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SUMMARY:When We Win - Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice
DESCRIPTION:The When We Win political education film series is back on EVERY third Tuesday! \nOn May 19th\, join us to celebrate the shared birthdays of Yuri Kochiyama\, Malcolm X\, Ho Chi Minh and Lorraine Hansberry\, with a screening of “Passion for Justice” which chronicles Yuri Kochiyama’s remarkable contributions to social change through some of the most significant events of the 20th century\, including the Black Liberation movement\, the struggle for Puerto Rican independence\, and the Japanese American Redress movement. In an era of divided communities and racial conflict\, Kochiyama offered an outstanding example of an equitable and compassionate multiculturalist vision. \nFilm trailer link: https://vimeo.com/541205039 \nRSVP at this link! \nTuesday\, May 19th\, 2026 | Doors: 7:00 PM | Screening 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM \nSliding Scale Tickets\n$5 – $25 | No one turned away for lack of funds\nLa Peña members get in FREE\nLearn more about member benefits and join us
URL:https://freedomarchives.org/event/when-we-win-yuri-kochiyama-passion-for-justice/
LOCATION:La Pena\, 3105 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:When We Win: What These Walls Won’t Hold – San Quentin During COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:When We Win Film Series: What These Walls Won’t Hold – San Quentin During COVID-19\nSliding Scale Tickets: $5–$25 | No one turned away for lack of funds | FREE for La Peña Members \nTickets available at the door until we reach capacity. \nThis month’s gathering will center resilience\, community\, and the struggle for liberation from within the prison system\, with screenings of I’m Free Now\, You Are Free and What These Walls Won’t Hold. \nExplore with us: How do we struggle to stay connected to prisoners as part of our families and communities and play an active role in providing them support when they come home? \nSpecial guests \n\nAdamu Chan (Filmmaker\, What These Walls Won’t Hold)\nDr. Ameer Loggins\n\nAll 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. \nMore info: https://lapena.org/event/when-we-win-political-education-film-series-6/
URL:https://freedomarchives.org/event/when-we-win-what-these-walls-wont-hold-san-quentin-during-covid-19/
LOCATION:La Pena\, 3105 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
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SUMMARY:When We Win: HANDS OFF CUBA / MAESTRA
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\n\n\n\nWe will be focusing on HANDS OFF CUBA solidarity efforts and a screening of the documentary film MAESTRA. \n\n\n\n\nWhen We Win Film Series: HANDS OFF CUBA / MAESTRA Documentary Film\nSliding Scale Tickets: $5 – $25 | No one turned away for lack of funds | FREE for La Peña Members \nTickets available online and at the door until we reach capacity. \nThis month’s gathering we will be focusing on HANDS OFF CUBA solidarity efforts and a screening of the documentary film MAESTRA. \nAll are welcome. Seating will be theater-style. \n\nSign up to Volunteer (free entry): Lapena.info/volunteer\nFor accessibility requests\, please contact us at least one week in advance. Email us at programs@Lapena.org.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Film:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMAESTRA (2012)\nA film by Catherine Murphy \nCuba\, 1961: 250\,000 volunteers taught 700\,000 people to read and write in one year. 100\,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women. \nMAESTRA (2012) explores this story through the personal testimonies of the young women who went out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island – and found themselves deeply transformed in the process. \nThe Cuban Literacy Campaign is an important but little-known chapter in the history of the Americas. Catherine Murphy has created a project with rare and intimate access to this history. Her documentary MAESTRA brings together moving interviews with living witnesses\, beautiful archival film footage\, and Catherine’s compelling storytelling. Based on personal testimonies of teachers and students from the campaign\, her film will preserve the oral histories of a generation that will soon be gone. The historical significance of this archive -and its lessons for the\npresent- cannot be overstated. —Howard Zinn\, Historian\, Author of “The Peoples History of the United States” \n\n\n\n\nAbout this Political Education Series:\nWhen 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. \n\nSign up to Volunteer (free entry): Lapena.info/volunteer\nLearn more about upcoming film screenings at Lapena.info/we-win\nPresented by La Peña Cultural Center\, Center for Political Education\, and Freedom Archives. Sponsored by the SFSU Film School.\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility:\n\nLa Peña is a wheelchair-accessible venue with step-less entry\, wide doorways\, and accessible restrooms.\nRestrooms are all-gender.\nMasks 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.\n\nWe 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. \nGetting to La Peña:\n\nPublic Transit: The 18 bus line stops directly across the street (Shattuck & Woolsey)\, and Ashby BART is just two blocks away.\nParking: Free street parking is available\, or park at the Ashby BART station for a fee.\nBike-Friendly: Bike racks are available outside La Peña.\n\nSupport La Peña\n\nLa Peña Members get FREE entry for this event! Become a member to unlock discounts\, free events\, and other perks all year. Join today: Lapena.org/members\nMake a tax-deductible donation to sustain the art\, culture and community programs that keep La Peña thriving. Donate: Lapena.org/donate\n\nQuestions?\n\nEmail programs@Lapena.org | Contact us
