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North American Anti-Imperialists

This collection is comprised of North American anti-imperialism organizations and movements in solidarity with national liberation movements throughout the world and inside the US. Includes extensive materials on militant activists including anti-imperialist political prisoners.

Subcollections

  • Anti-War
    Anti-War
    This collection primarily contains materials opposing the war in Vietnam. Extensive accounts from the May Day Pentagon Protests in 1967 are included as well as student and GI perspectives on the war.
  • Arm the Spirit For Revolutionary Resistance
    Arm the Spirit For Revolutionary Resistance
    Arm the Spirit is an information collective focusing on militant and revolutionary struggles with an autonomous perspective.
  • Chicago Conspiracy Trial
    Chicago Conspiracy Trial
    One of the most unusual courtroom spectacles in American history, this collection contains materials from the 1969-70 trial of eight radicals accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
  • Eco-justice
    Eco-justice
    This collection contains materials from movements, organizations and activists interested in creating a more equitable distribution of environmental benefits and burdens and promoting systems and policies of sustainability and resource management.
  • John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
    John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
    JBAKC Was born in 1978 to combat the growing organization of Klan members in the south.
  • May 19th Communist Organization
    May 19th Communist Organization
    The May 19th Communist Organization derives its name from the birth-date of Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X. Their principle task was supporting, both politically and with material aid, the wars of national liberation, outside and within the borders of the US.
  • Moncada Library
    Moncada Library
    The Moncada Library was an anti-imperialist community organizing center and lending library in Park Slope, New York. It was a project of the May 19th Communist Organization.
  • Prarie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
    Prarie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
    Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) was an anti-imperialist activist group advocating social change through collective direct action.
  • Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
    Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
    An educational and social action organization dedicated to increasing democracy in all phases of our common life.
  • Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
    Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
    This collection features interviews conducted by Sue Supriano during the 1980s for KPFA and Pacifica Radio.
  • Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
    Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
    The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was a California leftist revolutionary group active from 1973 through the mid 1970s.
  • Weather Underground Organization
    Weather Underground Organization
    The Weather Underground Organization (WUO) was a clandestine, militant anti-racist organization which aimed at the overthrow of US imperialism, foreign and domestic.
  • White Panther Party
    White Panther Party
    The White Panthers were White, leftist, anti-racists who formed the party in support of the Black Panther Party.

Documents

Stop the Grand Jury! Stop the Grand Jury!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1984Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Articles on wave of grand juries in 1984
Repression in the Land of the Free Repression in the Land of the Free
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1986Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Articles on police repression
No KKK! No Fascist USA! No KKK! No Fascist USA!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1989Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
Death to the Klan Death to the Klan
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeDate: 1/1/1979Volume Number: 1-JanFormat: PamphletCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
newsletter of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
Death to the Klan Death to the Klan
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeDate: 1/2/1979Volume Number: 2-JanFormat: PamphletCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
newsletter of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
Death to the Klan Death to the Klan
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeDate: 1/3/1980Volume Number: 3-JanFormat: PamphletCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
newsletter of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
26 Ways to Say No 26 Ways to Say No
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1989Format: FlyerCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Just Say No to Nazis campaign vs. nazi skinheads
Death to the Klan Death to the Klan
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1985Volume Number: 5Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
newsletter of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
Stop Racist Attacks on Arab People in the U.S. Stop Racist Attacks on Arab People in the U.S.
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1991Format: FlyerCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
flyer
No Nazis! No KKK! No Fascist USA No Nazis! No KKK! No Fascist USA
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1989Format: FlyerCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
flyer