Freedom Archives

When We Win: When We Win: Reclaiming Indigenous Language and Land
2026-04-21 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | La Pena, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 | Doors open: 7 PM | Screening at 7:30 PM
Sliding Scale Tickets: $5 – $25 | No one turned away for lack of funds | FREE for La Peña Members

Online ticket sales end when doors open; after that, tickets are available at the door until capacity is reached. No one will be turned away for lack of funds, unless we are at capacity.
About this film series:
When We Win: Political Education Film Series spotlights people’s struggles for liberation, decolonization, and the world to come. Each screening will include political education with facilitation, interactive discussions, and conversations featuring remarks from filmmakers and/or organizers active in peoples’ movements for liberation and justice.
This month’s discussion will center on reclaiming Indigenous Language and Land. Guest speakers include visitors from Mapuche resistance and from Sogorea Te’ Land Trust.
About the Films:
Zuguleaiñ: hablaremos (we will speak)
English
In 2015, a group of Mapuche students organized the first Mapuzugun language camp. More than 50 students from all over the country came to get involved in the fight to revitalize the Mapuche language. This documentary follows the stories of four participants in their paths of decolonizing through learning their ancestral language, examining the hegemonic forces that are responsible for making their language disappear.
Spanish
En 2015 un grupo de estudiantes mapuches organizó el primer internado lingüístico del mapuzugun. Más de 50 estudiantes de todo el país llegaron para involucrarse en la lucha por revitalizar el idioma mapuche. Este documental sigue las historias de cuatro participantes en su proceso de descolonización a través del aprendizaje de su lengua materna, examinando las fuerzas hegemónicas que son responsables de hacer desaparecer su idioma. Mira esta página por si quieren participar en un internado: / mapuzuguletuain
In the Land of My Ancestors – A film by Rucha Chitnis.
‘In the Land of My Ancestors’ celebrates the legacy of beloved Ohlone elder Ann-Marie Sayers. Sayers has devoted her life to preserving the stories and culture of her Indigenous ancestors. This documentary challenges viewers to consider the perilous impact of colonization on the Ohlone people in the Bay Area. It also follows Sayers as she provides a refuge in the sacred Indian Canyon for Indigenous people to reclaim their culture, spirituality, and heritage.
All are welcome. Seating will be theater-style. For accessibility requests, please contact us at least one week in advance. Email us at programs@Lapena.org.

Sign up to Volunteer (free entry): https://signup.com/go/imEBbJD
Learn more about upcoming film screenings at Lapena.info/we-win
Presented by La Peña Cultural Center, Center for Political Education, and Freedom Archives

Accessibility:

La Peña is a wheelchair-accessible venue with step-less entry, wide doorways, and accessible restrooms.
Restrooms are all-gender.
Masks are strongly encouraged. If you’re experiencing COVID-19, cold, or flu-like symptoms, please consider staying home to protect our community. HEPA air purifiers operate throughout our space.

We strive to make La Peña a welcoming, accessible space for everyone. For accommodation requests, please contact us at least one week in advance, and we’ll do our best to support you. Email us at programs@Lapena.org.
Getting to La Peña:

Public Transit: The 18 bus line stops directly across the street (Shattuck & Woolsey), and Ashby BART is just two blocks away.
Parking: Free street parking is available, or park at the Ashby BART station for a fee.
Bike-Friendly: Bike racks are available outside La Peña.

Oakland Says NO to Apartheid, from South Africa to Palestine!
2026-03-30 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | First Unitarian Church, 685 14th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Sunday, March 29 | 3-5PM | Refreshments at 2:45PM
First Unitarian Church: 685 14th St, Oakland
RSVP Here
Join the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo on Sunday, March 29th, for an afternoon panel, discussion, and musical performance to celebrate Oakland’s long history of international solidarity! Learn from Oakland’s own movement leaders about local resistance against the South African apartheid regime, and how we’re carrying on this legacy today through the fight for an Arms Embargo. History shows us that when Oakland fights, we WIN.
Please take 10 seconds to register at this link, and share this invitation far and wide!
Featured panelists include:
• David Canham, Executive Director of SEIU 1021 & Former anti-apartheid organizer in South Africa
• Nesbit Crutchfield, Organizer & former Chairperson of the Bay Area Free South Africa Movement
• Andrea Prichett, Educator & former leader of UC Berkeley Campaign Against Apartheid
• Clarence Thomas, Former Executive Board of ILWU 10 & Black Panther Party member
• Pastor Michael McBride, Founder & Lead Pastor at The Way Christian Center in West Berkeley
+ With musical performance by the Vukani Mawethu Choir
+ Refreshments from Shawarmaji served at 2:45pm
As a proud endorser of the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo, we can’t wait to see you there!

