Records
A Report on the Marion/Lexington Demonstration (with media reports and solidarity messages from prisoners)
Details history of CEML, the Conference for Education in 1985, and preparations for the demonstration at Lexington and Marion on 4/19/1986.
Free Book on Marion; Religious Leaders Work to end the Marion Prison Lockdown
Reproduction of: Note on book about Marion prison and associated issues being available for Free from Hon. Robert W. Kastenmeier; Newspaper clipping on Conference for Education and Action on the third Anniversary of the Marion Lockdown.
General Petition to US Bureau of Prisons
Regarding conditions and existance of lockdown.
LIBERTAD - Vol. VII-I - January 1986
Contents: Greetings 1986 - New Year: New Struggles, New Victories; From Utopian Unity to Practical Unity by Elizam Escobar; The Lessons of August 30 by Julio Rosado; Unity and Non-Collaboration by Carlos Noya; A Step Towards Unity by Carlos Alberto Torres; A Revolutions Request by Elizam Escobar.
LIBERTAD - Vol. VII-II - February 1986
Contents: Guillermo's Fight Continues!; POW Alicia Rodriguez Recuperates from Surgery; Interview with Josefina Rodriguez; They Indefatigable Struggle for the Presentation of the Arrested and Disappeared; The Failure of a Counter Revolutionary Plot; Puerto Rican Revolutionary National Front Strikes Out at US Militarism!; POW and Political Prisoner Update.
LIBERTAD - Vol. VII-III - March 1986
Contents: Mutulu Shakur Captured in Los Angeles; Prisons: Fortresses of Repression; The Right to Fight is Non-Negotiable; Unity: A Continuous and Dialectical Process; US Government to force Navajos off Big Mountain; POW and Political Prisoner Update; Letter from Lucy Berrios and Yvonne Melendez; International tributes to Juan Antonio Corretjer; Unity and the...
LIBERTAD - Vol. VII-IV - April 1986
Contents: PCE and GRAPO political prisoners on Hunger Strike; April- Hundreds to Demand Shut down Marion and Lexington; Interview with Jorge Farinacci; Vieques: New Economic Focus; Trail Run for the 2020 Plan; The Littlest Warrior by Dylcia Pagan-Morales; Statement from the Puerto Rico Independence 13; Celebrations planned for Grand Jury Resistors; New arres...
LIBERTAD - Vol. VII-VI - June 1986
Contents: Campaign Pro Political Asylum in Full Gear - No Extradition for Guillermo Morales!; Maria Cueto Released! Ocean Venture 1986 - Self Fulfilling Prophesy; Interview with the West German Resistance; Execution of Gonzalez Malave; West Town Law Office Under Attack by the FBI.
LIBERTAD - Vol. VII-VII - July 1986
Contents: POW Oscar Lopez Rivera transferred to Marion, US Government plans new crackdown on independence movement; Ricardo Romero- Symbol of Resistance; Reflections on Guillermo Morales by Alan Berkman; Anti-Klan/Nazi Coalition Carries Out Successful Action; Ohio 7 Indicted on Seditious Conspiracy.
LIBERTAD - Vol. VII-VIII - August 1986
Contents: Interview with Jose Lopez; Jaime, Dora and Viola Out on Bond- Government turns to Grand Jury Witch Hunt; Month of Solidarity with Guillermo Morales Marches Forward; Reflections on Prison; Black August.
LIBERTAD - Vol. VII-X - October 1986
Contents: Felix Rosa- The Unbreakable Will of a Patriot; US Government Intensifies Counter-Insurgency Campaign Against Independence Movement; POW Luis Rosa under 24 hour Lockdown; Luis Lausell Imprisoned for Income Tax Protest; Successful Latin American Encounter Against Repression and For Human Rights; News on the Puerto Rico Independence 16; August 30th Co...
LIBERTAD - Vol. VII-XI - November 1986
Contents: Inhumane conditions at MCC Focus of National Committee Campaign; Rousing Community Welcome for Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Felix Rosa!; The Triumph of Principles; The Subjective Factor; Message from the Morovis Independence Front; Puerto Rican Independence 16; Kiko Martinez trial Update; National Committee Member Arrested and Beaten by Chicago...
LIBERTAD - Vol. VII-XII - December 1986
Contents: The Case of Alejandrina and Susan: Psychological Torture Exposed Close the Control Unit! Campaign to Protest Inhuman Conditions at MCC for Oscar and Kojo Continues; Prisoners of War/Political Prisoners: What is the Difference?; The Roots of El Yunque; Communique from the Puerto Rican Peoples Army - Macheteros; The Puerto Rican Nationalists; Health...
Marion: The Prisoners Speak
Collection of statements by prisoners at Marion. Reproduction.
Presentation by Steve Whitman to the November 1, 1986 Conference to end the Marion Lockdown as {art of the Workshop on the Changing Nature of the US Prison System
Discusses prison rates and the link to race.
Prison Group Report on Marion: Calls for Continued Monitoring, Report Cites "Uneasy calm"
Reproduction of press release 1/9/1986. "A 20-page document released today… reports on the prison watchdog's recent inspection of the super-maximum security United States Penitentiary in Marion Illinois."
Solidarity statement to the April 19th demonstration from North American Anti-Imperialist political prisoners
4/19/1986 Message of solidarity to Marion/lexington protestors. Part of packet.
Vita Wa Watu Book Nine
Notes on the Link Between Oppression of New Afrikan Women and the New Afrikan National Liberation Revolution Part One: The Origin and Nature of Women's Oppression; ending Colonial Police Violence in the African Community by Community Self-Defense Program, NY; Organization Means Commitment; On the RNA and the Provisional Government.
Vita Wa Watu: More Notes from a New Afrikan POW Journal Book Eight
About These Notes; Black Liberation, A Speech by James Forman; Afterwords: Notes on the Transition of the "Black Liberation" Phrase, Concept, and Movement by Mwalimu Shanna and Seldom Seen; A Letter from the Creative Image Scholarship Fund