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Lexington Prison Interviews (1987) Lexington Prison Interviews (1987)
Date: 5/1/1987Call Number: PM 184AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Political prisoners Alejandrina Torres, Silvia Baraldini, and Susan Rosenberg describe their living conditions at the control unit of the federal women’s prison in Lexington which opened in 1986: radical isolation, constant surveillance, sensory deprivation, no personal property, limited visits, etc. Defined by the government as the most dangerous women in prison for their political activities in various anti-war and liberation movements, Torres, Baraldini, and Rosenberg have been subjected to a sophisticated kind of psychological torture. According to them they have been used as examples of the consequences to be expected if one challenges the hegemony of US power. The interviews stress the importance of public pressure to have the unit closed.
Lexington Prison Interviews (1987) Lexington Prison Interviews (1987)
Date: 5/1/1987Call Number: PM 185AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Same as PM 184 Political prisoners Alejandrina Torres, Silvia Baraldini, and Susan Rosenberg describe their living conditions at the control unit of the federal women’s prison in Lexington which opened in 1986: radical isolation, constant surveillance, sensory deprivation, no personal property, limited visits, etc. Defined by the government as the most dangerous women in prison for their political activities in various anti-war and liberation movements, Torres, Baraldini, and Rosenberg have been subjected to a sophisticated kind of psychological torture. According to them they have been used as examples of the consequences to be expected if one challenges the hegemony of US power. The interviews stress the importance of public pressure to have the unit closed.
Interview with Susan Rosenberg about conditions in the women’s political prison, Lexington. Interview with Susan Rosenberg about conditions in the women’s political prison, Lexington.
Call Number: PM 438AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sally O’Brian, Terry BissonCollection: Political Prisoners- General Info
Interview with Susan Rosenberg, an American revoluntionary anti-imperialist female political prisoner, about Lexington prison. . Susan Rosenberg describes the focus of Lexington as “the psychological element of incarceration to disintigrate the personality”. She speaks about the terribly harsh and restrictive conditions of Lexington, as well as the psychological impact of the prison. Rosenberg speaks about how every prisoner is there for political reasons, as the control unit is not based on disciplinary measures, but on classificationof who and what the prisoners are associated with. Susan Rosenberg’s attorney, Michael Schubert, speaks about the isolation and solitary confinement the Lesington prisoners experience, and how such isolation is aimed at keeping the prisoners isolated from politics.
Lexington Prison Interviews 1987 Lexington Prison Interviews 1987
Date: 5/1/1987Call Number: CD 779Format: CDProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Alejandrina Torres, Silvia Baraldini, and Susan Rosenberg describe their living conditions at the control unit of the federal women’s prison in Lexington which opened in 1986. The interviews stress the importance of public pressure to have the unit closed.
Interview with Susan Rosenberg and Josefina Rodriguez Interview with Susan Rosenberg and Josefina Rodriguez
Call Number: CD 799Format: CDProducers: Sally O’Brian, Terry BissonCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Interview with Susan Rosenberg, an American revolutionary anti-imperialist female political prisoner, about Lexington prison. Susan Rosenberg describes the focus of Lexington as “the psychological element of incarceration to disintegrate the personality”. She speaks about the terribly harsh and restrictive conditions of Lexington, as well as the psychological impact of the prison. Rosenberg speaks about how every prisoner is there for political reasons, as the control unit is not based on disciplinary measures, but on classification who and what the prisoners are associated with. Susan Rosenberg’s attorney, Michael Schubert, speaks about the isolation and solitary confinement the Lexington prisoners experience, and how such isolation is aimed at keeping the prisoners isolated from politics.
