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New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

N.A.P.O. is a revolutionary nationalist cadre organization. Its members are imprisoned nationals of the colonized nation- New Afrika.

Documents

So that We Don't Fool Ourselves -- Again: Study Notes on Secure Communication So that We Don't Fool Ourselves -- Again: Study Notes on Secure Communication
Publisher: Spear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners OrganizationFormat: MonographCollection: New Afrikan Prisoners Organization
Introduction by Atilba Shanna; Notes on Secure Communication by Seldom Seen; Reflections on Victor Serge's What Everyone Should Know About (State) Repression by Ata Kawali; So That We Don't Fool Ourselves -- Again by Seldom Seen; The Greater need -- An Open Letter by Iyapo Tsukama
The Fuse The Fuse
Publisher: Spear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners OrganizationYear: 1978Volume Number: No. 8 AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan Prisoners Organization
Formerly Stateville Raps
Why We Support the Stateville Four: A Political Statement from the Stateville Prisoners Organization Why We Support the Stateville Four: A Political Statement from the Stateville Prisoners Organization
Publisher: Stateville Prisoners OrganizationFormat: PamphletCollection: New Afrikan Prisoners Organization
A Political Statement from the Stateville Prisoners Organization
We Still Charge Genocide We Still Charge Genocide
Publisher: New Afrikan Prisoners OrganizationDate: 8/31/1977Volume Number: August 31Format: MonographCollection: New Afrikan Prisoners Organization
The Thirteenth Amedment: Instrument of Legalized Slavery and the Re-subjugation of New Afrika.
Notes from a New Afrikan POW Notes from a New Afrikan POW
Publisher: Spear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners OrganizationVolume Number: Book OneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan Prisoners Organization
On Transforming the Colonial/Criminal Mentality; Afrikan POW's and the United Nations; SPO "Prison Movement" Discussion Paper No. 1: Contributions Toward the National Prisoners Movement; SPO "Prison movement" Discussion paper No. 2: The "Prison Movement" and National Liberation.
Notes from a New Afrikan POW Notes from a New Afrikan POW
Publisher: Spear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners OrganizationVolume Number: Book TwoFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan Prisoners Organization
The Thirteenth Amendment: Instrument of Legalized Slavery and the Re-subjugation of New Afrika; We Still Charge Genocide; Toward Clarity on CC's, PP's, and POW's; On Revolutionary Politics; On Concrete Solidarity; Message to Afrikan American Women for Positive and Productive Change
Notes from a New Afrikan POW Notes from a New Afrikan POW
Publisher: Spear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners OrganizationVolume Number: Book ThreeFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan Prisoners Organization
Thoughts on the Eve of a New Year - 15 ADM; Are we Asking the Rights Questions?; From one Generation to the Next!
Notes from a New Afrikan POW Notes from a New Afrikan POW
Publisher: Spear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners OrganizationVolume Number: Book FourFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan Prisoners Organization
Vita Wa Watu; Debray Re-Visited
Notes from a New Afrikan POW Notes from a New Afrikan POW
Publisher: Spear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners OrganizationVolume Number: Book SixFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan Prisoners Organization
Who Killed McDuffie? Poem by Hakim Al-Jamil; Against the Wind - A Response To: Organizational Connection of the Mass Front and the Armed Front; Iranian Excerpts: On the Necessity of armed Struggle and Refutation of the Theory of "Survival" by Amir Pouyan; Armed Struggle: The Road to the Mobilization of the Masses by Bizhan Jazani
Notes from a New Afrikan POW Notes from a New Afrikan POW
Publisher: Spear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners OrganizationVolume Number: Book SevenFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan Prisoners Organization
Kamp Documents; Coming of Age; On Transforming the Colonial and Criminal Mentality; In the Spirit of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark: Carry on the Tradition; Excepts from: Thoughts on Consolidation, Ideology, and Organization: A Discussion Paper