URL:https://freedomarchives.org/event/when-we-win-hands-off-cuba-maestra/
LOCATION:La Pena\, 3105 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:When We Win: Free Joan Little
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\nWhen We Win Film Series: FREE JOAN LITTLE – Bay Area Premiere with Film’s Director\, Yoruba Richen\nSliding Scale Tickets: $15 – $35 | No one turned away for lack of funds | FREE for La Peña Members \nTickets available online and at the door until we reach capacity. \nThis month’s gathering is the Bay Area’s premiere of FREE JOAN LITTLE by Yoruba Richen and benefit for California Coalition for Women Prisoners. Content warning: sexual assault. \nExplore with us: How does the legacy of Joan Little’s defense inform our current movements to resist sexual violence within the carceral system today? \nSpecial guests \n\nYoruba Richen | Film Director\, FREE JOAN LITTLE\nMembers of California Coalition for Women Prisoners\n\nAll are welcome. Seating will be theater-style. \n\nSign up to Volunteer (free entry): Lapena.info/volunteer\nFor accessibility requests\, please contact us at least one week in advance. Email us at programs@Lapena.org.\nLearn More about When We Win Political Education Film Series\nPresented by La Peña Cultural Center\, Center for Political Education\, and Freedom Archives. Sponsored by the SFSU Film School and California Coalition for Women Prisoners.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBenefit for California Coalition for Women Prisoners \nCCWP is a grassroots abolitionist organization—with members inside and outside prison—that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women\, transgender people\, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex (PIC). We see the struggle for racial and gender justice as central to dismantling the PIC and we prioritize the leadership of the people\, families\, and communities most impacted in building this movement. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Film:\n\n\n\n\nFREE JOAN LITTLE (2025)\nContent includes topic of sexual assault. \nFREE JOAN LITTLE tells the story of the 1975 groundbreaking case of Joan Little who was the first woman in U.S history to be acquitted for using deadly force to resist sexual assault. At 20 years old\, Joan (pronounced Jo-Ann) Little was incarcerated in North Carolina when she killed a white jailer who she said tried to rape her. Her trial drew international attention\, becoming a rallying point for civil rights\, women’s rights and prison reform. The case brought together activists\, including Angela Davis and Rosa Parks\, and catalyzed an international conversation about sexual assault and racial justice that has reverberations to this day. With rare archival footage\, contemporary interviews and the folk anthem that carried her cause\, FREE JOAN LITTLE captures the spirit of resistance that made history. The film features Oscar-nominated actress Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple) as the voice of Joan and is produced by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Christalyn Hampton (The Devil is Busy). \n“Somebody has to make the sacrifice in order for there to be a change in the system.\nSo it may as well be me.” – Joan Little \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility:\n\nLa Peña is a wheelchair-accessible venue with step-less entry\, wide doorways\, and accessible restrooms.\nRestrooms are all-gender.\nMasks 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.\n\nWe 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. \nGetting to La Peña:\n\nPublic Transit: The 18 bus line stops directly across the street (Shattuck & Woolsey)\, and Ashby BART is just two blocks away.\nParking: Free street parking is available\, or park at the Ashby BART station for a fee.\nBike-Friendly: Bike racks are available outside La Peña.\n\nQuestions?\n\nEmail programs@Lapena.org | Contact us
URL:https://freedomarchives.org/event/when-we-win-free-joan-little/
LOCATION:La Pena\, 3105 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260915T190000
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SUMMARY:The Forest for the Trees
DESCRIPTION:On September 15th\, explore with us a history of repression with a documentary on the organizing\, trial\, and Oakland FBI bombing of activist Judi Bari. The Forest for the Trees documents a piece of U.S. history that grows increasingly resonant as the lines between dissent and terrorism are intentionally blurred\, exploring Bari as an Earth First! leader who was one of the first to place as much importance on timber workers’ lives and families as she did on the legacy and future of the trees. Watch the trailer here. \nRSVP at this link! \nTuesday\, September 15th\, 2026 | Doors: 7:00 PM | Screening 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM \nSliding Scale Tickets\n$5 – $25 | No one turned away for lack of funds \nLa Peña members get in FREE\nLearn more about member benefits and join us
