Alternative House, Oakland

This statement of purpose describes Alternative House as an "alternative for the troubles, discomforts, and anxieties of the typical man, momentarily, out of prison on a seventy-two hour pass and in need of a place to eat and sleep, in need of a temporary home to come." The statement addresses plans for expansion and makes appeals for support. Co-founded by Paul Cook (formerly incarcerated) and former UC Berkeley Professor Maalik Al-Maalik, Alternative House aspired to launch programs for drug abuse and juvenile delinquency as well as rehabilitation and development for convict-ex-convict. It was formerly located at 526 32nd Street in Oakland, Ca.

Behavior Modification: Voices From Behind the Walls

An Assortment of articles written by prisoners about prisons and the atrocities that happen regularly behind stone walls... This is to inform readers of what really does happen behind prison walls, how human beings are reduced to their basic animal nature by suffering, deprivation and mind-altering drugs. This is the way it is...

Breaking the Chains: People of Color and the War on Drugs Conference Fact Sheets

Reproduction. Part of conference packet.

Challenging White Supremacy: A Workshop for Activists

Flyer for a grassroots anti—racist training project for people concerned about social justice - topic: 1848 — 1993: Genocide, Colonialism and Resistance.

Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletter

Connections

Includes handwritten notes

Death Penalty Focus: General Information Packet

Contains reproduced articles and essays supporting the abolition of the death penalty.

December 10th - 1998: Fifty Years of Rights and Freedoms

Pamphlet for 12/10/1998 event supporting San Francisco Bay Area non-profits.

Drugs in the Community [mp3]

Ricardo Romero on the lack of politicization in prisons (in the 1990s) and the role of drugs in destroying communities of color.

Free the August 8th Brigade - Fight the Ku Klux Klan

Informational pamphlet and solidarity statement. "After a long train of abuses, including intolerable living conditions, racist oppression and open Ku Klux Klan aggression, prisoners rose up in righteous resistance on August 8th, 1977 from every nationality and political persuasion to protest these barbaric conditions by the only means of redress left open to them, the seizure of the Napanoch Prison complex..." - First Declaration of the August 8th Brigade.