When We Win: Mālama Mākua - demilitarization in Hawai'i
2026-03-17 19:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
A monthly film series centering liberation, decolonization, and political education through films with facilitated discussions.

When We Win Film Series: Mālama Mākua – demilitarization in Hawai’i
Tuesday, March 17, 2026 | Doors open: 7:00 PM | Screening at 7:30 PM | Run time: 48 min
Sliding Scale Tickets: $5 – $25 | No one turned away for lack of funds
When We Win: Political Education Film Series spotlights people’s struggles for liberation, decolonization, and the world to come.
Each screening will include political education with facilitation, interactive discussions, and conversations featuring remarks from filmmakers and/or organizers active in peoples’ movements for liberation and justice.
Guest speakers to be announced.
All are welcome.
All online ticket sales end when doors open. After that, tickets will only be available for purchase at the door until we reach capacity.
Sign up to Volunteer (free entry): signup.com/go/QWDMvzh
Learn more about upcoming film screenings at Lapena.info/we-win
Presented by La Peña Cultural Center, Center for Political Education, and Freedom Archives

Accessibility:

La Peña is a wheelchair-accessible venue with step-less entry, wide doorways, and accessible restrooms.
Restrooms are all-gender
Masks are strongly encouraged. If you’re experiencing COVID-19, cold, or flu-like symptoms, please consider staying home to protect our community. HEPA air purifiers operate throughout our space.

We strive to make La Peña a welcoming, accessible space for everyone. For accommodation requests, please contact us at least one week in advance, and we’ll do our best to support you. Email us at programs@Lapena.org.
Getting to La Peña:

Public Transit: The 18 bus line stops directly across the street (Shattuck & Woolsey), and Ashby BART is just two blocks away.
Parking: Free street parking is available, or park at the Ashby BART station for a fee.
Bike-Friendly: Bike racks are available outside La Peña.

International Working Women's Day Rally & March
2026-03-08 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
SF BAY AREA: Honor working women with us at our International Working Women’s Day rally & march on Sunday, March 8th, 2026!
Come with loved ones and your fighting spirit as we demonstrate our power against the repression of immigrant communities, the stripping of services to the most vulnerable, the demonization of our trans kin, and the funneling of our tax dollars toward endless wars.
📅 Date and Time: Sunday, March 8th, 2026 from 11 am – 3 pm
📌Starting Location: The Pergola at Lake Merritt in Huchiun, unceded Ohlone land (aka Oakland)
🦋The march will be roughly 1 mile on mostly flat terrain. More access information to come!
We uplift the hundreds of thousands of working women within Turtle Island and all around the Global South who have paved the way for revolutionary struggle today. We know that working women and gender expansive folks will light the way forward and advance our fight towards liberation.
ORGANIZATIONS:
Mujeres Unidas y Activas
GABRIELA Oakland
Palestinian Feminist Collective
Alliance of South Asians Taking Action
Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project
Black Rose Anarchist Federation
CA Coalition for Women Prisoners
Nodutdol
Philippine Solidarity Task Force
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust.
#IWWD2026 #internationalworkingwomensday

For more information: https://www.instagram.com/p/DU3V-bTkZxY/

State of Black Archives Virtual Conference
2026-02-21 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom Panel
The Black Power Archive Collective collaborates with movements, agencies, and individuals to preserve and ensure authentic representation and access to records generated by communities of the African Diaspora, their members, and allies.

Conference Highlights

Keynote speakers from leading cultural institutions
Interactive workshops on archival best practices
Networking sessions with community leaders
Cultural performances and art exhibitions
Panel discussions on preservation strategies
Digital mapping in archival work

Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i0tvEBLdR_iAMfvsQCc7lg#/registration
Freedom Archives panel: “Self Defense & Self Determination: The Legacy of Robert and Mabel Williams”
PANEL II 10:30-11:50 AM PST

When We Win: Political Education Film Series
2026-02-17 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | La Pena, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
When We Win: Political Education Film Series launches as a new monthly gathering, bringing film and political education into conversation with community, filmmakers and organizers active in peoples’ movements for liberation and justice.
Every 3rd Tuesday, in partnership with @center4pe and Freedom Archives.
Save the date: Feb 17
Eyes of the Rainbow (The Assata Shakur Story)
https://lapena.org/event/when-we-win-political-education-film-series-2/

