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Emergency Campiagn to Drop Charges
Publisher: Emergency Committee to Defend the Human and Legal Rights of Political PrisonersYear: 1989Format: CompilationCollection: Resistance Conspiracy
Form letter from the 'Emergency Campaign to Drop the Charges' of three of the R.C.C. Includes form letter to Attorney General, fact sheet and an article about the prosecution from the New York Times.
Greetings of Solidarity
Publisher: Emergency Committee for Human Rights for Political PrisonersDate: 9/30/1989Volume Number: 30-SepFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Resistance Conspiracy
A letter from the Defendants in the 'Resistance Conspiracy Case' petioning for help in the reprinting and distribution of their 'Open Letter to the Progressive Community'. Includes a form for reprinting the letter and donating ad space.
Interview with Ed Brown
Date: 12/1/1989Call Number: SS 032BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Ed Brown, the director of Voter Education Project, brother of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly known as H. Rap Brown) and the organizer of the defense movement for Al-Amin's murder trial.
Felix Matta speaking at Puerto Rican Independence Event
Felix Matta speaking at a Solidarity event for Puerto Rican independence in San Francisco. Gloria Alunzo and Leslie Mullin give introductions. Slightly off-mic
The New York 3
Date: 1/1/1989Call Number: V 102Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Explains the case of the New York 3, jalil Muntaqim, Nuh Washington and Herman Bell in the context of the history of the Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army, FBIs Cointelpro program designed to destroy the Black liberation movement. Aside from the prisoners’ voices are interviews with Safiya Bukhari, of the Jericho Amnesty Movement and a former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member (as well as a former political prisoner and prisoner of war) and attorney Brian Glick, talking about Cointelpro and the FBI.
Grito de Lares Commemoration Event
This event, commemorating 121 years after El Grito de Lares (the “birth” of the Puerto Rican nation), was organized by Casa Puerto Rico, el Movimiento de Liberacion Puertorriqueno, and the Free Puerto Rico Committee. In mixed Spanish and English. Gloria Alonzo and Eli Jordan are the masters of ceremony. Taped from on and off mic. Continued on LA049.
Grito de Lares Commemoration Event
Continued from LA033 -- This event, commemorating 121 years after El Grito de Lares (the “birth” of the Puerto Rican nation), was organized by Casa Puerto Rico, el Movimiento de Liberacion Puertorriqueno, and the Free Puerto Rico Committee. In mixed Spanish and English. Gloria Alonzo and Eli Jordan are the masters of ceremony. This tape is the end of the speech by Josephina Rodriguez reading a message from prison from one of her daughters -- Alicia or Ida Luz. It might be on-mic.
The Resistance Conspiracy
Date: 4/13/1989Call Number: PM 222Format: CassetteProgram: In our VoicesCollection: Political Prisoners- General Info
Judy Greenspan, Mary O’Melviney, and Nikichi Taifa -- lawyers and activists-- discuss the Resistance Conspiracy Case and the struggles for Laura Whitehorn, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Tim Blunk, Susan Rosenberg, and Alan Berkman, all charged with "conspiracy to protest and alter government policies through use of violence," specifically stemming from a bombing of the Capitol Building in 1983.
This broadcast explores the political nature of the case, the lack of evidence and due process involved in this case, as well as the horrendous conditions faced by these prisoners of war. Judy Greenspan, Mary O'Melviney, and Nikichi Taifa also try to contextualize the actions of these prisoners with a broader justice movement against the crimes of the U.S. nationally and internationally.
Presentation on Puerto Rican political prisoners by Josefina Rodriguez
Josefina Rodrieguez, mother of two Puerto Rican prisoners in the United States speaks about her international work and solidarity with political prisoners, and her fight to have Puerto Rican political prisoners recognized around the world. She discusses also the prison conditions in which prisoners are subjected, expecially women prisoners within the system.
West Block (Gun Rail) Bay Side
Date: 6/2/1989Call Number: V 178Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In this video, prison guards videotape a cellblock tier in order to determine ideal prisoner surveillance.
