The Yuri Kochiyama Archives Project (YKAP)

The family of long-time political activist and beloved icon, Yuri Kochiyama, is in the process of assessing and cataloging over 150 boxes of archival materials in preparation for submission of the collection to a repository (library or university in New York City or the Bay Area).  The YKAP project is seeking funds to compensate a research assistant to work with the family in organizing, cataloging, assessing and scanning the materials both in Oakland, where the bulk of the archives reside and in New York, where 30 to 40 of the boxes are

The initial project is to organize, catalogue, assess and scan materials in this collection of Yuri’s speeches, journals, articles, interviews, photos, leaflets and correspondence, as well as articles, periodicals, CDs, DVDs on the Black, Asian, Latino and other Third World movements since the 1960’s.  There are also materials from Yuri’s childhood in San Pedro, California through the internment camps and her life in New York and the Bay Area (spanning almost 92 years). The collection includes treasures such as a scrapbook of original signed postcards from Malcolm X during his travels to Mecca and abroad in 1964 and Yuri’s journals from her internment camp experience in the mid’40’s.

The goal of the project is to preserve and protect this valuable record of a long-life of committed radical activism and astoundingly personal humanism and making this legacy accessible to students of resistance and transcendence everywhere.

For more information contact Audee Kochiyama-Holman at audee545@gmail.com

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The National Coalition to Free the Angola 3 has been working together since 1998 specifically to raise consciousness about the case of the Angola 3, prisoners who have been held in solitary confinement in Angola prison for 34 years,   as well as   general information about prison issues in Louisiana and nationally.

The Coalition raises funds for the legal defense of the Angola 3's post-conviction and civil cases and to support the important communications efforts of Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace from their cells in Angola. . Robert King Wilkerson, the freed member of the Angola 3 travels the world speaking about his comrades in Angola and making candy to raise funds for his efforts,

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Case History of the Angola 3

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The Real Cost of Prisons Project seeks to broaden and deepen the organizing capacity of prison/justice activists working to end mass incarceration. Organized in 2001, the RCPP brings together justice activists, artists, justice policy researchers and people directly experiencing the impact of mass incarceration to create comic books, a website and daily news blog and other materials and resources which explore the immediate and long-term costs of incarceration on the individual, her/his family, community and the nation.
More than 115,000 copies of RCPP comic books ---"Prisoners of the War on Drugs," "Prison Town---Paying the Price" and "Prisoners of a Hard Life" --have been sent to organizers and activists in prison and in the "free world." In 2008, PM Press published The Real Cost of Prisons Comix, an anthology of the comic books which includes responses from activists around the country who use the comic books in their work.

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