Tribunal Rising Exhibit
2025-10-10 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Ethnic Studies Library (UC Berkeley), 30 Stephens Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
The Tribunal Project, The Ethnic Studies Library and the Freedom Archives invite you to an art opening and book celebration.
The exhibit and accompanying book is about movement building inspired from the 1992 Tribunal in San Francisco to dismantle the legacy of Christopher Columbus and 500 years of genocide. As a retrospective, this book accompanies an exhibit of art works and documents at the Ethnic Studies Library on the UC Berkeley campus to commemorate the 1992 Tribunal as an international call to dismantle the colonial legacy of Christopher Columbus and the quincentennial Myth of Discovery.
By reactivating the legacy of the 1992 Tribunal, this project of Tribunal Rising, claims our sovereign rights as a people to live free from terror in our neighborhoods and around the world. In it, we see the special role of the arts to raise our song, theater, poetry often recited live, and in artworks that live on in posters, magazines and prints as common reminders of our creativity and capacities to create a better world. We bring imagination, the possibility of change, and the advancement of what we know to be true to rejuvenate the energetic cycles of life.

Book Talk: The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity
2025-10-09 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 675 Social Sciences Building, the Erskine A. Peters Reading Room., 675 Social Sciences Building, the Erskine A. Peters Reading Room, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
A book talk will be hosted from 1:00 – 2:00 pm in 650 Social Sciences Building. A small reception will follow with light refreshments at 2:00 pm in 675 Social Sciences Building, the Erskine A. Peters Reading Room.

Speaker: Akinyele K. Umoja, Professor, Africana Studies, Georgia State University

Speaker: Lisa Williams, Daughter-in-Law of Robert and Mabel Williams

RSVP: https://events.berkeley.edu/africam/event/304147-book-talk-the-memoirs-of-robert-and-mabel-williams

Born in Jim Crow–era Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams and Mabel R. Williams were the state’s most legendary African American freedom fighters. The Williamses’ leadership in Monroe was just the beginning of a lifelong pursuit of freedom and justice for Black people in the United States and for oppressed populations throughout the world. Their activism foreshadowed major developments in the civil rights and Black Power movements, including Malcolm X’s advocacy of fighting oppression “by any means necessary,” the emergence of the Black Panther Party, and Black solidarity with Third World liberation movements.
Robert documented his experiences in Monroe in his classic 1962 book, Negroes with Guns, and completed a draft of his memoir, While God Lay Sleeping, months before his death in 1996. Mabel began a memoir of her own before her death in 2014. The family selected John Bracey Jr., Akinyele K. Umoja, and Gloria Aneb House to edit and complete the manuscripts, which are presented together in this book, offering a gripping portrait of these pioneering freedom fighters that is both deeply intimate and a fierce call to action in the ongoing fight against racial injustice.

Honoring the Legacy of Robert and Mabel Williams (Marcus Books)
2025-10-05 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Marcus Books, 3900 Martin L King Jr Way, Oakland, California, 94609
Born in Jim Crow–era Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams and Mabel R. Williams were the state’s most legendary African American freedom fighters. The Williamses’ leadership in Monroe was just the beginning of a lifelong pursuit of freedom and justice for Black people in the United States and for oppressed populations throughout the world. Their activism foreshadowed major developments in the civil rights and Black Power movements, including Malcolm X’s advocacy of fighting oppression “by any means necessary,” the emergence of the Black Panther Party, and Black solidarity with Third World liberation movements.
Robert documented his experiences in Monroe in his classic 1962 book, Negroes with Guns, and completed a draft of his memoir, While God Lay Sleeping, months before his death in 1996. Mabel began a memoir of her own before her death in 2014. The family selected John Bracey Jr., Akinyele K. Umoja, and Gloria Aneb House to edit and complete the manuscripts, which are presented together in this book, offering a gripping portrait of these pioneering freedom fighters that is both deeply intimate and a fierce call to action in the ongoing fight against racial injustice.

Speaker: Akinyele K. Umoja, Professor, Africana Studies, Georgia State University
Speaker: Lisa Williams, Daughter-in-Law of Robert and Mabel Williams

Books will be available for purchase.

Honoring the Legacy of Robert and Mabel Williams (La Pena Cultural Center)
2025-10-04 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | La Pena, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
From Monroe, North Carolina to the global stage, Robert and Mabel Williams stood at the forefront of the struggle for justice. Their fight for Black liberation and international solidarity helped shape the path of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements — inspiring Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party, and global freedom struggles.
This gripping new book paints an intimate portrait of two fearless pioneers whose voices still call us to action today.
Featured speakers include Professor Akinyele K. Umoja and Lisa Williams, daughter-in-law of Robert and Mabel Williams.
It’s happening Saturday, October 4th, from 2 to 4pm at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley. Suggested donation $25 at the door, no one turned away. Books will be available for purchase.

