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You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
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Marion Prison: Inside the Lockdown Marion Prison: Inside the Lockdown
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1986Format: TranscriptCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Transcript of a radio report on conditions at Marion Federal Prison in Southern Illinois. The report was Broadcast on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" on 10/28/1986 and 11/1/1986.
Psychological Torture: U.S. Style- the Case of Alejandrina and Susan Psychological Torture: U.S. Style- the Case of Alejandrina and Susan
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWYear: 1986Format: ArticleCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Newsprint article regarding the case of political prisoners Alejandrina Torres and Susan Rosenberg.
A Report on the Marion/Lexington Demonstration (with media reports and solidarity messages from prisoners) A Report on the Marion/Lexington Demonstration (with media reports and solidarity messages from prisoners)
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown; Daily Egyptian; Southern Illinoisian; Lexington Herald Leader; Arizona Daily Star; Chicago Defender; SF Guardian; In These Times; Year: 1986Format: MonographCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Details history of CEML, the Conference for Education in 1985, and preparations for the demonstration at Lexington and Marion on 4/19/1986.
Solidarity statement to the April 19th demonstration from North American Anti-Imperialist political prisoners Solidarity statement to the April 19th demonstration from North American Anti-Imperialist political prisoners
Authors: Judy Clark, David Gilbert, Susan Rosenberg, Tim Blunk, Alan Berkman, Laura Whi tehorn, Marilyn BuckLinda Evans, Shelley MillerPublisher: Ohio 7; CEMLYear: 1986Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
4/19/1986 Message of solidarity to Marion/lexington protestors. Part of packet.
Presentation by Steve Whitman to the November 1, 1986 Conference to end the Marion Lockdown as {art of the Workshop on the Changing Nature of the US Prison System Presentation by Steve Whitman to the November 1, 1986 Conference to end the Marion Lockdown as {art of the Workshop on the Changing Nature of the US Prison System
Author: Steve WhitmanPublisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1986Format: TranscriptCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Discusses prison rates and the link to race.
Free Puerto Rico! Free Puerto Rico!
Publisher: New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and SocialismDate: 3/1986Volume Number: MarchFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Movement
Free Puerto Rico! Free Puerto Rico!
Publisher: New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and SocialismDate: 5/1986Volume Number: MayFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Movement
PR Says No to Voice of America 1000 Demonstrate to Shut Down "Maxi-Maxi" Prisons; Philippines & Puerto Rico: Key Bases for US Military Strategy; GJ Resisters Free!
Free Puerto Rico! Free Puerto Rico!
Publisher: New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Indepedence and SocialismDate: 11/1986Volume Number: NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Movement
Free Puerto Rico! Free Puerto Rico!
Publisher: New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and SocialismYear: 1986Volume Number: SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Movement
FBI Blunders - Arrests 3 for Conspiracy; US War Games "invade " PR Again; International Campaign Supports Asylum for William Morales; Police Spy/Assassin Executed; Puerto Ricans in the United States -- Victims do the American Dream
Babaye: A Primer about Women and for Women Babaye: A Primer about Women and for Women
Publisher: GABRIELA-Mindanao and Womens Studies and Research Center (Philippines)Year: 1986Format: MonographCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Produced by organizers in the Filapino Womens Movement, this monograph provides a historical context of womens oppression, the coming the Spaniards and the destrcution of traditional womens roles, women in the Phillapine Revolution and the current status of Filapino women.