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  1. Amnesty International
    Organization profile published 1982
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1982
  2. Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti
    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1996
    An album of songs written and recorded by Woody Guthrie about the notorious case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants and anarchists in the 1920s who were charged and eventually executed after a highly dubious trial for their supposed involvement in a robbery.
  3. Briefe aus dem Gefangnis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946
  4. Burma: Ripe for change
    New Internationalist May 2008
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2008
    A look at Burma's attempts to speak out against political injustice.
  5. Cuba's Prisoner Release
    Surprise! Mainstream Media Omits Context and Key Facts
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Double standards and hypocrisy abound in American media coverage of Cuba's recent prisoner release. For example, the U.S. government holds more political prisoners on Cuban soil than the Cuban government does.
  6. Death Blossoms
    Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
  7. The English Government and the Fenian Prisoners
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1870
    On the treatment of Fenian prisoners.
  8. Free Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Now!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    In a sense, Bil’in is the Soweto, the Derry and the Chiapas of the beginning of the 21st century, with two specificities: it is a civic non-violent mobilization and it is based on a strong alliance between the local Palestinian population, the Israeli anti-colonialist movement and active international solidarity.
  9. Guantanamo North
    Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    After September 11, 2001, Canadian governments made significant changes to the law so that non-citizens with suspected links to terrorism could be held indefinitely with no due process. The Courts held that these and other changes including "judicial interrogations" and "convictions for terrorism without intent" are consistent with the Charter of Rights. The range of state secrecy extends now to everything related to national security. Diab contends that these measures are unnecessary and contrary to human rights and freedom.
  10. Hypocrisy over Cuba’s ‘political prisoners’
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Political prisoners and Cuba can be a confusing mix, in our time of mass propaganda. Three groups have attracted international attention over the past decade.
  11. I Am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now
    The Denial of My Parole
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence.
  12. Imprisoned Intellectuals
    America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Anthology of writings by imprisoned intellectuals.
  13. The Jericho `98 March: Amnesty and Freedom for All Political Prisoners
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1998
    Pushing for justice and freedom for political prisoners in the United States.
  14. Kengir uprising
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A prisoner uprising that took place in the Soviet prison labor camp Kengir in May and June 1954.
  15. Live From Death Row
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
  16. Men in Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1931
    Victor Serge's novel based on his own experiences as a politcal prisoner.
  17. Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Khatib’s arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bil’in to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest since June 23rd, 2009. The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees – the leadership of the popular struggle – who are then charged with incitement when arrested.
  18. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  19. 1976 Prisoner of Conscience Week Booklet
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    A list of 14 prisoners on conscience. Chosen for Prisoner of Conscience Week.
  20. Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1981
    The story of Timmerman's 30 months as a political prisoner under the Argentine dictatorship in the 1970s.
  21. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
  22. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1971
  23. Rosa Luxemburg 
    Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
  24. The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  25. Trial of Leonard Peletier
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    An examination of Peletier's role in the American Indian Movement, his struggle to protect the rights and land of his people and the history and role of the FBI. Messerschmidt traces the evolution of the FBI as an organization whose purpose is to disrupt and destabilize any organizations real or imagined that are a threat to American capitalism.
  26. Vorkuta uprising
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A major uprising of the concentration camp inmates in Vorkuta, Russia in July–August 1953.
  27. We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza.
  28. Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison?
    Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
  29. Writers in Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990


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