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Welcome to the NPPC Archive. This Archive is a searchable index of the National Political Prisoner Coalition’s records: prisoner profiles, case files, movement periodicals, court documents, and oral histories. It collects, in one place, the materials that document the history of U.S. political imprisonment from the late nineteenth century to the present.

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Join a Day of Action to Free All Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War!

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Flyer for demonstration in Manhattan, NYC, to free political prisoners and stop FBI/Police Terror.

Jose Lopez COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

José López is the executive director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Under his leadership, the PRCC has developed a number of initiatives in the Humboldt Park community, including an alternative high school, a parent child learning center and day care, a museum and cultural institution, a youth drop-in center and an HIV education and advocacy organizati...

Kathleen Cleaver COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Kathleen Cleaver became involved in the civil rights movement. In 1967 she left college to work full-time for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The following year she met Eldridge Cleaver and moved from New York to San Francisco to join the Black Panther Party (BPP). Kathleen Cleaver became the BPP's National Communications Secretary and...

Laura Whitehorn COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Radical activist and former political prisoner/WUO member who was targeted by the federal government.

Letter to NY Times Editor

CollectionGovernment Repression DateFebruary 15, 1979 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Letter to the editor New York Times.

Los Derechos Humanos en los Estados Unidos: El Relato Inconcluso Sobre Los Presos Politicos y de las Victimas de Cointelpro

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 2001 AuthorsBruce Ellison, Geronimo ji Jaga, Kathleen Cleaver, Laura Whitehorn, Michael Tarif Warren, Nkechi Taifa PublishersHuman Rights Research Fund, Release 2001

In Spanish. This pamphlet was adapted from the transcript of the September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus's legislative weekend in Washington DC. It could not have been published without the expert editorial work of Laura Whitehorn and Susie Day.

Muhammad Ahmad COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Muhammad Ahmad (formerly Max Stanford Jr.) was a pivotal figure within the Black Liberation Movement and struggle for Black Power in the 1960s and 70s; notably, he was the national field chairman of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and a direct target of J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO. He is a professor at Temple University.

Murdered by the U.S. Government: Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal

CollectionGovernment Repression Year1979 PublishersFreedom Archives

A movement solidarity flyer protesting the November 1979 death of Puerto Rican independence and socialist activist Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal in the federal prison at Tallahassee, Florida. It condemns his death — officially ruled a suicide — as a political killing by the U.S. government, and ties it to the Vieques struggle and the wider movement for Puerto Ri...

National Rally to Support Francisco "Kiko" Martínez — defense materials (1981)

CollectionGovernment Repression Year1981 PublishersFrancisco "Kiko" Martínez Defense Committee / Rally Committee

A nine-page compilation of materials supporting Chicano-movement attorney Francisco "Kiko" Martínez, assembled around the National Rally held in Pueblo, Colorado on January 24, 1981 — three days before the first of the federal trials charging him with mailing explosives in 1973. It gathers the rally flyers in English and Spanish, the Rally Committee's Januar...

National Task Force for Cointelpro Litigation and Research

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation & Research

Statement with background information about COINTELPRO and the goals of the National Task Force for Cointelpro Litigation and Research

Plaintiffs Challenge Government's Cover-UP At First Public Court Appearance

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJuly 6, 1979 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Plaintiffs Challenge Government's Cover-UP At First Public Court Appearance.

President to President: On the question of human rights

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1971 PublishersNational RNA-11 Defense Committee

Imari Abubakari Obadele, President of the Provisional Government of New Afrika (named a political prisoner by Amnesty International) Challenges US President Jimmy Carter On Oppression of Blacks, Indians, & Others; Genocide, Slave Labor in Prisons, Prisoner Exchange and the US Silence on the Vicious Anti-Black COINTELPRO. Virtual copy available through The In...

