Box: Anvil – Outlaw – Arm the Spirit
The Politics of Crime
Ed Mead
Classic pamphlet written by member of George Jackson Brigade shortly after arrest in
connection with unsuccessful bank robbery attempt in 1976.
Community Control of Police
Arguments for direct control of police by neighborhood residents in Berkeley.
Pamphlet. 20 pages. No Date. Circa 1970.
The Struggle Inside
Information on the Prison System. Covers topics such as racism, youth, women, “rehabilitation,”
indeterminate sentence, the adult authority, domestic law and international order, a brief history
of the prison movement from inside, and abolition.
Pamphlet. 16 Pages. No Date. Early1970s.
Anvil
Publication of the United Prisoners Union (renamed the California Prisoners Union)
Newspaper.
Vol.1 No.1 – April 1971.
Includes the inaugural editorial, “We Must Unite” (text of the UPU constitution drawn up by
“We, the Convicted Class”). Articles on the Case of Larry Justice and Earl Gibson, the San
Quentin Six, Ruchell Magee, Women Prisoners.
Vol.1 No.2 – July 1971
Editorial: “We must unionize!” Articles on the CPU Convention, Congressman Ron Dellums on
prisons and the CPU, Reflections of a Prison Psychiatrist (Frank Rundle, MD, former Chief
Psychiatrist at Soledad), Bill of Rights of the Convicted Class, Poetry of the Convicted Class.
Vol.1 No.3 – Aug.-Sept., 1971
Articles include: CPU Press Conference on San Quentin Murder, Parole as a Continuation of
Prison, Sadistic Castrators Exposed, Strike at Women’s Prison, Kisu Speaks to the People, Legal
Recourse to Medical Abuse, Poetry of the Convicted Class, the Griffin-Bussey Railroad, The
Struggle at San Quentin, David Hilliard Railroaded, Jailhouse Lawyers Manual, George Jackson
P.S. On Ulysses.
August 1974
Articles include: The Most Neglected Area: Women in Prison, Prison Movement Attacked, From
the Inside, The Struggle Continues (Ruchell MaGee), The Continuing Use of Psychosurgery.
March-April 1975
Articles include: History of U.P.U, Expose the Prison Cover-Up, Legal Page, Women in
Struggle, Marilyn Buck: 2 years later, From the Inside. 2 copies
September 1975
Articles include: Peoples’ Response to Popeye’s Murder, From the Inside, Editorial Page, Pigs
Step Up Repression, Struggles on the Inside. 2 copies
March 1976
Articles include: UPU History, Practice, Objectives, S.L.A. Statement, S.Q. Violence Continues,
Women Strike at N.C. Prison, Angola.
Arm the Spirit
Newspaper
Number 3 – May 1979
Articles include: Free the Pontiac Brothers! Demands to the California Department of
Corrections from San Quentin Prisoners, Open Letter to Africans of British Isles from an African
in N. America, LA County Jail Colonial Violence, Stop the New Prisons, Que Viva Puerto Rico
Libre!, Aisha Audeh Released from Israeli Prison, Support Minimum Wage Bill for Prisoners
Number 4 – August 1979
Articles include: Honor Fallen Freedom Fighters: Build Black August Month, Message from
S.Q. Adjustment Center, Black Cultural Development and Revolutionary Growth, Pontiac
Update, Report from Folsom: Did Folsom Prison Officials have Complicity in Racist Attack on
Blacks, Lewisburg Manifesto, B.L.A. Under Attack, Call to Build a National Black Human
Rights Coalition, Black Prison Guards, A Brief History on the Formation of ZANLA, Close
Marion Control Unit!
Number 5, November 1979
Articles include: Open Letter to Black People in U.S. Prisons, Jesse Jackson and the PLO,
Prisoner Control of a National Prison Newspaper, The Situation of African Women in Maryland
Prisons, Free Leonard Peltier and all Native American POW’s!, The Need for Unity in Building
and National Black Prisoners’ Organization, Message to August 25th Demo From San Quentin
Adjustment Center, The Nationalists are Free! Free all Puerto Rican POWs!, Stop Genocide –
Smash the Death Penalty, Native American Prisoners face the Death Penalty, On the Formation
of ZANLA
Number 6, Feb-Apr 1980
Articles include: Black Liberation Movement Re-emerging, Assata is Free, Puerto Rican POW
Murdered, Free Geronimo and All Political Prisoners Expose COINTELPRO, Statement of
Support for the Iranian People, Peltier Convicted, On Incarcerated Mothers, Fleeta Drumgo
Murdered, Open Letter from Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, Pontiac Update, Chol Soo Lee
Must be Free, Letter from Angola, LA., Hands off Iran!, Support the Napanoch Brothers!,
Dialectical Criticism of Slave Prisoner Mentality
Number 8, August-September 1980
Articles include: FBI Raids Black Homes in Search of Assata Shakur, Black August 1980,
Pontiac Frameup Continues, Free All Puerto Rican Prisoners of War, On the Black Liberation
Army, Ideological Alliance of African People inside U.S. Borders, The Political Conviction of R.
