Records
Stop the Grand Jury! (November 1984)
The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee's newspaper on the mid-1980s wave of political grand juries: the D.C. grand jury that subpoenaed four JBAKC members (Steven Burke, Julie Nalibov, Christine Rico and Sandra Roland, all later jailed as resisters), the Boston grand jury and Operation BOSLUC manhunt, the Battle Creek grand jury that subpoenaed 200 people from t...
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 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 Militant, July 1, 1977
Issue of the Socialist Workers Party newsweekly (vol. 41 no. 25). Coverage includes the first anniversary of the Soweto uprising and the U.S. solidarity actions, the campaign to open the FBI's Rosenberg files (with Morton Sobell), the grand-jury investigations of the Puerto Rican independence movement, and the post-Franco amnesty struggles in Spain.