Prarie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
An anti-imperialist group that began as the Prairie Fire Distributing Committee in 1974 to distribute Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism,
written by members of the Weather Underground Organization. After its
initial publication, groups sprang up around the country to discuss the
book. PFOC was formally organized in 1976 and was active in the San
Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Chicago until the mid-1990s. Their
work embraced a broad range of issues: international solidarity with
national liberation struggles in Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa,
Nicaragua and El Salvador; and with the struggles for self-determination
of Puerto Rican, African-American, Mexicano, and Native peoples inside
U.S. borders; support of political prisoners; opposition to white and
male supremacy and support of women’s and gay liberation.
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Breakthrough
Breakthrough was the journal of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC), published by the John Brown Book Club from 1977 to 1995.
Documents
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Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1982Volume Number: Vol. 6-1 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Defend the October 20th Freedom Fighters! P. 1 - Editorial: Palestine Will Be Free! P. 8 - Building Strategic Alliances:National Liberation inside the U.S. Imperialist State, Ahmed Obafemi, Natl Committee to Defend New Afrikan Freedom Fighters p. 17 - They are watching Assata's Daughter (poem) p. 24 - Mexico and Revolution in the Americas p. 26 - Lessons of Lares, Jose Lopez, Natl Coordinator, Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional p. 33 - "We Are a Nation at War" Interview with NAPO p. 43 - Build the National Conference Against Repression and Fascism, Denver (inside back cover)
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Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1983Volume Number: Vol. 7-1 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Repression, Resistance and the Left: the Empire Strikes Back p. 1 -On New Afrikan Freedom Fighters Day, Judith Mirkinson for PFOC Aug. 1982 p. 5 - Taming of the Freeze: Imperialist War and the Anti-Nuclear Movement p. 8 - War on Imperialist War (Krieg Dem Imperialist Krieg) p. 16 - RAF Communique: Assassination Attempt on General Kroesen Sept. 19, 1981 p. 16 - "War on Imperialist War" Women Against Imperialist War, Hamburg, West Germany p. 18 - Judgment of the Grand Jury, Carlos Noya, Liga Socialista Puertorriquena, Correo de la Quincena, Mar-Sept 1982 p. 24 - "This Court Has No Right to Try Us" Statement by New Afrikan and White Anti-Imperialist Freedom Fighters p. 28 - Stop the Grand Jury! Defeat the Federal RICO Indictment! May 19th Communist Organization p. 31
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Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1994Volume Number: Vol. 18-1 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Defend Democracy in Cuba, Restore Democracy to Haiti p. 1 - Eritrea, Dawn, Les Gottesman and Frank Duhl p. 3 - Red Light, Green Light: the Global Trafficking of Women, Judith Mirkinson p. 10 - Palestine: Reflections on a Besieged Homeland, Elias A. Rashmawi p. 16 - It's Hard to Forget...the Pain of Apartheid Still Lingers On, and I Can't Stop Crying, Simon Nkoli p. 23 - Contested Ground: the Struggle for Democracy in Burma, Alan Senauke p. 25 - Waiting Out the Storm: Haiti's Season of Terror, interview with Pierre Labossiere, commentary by Timothy Pershing, Nancy Laleua, Max Blanchet p. 32 - Cry Till Day: African Women Confront Violence, Elsa Gebreyesus p. 41 - Stolen Island: Hawai'i Demands Sovereignty, Kekuni Blaisdell p. 47 - GATT: The Great Global Rip-off, excerpts from The Uruguay Round and Third World Sovereignty, Mrtin Khor p. 50 - Message from Chiapas, documents from the Zapatista Natinoal Liberation Army (EZLN) p. 56 - AIDS in the World: a Global Report, reviewed by David Gilbert p. 60 - Write Through the Walls p. 64
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