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![Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control?](images/thumbnails//7934.jpg)
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: PM 419Format: Cass A & BProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
A program sponsored by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML), an organization dedicated to closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML introduces Jose Lopez, Executive Director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, member of the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, and brother of political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera. He discusses the connections between American colonialism/imperialism and the extensive use of prisons in the US.
This tape is a better copy of PM 336 and PM 345 A.
Transcript available for download.
![Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control?](images/thumbnails//7935.jpg)
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: CD 810Format: CDProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A program sponsored by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML), an organization dedicated to closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML introduces Jose Lopez, Executive Director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, member of the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, and brother of political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera. He discusses the connections between American colonialism/imperialism and the extensive use of prisons in the US.
This tape is a better copy of PM 336/345
Transcript available for download.
![Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control? CEML #2](images/thumbnails//7965.jpg)
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: CD 801Format: CDProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A program sponsored by the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML), an organization dedicated to closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML introduces Jose Lopez, Executive Director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, member of the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, and brother of political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera. He discusses the connections between American colonialism/imperialism and the extensive use of prisons in the US.
This tape is a continuation of PM 336.
Transcript available for download.
![CEML Program (10-21-1995) Keynote Address](images/thumbnails//8410.jpg)
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: V 642Format: DV CamProducers: CEMLCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Excerpts from Keynote address: MC Nancy Kurshan, speakers Dr. Alan Berkman, Nozomi Ikuta, and Jose Lopez. Topics discussed include proliferation of the criminal justice system and control units, control units and social control, physical and psychological conditions in control units, and prisons as reflections of America as a colonial power and its historical roots in racism and white power. There is also a taped video statement by Sanyika Shakur and his 60 minutes interview is shown.
Transcript available for download.
![In Defense of Armed Struggle](images/thumbnails//26768.jpg)
Publisher: The Coordinating Committee of the Nationalist Part of Puerto Rico in the United StatesYear: 1975Format: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Discussion of U.S. imperialism in light of the FALN bombing of 1975.
![Desde Las Rejas: Statements by the Eleven Puerto Rican Prisoners of War In the Concentration Camp of Cook County](images/thumbnails//26774.jpg)
Publisher: FALNDate: 4/28/1980Volume Number: April 28Format: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Statements and Declarations by the FALN 11.
![Petition to the U.N. on P.O.W. Status](images/thumbnails//26978.jpg)
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.
![25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance: Document No. 1](images/thumbnails//27008.jpg)
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.
![25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance: Document No. 2](images/thumbnails//27009.jpg)
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.
![Tribute to Jose E. Lopez](images/thumbnails//27011.jpg)
Date: 10/31/1999Volume Number: 31-OctFormat: ProgramCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Program from a 1999 tribute to Jose Lopez in Chicago.