Records
1990 Tribunal Fundraiser & Registration Letter
September 15, 1990 registration packet and fundraising appeal for the Special International Tribunal on Human Rights Violations of Political Prisoners and POWs in U.S. Prisons, held December 7-10, 1990 at Hunter College, New York City. Signatories include Daniel Berrigan, Margaret Randall, and Rafael Cancel Miranda. Companion piece to the Dec 7 1990 Chicano...
A Child Lost in the Storm
Reproduction of Eduardo Galeano's personal essay, excerpted from El Pais (March 28, 1990), translated into English by Marilyn Buck while she was imprisoned. From the Freedom Archives' Marilyn Buck literary file in the White Anti-Imperialist Prisoners collection.
Arm The Spirit (No. 1, June 1990)
Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...
Arm The Spirit (No. 2, July 1990)
Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...
Arm The Spirit (No. 3, August/September 1990)
Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...
Arm The Spirit (No. 4, October 1990)
Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...
Arm The Spirit (No. 5, November/December 1990)
Issue of *Arm The Spirit*, the autonomist / anti-imperialist newspaper published from Toronto, Canada (1990–1995). ATS reported on armed-struggle movements internationally — the IRA, ETA, the German RAF, Italian autonomist prisoners, the FMLN, Kurdish liberation — and provided sustained coverage of U.S. and Canadian political prisoners and prisoners of war (...
Behind the Barrier of Silence
Report on Lexington Control Unit and interview excerpts from Silvia Baraldini, Susan Rosenberg, Alejandrina Torres. Virtual holding only.
Boston Trial Convicts 3 Irish Activists — Constitutional Defense Fund (1990)
Two-page Constitutional Defense Fund flyer issued after the August 20, 1990 conviction of Richard Johnson, Christina Reid, and Martin Quigley in U.S. District Court in Boston for conspiring to develop a missile guidance system intended for use against British helicopters in Northern Ireland. The flyer details the 7-year FBI investigation (100 agents in Bosto...
Breakthrough (Vol. 14 No. 1, Winter 1990) — 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...
Breakthrough (Vol. 14 No. 2, Fall 1990) — 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. Vol. 14 No. 2, Fall 1990. Mirrored from Internet Archive.
Capitalism Has Won a Game But Not the Championship — Benedetti / Buck (1990)
Essay by Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti translated from Spanish by imprisoned anti-imperialist Marilyn Buck, reflecting on socialism after the Cold War.
Chicano Political Prisoners — Committee to Free Alvaro Hernandez & Alberto Aranda (Dec 7, 1990 Tribunal)
Submission of the Committee to Free Alvaro Hernandez and Alberto Aranda (Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional Mexicano) to the December 7, 1990 Special International Tribunal on U.S. political prisoners, held on International Human Rights Day. Documents the cases of two Chicano political prisoners held in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice: Alvaro Hernand...
Correspondence to Alan Berkman
2/1/1990 letter to Alan detailing proposal to concentrate on t5he effort to change USP Marion's water supply from Crab Orchard
Correspondence to Alice Krupit
Reproduction of US Bureau of Prisons letter in response to "inquiry regarding Through the Wire, which was recently aired by the Public Broadcasting System." Virtual holding only.
Correspondence to Honorable Robert Kastenmeier Re: USP Marion
Reproduction of 1/10/1990 letter to Congressman Kastenmeier regarding conditions at USP Marion.
Correspondence to Steven Whitman
1/21/1990 letter requesting press packet and brochures from CEML
Dr. Luis Nieves Falcon — Letter to Supporters (October 1990)
October 1990 letter from Dr. Luis Nieves Falcon mobilizing supporters for the 1990 International Tribunal on U.S. political prisoners.
Face Reality — Advertisement for 12/7/1990 Tribunal
Advertisement flyer for the December 7, 1990 Tribunal in NYC.
Face Reality — There Are Political Prisoners in the U.S.A. (Freedom Now)
Freedom Now flyer asserting the existence of U.S. political prisoners and promoting the 1990 Tribunal.
Free Puerto Rico! January/February 1990
Newsletter of the Free Puerto Rico Committee, North Americans in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence. Articles include "Referendum Plan Stumbles in Congress"; "Felix Matta Speaks Out Against the US Navy in Vieques"; "Newbriefs" including the death of Ruth Reynolds. Free Puerto Rico Committee is a national organization that works under the leadership of...
Free Puerto Rico! March/April 1990
Newsletter of the Free Puerto Rico Committee, North Americans in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence. Articles include "April 4, 1990: Puerto Rican POWs mark 10 years in US prisons, Looking Back . . . Moving Forward"; "Puerto Rican Prisoner of War Ida Luz Rodriguez Speaks... " Free Puerto Rico Committee is a national organization working under the lead...
Goldston OPS Report on Burge Torture (1990)
Chicago Office of Professional Standards report by Michael Goldston concluding that Area 2 Commander Jon Burge and detectives under his command engaged in systematic torture of Black suspects.
Hauling Up the Morning / Izando la Mañana: Writings & Art by Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War in the U.S.
Bilingual (English/Spanish) anthology of writings and visual art by approximately 80 U.S.-held political prisoners and prisoners of war, edited by Tim Blunk and Raymond Luc Levasseur — themselves political prisoners at the time (the Resistance Conspiracy and Ohio 7 cases). Published in 1990 by Red Sea Press / Jacobin Books. The book opens with the declaratio...
International Women's Day 1990
Program for Sunday, March 11, 1990 demonstration. Includes list of workshops, speakers and sponsors.