Handwritten text: "Monday morning Dec 20, 1943. Dear Mr West: Thanks again for the picture, and when the boys saw it they all wanted one too. If you will have one for each of the boys made or send me the negative I will be glad to pay for it. The boys are from left to right. Elwood S McClintic P.R.1/c. 'Mickey'. William D. Johnston, 36th Reg. Co A. 'Johnnie'. Paul A Word 4th Marine Div. 'Paul'. Edward C Shaw N.A. 1/c 'Eddie'. Robert L Ward U.S.N. F.M.F. 'Bob'. Some of these have already [handwritten text in right margin:] 6 [encircled] [end right margin text] shipped. The others go soon. Thank you. Sincerely Mrs B B Borgman. 'Merry Christmas'"
Arthur Morgan was the design engineer for the Miami Conservancy District flood control system and the first chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority from 1933 until 1938.
Handwritten letter on paper ripped from a notebook that Adnan wrote to his eldest son Mohammad. Adnan promised his son a bicycle if he did well on his exams, but the letter took two years to arrive and his son already had a bicycle by then.
A short handwritten note that Adnan wrote to his wife, and a note to the wife of another prisoner. Adnan tells them that they need to put the other message he sent in the sun so that they can read the invisible ink. They destroyed the note with the invisible ink.
Cartas de personas que se encuentran detenidas en las cárceles El Frontón, Cajamarca, Pasco, Qqenccoro, Huancavelica, Chiclayo, Cárcel Pública del Callao y del Pabellón Británico. En las cartas mencionan sobre su detención, traslado a otras cárceles, motines, hostigamiento, condiciones carcelarias, huelga de hambre, movimiento de la FEP. Algunos detenidos pertenecen a IU y Sindicato textil Cromtex, presidente de la FASMA. Hay pliego de reclamos de los presos de la Cárcel Pública del Callao y lista de personas detenidas en El Frontón. La carpeta tiene 55 folios
Denuncias por problemas de posesión e invasión de predios y tierras; solicitudes de agilización de trámites de títulos de propiedad; denuncia de falsas acusaciones de robo; solicitud de ejecución de proyectos; solicitud de apoyo en casos de desastres naturales; solicitud de apoyo para mejorar su organización; denuncias por ataques y robos contra comuneros por parte de las fuerzas del orden durante proceso electoral; entre otros. Las denuncias las realizan las propias comunidades, dirigentes como A Checco Ramírez y Martha Herrera de la FARA; Angel Escobar Jurado, subsecretario general de la FEDECCH; Manuel Pérez Puyán; Miguel Cenizario Medina; Leoncio Velasquez Cenizario, entre otros; y las organizaciones como Liga Agraria del Valle de Chira, Grupo de campesinos Sin Tierra, Asociación Hijos de la Merced-Residentes en Chimbote, FEPCAB, FARA, FECONAYA, entre otros. Contiene 58 folios.