Let Cuba Live: Bay Area Tour w/ Cuban Diplomats
2025-06-01 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | First Unitarian Church, 685 14th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
We can learn vital and urgent lessons from Cuba’s advances in public health, education, LGBTQ+ rights, economic justice, and environmental sustainability—all of which are under intensifying attack here in the United States. Join us for a uniquely direct and educational exchange with highly informed Cuban Embassy officials visiting us from Washington D.C.
We are facing a critical moment in US/Cuba relations with the Trump administration ramping up its attacks on Cuba—a serious escalation in a long history of hostile policies designed to harm the Cuban economy and damage Cuba’s reputation as a leader in global healthcare.
The Trump administration has put Cuba back on the fraudulent State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list as it tramples on Cuban sovereignty by designating the Guantánamo Bay military base as a detention center for deported migrants. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has even threatened to revoke US visas for government leaders whose nations hire life saving Cuban physicians and nurses from Cuba’s famed medical brigades. Solidarity is needed more than ever.

First Unitarian Church of Oakland
685 14th Street
Oakland, California 94612

For more information contact: bayareacubasolidarity@gmail.com
Thank you to our co-sponsors!
Democratic Socialists of America San Francisco
Freedom Archives
MARTINEZ Arts Consulting
Mission Cultural Center
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Resumen
Task Force on the Americas
Unitarian Universalist San Francisco
Venezuela-Cuba Solidarity Coalition

the spirit of the people is stronger than imperialist bombs
2025-04-30 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Eastside Arts Alliance, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94606, United States
SAVE THE DATE for Wednesday, April 30th 2025 6-9PM at Eastside Arts Alliance & Cultural Center at 2277 International Boulevard, Oakland! We invite you to a people’s intergenerational and multiracial community event on the evening of the 50th Anniversary of the end of the war in Southeast Asia and Việt Nam’s independence. We hope this is a night of culture, political education & powerful stories to honor the 50th anniversary of the U.S. military’s forced departure and international struggle for self-determination and freedom.
This event is co-organized by members of @eastsidecultural, Freedom Archives, @gabrielaoakland, @bayareapym, @qtvietcafe, Union of Vietnamese.
Register Here
Stay tuned for more information!

International Working Women’s Day
2025-03-08 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Avenida de La Fuente, Fruitvale, Oakland / Huchiun Territory, Oakland, CA, United States
Join us for our 10th annual International Working Women’s Day event in the Bay Area on Saturday, March 8th, 2025 from 11am – 3pm in the Fruitvale at Avenida de la Fuente, Oakland aka Huchuin, between E 12th and International! This event will be filled with community-led workshops aimed at building our collective power so we can win the world we demand.
In the radical spirit of the masses of women who went on strike in 1908, we honor the power of working women and gender expansive folks who push history forward and teach us about the importance of revolutionary struggle! We know that our enemy is doing everything they can to suppress our movement, so we must come together to study the history of our movement elders, build our collective strength, fill our communities with beautiful and agitating cultural work, and unite! Gather with your neighbors and community members and honor the working women and gender expansive folks who have resisted before us!

This event is co-organized by @gabrielaoakland @mujeresunidasyactivas @palestinianfeministcollective @lacolectivasf @asata_bayarea @blmpbayarea @c_c_w_p @cal_nev_pstf

Bay Area: Sumud Mural Community Launch
2024-10-13 13:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Uptown Body and Fender, 401 26th Street, Oakland, CA, United States
Join us for the public launch of the SUMUD: Resistance Until Liberation Mural on Sunday, October 13!
About the mural: The SUMUD: Resistance Until Liberation mural project is a collaboration between artists and activists in the U.S. and Palestine that explores and confronts the deep interconnections between the brutal systems of imprisonment in the U.S. and Palestine. The mural will serve as a demonstration of the Palestinian Liberation Movement’s vibrancy and a memorialization of this historical moment in our struggle globally and locally.
The mural is located in Uptown Oakland at ​​Uptown Body & Fender – Auto Body Shop. Over 50 participating organizations and groups are represented in this important mural. Please join us for an unveiling and launch event on Sunday 10/13.
Event details:
Date: Sunday, October 13
Time: 1:30pm
Location: 401 26th St, Oakland, CA 94612
COVID Protocol: The event will take place outdoors. If you are feeling unwell or have any recent exposures, please stay home and care for yourself. We will have a limited number of masks available onsite.
Accessibility info: The event is family-friendly; we will have activities available for children, but children should be supervised by their guardian(s) at all times. The space will be primarily outdoors, on a paved parking lot that is wheelchair accessible. All gender, wheelchair-accessible portable bathrooms will be onsite. Street parking is very limited. Please stay tuned for more accessibility information!
If you’re unable to attend the launch event but still want to support the mural, we welcome donations to fund this project! Please give what you can to help sustain this important work. Any amount is greatly appreciated!

