THE INSURGENT Newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression Vol. 4 No.2 Summer 1988 William Guillermo Morales Free in Cuba! In This Issue: Lexington HSU Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Judge 7 Anti-Imperialists Indicted in Washington, D.C. Communique from Puerto Rico Mutulu Shakur & Marilyn Buck Convicted· THE INSURGENT 2 Table of Contents Anti-imperialists Indicte~ • 2 Victory in Lexington lawsuit 9 On page 10 there appears a drawing sent to Puerto Rican patriot jailed • • • • II us by Laurie Kilgore, a prisoner at the Communique • . • • • • • •• •••• .13 Maine Correctional Center. The drawing ac­ Mutulu Shakurand Marilyn Buck. • . • .14 companied a beautiful letter about our In­ Dhoruba fights COIN.TELPRO ·15 ternational Women's Day issue. We want to IRA freedom fighter • . • • 16 thank Laurie for her appreciation, and for Pat Gros-Levasseur free on bail 18 her contribution to The lnsurgent. Fight for Mexican- land :. -: •.. .•• . • l~ Committee to Fight Repression: Who We Are The Committee to Fight Repression is an ting out the Insurgent. We believe that sup­ anti-imperialist organization that analyzes, port for political prisoners and pOW's -­ exposes, and confronts political repre~sion. from the national liberation movements, the We believe that in order to build effective northamerican anti-imperialist movement, resistance movements we need to understand the Plowshares, Sanctuary and peace move­ the u.s. imperialist state and the dialectic ments -- is a critical aspect of all current between REPRESSION and RESISTANCE. _ People. activities for human rights and social jus­ don't automatically resist government tice in this country. repression. We need to learn what we're up against and learn how to resist--from each The over 100 political/social activists and other and from movements allover the world revolutionaries in u.s. prisons today are who are fighting the same enemy. in jail for their activities and actions, their commitments and beliefs, their pOli­ In any movement, political prisoners are tics and their refusal to back down. Many living example~ that political struggle re­ of them have led struggles and organizations. quires courage and sacrifice. We believe Some were captured trying to build revolu­ that creating strong bonds with political tionary organizations that were armed and prisoners can help to strengthen and mature clandestine. Some of the Black POW's and political movements. Who would dare to political prisoners have been imprisoned struggle if their movement did not protect since the 1960's, targets of u.s. COINTELPRO. and defend those who were captured? We be­ lieve that we mu~t consistently try to From behind the walls, they each share our break through the state~s isolation of poli­ visions and concerns. They daily. re-affirm tical prisoners, so thac we can learn from ­ their commitment, sharpened by the sacrifices people who went before and who currentli are they . have made, and the abuse, isolation and in a high level of confrontation with the degradation they experience at the hands of state. guards and prison officials. · For the last four years, our collective has As the imperialists develop their strategies actively worked to support political prison­ to repress resistance inside prison walls ers and POW's - from bringing support to and outside, our resistance, too, must grow. political trials, to participating in cam­ DARE TO STRUGGLE! DARE TO WIN! paigns to fight human rights abuses, to put- FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS AND POW'S! THE INSL!RGENT 3 Victory! GuilJerm'o Morales ·Esta Libre en Cuba! Puerto Rican freedom fighter Guillermo ist~r Bernardo Sepulveda Amor said that Morales was released on June 24 from a ~ex­ Morales would be subject to "political perse­ ican jail to travel to C~ba. where he has cution if he were to be returned to the U.S. been granted political asylum. The Mexican The U.S. recalled its ambassador to Me xico . government released Morales despite intense calling the action an "inexplicable affront." pressure from the U.S. government for his extradition to the U.S. to return to prison. In May. 1988. Morales was given the Roque Guillermo Morales was serving a sentence of Dalton Medal for 1988 by the Council of Coop­ over 100 years when. in April. 