Priscilla Falcon COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Priscilla Falcon is a Chicana activist and professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Northern Colorado. She is the widow of Chicano activist Ricardo Falcon, who was killed in a racially motivated altercation with a gas station attendant in Oro Grande, N.M. in 1972 en route to the La Raza Unida convention in El Paso. She is a lifelong activist for Ch...

Program of the New York Citizens Review Commission on the FBI

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

3 days of hearings on an overview of the FBI harassment of different struggles, placed in a historic context.

RE: Offensive Campaign Against Government Spying and Domestic Violence

CollectionGovernment Repression AuthorsNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation and Research PublishersNational Task Force for COINTELPRO Litigation and Research

Letter to Law Students, Lawyers, Political Organizations, Political Activists, Research Groups, etc RE: Offensive Campaign Against Government Spying and Domestic Violence

Repression Breeds Resistance! Stop the RICO Grand Jury!

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Flyer promoting a Benefit/Forum/Dinner welcoming all progressive people and organizations to take a stand and the resist political repression of revolutionary forces through the use of Grand Juries. With speakers Kwame Kalimara, Jose Lopez, Silvia Baraldini and Alan Berkman,

Ricardo Romero COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Ricardo Romero is a Chicano activist for immigrants rights who, in 1981, refused to testify before a Grand Jury, along with other activists, to provide information on the activities of political activist organizations. He is a lifelong activist for Chican@-Mexican@ liberation.

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a landless farmer and half-Indian mother. Her paternal grandfather, a white settler, farmer, and veterinarian, had been a labor activist and Socialist in Oklahoma with the Industrial Workers of the World in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The stories of her grandfather inspired her t...

Statement of Plaintiffs in Clark V. USA, Targets of FBI COINTELPRO Illegal Activities, in Response to Current Trial of FBI Officials Felt and Miller

CollectionGovernment Repression DateSeptember 23, 1980 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Statement of Plaintiffs in Clark V. USA, Targets of FBI COINTELPRO Illegal Activities, in Response to Current Trial of FBI Officials Felt and Miller.

Surveillance Targets Push for Trial of Ex-FBI Officials

CollectionGovernment Repression DateMarch 2, 1979 AuthorsRobert Pear PublishersThe Washington Star

reproduction of the original article

Targets of FBI Crimes Charge Collusion Between Prosecution and Defense in Washington Trial of Former FBI Officials

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1979 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Targets of FBI Crimes Charge Collusion Between Prosecution and Defense in Washington Trial of Former FBI Officials.

The Complete Collection of Political Documents Ripped-off from the FBI Office in Media, PA: March 8, 1971

CollectionGovernment Repression DateMarch 1, 1972 PublishersWIN Magazine

The Complete Collection of Political Documents Ripped Off From the FBI Office in Media, PA., March 8, 1971.

The Improper use of the Federal Grand Jury: An Instrument for The Internment of Political Activists

CollectionGovernment Repression DateJanuary 1, 1984 AuthorsMichael Deutsch PublishersJournal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Reproduction. Article available from Law Collective (link from Internet Archive).

The Political Conviction of R. Dhoruba Moore and the Repression of the Black Liberation Movement

CollectionGovernment Repression Year1980 PublishersInternational Committee to Free Dhoruba Moore

An eight-page tabloid newspaper from the International Committee to Free Dhoruba Moore (Brooklyn, 1980): one long article on the political conviction of Richard "Dhoruba" Moore (Dhoruba Bin Wahad), the New York Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member convicted in the 1971 killing of two police officers and freed in 1990 after years of appeals, togethe...

The Political Repression of a Chicano Movement Activist: The Plight of Francisco E. "Kiko" Martínez

CollectionGovernment Repression Year2004 AuthorsJames Barrera PublishersNational Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)

An academic conference paper by James Barrera (South Texas College) examining the decades-long political repression and federal prosecution of Chicano movement attorney and activist Francisco E. "Kiko" Martínez, presented in the NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings. Open-access via SJSU ScholarWorks / the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies A...