SUMUD: Resistance Until Liberation Mural Benefit
2024-03-10 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Eastside Arts Alliance, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94606, United States

American Purgatory Book Launch
2023-11-06 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Eastside Arts Alliance, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94606, United States
Join Freedom Archives co-director Nathaniel Moore in conversation with American Purgatory author Benjamin Weber at Bandung Books / Eastside Cultural Center in Oakland!
Eastside Cultural Center — 2277 International Blvd. Oakland, CA
Monday Nov. 6 @ 6pm
Registration Link: uc-davis-aas.ticketleap.com/book-launch—eastside-cultural-center–bandung-books/
See you there!

About the Speakers:
Nathaniel Moore is an archivist and co-director at the Freedom Archives. He is also the archivist at the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library at UC Berkeley. He has been active in prisoner support work for the past decade and is the cofounder of an education program focusing on social justice inside of San Quentin State Prison. He is also active in a number of projects working to amplify voices of resistance around the Bay Area.
Benjamin Weber is an assistant professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis. He has worked at the Vera Institute of Justice, Alternate ROOTS, the Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, and as a public high school teacher in East Los Angeles. He makes his home in Davis, California.
About American Purgatory: A groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe, from a rising young historian. In this explosive new book, historian Benjamin Weber reveals how the story of American prisons is inextricably linked to the expansion of American power around the globe. A vivid work of hidden history that spans the wars to subjugate Native Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, the conquest of the western territories, and the creation of an American empire in Panama, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, American Purgatory reveals how “prison imperialism”—the deliberate use of prisons to control restive, subject populations—is written into our national DNA, extending through to our modern era of mass incarceration. Weber also uncovers a surprisingly rich history of prison resistance, from the Seminole Chief Osceola to Assata Shakur—one that invites us to rethink the scope of America’s long freedom struggle. Weber’s brilliantly documented text is supplemented by original maps highlighting the global geography of prison imperialism, as well as illustrations of key figures in this history by the celebrated artist Ayo Scott. For readers of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, here is a bold new effort to tell the full story of prisons and incarceration—at home and abroad—as well as a powerful future vision of a world without prisons.

Preserving Black Resistance
2023-02-19 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Online via ASALH TV
Association for the Study of African American Life and History: Black History Month Virtual Festival
This panel brings together public historians and information and cultural heritage professionals to explore the ways they have preserved records, spaces, and places of Black Resistance movements in the U.S. as a way to resist marginalization and erasure and to center Black experiences. Attendees will learn about specific projects, strategies, challenges, and accomplishments these professionals have undertaken and participated.
Moderator:

Omar Eaton Martinez -Senior Vice President, Historic Sites, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Panelists:

Felicia Bell – Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, formerly at Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum
Cheylon Woods – Archivist and Head of the Ernest J. Gaines Center, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Nathaniel Moore – Co-Director and Lead Archivist, Freedom Archives

Saturday February 19 — 5:00 to 6:15 pm (EST) / 2:00 to 3:15 (PST)
Watch the session on ASALH TV: https://www.youtube.com/c/ASALHTV

Colloquium: Undoing Time: Images and Archives
2022-11-05 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA
https://bampfa.org/event/colloquium-undoing-time-images-archives
Join guest curator Julio Morales, exhibition artists Stephanie Syjuco and Mario Ybarra, Jr., and Freedom Archives co-directors Claude Marks and Nathaniel Moore for a conversation that expands and explores the exhibition’s themes, including the artist as archivist/activist.
Morales is senior curator at the Arizona State University Art Museum. As artist, educator, and curator, he explores issues of migration, underground economies, and labor.
Syjuco, associate professor in sculpture at UC Berkeley, is an artist working with photography, sculpture, and installation whose practice questions the disciplinary and historical specificities of photographic image making.
Ybarra is an artist whose sculptures, installations, photographs, and activist interventions examine Mexican American identity, with an aesthetic that combines street culture iconography with historical and political imagery. He teaches from his studio, Slanguage, in his hometown of Wilmington, California.
Marks is founder and co-director of the Freedom Archives, where he produces video and audio documentaries. He has an extensive background in media, culture, and activism dating from the 1960s; he was imprisoned in the United States for his support of the Puerto Rican independence movement.
Moore is an educator, archivist, and co-director of the Freedom Archives, as well as an archivist at the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library. He is active in prisoner support work.

This is a special event in support of:
Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration
On view through December 18, 2022
2155 Center Street, Berkeley
Open Wednesday–Sunday, 11 AM–7 PM
Museum admission is free for all UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.
Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration considers the foundational roots of confinement from philosophical, sociological, theological, and art historical perspectives to better understand the fact that today’s mass incarceration crisis has been centuries in the making.
Twelve artists have created work based on their analysis of art historical images of incarceration, a selection of which are on display in the introductory Cloud Room, working in a range of media including multi-media installation, photography, and texts.