1979 he es­ eration with,Culture and Science in El Salva­ caped from the closely-guarded prison ward dor, an organization of Salvadorans in Mexico . of New York City's Bellevue Hospital -- a The medal is given every year to the person feat made all the more remarkable by the who most exemplifies the humanistic values. fact that he had lost most of both hands in combativeness and commitment without fron­ an explosion. tiers of the Salvadoran revolutionary poet Roque Dalton. Morales was accompanied On this historic journey by former Puerto Rican Nationalist Mexico's action was precedent-setting in political ?risoner Rafael Cancel ~iranda many ways. It has established that Puerto and former political prisoner Pablo Marca no Ricans born in the United States as Morales Garcia. was, are Puerto Ricans and not "Americans." It has established that there are P~ = rto The ' Mexican government made its decision af­ Rican political prisoners and Prisoners of ter years of agitation by the Puerto Rican War captured while fighting for the indepen­ independence movement and progressive Mexican dence of Puerto Rico inside the borders of forces. :hey determined that Morales is a the U.S. It means that Mexico has concluded "political fighter--for the independence of that political prisoners captured wihtin the Puerto Rico." and as such cannot be sent back U.S. are subject to the principles of inter- to the United States. The U.S.-Mexican ex­ national law, no matter what the U.S. govern­ tradition treaty contains a "political of­ ment says. And it means that after years in fense exception" which prohibits either coun­ prison. Guillermo Morales will finally g et the try from delivering to the other political medical attention and artificial hands that prisoners. In addition. Mexican Foreign Min - he has been denied for so long. All Out to the U.N.I THE INSURGENT 4 Government Warns Resistance Movement with Indictment of 7.Anti-Imperialists On May 25, 1988 the U.S. government Wha t You ,Can Do: charged seven Northamerican anti-imperial­ ists with conspiracy to "oppose, obstruct or - Write to the prisoners; their addresses change the foreign and domestic policies of are on our inside back cover. the U.S. government through violent or llle­ - If you are close by, send us your name, ad­ gal means." This brings to three the number dress and telephone number so that we can in­ of major political trials against activists form you about upcoming court dates. and revolutionaries that are in progress in - Send contributions to the Committee to the last days of the Reagan regime: the Fight repression to build political, support trial of the Puerto Rico/Hartford 15 in Con­ for these comrades. necticut, the trial of the Ohio 7 in Spring~ - Ask us for literature, videos, speakers for field, Massachusetts, and now the Washington~ your political organization or a gorup of D.C. ,conspiracy case. friends. The indictment charges the seven (Dr. Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Linda Evans, Susan Rosen­ berg and Laura Whitehorn; the seventh, Betty Who They Are Ann Duke, is still free) with bombings of U.S. government and corporate targets. A­ long with the political motivations of the Alan Berkman dictment itself, which the U.S. Attorney com­ mented upon so eloquently in the words above, Born September 4, 1945, Middletown, N.Y. the persecution of the six is enacted Physician. Married with two children. In through the atrocious and precedent-setting 1960s active in the student anti-war move­ conditions they are being subjected to in ment and the civil rights movement. Used the D.C. Detention Facility as they await medical skills 'and political experience to trial. The government is using the buzz­ to build solidarity with the Black Libera­ word "security" to justify horrendous living tion and Black Power movements and the conditions, restrictions ' on access t6 attor­ Puerto Rican Independence Movement, as well neys and paralegals, isolation and harass­ as international liberation struggles such ment by guards. The conditons under which as those in southern Africa. As a physi­ these comrades are being held are described cian. ~ erved in oppressed communities in New in the statements reprinted below: that of York, Alabama and Boston and visited numer­ the six defendants; and that of the Emergen­ ous political prisoners to .expose human cy Committee to Defend the Human and Legal rights abuses. Went to provide support and Rights of Political Prisoners. medical care during the Native American oc­ cupation of Wounded Knee in 1973. These women and men are accused of function­ ing underground as part of the Northamericari 1982 - Imprisoned for nine months as a anti-imperialist clandestine resistance. All grand jury resister for refusing to collab­ have been political activists ~or most of orate with an investigation of the Black their adult lives. What is at issue in this liberation movement. Indicted for provid­ case, and in the fight the six are waging ing medical care clandestinely to a wounded for conditions that meet minimal standards of revolutionary after a shoot-out ,vi th po- . decency and that allow them to prepare for lice. Went underground before the trial. trial; is thE right to r2sist a gov~lnment bent on war and the destruction of human 1985 - Captured by the FBI in Philadelphia. rights worldwide. Those arrested in the Accused by the FBI of acts claimed by the course of pursuing their convictions have Armed Resistance Movement and the Red Guer­ been met with severe repression in the rilla Resistance.