Approved motions and agreements on the national situation, agrarian program, platform of struggle, peasant program for rural development, terrorism, militarization of self-defense, peasant women, II national assembly of peasant women, 500-year campaign, peasant movement, environment and coca. Document on the activities that prepare for the eleventh council and the preparatory topics for the VIII Congress. The folder has 69 sheets
Documents used in the ninth council. Law project "Law of bases for the integral development of the Peruvian Amazon" presented by Senator Andrés Luna Vargas. Draft copy of statute on federations. The folder has 27 sheets
Documents delivered by the federations, agricultural cooperatives, farmers' associations, SAIS, unions and peasant communities to their delegates for participation in the Sixth Congress. The folder has 108 sheets
On October 1, 1990, Constantino Saavedra Muñoz, along with Gilberto Aparicio and Placido Juscamayta, was arrested near the Ayacucho airport by Army personnel and taken to Los Cabitos General Headquarters. These last two people were released, while Constantino Saavedra Muñoz continues to be detained and disappeared. The file contains: letters from Aprodeh to the Prosecutor's Office, MP, Investigating Judge and Political-Military Chief of Ayacucho requesting information, complaint from Constantino Saavedra's wife to the MP, statement by Gilberto Aparicio Nivin before the MP, memorandum from deputy Ricardo Letts Colmenares to Minister of Defense, letter from Javier Diez Canseco to the Attorney General, and other documents documents such as newspaper clippings. The folder has 33 sheets
Comunicado del 15 de mayo de 1974 e informe que da cuenta de las conclusiones y acuerdos del Cuarto Congreso, así como un afiche de la convocatoria. La carpeta tiene 24 folios
Documentos, textos y fichas de resumenes sobre tomas de tierras, agricultura, reforma agraria. Relación de trabajos a ser presentados en Sepia, "La situación agropecuaria de la región Chavín", "Propuesta de trabajo en las Comunidades Campesinas de Ecash", entre otros. La carpeta tiene 70 folios
Documentos y textos sobre tierras, reforma agraria, decreto legislativo 19400, comunidades y relacionado con los campesinos. Resumenes de fichas del Boletín del Ministerio de Fomento, sección asunto indígena de 1922-1926 relacionado con la legislación relativa a los indígenas. Texto sobre conflictos de haciendas de la Cerro de Pasco Corporation con comunidades y haciendas (1985-1968). Texto de la Sinamos sobre la organización del campesinado según el decreto ley 19400. Documento de trabajo sobre el Proyecto del Programa Agrario. "La lucha de la comunidad campesina San Juan de Ondores, una muestra del nuevo tipo de enfrentamiento comunidad hacienda" de Víctor Caballero Martin y Custodio Arias. Informe técnico sobre el proyecto "Modalidad de Adjudicación del PIAR Canas-Canchis. La carpeta tiene 38 folios
Complaints for subdivision and adjudication of land (many come from the Agrarian Reform) and invasion of territories; denounce abuses and outrages of local authorities, landowners and gamonales; tax hike on cotton prices; water poisoning by mining; illegal logging; use of violence in eviction processes; among others. Also requests for the release of community members from Huayanay; support in the land recovery process; support in carrying out strikes and force measures; solution to the coca leaf problem and requests for individual support. Some of the organizations that issue these requests and complaints are FAL, FECONAYA, FECONCCA, FEDECCPA, Central de comunidades nativas ashanikas del Río Tambo, Federación Provincial de Campesinos de Chaupihuaranga, Federación Provincial de Campesinos de la Convención y Lares.
Document that mentions the activities of the Human Rights Commission of the CCP, as well as the projects developed between 1987 and 1988. Project for the María Parado de Bellido Dining Room and project for the Carpentry Workshop in the Human Settlement José Carlos Mariátegui in Canto Grande. The folder has 13 sheets
Publications such as newspapers and bulletins from unions, peasant communities and institutions from the departments of Ancash, Lambayeque and La Libertad. Agrarian Bulletin of Santa, "Lucha Campesina" newspaper of the peasant community of Reque, "Voz Campesina" bulletin of the Pucalá Workers' Union and annexes, "Faro Cooperativo" bulletin, "Arrocero" bulletin of the Valle Jequetepeque Producers Committee. The folder has 33 sheets
El 11 de febrero de 1992 fueron detenidos y desparecidos 5 ronderos del pueblo Chinchimabara de la provincia de Otuzco por agentes de la policía. La documentación refiere cartas de los organismos de derechos humanos a las instituciones del Estado solicitando explicación, investigación y paradero de los desaparecidos. Asimismo, piden intervención del Ministerio Público y la Cruz Roja. La documentación es de marzo de 1992 pero llega a Perú en junio. La carpeta tiene 37 folios
Contains motions on agrarian policy and an alternative proposal to the agrarian promotion and development law, a document entitled The national situation, peruvian agriculture and democratic front by José Silva, and a motion on the tactics of the peasant movement against the gamonalist offensive. It contains 34 sheets.
