Laura Whitehorn
Released August 1999! After 15 years! Working to free all political prisoners and prisoners of war.
Since the 1970s, when she helped lead a building occupation at Harvard, Laura has been active in anti-racist and anti-war organizing, and the women's liberation movement. Along with Linda Evans, Marilyn Buck, Susan Rosenberg and others, she was convicted in the Resistance Conspiracy to attack the U.S. Capitol, the Navy War College, and other government and corporate targets. She was in the federal women's prisons at Lexington, Kentucky and Dublin, California, where she was active in AIDS support work and where, with the other political prisoners, she helped organize the Bay Area art show for Mumia.
Laura has contributed art work in pencil, woodblock, ink, collage and mixed media to publications and art exhibitions throughout her years in prison. These include the woodblock print on this page, and her stamp collage, "Me Pinte Yo" in the exhibition "Portraits of Frida Kahlo."
Writings by Laura Whitehorn
- "Legal Issues for Women in Federal Prisons", with Marilyn Buck (1996)
- Shawnee Unit - A Control Unit For Women, with Silvia Baraldini, Susan Rosenberg, and Marilyn Buck
- The "Resistance Conspiracy" Case in Covert Action Quarterly, Number 31, Winter 1989
More about Laura
- "Political Prisoners: Guilty Until Proven Innocent" in Sojourner: The Women's Forum 02/28/1989 (available at Northernlight)
- The COINTELPRO Papers by Ward Churchill & Jim Vander Wall, chapter 8 (in new window)
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June 4, 2001