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A Brief Report on the April 1 Appeals Hearing
4/1/1988 appeal of the denial of the class action suit filed by the prisoners at Marion to end the lockdown
A Living Tomb — The Nation on the Lexington Women's Control Unit (1988)
March 26, 1988 reprint of The Nation's investigative report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Lexington High Security Unit, the basement control unit at FCI Lexington, Kentucky used to hold women political prisoners Susan Rosenberg, Alejandrina Torres, and Silvia Baraldini under sensory-deprivation conditions. Distributed by the National Campaign to Abolish...
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's documentary history of FBI operations against the BPP and AIM. Primary published synthesis of COINTELPRO targeting of Peltier, Pratt, the Panther 21, and Wounded Knee defendants.
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
Foundational 1988 movement history by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall (South End Press). Documents the FBI's COINTELPRO and post-COINTELPRO operations against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, drawing on Bureau records released under FOIA, court records, and movement testimony. Part I covers the FBI as political police, the COINTEL...
Aids in Prison: A forum for Education and Action
Flyer for educational event on Aids in the prison environment. Includes list of events.
America bars Cuban Prison Experts
Reproduction of 6/25/1988 article on US State Department's denial of visas to a delegation of Cubans requesting visits in American prisons.
Brainwashing in America? — The Women of Lexington Prison (June 1988)
Investigative article from The Nation examining isolation and sensory-deprivation conditions at the Lexington Women's Control Unit.
Breakthrough (Vol. 12 No. 1, Summer 1988) — 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...
Control Unit Prisons: Health and Human Rights Violations
Presented to the American Public Health Association on November 15, 1988 by the Socialist Caucus. Contents include: The Health Affects of Control Unit Prisons; APHA Opposes Lexington High Security Unit; The Women of Lexington Prison; Victory in Lexington Lawsuit; The Marion Control Unit; United Nations Position on Puerto Rican POWs; Public Health Decimates P...
Correspondence from Nancy Kurshan to CEML
Regarding the Detroit/Ann Arbor/Lansing trip.
El Boicot Electoral de Betances a Corretjer
This postcard promoted an event for the Puerto Rican National Independence campaign to boycott elections, representing the anti-colonial and pro-independence position that there are no free elections while there is an occupation.
Genocide Through Behavior Modification — Mutulu Shakur et al. (December 1988)
Collective 1988 analysis by seven political prisoners charging the U.S. with using behavior-modification techniques as a form of genocide against the Black nation.
Judge bars US from Isolating Prisoners for Political Beliefs
Reproduction of 7/17/1988 article covering the order by Federal District judge Barrington-Parker to transfer Susan Rosenberg and Silvia Baraldini to "regular cells." Virtual holding only.
LIBERTAD - Vol. IX-III - March 1988
Table of Contents: Guilty Before Proven Innocent: Jaime, Dora, Oscar and Kojo - Indicted, Tried and Sentenced in Government Conspiracy; A Essay on Moral Courage (Alberto Rodriguez); Message - International Women's Day (Carmen Valentin); Golpes de Rejas Premiers in Puerto Rico: A Stupendous Opening Night! (Jose Torres); Opening - From Behind Prison Walls; Pal...
LIBERTAD - Vol. IX-IX - September 1988
Contents: Alejandrina Has Been Transferred!; While Hundreds Plan Activities in Protest of 2nd Invasion Filiberto Ojeda-Rios Arrested Again!; FALN and EPB-Macheteros Propose Decolonization Plan to the UN; Delegation Formally Presents Political Asylum Petition on Behalf of Puerto Rican Prisoners of War; In Defense of the Cuban Revolution; News briefs.
LIBERTAD - Vol. IX-V - May 1988
Contents: The Task Before Us; Criminal Negligence and Human Rights; A Farewell to a Patriot; Capture of the Eleven Commemorated; I am Buried in Prison with You: Alejandrina.
Libertad - July 1988
In this issue, a message from the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional Puertorriquena (MLN-PR) announces the release of national hero William Guillermo Morales from the Mexican government; a message prepared for a mobilization to Lexington Prison in protest of the control units demands respect for the human rights of prisoners Alejandrina Torres and Silvia Bara...
Libertad — January 1988
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 1988
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 — November/December 1988
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 1988
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...
MLN-M: Discussion Document on the Land Struggle
Provides information about the struggle for the control of land in the Mexican National Liberation Movement. Includes sections on the critical importance of land; a timeline of key dates in the history of occupied Mexico;Revolutionary Traditions and Obstacles to Socialist Reunification.
Marion Appeal Press Conference
Press conference on the appeal of Bureau of Prisons decision to keep the Marion Lock down, they're treatment of prisoners in violation of Human Rights standards and the 8th Amendment, and the classification of prisoners or lack thereof. Speakers include Dr. Steve Whitman and Attorney Jan Susler.
Nazi Skinheads Active in San Francisco
The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, joined by anti-racist punks and community activists is beginning a campaign to alert the community to this growing cancer in our midst and help organize people to stop Nazi terrorists. This campaign features media and educational work to expose the links to organized white supremacist violence while support community actio...