Documents received from agrarian leagues, federations, cooperatives, unions, institutions, peasant communities and organizations requesting materials, economic support, participation in events, invitations, etc. The folder has 64 sheets
First Ordinary Departmental Congress of the People of Huancavelica; II Congress of the FAL; I Congress of Quechua, Aymara and Jungle Nationalities; III FARA Congress; Constitution Congress of the FEDECC; Extraordinary Congress of the FECVRA.
Press conferences organized by the CCP on the following dates: July 25, 1975; May 9 and November 12, 1979; September 1, 1989; May 12, 1990; December 13 and 15, 1995. It has 10 sheets.
In April 1983, the Guardia civil executed 4 people from Paras and one from Soccos. The collected documentation contains: letters from human rights organizations to State institutions requesting guarantees from teachers, investigation and explanation of the case. The fodler has 38 sheets
Correspondencia recibida de organizaciones de la sociedad civil, comités de derechos humanos, sindicatos, federaciones y Juan H. Pevez Oliveros, fundador de la CCP. Contiene 17 folios.
Publication of the resolutions and reports approved in the Fifth Council on the national political situation, peasant rounds, peasant centralization, human rights, peasant women, organization and statutes of the CCP, political prisoners, platform of struggle for the national agrarian strike, agrarian policy, agrarian program, certificates for peasant and native communities, coca, glass of milk, cooperatives. There is a motion presented by the Federación de Trabajadores Azucareros del Perú and a list of federations, committees, agrarian leagues attending the Council, and a survey, The fodler has 56 sheets
Agreement between the Center for Andean Rural Studies "Bartolomé de Las Casas" and the CCP. Agreement between the Audiovisual Pedagogy Service Center for Training and the CCP. Agreement between the Peruvian Indigenist Institute and the CCP. Letter of understanding signed between the CCP and the Peasant Communities Studies Workshop. Proposal for an agreement between the Hugo Pesce Health Institute and CCP, proposal for an agreement between the IAA and CCP. Cooperation agreement between Aprodeh and CCP. Agreement signed between TAFOS and CCP. Agreement signed between the Gremail Unification Medical Movement and CCP and other conventions. The folder has 55 sheets
Notas de prensa, pronunciamientos y comunicados realizados por los presos de las cárceles de Lurigancho, Callao, Huancavelica, Cajamarca, Miguel Castro Castro y Pabellón El Británico sobre la situación carcelaria, huelga de hambre, pliego de reclaos, ley antiterrorista, situación de derechos humanos. La carpeta tiene 27 folios
Main problems and needs of the Apurimac region; complaints for invasion and dispossession of land; requests for land titling and readjustment of commercial prices of agricultural products; cancellation of debts of the Agrarian Bank; application for the installation of a health post and construction of a school; complaints against the CNA; complaint against a false board of directors of FECONAU; among others. These complaints and proposals are made by the leaders of the peasant communities or associations such as Federación Departamental Unificada de Campesinos y Rondas de Cajamarca “José Carlos Mariátegui”, FARA, Federación Agraria Departamental de Ancash, Asociación de Agricultores Damnificados de Mollebamba-Ocoña, FEDECANAL, Comité de productores agropecuarios del departamento de Huancavelica, FTAP, etc. Some authors of the letters are: Yolanda Mejía S., Eleuterio Ramírez Jara, Jesús Rafael. Contains 42 pages.
Santa-Lacramarca Valley Farmers' Convention (invitation); Departmental assembly of delegates of Federación Departamental Unificada de Campesinos y Rondas de Cajamarca José Carlos Mariátegui (call); II Convention of Federación campesina de productores agropecuarios Micaela Bastidas de Abancay (call); III Interregional Council of Federación Interregional de Criadores de Camélidos Andinos del Perú (invitation and summons); I Convention of breeders of South American camelids of the José Carlos Mariátegui region (call); I Meeting of Women's Organizations of Valle Santa-Lacramarca (agreements and conclusions); I Regional Convention of alpaca and other camelid breeders (call); Meeting of leaders and delegates of Liga Agraria de Huarochirí (call); I Regional Peasant Literature Contest (call); I Meeting of peasant communities of the Sechín River Valley (invitation, call); Mitin in Iquitos; Campesino Convention of Camaná and the Arequipa region; Commemoration for the Farmer's Day (program); I Meeting of living organizations of the province of Santa (call, regulations). Contains 41 pages.
