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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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Found 236 records

"Dykes to Step Out For": A Lesbian Dance (Flyer)

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

Flyer for dance to benefit the lesbian work of Women Against Imperialism.

"Dykes to Step Out For": A Lesbian Dance (Program)

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

Program for benefit of the Women's Caucus of Women Against Imperialism.

500 Years of Resistance Through Womyn's Eyes Program

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism DateMarch 1, 1900 PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

International Women's Day demonstration plan for 2 rallies.

500 Years of Resistance... Through Women's Eyes

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

Advertisement for International Women's Day demonstration 1992.

A Brief History of Lesbian Oppression: Or, If Lesbianism is so Groovy, How Come Everybody Hates Us?

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

A brief history of lesbian specific homophobia, ant-gay laws, and its interaction with misogyny.

A Jail is a Jail

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersFreedom Archives

Typed flyer on a sheet of blue paper, double-sided. Opens with a discussion of the June 1971 transfer of inmates from NYC's infamous Women's House of Detention to the newly constructed New York City Correctional Facility for Women, which was done suddenly to try to avoid protests. The new facility at Rikers Island is described as an "isolated penal colony" w...

A Living Tomb — The Nation on the Lexington Women's Control Unit (1988)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMarch 26, 1988 AuthorsNational Campaign to Abolish the Lexington Women's Control Unit PublishersThe Nation (reprint)

March 26, 1988 reprint of The Nation's investigative report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Lexington High Security Unit, the basement control unit at FCI Lexington, Kentucky used to hold women political prisoners Susan Rosenberg, Alejandrina Torres, and Silvia Baraldini under sensory-deprivation conditions. Distributed by the National Campaign to Abolish...

Abolish Rockefeller's Prison Committee: Immediate Implementation of the Prisoner's Demands

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersWomen's Bail Fund

This flyer calls for Rockefeller's Prison Committee to be abolished, providing context for some of the crimes related to Attica which took place under Rockefeller, and for the immediate implementation of prisoner's demands.

Alderson Attica Demands

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersFreedom Archives

This pamphlet includes a list of twenty-eight demands issued by prisoners at Attica State Prison in New York in May, 1971, and 42 demands issued by women prisoners at Alderson Federal Prison, which were presented during a four day sit-in in solidarity with Attica prisoners during the week of September 14, 1971. Many of these demands refer to basic rights suc...

Angela is free! Now we must free Ruchell and all political prisoners!

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersThe Women's Bail Fund

Flyer with handwritten title announcing Angela Davis' release from prison while demanding the same for Ruchell Magee. Three typed paragraphs about Ruchell, Angela's codefendent, whose trial for murder-kidnap-consipiracy is to begin on August 1. Magee was the only person to survive the attempt to escape from the Marin County Courthouse in 1970, which was led...

Article - Lexington Appeal Decision and Women Political Prisoners

CollectionOut of Control: Lesbian Committee to Support Women Prisoners PublishersFreedom Archives

Includes handwritten notes by Jane Segal. Virtual holding only.

Attica News March 28, 1975

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateMarch 28, 1975 PublishersAttica Brothers Offense Defense/Attica Brothers Legal Defense

Contents include: New Attica Trial Will Expose State Crimes; From the Belly of the Whale; KKK Repression at Napanoch; A Black Woman's Perspective; Women's Action Puts Davits on the Spot; Who is Governor Carey?; Human Beings--Not Machines; Letter From Jail- Prison Economics; Criticism of Attica Now- Support Struggle in the Courtroom

Attica Since the Massacre

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateSeptember 30, 1971 PublishersPrisoner Solidarity Committee

Second 8-page newsletter on Attica. Attica executions, terror, continue; Oppressed bury their Attica Dead; Prison Rebellions erupt nationwide; Attica Liberation Faction Statement; Hassan of Auburn Six Speaks; Rockefeller's Other Massacre (Ludlow Colorado, 1914); Bail Fund Women Aid Imprisoned Sisters; Women Prisoners rebel in West Virginia; more.

Bound Struggles: Voices of Women in Prison

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsChicago Books to Women in Prison PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Testimonies from women incarcerated in Illinois.

Brainwashing in America? — The Women of Lexington Prison (June 1988)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJune 27, 1988 AuthorsCarlos Norman; William A. Reuben PublishersThe Nation

Investigative article from The Nation examining isolation and sensory-deprivation conditions at the Lexington Women's Control Unit.

Breakthrough (June-July 1977)

CollectionBreakthrough DateJanuary 1, 1977 PublishersFreedom Archives

Introducing Breakthrough No. 2 p. 1 - On the Conviction of Leonard Peltier with a reprint of a support statement by the Native Study Group of Vancouver, British Columbia p. 4 - The Guardian Sets Out to Build Itself a Party, a PFOC critique p. 9 - The Guardian on Women's "Emancipation" - a proposal to move backwards by Flynn and friends - Burning Spear: repri...

Breakthrough (March 1977)

CollectionBreakthrough DateMarch 1, 1977 PublishersFreedom Archives

Breakthrough - an Introduction p. 2 - Provisional Statement of PFOC p. 6 section on women's oppression & liberation p. 28 - Meaning of Chicago (class and revolutionary politics) p. 57 - Open Letter to the RC from Native American Warriors p. 59 - To My People by Assata Shakur p. 61

Brigada Victoria Mercado: first lesbian and Gay Work Brigade to Nicaragua

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen's Press

Statement of purpose and unity.

Buried Alive in the Lexington Women's Control Unit (1989)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1989 PublishersNational Campaign to Abolish the Lexington Women's Control Unit

Campaign pamphlet documenting conditions endured by women political prisoners held at the Lexington High Security Unit in Kentucky.

Capitalism Plus Dope Equals Genocide

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersFreedom Archives

This pamphlet, written by Michael "Cetewayo" Tabor, a political prisoner part of the Panther 21, deals with heroin and the issue of drug addiction, specifically its effects on the Black community of Harlem. This particular copy was reprinted by the Women's Bail Fund.

Celling Black Bodies

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross AuthorsJulia Sudbury PublishersSouth Chicago Anarchist Black Cross

Julia Sudbury on the carceral state and women of color.

Celling Black Bodies: Black Women in the Prison Industrial Complex

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Boston Year2013 AuthorsJulia Sudbury PublishersBoston Anarchist Black Cross

Julia Sudbury on the intersection of race, gender, and the prison-industrial complex.

Censored Women Speak — Marilyn Buck

CollectionPolitical Prisoners AuthorsMarilyn Buck

Essay by Marilyn Buck on political censorship and women's imprisonment, arguing that imprisonment is itself a form of censorship; includes statements by Susan Rosenberg.

Chant For My Sisters: Poems for the New Year -- 1987

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism DateJanuary 1, 1987 PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

A compilation of poems created by Women Against Imperialism. Includes poems by women of the third world and illustrations.

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.