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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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Come to the Citizen's Review Commission on the FBI!

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) PublishersNew York Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)

This flyer exposes the variety of tactics used in state-sponsored repression including grand juries and imprisonment to target as well as dismantle Black Liberation, Chicano, Puerto Rican Independence, and women's movements, among others.

De Pie Y En Lucha

CollectionMovimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN) PublishersMovimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN)

Evaluation of a Campaign; Puerto Rico's Not So Manifest Destiny; On the Chicano-Mexicano Question; Long Live the Armed Struggle.

De Pie Y En Lucha - Fall 1980

CollectionMovimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN) DateJanuary 1, 1980 PublishersMovimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN)

Contents: Desde El Foro Internacional - Quebec and the National Question; Desde Las Rejas - Communique from the Eleven POWs to the People; Desde la Clandestinidad - Colonial Elections and the Struggle of the Working Class, Statehood and Cultural Aggression, Dogmatism and the Armed Struggle; Desde La Tribuna - Statements to the United Nations Decolonization C...

Fight for Justice: Francisco "Kiko" Martínez (CSU Pueblo exhibit panel)

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersColorado State University Pueblo Library

A panel from a Colorado State University Pueblo library exhibit on Chicano-movement attorney Francisco "Kiko" Martínez. Titled "Fight for Justice," it reproduces a September 16, 1983 La Cucaracha article — "Martínez Cleared on Bomb Charges" — reporting U.S. District Judge Frank G. Theis's August 18, 1983 dismissal of the last 1973 bombing counts against him...

Francisco 'Kiko' Martinez COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

In 1973, Chicano activist and lawyer Francisco "Kiko" Martinez was indicted in Colorado on trumped-up bombing charges and suspended from the bar. He was forced to leave the United States for fear of assassination by police directed to shoot him "on sight." When Martinez was eventually brought to trial in the 1980s, many of the charges against him were droppe...

LIBERTAD - Vol. NU - XI - March 1982

CollectionLibertad DateMarch 1, 1982 PublishersNational Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

All out to Commemorate April 4th!; Letters; INS Threatens Cintron Fiallio with Deportation; Police attack Student Celebration; Message from Felix Rosa, Political Prisoner; Stop Khomieni; Frame-ups expected in Sabana Seca Investigation; Statement from Freedom Fighters Judith Clark and David Gilbert; Chilean Revolutionary Captured!; First National Chicanomexic...

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...

On The Mexicano National Question: MLN-M Discussion Document #1

CollectionMLN-M PublishersMovimiento de Liberacion Nacional Mexicano Commission

Articulates the MLN-M's perspective on the socialist reunification of Mexico. Includes the colonial theft and occupation of the northern half of Mexico by the U.S., the connection of Chicano/Mexicano people on both sides of the border, and the need for an anti-imperialist movement that addresses class and racial oppression.

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...

RDTW 2024 Solidarity Statement — Xinachtli

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Philly Year2024 PublishersPhiladelphia Anarchist Black Cross

Statement from Chicano political prisoner Alvaro Luna Hernandez (Xinachtli) on conditions in supermax confinement, recorded for Running Down The Walls 2024.

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.

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...

Transcript of Ricardo Romero, San Francisco

CollectionMLN-M DateMay 22, 1982 PublishersFreedom Archives

Transcript of a speech by Ricardo Romero about the repression of Chicano and Mexicano people in the U.S.

Unite The Many.....Defeat The Few Discussion Document #5

CollectionMovimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN) PublishersMovimiento de Liberacion Nacional

Addresses the issue of Chicano-Puerto Rican unity, including the basis for unity; the struggle for democratic and human rights; repression; the anti-imperialist struggle; Puerto Rican and Chicano prisoners of war and martyrs; and recommendations for action.

Xinachtli (Alvaro Luna Hernandez) flyer (LA ABCF, July 2024)

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Federation (ABCF) DateJuly 29, 2024 AuthorsLA Anarchist Black Cross PublishersAnarchist Black Cross Federation

LA ABCF support flyer for Chicano political prisoner Xinachtli / Alvaro Luna Hernandez.