Freedom Archives at Cal State East Bay
2022-10-17 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cal State East Bay
Join the History Department in welcoming the Freedom Archives to CSU East Bay to discuss their approach to preserving and sharing social movement history.

Mountain Lion Room (Core Building 159)
12 PM – 1:40 PM
For more information contact Michael Casaneda: michael.schulzeoechtering@csueastbay.edu

Virtual Tour of The Healing Project: Health Workers Exploring the Digital Archive
2022-06-16 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us on Thursday, June 16, 2022 from 12-1p PT / 3-4p ET for a virtual tour of The Healing Project’s brand new digital archive!
What do violence, incarceration, detention and policing have to do with struggles to advance health equity? How do the arts help us sustain movements and heal communities? Join us to explore this exciting new digital archive and it means to health workers. We’ll discuss what the art, stories, and realities of incarcerated people in the US mean for health professionals’ work to advance health equity in the context of historical and contemporary social justice movements.
Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QbzkzXR7SGq0pa5AU0wDnw
Speakers include:
Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes is a composer, pianist/vocalist, interdisciplinary artist, and sur-realist whose work delves into all the things our society tries to hide. He is the creator of The Healing Project — which explores the daily realities of violence, incarceration, detention, and policing in communities across the United States and highlights healing and care strategies that emerge from these same communities — and its digital archive, music album, and exhibition.
Nathaniel Moore is an Archivist and Co-Director with Freedom Archives, a community archive and educational space dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of historical audio, video, and print materials documenting progressive movements and culture from the 1960s to the 1990s. Nathaniel has been active in prison education programs at San Quentin State Prison for over a decade, as well as in other projects uplifting the voices of prisoner-led movements.
Amber Akemi Piatt is the Health Instead of Punishment Program Director at Human Impact Partners (HIP), a national nonprofit organization focused on transforming the field of public health to center equity and building collective power with social justice movements. Trained in public health and clinical psychology, she has collaborated with grassroots groups on successful campaigns to curb United States militarism, incarceration, and police violence.
You can register at bit.ly/HealingProjectTour. Please email Amber at amber@humanimpact.org with any questions.
And if you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, be sure to check out the full exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts before September 4, 2022! It is free, open to the public, and not to be missed.

A Conversation with Addameer
2022-05-12 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Eastside Arts Alliance, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland, CA, 94606, United States
Join us for an in depth look at imprisonment and prisoner resistance in Palestine with Milena Ansari of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, an organization that supports Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian prisons.

Palestinian Prisoners Day 2022
2022-04-17 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom Panel
CLICK TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT

Art Against Imprisonment is hosting this event to mark Palestinian Prisoners Day, April 17th 2022. Palestinians have commemorated April 17th since 1974 as a national tribute to prisoners and their sacrifices, a call to unify the efforts to support them and their right to freedom, and a call for solidarity with their families. This year we uplift the daring Great Escape of six Palestinian prisoners from the maximum security Gilboa prison on September 6th, 2021. We also mark the courageous collective boycott of Israeli military courts by Palestinian administrative detainees since January 1, 2022, now in its fourth month.

Art Against Imprisonment shines a light on the creativity which people in prison use to break through repression, isolation and invisibility. For Palestinian Prisoners Day 2022, we are proud to host Palestinian former prisoners and artists to celebrate steadfast resistance against imprisonment, occupation, and settler colonialism.
Featuring –

Rana Bishara – Palestinian installation artist, painter, graphic artist, photographer and performing artist, based in Palestine

Mustafa Sheta – Palestinian former political prisoner and General Director Jenin Freedom Theater, based in Palestine

Clarissa Bitar – Palestinian oud musician and composer, based in the U.S.
Chris Gazaleh – Palestinian visual artist, musician, writer, organizer and educator, based in the U.S.

Sunday April 17 – 10 am PDT / 2:30 EDT / 8:00 pm Palestine

CLICK TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT
For more information contact artagainstimprisonment@gmail.com

EVENT SPONSORS: ADDAMEER Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association, U.S. Palestinian Community Network, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Freedom Archives and Palestinian Youth Movement

CO-SPONSORS: Critical Resistance, Jenin Freedom Theatre, Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, Palestinian Feminist Collective, Coalition for Civil Freedoms, Release Aging People in Prison, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies

