About Organizations
Black Panther Party
Black Liberation Army
American Indian Movement
FALN
Weather Underground
Earth Liberation Front
Animal Liberation Front
MOVE
Republic of New Afrika
Symbionese Liberation Army
Los Macheteros
United Freedom Front
May 19th Communist Organization
Young Lords
George Jackson Brigade
Students for a Democratic Society
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Industrial Workers of the World
Communist Party USA
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Brown Berets
Socialist Workers Party
African People's Socialist Party
Nation of Islam
About FALN
First FALN Bombing Wave
Fraunces Tavern Bombing
The Mainland Bombing Campaign
Cook County Building Bombing
William Morales Explosion & Escape
Evanston Arrests
Seditious-Conspiracy Convictions
Oscar López Rivera’s Imprisonment
Clinton Clemency Controversy
Continuing Political-Prisoner Campaigns
EVANSTON ARRESTS
In April 1980, eleven FALN members were arrested in Evanston, Illinois, effectively decapitating the organization's mainland network. The arrests followed years of federal investigation into the Chicago-based independence underground.
The captured members refused to recognize the authority of the U.S. court, declaring themselves prisoners of war in an anti-colonial struggle and declining to mount a conventional legal defense. Their stance framed the prosecutions that followed and shaped the long campaign for their release.
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