prairie fire organizing committee

Video

• Engendering Colonialism: The Effect of 100 Years of U.S. Colonialism on Women in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and The Philippines

Published Articles

• Puerto Rican Community in Chicago (Z Net web site)

Speeches and Messages

• Speech on Sexuality and Colonialism
• LBGT Liberation and Building a Progressive Movement, Nov. 14, 2002
• Civil Liberties, Sept. 28, 2002
• Let's Build a Movement for Liberation!
(Prairie Fire statement for April 20th, 2002)
• How Can We Create A World Safe From Terrorism?, Dec. 15th, 2001   PDF version 
• Deconstructing the War on Terror: Race, Gender and History
• Fear and Gender: Thoughts on Building an Anti-War Movement, Nov. 10th, 2001
• Masculinity and the U.S. Military
• Repression: What Has Changed, What Has Remained The Same. Speech on Political Repression, Nov. 7th, 2001
• Speech on Israeli occupation of Palestine, Oct. 29th, 2001
• Statement on U.S. war on Afghanistan and international law
• Prairie Fire Statement on September 11th   PDF version  
• Speech on U.S. Navy and Vieques
• Speech on Community-Friendly Development vs. Gentrification
• Speech on Overturning of Red Squad Consent Decree
• Solidarity Message for Demonstration against Visiting Forces Agreement
• Message from Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Bloc and Prairie Fire's Response
• Speech on May Day 2000
• Speech on Chile and Pinochet
• Speech on International Women's Day 1999
  • Full 4-page pamphlet in PDF version (368 kb) 
• On Reparations for New Afrika: Response to David Horowitz's speech at the University of Chicago
• New Afrikan & Black Political Prisoners Program 2000: A Tribute to Nuh Washington  
• New Afrikan & Black Political Prisoners Program 2000 (Introductory Notes)
• Puerto Rico: Hidden Colony, Hidden Struggle forum at Penn State

Flyers

• No War (white on black)
• A20: Building a Movement for Liberation!  
• Freedom for All U.S. Held Political Prisoners (flyer) 
• Flyer from Workshop on Women U.S. Held Political Prisoners at Ladyfestmidwest 
• Sample letter/flyer demanding freedom for Leonard Peltier 
• Sample letter/flyer on the Release 2000 Campaign (for federally held political prisoners  
• Flyer demanding an end to the U.S. military's bombings in Vieques, Puerto Rico 
• Freedom for Zolo Agona Azania (flyer) 

Useful Links

• If an Agent Knocks Federal Investigators and Your Rights
  This was originally published as a pamphlet, March 1985, by the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City during the F.B.I.'s COINTELPRO offensive against the Sanctuary and Central American Solidarity Movements. For example, the F.B.I.'s "investigation" of CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) involved 59 field offices and 200 incidents of death threats, intimidation, and break-ins.(See, "The FBI and CISPES: Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence, United States Senate," S. Rep. 101-46, 1989; Ross Gelbspan, "Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI: The Covert War Against the Central America Movement, " South End Press, 1991.)
• National Lawyer's Guild pamphlet: Know Your Rights
• Articles from Breakthrough: the Journal of Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (Spring 1994 issue)
• "Red Light, Green Light: The Global Trafficking Of Women" by Judith Mirkinson
• "Stolen islands: Hawai'i Demands Sovereignty" by Kekuni Blaisdell
• "AIDS in the World: A Global Report" by David Gilbert
• Articles from Crossroad: the Newsletter of the Crossroad Support Network, from Spear and Shield Publications
. Crossroads is a non-sectarian newsletter produced by and for New Afrikan Prisoners of War and Political Prisoners.
• Perspectives on September 11th
  
  • S11: Truth and Consequences: radical perspectives on September 11th a collection of essays hosted online by the Solidarity and Arm the Spirit collectives
  • Reflections on 9-11: What Now? from Colorlines
  • Black Voices for Peace Speak Out

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