100 Years from Mississippi (March 20th Only)
2022-03-20 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Roxie Theater, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
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Mamie Lang Kirkland was seven years old when she fled Ellisville, Mississippi in 1915 with her mother and siblings as her father and his friend, John Hartfield, escaped an approaching lynch mob. John Hartfield returned to Mississippi in 1919 and was killed in one of the most horrific lynchings of the era.
Mamie’s son, Tarabu, had grown up hearing stories of John Hartfield but didn’t know if his mother’s stories were fact or folklore until one day in 2015. Tarabu discovered an article describing Hartfield’s gruesome murder before a crowd of 10,000 spectators. At that moment, the film was born.
Mamie had vowed for a century that she would never return to Mississippi. Yet with Tarabu’s remarkable find, he urged his mother to finally confront her childhood trauma by returning to Ellisville. Mamie was 107 when they began the journey to connect her story to the larger impact of America’s legacy of racial violence, which echoes today from Ferguson to New York, Atlanta to Los Angeles. Like many of the six million African Americans who left the Deep South, Mamie’s story is a testament to the courage and hope of her generation. Her indomitable will and contagious joy of living is exceeded only by her ability to tell her story now, 111 years later. In a time of great social divisions, “100 Years From Mississippi” gives us the simple wisdom of an ordinary woman’s extraordinary life.
Directed by Tarabu Betserai Kirkland. United States. 2021. 60 minutes.

Virtual Film Screenings: Fundraiser to Benefit NLG-SFBA & Freedom Archives
2021-10-02 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Rescheduled: Virtual Film Screenings

Due to a number of factors including ongoing concerns about COVID and worsening air quality, we have cancelled our in-person screenings at HEIST originally scheduled for 8/28 and 9/11, and have postponed them until October. We will hold the rescheduled screenings as virtual-only, with a panel and guided discussions to bookend the screening. All tickets previously purchased will be valid for the new dates. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

You can register for the rescheduled screenings below. Suggested donations for sliding scale tickets are $15-25, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All funds will support the work of the National Lawyers Guild’s Santa Rita Jail Hotline and Freedom Archives.

10/2: virtual screening of COINTELPRO 101 & George Jackson Commemoration: bit.ly/FilmScreening-10-2

10/9: virtual screening of Attica (1974) & We Know Our Rights: bit.ly/FilmScreening-10-9

Questions? Email membership@nlgsf.org.

Defending Our Communities, Defending Our Lives - Former Women Political Prisoners Speak Out for International Women's History Month
2021-03-25 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Defending Our Communities, Defending Our Lives – Former Women Political Prisoners Speak Out for International Women’s History Month

Across the U.S. and the globe, unprecedented health, economic and social crisis is leading to escalating violence against BIPOC communities, often targeting women and TGNC people in particular. Over 10,000 people were arrested in the course of the 2020 uprisings after George Floyd’s murder, but they have largely been disappeared from public view. Women who have been imprisoned for defending themselves and their communities have much to teach us about resisting state violence. Join us for a conversation with four courageous women who have stood up for their lives and their communities.

Register at: bit.ly/DefendOurLives
FYI – when event is at capacity, tune in via FB Live

Thursday, March 25th – 5 pm PST
Janet and Janine Africa,of the MOVE family
Siwatu, Freedom Team Detroit/Grassroots Global Justice
Laura Whitehorn – Release Aging People in Prison – brief bio
Moderated by Aleta Alston Toure’ – Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative

Art Against Imprisonment: a Virtual Art Exhibit
2021-03-21 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Art Against Imprisonment, a Virtual Art Exhibit, features art from incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in Palestine and in the US as a small testament to their creativity, imagination, and expressions of solidarity. Join us in launching this exhibit with former political prisoners Hafez Omar, Lina Khattab, Linda Evans, and Oscar Lopez Rivera; with a message from Kevin Cooper currently on California’s death row; with musical artist Naima Shaloub; and with more to come.
March 21, 2021
10am- 12pm PST
8pm-10pm in Palestine
Register here: tinyurl.com/artagainstprisons
Hosted by:
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), Freedom Archives, Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)

