[News] Freedom Archives - Winter 2022 Newsletter

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*Winter 2022*

Dear Friends,

We hope this letter finds you healthy and engaged! 2022 has been quite a 
year for us and as it comes to an end, there’s a lot to reflect on and 
look forward to.

Our November 2021 move from San Francisco to Berkeley was an important 
step towards ensuring that we can sustainably maintain and expand the 
work of the Freedom Archives for years to come. Settling into our 
building was an undertaking in itself! We needed to set up and wire our 
audio and video equipment, rehouse many of our archival collections to 
ensure their long-term preservation and arrange our physical space to 
maximize capacity to receive new donations of materials and best support 
visitors and researchers.

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*New Documentary
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Image: Cover, /Puerto Rico: The Flame of Resistance. /People's Press, 1977.

	

In December, we will spend over a week in Puerto Rico to conduct 
interviews with former political prisoners involved in the Puerto Rico 
independence movement for a new documentary film project. Puerto Rico’s 
resistance to colonialism since 1898 is supported by International Law. 
The United Nations General Assembly declared colonialism an 
international crime in 1970. That resolution reaffirmed the right of 
colonized people to utilize all forms of struggle necessary to win 
independence and self-determination. Over the course of their 
anti-colonial resistance, the people of Puerto Rico have fought to 
achieve independence with mass demonstrations and strikes to militant 
resistance and clandestine actions. Throughout, support for their 
political prisoners has continued to be central to their movement for 
independence. We are hoping that the film’s final product will allow the 
stories of many of the former Puerto Rican political prisoners, their 
motives, their imprisonment, and eventual successful release to finally 
be told. Our initial plan was to begin this documentary project in March 
of 2020 so as you can imagine, we are very excited to finally get this 
project under way.

 

*Archival Work
*

In addition to public presentations, film festivals, classroom visits, 
and research appointments, as always, we continue to add dynamic 
archival materials to our holdings. We’ve substantially increased our 
holdings about the anti-Apartheid campaign to oppose the South African 
rugby team (the Springboks) visit to the US, Black Power political 
organizations, periodicals like Leviathan – a publication covering 
university politics, working class issues, and the development of the 
progressive movements of the 60s, and the Cuban cultural periodical Casa 
de las Americas.

We also added several newly-received and now digitized materials to our 
Pontiac Brothers collection and recently cataloged a collection entitled 
“Revolutionary Struggles in Iran.” The finding aid for the Iran 
collection is available on our search site and it focuses on artistic 
and intellectual freedom, political repression, and armed struggle in 
the Left and progressive movements in Iran.

Image: Cover, /Pontiac Prisoners Support Coalition Newsletter/, No. 13. 
December, 1980. Pontiac Brothers Collection. Full Text Link 
<https://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC510_scans/Pontiac_Brothers/510.PontiacBrothers.No13.pdf>.

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Image: Flyer, Victory to African Liberation World-wide! Anti-Springbok 5 
On Trial. Anti Apartheid Solidarity Collection. Full Text Link 
<http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC53_scans/53.VictorytoAfricanLiberationWorldwide.AntiSpringbok5onTrial.pdf>.

	
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Image: Cover, Puerto Rico en la Encrucijada, /Casa de las Americas/. 
Cuba Collection.

 

*Capacity Building for the Future
*

Recently, we’ve been taking some significant steps toward building and 
strengthening our archival processes and organization. Quietly but 
diligently, we’ve been working with the designer of our online database 
to increase its public searchability, improve our internal organization 
schema and best support our continued intake and cataloging of new 
archival materials. The database has been vital to our work and we are 
excited that these improvements will allow us to remain accessible and 
organized for years to come. Additionally, we’ve been consulting with 
audio technicians and digital archivists to streamline our audio 
digitization workflow. Not only will this project allow us to continue 
to evolve with changing industry standards on audio preservation but 
also better position us to properly manage future digital donations.

 

As we said, 2022 has been an important year for us and we could not have 
done it without your steadfast support. We deeply appreciate the ways 
you’ve helped us build a strong foundation for a vibrant future, 
continually growing our educational resources, and participating in 
ongoing struggles for justice and freedom. Thank you!!

We always welcome your comments and suggestions. Your donations help us 
amplify our efforts and impact – please support our work by sending us a 
check, giving online and when possible, signing up as a monthly donor.

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Support!! <http://freedomarchives.org/donation/>

In gratitude,

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Claude, Nathaniel, and Danielle

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