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25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance: Document No. 2 25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance: Document No. 2
Publisher: National Committee to Free the Four Puerto Rican Prisoners of WarYear: 1978Format: MonographCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Memorandum from Lolita Lebron re: the case of Puerto Rico and its Nationalist Prisoners from the November 1, 1954 attack on the Capitol and Congress.
25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance: Document No. 1 25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance: Document No. 1
Publisher: National Committee to Free the Four Puerto Rican Prisoners of WarYear: 1978Format: MonographCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Contents: Introduction; Factual Background; Petitioners; Standing; Exhaustion of Remedies; Accusation; Conclusion; Appendix.
National Committee Update National Committee Update
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersDate: 10/1/1992Volume Number: 1-OctFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Correspondance and notes
Acto Cultural Con Los Reconocidos Grupos Culturales Acto Cultural Con Los Reconocidos Grupos Culturales
Publisher: Comite Nacional Pro-Libertad Prisoners de Guerra PuertorriquenosDate: 4/2/1983Volume Number: 2-AprFormat: ProgramCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Program in Spanish.
POW Update POW Update
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersVolume Number: Vol. 1-1Format: PeriodicalCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Contents: Puerto Rican Nationalist Prisoners of War are Free; Vieques Example of Valor; Contradictions of Andres' Funeral; Free Pablo and Nydia; Lares, Cradle of Our Army.
National Conference Against Repression: A Call to Resist National Conference Against Repression: A Call to Resist
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersFormat: FlyerCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Proposition of a national conference against repression and fascism to discuss the many ramifications of US imperialist repression, and to develop a national strategy and program against fascism.
Petition to the U.N. on P.O.W. Status Petition to the U.N. on P.O.W. Status
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersFormat: MonographCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Contents: Statement of the Case; The Puerto Rican People at War with US Colonialism; The Capture and Prosecution of the Eleven; Petitioners Claim: Under International Law, Captured Puerto Rican Freedom Fightres are Entitled to the Status of Prisoner of War and to Release from Detention and Imprisonment; Conclusion: The US Government has refused to recognize petitioners' status as prisoners of war. The United Nations and its constituent bodies are the approperiate forum for their claim; Appendix.
It's Time to Bring Them Home It's Time to Bring Them Home
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersFormat: MonographCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Contents: Background; What You Can Do; Sample Letter; Prisoners' addresses; Prisoners' Biographies. In English and Spanish.
Interview with Josefina Rodriguez Interview with Josefina Rodriguez
Call Number: LA 071BFormat: Cass BProgram: KPFACollection: Puerto Rico
15 minute Interview with Josefina Rodriguez as part of a longer KPFA radio show. Rodriguez talks about her role as the International Representative for the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, her daughters (political prisoners) Alicia and Ida Luz Rodriguez, their political development, the struggle for independence, the charge of seditious conspiracy, the Lexington Pennintentiary control unit, etc.. At end, Side B cuts to music from side A.
Lolita Lebron Lolita Lebron
Collection: Puerto Rico
Lolita Lebron on Puerto Rican independence speaks in San Francisco, date unknown. Subjects include abortion, forced sterlization of Puerto Rican women, and genocide. Draws from her own experience as a political prisoner and discusses their feelings of abandonment, isolation and obscurity. Makes parallels between Vietnam's victory over the US (in which the American people were complicit) and Puerto Rico's own liberation.