatory Policy toward Grand Jury Resisters- Part of U.S. Strategy; Capitalist Theses; The Glorious Transfiguration.
Letter: Chicago Police Department to Stanley Weinberger
Letter from Joseph DiLeonardi, the Commander of the 19th District Police Station in Chicago, to Stanley Weinberger, the Vice-President of The American Jewish Committee's Chicago Chapter, explaining the police's involvement in at the Stamp Out Racist Graffiti rally and an altercation between members of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and the Neo-Nazi group...
Letter: Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
A letter from the KKK to the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee in Chicago. The KKK presents their side of the story regarding a violent altercation at a gathering in Chicago and places blame on the JBAKC for the altercation stating that they are the ones filled with hate. They warn the JBAKC that their movement is growing in the Chicago area and they are planni...
Letter: Laura Whitehorn and Alan Berkman to John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
In a letter to the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, Laura Whitehorn constructively critiques a consistent political problem present in their Death to the Klan! newspaper. Whitehorn states that DTTK! fails to support the struggle of Black people for self-determination- the right of New Afrikan/Afro-American people to land and independence. And because of this...
Libertad — August 1985
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 — December 1985
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 — February 1985
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 — January 1985
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 — June 1985
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 1985
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 — October 1985
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...
MOVE — FBI File
FBI file on the MOVE organization, Philadelphia. Surveillance file on MOVE — whose members (MOVE 9, Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters) are core U.S. political prisoners — covering the period of the 1978 Powelton Village confrontation.