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1985Volume Number: Vol. 9-1 Spring-SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Disturbing their Peace p. 2 - The Next Wave: Thoughts on Revolutionary Feminism p. 4 - Azania: the Fire This Time by New Afrikan People's Organization p. 15 - De Pie y en Guerra, interview with Puerto Rican POW Oscar Lopez Rivera p. 23 - Don Juan Antonio Corretjer 1908-1985 p. 25 - The New Right: with God on Their Side p. 35 - From the Clandestine Movement: Red Guerrilla Resistance Bombs NY Patrolmen's Benevolent Association p. 45 - Can't Kill the Spirit: Staements from Revolutionary Prisoners: New York 8 p. 47 - Ohio Five p. 48 - Susan Rosenberg and Tim Blunk p. 50 - Write to the Prisoners p. 51
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1989Volume Number: Vol. 13-1 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorrial: El Salvador p. 1 - Editorial - Political Prisoners in the US: Breaking the Silence p. 3 - Post-feminist Mystique by Judith Mirkinson p. 5 - We're PISD, We're Gonna Seize Control, Ferd Eggan PISD Caucus of ACT NOW p. 10 - Battlezone L.A, Makungu Akinyele, New Afrikan People's Organization p. 15 - Namibia and Angola: Free at Last? Felix Shafer p. 19 - Women of the Philippine Revolution, interview with Makibaka p. 22 - Mexico: Cardenas, the Left and the PRI, interview with Gabino Gomez, Comite de Defensa Popular p. 33 - Occupied Mexico: Land Struggle in Tierra Amarilla p. 37 - Write Through the Walls p. 43
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1990Volume Number: Vol. 14-2 FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
AIDS: Action = Life; Native Americans: This Land is Their Land; Central American Symposium: Where Do We Go From Here?; Report from the West Bank: With Stones and Honor: Palestinian Women in the Intifada; Interview with Boris Kagarlistky: An Extremely Socialist Way of Being Capitalist The Soviet New Left Critiques Perestroika; Interview with Sergo Mikoyan: Latin America: a Soviet View; Deutsch Marks or Karl Marx? The West German Left faces Reunification; Alan Berkman: Fighting for his Life; Write Through the Walls
Barbaric Prison Conditions Hit Barbaric Prison Conditions Hit
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1993Volume Number: Vol. 17-1 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Queer Rights are Human Rights Are Queer Rights p. 1; Telling the World: a Retrospective Look at the Marches, Jewelle Gomez p. 3 - Gay and Puertorriqueno, Carlos Ortiz p. 6 - Ball-busting Feminist Dykes Unite! How the Backlash on Feminism Has Hurt Lesbians, Sally Thomas p. 12 - Voices of People with HIV: Letter to the Dead, Marlon Riggs p. 17 - Unmasking the Epidemic: Women with HIV Speak Out, Women Organized to Resist Life-threatening Diseases (WORLD) p. 22 - Buying Time, Moving Toward the Milennium, Ferd Eggan p. 25 - Lesbian Visions p. 28 - The Choice is Ours: Gays in the Military Michael Job p. 30 - Getting Down and This is Where I Was Born, poems, Chrystos, p. 35 - Fighting Operation Bigotry in Oregon, Suzanne Pharr p. 36 - I Am Your Sister: Blck Women Organizing Across Sexualities, Audre Lorde, p. 40 - Sexual Terror, poem, Tede Matthews p. 44 - Can't Jail the Spirit: Building Bridges, Lin Elliot p. 46 - Free Norma Jean Croy p. 49 - AIDS Wars: DC Jail, Susan Rosenberg p. 50 - Inside Looking Out: Thoughts on the March on Washington, Laura Whitehorn p. 52 - Remember your Sons and Daughters: Prisoner with HIV, Charles W. Perry, CMF-Vacaville p. 54 - Write Through the Walls p. 56
Dear Resistance Conspiracy Case Supporters Dear Resistance Conspiracy Case Supporters
Author: Judy GreenspanPublisher: Washington Area Committee for Political Prisoners RightsDate: 1/29/1991Volume Number: 29-JanFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Resistance Conspiracy
Wrap-up letter of the Resistance Conspiracy Case. Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg, Laura Whitehorn, Alan Berkman all sentenced and taken to various federal prisons around the country. Addresses are included for correspondence, more info about Freedom Now and information about Mumia Abu Jamal and Bashir Hameed.