Panthers After the Party: A Conversation on Black Power Afterlives
2021-02-09 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Black Panther Party (BPP) has made an undeniable impact on the iconography, language, culture and practice of revolutionary struggles since the mid-1960s. Join former BPP members/political prisoners in a discussion about commitment, creativity, continuity, and how to best cultivate and sustain resistance.
Speakers include Ericka Huggins, Hank Jones, Sekou Odinga, and Akinsanya Kambon – all contributors to Black Panther Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party edited by Diane Fujino and Matef Harmachis. This event will be moderated by Nathaniel Moore of the Freedom Archives.
Black Power Afterlives is a powerful and wide-ranging collection examining the persistent impact of the Black Panther Party on subsequent liberation struggles. Purchase it 30% off here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1472-black-power-afterlives
***Register through Eventbrite to receive a link to the video conference on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded and have live captioning.***
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panthers-after-the-party-a-conversation-on-black-power-afterlives-tickets-138968461409
Speakers:
Ericka Huggins is an educator, leading Black Panther Party member, former political prisoner, human rights advocate, and poet. For 45 years Ericka has lectured in the United States and internationally on Restorative Practices and the role of spiritual practice in creating social change.
Henry “Hank” Jones is a former USA-held political prisoner. He has been an activist since 1955 when he felt compelled by the racist torture and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till. Hank worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in San Francisco from 1963 then joined the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in 1967. In 2003 he was one of the former Panthers known as the San Francisco 8 targeted by Homeland Security. Hank continues to do social justice, political prisoner and human rights work.
Sekou Odinga is a founding member of the New York Black Panther Party and the International Section of the Black Panther Party. He was a soldier in the Black Liberation Army and a political prisoner for 33 years. Since exiting prison in 2014 he has been a public speaker, writer, political activist and founder of the North East Political Prisoner Coalition.
Akinsanya Kambon is former Lieutenant of Culture for the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Sacramento Chapter. He created the Black Panther Coloring Book to bring attention to racial inequality and social injustice. After the Panther Party, Kambon dedicated himself to Pan-Africanism, teaching African spirituality, religions, history, and culture through multimedia art. In 1984 he founded Pan African Art in Long Beach, CA. Continuing the Panther ideology he provides free programs for youth in art, leadership and culture. His ceramic sculptures are presently on exhibition, “American Expressions/African Roots,” at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
Nathaniel Moore (moderator) is the archivist and co-director at the Freedom Archives. He holds degrees in African Studies, African-American Studies, and Library and Information Science. He has been active in prisoner support work for the past decade.
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Sponsored by Haymarket Books and The Freedom Archives. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.

Attica Means Fight Back: Cultivating Resistance Then & Now
2020-09-08 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom Panel
Link to Register: bit.ly/AtticaFightBack
Event will be Facebook livestreamed!
*You are welcome to register, but as we approach our capacity limit we recommend you plan to watch the event via FB livestream on the page of Freedom Archives.
This event is part of a national month of actions marking the Attica uprising and demanding decarceration now!
https://endlifeimprisonment.org/news-events

September 9-13, 2020 marks the 49th anniversary of the Attica Prison Rebellion. In 1971, united around demands for better healthcare, education and against unrestrained violence by the state, over 1200 incarcerated people of all races rebelled, took hostages and occupied parts of Attica Prison. For four days, prisoners worked collectively to negotiate the end of the inhumane conditions at the prison. An invasion by the New York State Police Troopers ordered by Governor Rockefeller resulted in the deaths of 43 people – 33 prisoners and 10 correctional officers. 49 years later, Attica serves as a rallying cry for those working for self determination inside of prison walls, an essential lesson in state violence and an enduring symbol of resistance and unity. Today the conditions in U.S. prisons are more barbaric than in 1971 with massive overcrowding, extreme sentencing, gendered violence, and a health care crisis made much worse by the COVID pandemic. The lessons of Attica are as important as ever. Join The California Coalition for Women Prisoners and the Freedom Archives as we host a panel discussing the historical legacy of the Attica Prison Rebellion, sustaining resistance behind bars and how Attica can inform the ways we fight back!
Featured panelists:
• Romarilyn Ralston — Lead Policy Analyst, formerly incarcerated, California Coalition for Women Prisoners
• Paul Redd — Formerly incarcerated organizer, one of the leaders of the historic CA prison hunger strikes
• Michael Deutsch — One of the main lawyers for the Attica prisoners following the 1971 uprising
*Moderated by Nathaniel Moore of Freedom Archives

Born on the MOVE
2020-01-16 18:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 518 Valencia, 518 Valencia, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
This is a unique Bay Area chance to meet Mike and Debbie Africa (from the MOVE organization) and their son Mike Jr. Mike and Debbie spent over 40 years in prison in Pennsylvania and were finally released at the end of 2018. Using storytelling and hip hop, Mike Africa, Jr will take us on a journey of his life from the day that he was secretly born in prison, to the bombing of his family on May 13th, 1985, up to his parents’ release from prison after each serving 40 years. Mike will be joined by his parents Debbie and Mike Africa, Sr for a conversation moderated by Maisha Quint.

Honoring Fred Hampton on the 50th Anniversary of his Murder
2019-12-08 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Join Jeff Haas & Emory Douglas and the Freedom Archives for this Howard Zinn Book Fair event!
50 years ago Chicago police with FBI support raided Black Panther Fred Hampton’s Chicago apartment assassinating him and Mark Clark and injuring 4 others. Attorney Jeff Haas exposes the conspiracy behind the execution in this updated book. Emory Douglas, then Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, will also join us.
