Records
The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States
Companion volume to Agents of Repression (1988). Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's 1990 South End Press compilation reproduces hundreds of pages of FBI COINTELPRO documents — released under FOIA — covering the Bureau's operations against the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Puerto Rican independence movement, the New Left and the anti-war...
The Insurgent, Vol. 2 No. 3 (Winter 1986)
The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...
The Insurgent, Vol. 3 No. 2 (Fall 1987)
The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...
The Insurgent, Vol. 4 No. 3 (1988)
The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...
The International Campaign for Puerto Rican Prisoners of War
Pamphlet outlining the international campaign to free the Puerto Rican POWs and political prisoners, with calls for unconditional amnesty and immediate release plus prisoner mailing addresses for letter-writing.
The Militant, April 6, 1984
Issue of the Socialist Workers Party newsweekly (vol. 48 no. 12) with the back-page interview "A Puerto Rican activist fights FBI persecution" — Alberto de Jesús Berríos on his nine months' jailing for refusing the Sabana Seca grand jury — plus coverage of the Kathy Boudin trial's security measures, Pam Fadem's criminal-contempt prosecution, the five FALN gr...
The Shame of America — Psychological Torture U.S. Style: The Case of Alejandrina and Susan (1986)
Bilingual (English/Spanish) newsprint article on the cases of political prisoners Alejandrina Torres (FALN) and Susan Rosenberg, documenting conditions of psychological torture in U.S. federal prisons (Lexington High Security Unit).
Towards a 1992 without Puerto Rican Prisoners of War or Political Prisoners
Brochure calling for amnesty and unconditional release of the Puerto Rican POWs and political prisoners and an end to colonialism in Puerto Rico by the 1992 quincentennial. Encourages letter-writing, joining the National Committee, and political education.
Tribute to Jose E. Lopez — Chicago (October 31, 1999)
Event program from the October 31, 1999 Chicago tribute to Jose E. Lopez, honoring decades of Puerto Rican-independence organizing and the campaign to free the POWs.
US Colonialism in Puerto Rico 1898 -
Nine-question primer pamphlet on U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico — island history, strategic importance to the U.S., effects on Puerto Ricans on the island and in the diaspora, the independence movement, and why North Americans should oppose colonialism.
War in America — Stop the Repression of National Liberation Struggles
Flyer announcing a Denver national conference against repression May 28-30; covers U.S. intervention in El Salvador and escalating attacks on Third World communities. Co-sponsors include the National Committee to Free PR POWs, National Committee to Defend New Afrikan Freedom Fighters, National Committee Against Repression, and the New Movement in Solidarity...
¡Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre! — Speech by Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal (March 4, 1978)
Speech by Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña representative Ángel Rodríguez Cristóbal at the March 4, 1978 Chicago demonstration for Puerto Rican independence, freedom for the four Nationalist prisoners and the jailed grand-jury resisters — delivered twenty months before his death in federal custody. As reprinted in Breakthrough, via the Encyclopedia of Anti-Rev...