Title: Emergency Committee to Defend the Human and Legal Rights of Political Prisoners Records
Inclusive Dates: 1985-1991

Creator:

• Emergency Committee to Defend the Human and Legal Rights of Political Prisoners

Call Number: M91-262

Quantity: 2.4 c.f., 8 videorecordings, and 7 tape recordings

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of the Emergency Committee to Defend Human and Legal Rights of Political Prisoners, a support group for the Resistance Conspiracy Six (Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg, and Laura Whitehorn), all long-time political activists who were charged with conspiracy in connection with the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Capitol, a protest against the invasion of Grenada. Although the government admitted it had no evidence linking these specific people to the bombing, the six were convicted and sentenced to prison terms. The records document the Resistance Conspiracy case, the legal tactics used by the prosecution, the individuals involved and their philosophy, and the revolutionary network, especially the women’s and radical lesbian component of it. Included is correspondence, position papers, statements, flyers, programs, photographs, posters, original artwork, stickers, press kits, clippings, petitions, interviews with the six, and statements by other political prisoners.

Note:

The videorecordings in this collection are also being cataloged individually.

Language: English, Spanish

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m91262

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Judith Greenspan, Oakland, California. Accession Number: M91-262

M91-262 Box   1	Photographs
Box   1	Tribunal
Box   1	Case file, 1990-1991, volumes 1-2
Box   1	Free political prisoners materials
Box   1	Resistance actions
Box   1	FOIA charges and motion to dismiss prosecutorial misconduct
Box   1	Correspondence concerning the release of Dr. Alan Berkman
Box   1	Through the Wire
Box   1	Lexington, Kentucky Women's Control Unit
Box   1	George Jackson Brigade
Box   1	Plea bargain
Box   1	Solidarity
Box   1	Statements Note: In Spanish.
Box   1	Cockburn
Box   1	Susan B. Tipograph correspondence with the Federal Bureau of Prisons regarding Alan Berkman
Box   1	United States Attorney, Ronald H. Levine response to Judge Pollak, Rule 35, 1990
Box   1	Parole Board appeal, denial and Kunstler letter
Box   1	Can't Jail the Spirit
Box   1	FBI
Box   1	Black Panther Newspaper Committee
Box   1	Other political prisoners
Box   1	Outreach letter
Box   1	MOVE organization, Philadelphia
Box   1	Mailing lists
Box   1	Alan Berkman campaign
Box   1	Salvadorian solidarity political prisoners
Box   1	Sentence petitions
Box   1	Through the Wire news articles
Box   2	Media packets
Box   2	Political prisoners
Box   2	Amnesty International
	Publications
Box   2	Conspiracy of Voices
Box   2	Break Through,Winter, 1991
Box   2	Phoebe, Spring, 1990
Box   2	Note cards
Box   2	National Campaign to Abolish the Lexington Women's Control Unit
	“Resistance/Conspiracy”
Box   2	Statements, releases, flyers and speeches
Box   2	International Women's Day
Box   2	Grand jury
Box   2	Media lists, I-II
Box   2	Outreach, campaign and networking documents
Box   2	Stickers
Box   2	Prosecutorial misconduct
Box   2	Off Our Backs, clippings
Box   2	Press conference letter
Box   2	Press kit
Box   2	Newsletter
Box   2	Open letter
Box   2	Statement Note: In Spanish.
Box   2	Open letter Note: In Spanish.
Box   2	The Insurgent
Box   2	Sedition Committee
Box   2	Poetry
Box   2	News articles
	“General”
Box   2	Resistance Conspiracy film screenings
Box   2	Legal correspondence
Box   2	Outreach materials
Box   2	Flyers
Box   2	Grand Jury, Linda Backiel
	Research
Box   2	Sentence
Box   2	Ku Klux Klan
Box   2	Abortions
Box   2	Bombings
Box   2	Violence
Box   2	Student organizing
Box   2	Court transcript
Box   2	Stationery
Box   2	Loose Lesbian Network, 1991
Box   2	Political prisoner addresses
Box   2	Hunger strike
Box   2	Press packet
Box   2	Resistance petitions
Box   2	Greene opinion
Box   2	Tierra Amavilla
Box   2	Metropolitan Correctional Center Campaign
Box   2	Wall leaflet originals
Box   2	Biographies
Box   2	Mailings
Box   2	July statements
Box   2	Sentencing memo
Box   2	Resistance-Freedom now
Box   3	Guardian Rudd Series
Box   3	Open letter formats advertisement
Box   3	Rosenberg Fund for Children
Box   3	Amnesty International, 1991
Box   3	Thornburgh letters
Box   3	Flyer originals
	Publications
Box   3	On the Issues, volume 13
Box   3	Hag Rag volume 4, no. 3
Box   3	Studies on the Left volume 16, no. 2
Box   3	Covert Action Information Bulletin, no. 31
Box   3	Build a Revolutionary Resistance Movement
Box   3	Poetry originals
Box   3	Artwork
Box   3	Correspondence, note cards and flyers
Box   3	Posters
	Videorecordings Physical Description: VHS tapes
VHA 202	Resistance Conspiracy, produced by Lisa Rudman and PCTV, 1990 Physical Description: 40 minutes
VHA 203	Through the Wire, produced by Nina Rosenblum Physical Description: 75 minutes
VHA 204, 205	Female High Security Unit, produced and directed by Nina Rosenblum Physical Description: 45 minutes
VHA 206, 207	Laura Whitehorn interview by PRESSA Physical Description: 59 minutes
VHA 208	Susan Rosenberg interview by PRESSA Physical Description: 60 minutes
Unnumbered	Due diligence hearing defense exhibit #2
	Audio recordings Physical Description: Cassette tapes
Box   4	International Women's Day, Political Women Prisoners in the United States, produced by Sally O'Brien, WBAI, March 8, 1990
Box   4	Behind the News with Zenzile, Khoisan-Spanish political prisoners, GRAPO Hunger Strike, Tim Blunk, Dr. B. Zellner, Dr. Gerald Honne on Namibia, March 27, 1990
Box   4	Interview with Susan Rosenberg, produced by Behr and Beth Maizes, August 8, 1989
Box   4	Interview with Susan Rosenberb, CKLN Radio, Toronto, July 28, 1987
Box   4	“Resistance Conspiracy,” original copy, April, 13, 1989
Box   4	Lesbian and gay support of political prisoners, WBAI, June 16, 1991 Physical Description: 2 cassette tapes