Documents delivered by federations, unions, agrarian cooperatives, organizations, agrarian leagues and peasant communities to their delegates for participation in the Sixth Congress. The folder has 76 sheets
Publications on peasant rounds such as: "The peasant rounds, their origins and a bit of history" by José Alvarado Alvariño. "The peasant rounds" of the CCP. "Rondas campesinas and Civil Defense, comparative table" by José Burneo and Marianne Eyde. "The seven principles of the Peasant Worker Program" of the Federación Unificada Departamental de Campesinos de Cajamarca y Rondas. "Brief history of the peasant rounds of Sihuas - Ancash". The folder has 49 pages.
Invitations to events, invitations to participate as panelists. Information on services provided by institutions, letters giving away or donating bibliographic material, thanks, requests for support and pronouncement. The folder has 68 sheets
Letters from institutions congratulating the completion of the ninth council and also not being able to support them financially. The fodler has 4 sheets
Press releases of the CCP prepared to inform the positions and complaints of the peasantry, were delivered to the national and local press media. The complaints are for cases of human rights violations, repression against the journal "El Diario" and different kind of abuses against peasant communities by the central government and the gamonales. There is a critical press release against the DS 012-88 Law of Peasant Rounds published by Guillermo Valera Moreno. It has 53 sheets.
El 11 de febrero de 1992 fueron detenidos y desparecidos 5 ronderos del pueblo Chinchimabara de la provincia de Otuzco por agentes de la policía. La documentación refiere cartas de los organismos de derechos humanos a las instituciones del Estado solicitando explicación, acceso a la justicia, atención médica, investigación y paradero de los desaparecidos. Asimismo, piden intervención del Ministerio Público y la Cruz Roja. La documentación es de marzo de 1992 pero llega a Perú en junio. Hay una carte del Comité de Científicos Médicos de Estados Unidos. La carpeta tiene 35 folios
Documentos remitidos por los integrantes de la CCP y por Marcelino Palomino Mina, secretario de Derechos Humanos de la CCP hacia las organizaciones, instituciones y federaciones sobre: apoyo económico a desplazados, presos políticos, familiares y víctimas. Solicitud dirigida al presidente de la república Alberto Fujimori y al Segundo Vice presidente para una reunión sobre la situación de los derechos humanos. Solicitud dirigida a la Fiscalía Especial de Defensoría del Peublo y Derechos Humanos pidiendo se investigue la ejecución extrajudicial de Mauricio Barrientos Gutérrez y la desaprición de 12 personas de la Comunidad Campesina Pomacocha. Dos cartas dirigidas a instituciones del Estado denunciando detenciones, desapariciones y ejecuciones extrajudiciales. La carpeta tiene 16 folios
Desarrollo de la diferentes reuniones del Comité Organizador del Octavo Congreso: informes, apuntes, asitencia, agenda, comisiones, temas. La carpeta tiene 35 sheets
Opinion of the Commission of Education, Culture and Sports on the project law "General Law of Cooperatives", there is a scheme of the cooperative sector, Law 703-/85-S. The folder has 63 sheets
Acuerdos del 27 de abril de 1992, tomados por el CEN en reunión del 9, 10 y 11 de abril del mismo año, sobre la situación política nacional, la problemática agropecuaria y el VIII Congreso de la CCP. Contiene 10 folios.
Press releases of the CCP prepared to inform positions and make complaints of the peasantry, were delivered to the national and local media. The folder contains notes from the month of July 1991 and from 1995 to 1998, criticizing the agrarian policy of the Fujimori government, against the militarization of the peasantry, complaints of human rights violations, and a complaint about the raid on the premises of the peasant federation of Cusco and the burning of your files. It also contains a group of undated press releases that could be from the 1980s. It has 32 sheets.