Dhoruba Moore and the Repression of the Black Liberation Movement, An Introspective View
of Black Liberation, Against Racism in British Prisons
Number 10, December 1980-January 1981
Articles include: Message from Assata Shakur, Mockery of Justice in Pontiac Death Penalty,
Free Leonard Peltier, Smash the Death Penalty, Women Prisoners Protest Harassment, Work
Stoppage at Marion, Black prisoners call for unity, Geronimo Pratt’s New Trial Denied
Number 11, April-May 1981
Articles include: National demonstrations to free the Pontiac Brothers!, Namibia will be Free,
Puerto Rican Prisoners of War Respond to Sedition Charges, Peltier’s escape conviction
overturned, Bobby Garcia murdered in Terre Haute Prison, Our human natural resources are
being destroyed, Kiko Martinez faces bombing charges, Michigan City 9 face charges from
prison rebellion, Strikes at Indiana State against subhuman conditions, A warning to prisoners,
Statement by Cathy Wilkerson
Number 13, Winter 1982
Articles include: B.L.A. Communiqué, An interview with Don Juan Antonio Corretjer, Grand
Jury Resisters face Prison, Black August Organizing Committee Under Attack, Free James
York!, The Land is ours! Free Anzania!, Hamilton Keke on the Bethal 13, Profile of the Black
Prisoner’s Rights Committee, Statement by Leonard Peltier, Free Emma Cunningham!,
Repression at San Quentin, Nationalist Prisoners Locked Down at Brushy Mountain
Number 14, Fall 1982
Articles include: Support New African Freedom Fighters, Communiqué from RATF, FALN
Bombs Wall Street, Palestine will Win!, Bloody Riots at Pontiac, FBI Frame-up of Peltier
Exposed
War Behind Walls
Newspaper.
No Date. Circa 1972
Articles include: Attica Revolt, Attica Demands, California Prison Struggle History, Prison
Movements 1970-71, Soledad Brothers: A Portrait, Vacaville – A Prison of the Future?, Jackson
Murder, Support Movement Grows, Controlling Prisoners: The California Adult Authority,
Prison Movement Organizations, George Jackson in Prison: Interview with Jimmy Carter
Big Mama Rag: a feminist news journal
Newspaper
Vol.10 No.5, May 1982
Articles include: Women in Cages: Part One, Feminism and Women Inside, Incarcerated
Mothers, Criminal Injustice System, Shock Atrocities
The Outlaw
Journal of the Prisoners Union
Newspaper
Vol.1 No.2, Dec. 1971
Articles include: Prison “Reform”? Unity is the Solution, The Forgotten Offender: Facts about
Women Prisoners, Up Against the Law, Poetry, Prison or Slavery?, Guerrilla Theater, The Case
of Joseph Romero, Adult Authority in Perspective, Rotting in the Stockade
Vol.1 No.5, July-Aug 1972
Articles include: Unfinished Business: The Last Unorganized Laborers in America, People’s
Lawyer: Labor Law, Don’t Criticize: Organize, The Soledad Frame Up, CDC’s &AA’s Rules
and Regulations Illegal, Restoring Ex-Felons’ Voting Rights, Poetry, Letters from Inside
Vol.1 No.6, Nov-Dec 1972
Articles include: Unity Is, Policy Statement on Compensation of Inmate Labor, A.G. Attacks
Prison Attorneys, Right to Vote Amendment 25, Wesley Robert Wells, Prisoners’ Union Docket
of Cases, Letters from Inside
Vol.2 No.1, Jan-Feb 1973
Articles include: History of the Prisoners’ Union, Docket of Cases, Criminal Justice Legislation,
San Quentin Strike, Medical Experiments, Maxi-Maxi Prisons, Walpole Moves
Vol.2 No.2, May-June 1972
Articles include: Nationwide Unions Coming Together, Prison Law Collective, Behavior
Modification, Senator Petris on Psycho-Surgery, Medical Malpractice: Know Your Rights, We
are not “girls”, Ohio Women’s Prison, Criminal Justice Legislation, Replaying Attica
Vol.2 No.4, Nov 1973
Articles include: Three Years Later… A Promise Kept: Oklahoma, Files on Children, Swedish
Prisons, Union Calendar 1974, Behavior Modification: Marion Mind Control, Prisoners in
Research – Perils and Problems, Open Letter from Monroe, “Psychotherapy”, Folsom
Vol.3 No.3, May 1974
Articles include: Focus… Women, Arizona, Texarkana Murder, National Jailhouse Lawyers
Association, Skin-Search Protest, Leavenworth Brothers, Poetry, Getting Out, Oklahoma, El
Reno, To Die Behind Prison Walls, High Court Limits Prison Censorship
Vol.3 No.4, July 1974
Articles include: Minnesota Movin’ On! CDC Credibility, Oklahoma Obituary, Ex-Prison Chief
Assails Indeterminate Sentence
Vol.3 No 6, Oct-Nov 1974
Articles include: Con Law, San Quentin Art Show, Simply Can’t Adjust, Nixon’s Pardon, What
are they trying to Hide? Inside the Barbed Wire Cocoon, Canadian Cons Get Minimum Wage!!