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*Winter 2023*


      Dear Friends,

We hope this letter finds folks as well as possible during this 
turbulent time. Despite the overwhelming impact of the ongoing genocide 
against Palestinians, the brazen and chilling RICO charges leveled at 
Stop Cop City protestors in Atlanta and the continued illegal blockade 
and attacks on Cuban national sovereignty – we know that people’s 
resistance continues to organize and thrive!

It’s quite a privilege to do the work we do in a time like this. We’re 
being nourished by visits from our community that include young people 
discussing how to best organize for change. We are consistently 
comforted by the long history of resistance and the ongoing struggle for 
a better world and more just future.


Our archival work continues to expose the state’s strategy to use its 
legal apparatus against people’s movements, the many ways international 
law is subverted by Western imperialism, and the ways that anti-colonial 
struggle is labeled as “terrorism.” The Archives also illuminate the 
unyielding struggle against empire, and document imaginative social 
projects that benefit the people and a collective commitment to the 
practice and eventual attainment of independence and freedom.

Artist: Emory Douglas

*Remembering Our Former Political Prisoners*

Dr. Mutulu Shakur: The New Afrikan revolutionary, acupuncturist, and 
political theorist, transitioned on July 7th, 2023. After 37 years 
incarcerated as a political prisoner, Dr. Shakur spent just seven months 
free after his compassionate release in December of 2022 before he 
passed. You can read the tribute to his life and work posted on our 
website 
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Ruchell Cinque Magee: Claude worked as an integral part of a small team 
that secured the compassionate release of Ruchell from prison at the end 
of July 2023. Throughout his 67 years of unjust captivity, Ruchell had 
been one of the first and most consistent prisoner activists linking 
mass incarceration and the U.S. prison system to slavery and the right 
to rebel. Ruchell’s political stance and writings point directly to the 
need for a prison abolitionist movement as a way to seriously address 
the historical legacy of slavery and slave rebellions to truly be in 
solidarity with the millions of people incarcerated in the US. Ruchell 
transitioned in October, after only two months of freedom. You can read 
a tribute to his life posted on the SF Bayview website 
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Ruchell Magee (Artist: Kiilu Nyasha)

	

Dr. Mutulu Shakur (Artist: Sophia Dawson)

*Sex Workers against the Law Curriculum and Resource Guide*

After many years of diligent work, we’re excited to present /Sex Workers 
against the Law: Sex Work, Decriminalization, and Feminism: Selections 
from the Freedom Archives/ 
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This online guide focuses on the international struggle of Sex Workers 
organizing against laws that ensure their marginalization through 
criminalization and violence. This resource will help highlight the 
presence of Sex Workers organizing within the larger feminist movement 
and the conversations regarding sex work happening – with and without – 
the participation and representation of Sex Workers themselves.

	
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Spearheaded by one of our longtime volunteers E. Conner, we hope that 
this compendium of the materials in Freedom Archives’ collections can 
work in conversation with other digital archives and can serve to 
encourage independent and institutional archives to identify and 
preserve these important stories of struggle.

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*Freedom Archives in the Community *

We’ve all been in the streets joining thousands globally supporting 
Palestinian liberation and calling for an end to genocide and a cease 
fire. We also joined an event welcoming Haiti’s Mildred Aristide to the 
Bay Area, and attended a large counter summit challenging the APEC (Asia 
Pacific Economic Cooperation) meeting in San Francisco. A couple of 
weeks ago, Nathaniel was in conversation with Professor Ben Webster 
about his recently published book American Purgatory. Discussion ranged 
from prison resistance as anti-colonial resistance, archival work in the 
service of liberation movements, and centering the voices and 
perspectives of political prisoners.

In mid-November, Freedom Archives also welcomed Liz Olivia Fernandez to 
La Pena for an afternoon film screening of /Uphill on the Hill/ and 
conversation. The focus of the lively gathering was amplifying the 
campaign to remove Cuba from the US state sponsored Terrorist List and 
to end the illegal blockade.

	

Belly of the Beast Event: Nathaniel and Nadya Tannous (Palestinian Youth 
Movement).

*Newly Digitized Archival Materials*

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Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center (1971)

	
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Civic Religious Committee (ca 1982)

	
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Palestine Information Office (1981)

As always, we continue to support researchers, students, museums, 
educators, and documentary filmmakers to access materials in the 
archives to support their projects while also engaging in projects of 
our own.

In other exciting news, this year we got a new roof and went solar!


We deeply appreciate the ways you’ve helped us build a strong foundation 
for a vibrant future, continually growing our educational resources, and 
participate in ongoing struggles for justice and freedom. Thank you!!


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