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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 120–122.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Stevie Wilson Abstract Calling some prisoners political prisoners and others social prisoners classifies the former as worthy of support and the latter undeserving of it. Instead of labeling prisoners this way, it is important to recognize the political nature of incarceration and that all...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 105–119.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Garrett Felber; Stephen Ward Abstract This article explores the implications of a 1974 political debate between the radical priest Daniel Berrigan and the revolutionary theorists James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs regarding support for the political prisoner Martin Sostre, as well as the meaning...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 123–128.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Luis Rosa Pérez Abstract Luis Rosa explains why he considers himself a political prisoner; what it means to be a political prisoner; how the state, guards, and other prisoners treated him; life in prison; and the importance of solidarity. He also explains how growing up Puerto Rican in Chicago...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 129–150.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Angelina Snodgrass Godoy Abstract This article shares insights from participatory research conducted with former political prisoners, all of whom survived torture during El Salvador’s armed conflict (1980–92). An analysis of declassified documents reveals that while US officials generally resisted...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 84–104.
Published: 01 May 2023
... dictatorship. Instead, this article rethinks the chronology and nature of state violence in Argentina, examining how the situation of political prisoners in regular prisons officially recognized by the state was already deteriorating in 1960s, even under civilian regimes. The military achieved increasing...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 167–177.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Cecilia Belej Abstract This Curated Spaces features a visual essay of photographs made by Alicia Sanguinetti, an Argentinean political prisoner of Alejandro Lanusse’s military government, on the last day of her captivity in Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires. Sanguinetti and her fellow political...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 37–45.
Published: 01 May 2017
... willing to give their lives for the patria or there had not been the political prisoners, then we would be nothing.” Interview with Lolita Lebrón Margaret Power Lolita Lebrón is easily the best-­known Puerto Rican woman of the twentieth cen- tury, a national heroine to many Puerto...
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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 4. The political prisoners went up to the attic of the prison looking for the highest place from which they could hang flags with the star and initials of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP, People’s Revolutionary Army). May 25, 1973. Photo by Alicia Sanguinetti. More
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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 1. Right after they took over the prison, the political prisoners started making flyers with slogans like “Perón vuelve” (Peron will return), using tables in the common areas. May 25, 1973. Photo by Alicia Sanguinetti. More
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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 5. From the moment the political prisoners took over the prison, they were able to access new spaces, a window, and daylight. May 25, 1973. Photo by Alicia Sanguinetti. More
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Figure 4. Five former political prisoners exploring the prison during the Robben Island Reunion. Courtesy of Chris Ledochowsk. Copyright remains with the photographer. More
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Figure 3. Evolution of Political Prisoners in Argentina. Prepared by the author from data provided by the newspaper La Opinión , the magazine Primera Plana , and estimates by prisoner solidarity organizations. The graph illustrates the growing number of political prisoners over time during both More
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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 1. Political prisoners from different provinces of Argentina are transferred to Rawson Prison in Patagonia under strict security, September 9, 1971. Courtesy of Jornada Newspaper Collection/National Memory Archive, author Emilser Pereira. Diario Jornada, Colección Archivo Nacional de la More
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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 3. With sheets of paper torn from notebooks, the political prisoners make flyers to throw into the street. May 25, 1973. Photo by Alicia Sanguinetti. More
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Figure 9. The common areas became a workshop in which the political prisoners made banners and flyers. May 25, 1973. Photo by Alicia Sanguinetti. More
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Figure 6. The Limestone Quarry on Robben Island, where political prisoners were put to work. Table Mountain can be seen in the distance, in the upper left of the image. Witstinkhout, Wikimedia Commons. More
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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 10. Former political prisoners marking and breaking stones during the quarry event. Credit: Graham Goddard, UWC-Robben Island Museum Mayibuye Archives. More
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 59–83.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay Abstract The iconification of political prisoners enhances their visibility, credibility, and power. Nevertheless, iconification may also reduce, reimagine, or otherwise distort the biographies and experiences of political prisoners. Moreover, iconicity’s blurring of prisoners...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Marc Goulding; Teresa Meade; Margaret Power Abstract This essay explores several key themes regarding political imprisonment and confinement. Neither governments nor activists agree on who is and who is not a political prisoner. Governments routinely deny they imprison people for political reasons...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 178–202.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Figure 4. Five former political prisoners exploring the prison during the Robben Island Reunion. Courtesy of Chris Ledochowsk. Copyright remains with the photographer. ...
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