URL:https://freedomarchives.org/event/the-forest-for-the-trees/
LOCATION:La Pena\, 3105 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261102T160000
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SUMMARY:A Generation of Political Prisoner Support and Archiving Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Learn about political prisoner support and archiving resistance with an insightful discussion for The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar and its 25 years of publication. \nREGISTER \nThe Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers and current and former political prisoners. For the first time\, all of the previous years are compiled and available now at the Freedom Archives. Featuring vibrant artwork\, moving essays\, poems and historical dates commemorating radical history\, each Certain Days calendar is itself an archive of resistance. \nModerated by Certain Days Collective member Josh Davidson\, this panel features: \n\nCertain Days founders and former political prisoners Herman Bell and David Gilbert\,\nformer political prisoner and Freedom Archives co-founder Claude Marks\,\ncalendar contributor\, lifelong organizer and prisoner supporter dequi kioni-sadiki\nand former political prisoner and calendar contributor Laura Whitehorn.\n\nConnect: Certain Days – Website | Freedom Archives – Website \nAbout the panelists: \ndequi kioni-sadiki is a Coordinating Committee member of the Spirit of Mandela Coalition\, the former chair of the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee and leader of the Sekou Odinga Defense Committee which waged a successful campaign for the release of her husband. A consistent coalition-builder and organizer\, kioni-sadiki is a retired educator with the NYC Department of Education and a member of the Jericho Movement to Free All Political Prisoners. She co-edited Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st Century Revolutions and is a contributor to Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party. \nHerman Bell is a former member of both the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army\, and he was imprisoned for forty-five years. Bell was captured in New Orleans in 1973\, and eventually he\, Jalil Muntaqim and Albert Nuh Washington were convicted of attacks on police. He was also implicated in the San Francisco 8 case and pleaded guilty to a lesser offense. He spent five years imprisoned in the federal system\, in the Marion control unit for two of those years\, before spending decades in various New York State maximum security prisons. While imprisoned he was committed to community work\, and he is a founding member of the Victory Gardens Project and the Certain Days Collective. He was released in 2018\, after his eighth parole hearing. \nClaude Marks was imprisoned for his involvement in an escape conspiracy to free Puerto Rican independentista and political prisoner Oscar López Rivera. Marks has worked in radical media since the late 1960s and is co-founder and co-director of the Freedom Archives. In 2016\, he traveled to Palestine as part of an anti-prison delegation that focused on political imprisonment and solidarity between prisoners in the US and Palestine. He has also worked to free numerous political prisoners and continues to fight for prison abolition. \nDavid Gilbert is a lifelong anti-imperialist who was captured and imprisoned as a result of an attempted expropriation of a Brinks truck in Nyack\, New York\, in 1981. Gilbert was sentenced to 75 years to life but his sentence was commuted by outgoing Governor Cuomo\, and he was released from prison after forty years in November 2021. While in prison\, he was a cofounder of the Certain Days Collective\, and he also helped pioneer AIDS awareness programs that saved thousands of lives in prisons across the country. While incarcerated\, David wrote three books\, No Surrender: Writings from an Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner; Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS\, the Weather Underground\, and Beyond; and Looking at the U.S. White Working Class Historically. \nLaura Whitehorn served 14+ years in federal prison for the “Resistance Conspiracy” case\, which included attacks against US government institutions\, the Israeli Aircraft Industries and a notoriously racist NY police agency. Released in 1999\, Whitehorn helped found Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) and works in various projects for the release of US-held political prisoners. She edited The War Before by late Black Panther political prisoner and organizer Safiya Bukhari\, and helped organize the 2014 Interference Archive exhibit “Self-Determination Inside/Out\,” which showed how the struggles of incarcerated people have affected and shaped social movements on the outside. Whitehorn was a member of the Prison\, Labor\, and Academic Delegation to Palestine in 2016\, along with her partner\, the writer Susie Day. She has contributed to Certain Days. \nJosh Davidson is an anarchist and abolitionist\, a member of the Certain Days Collective\, and part of the Children’s Art Project with political prisoner Oso Blanco. He has edited two books\, Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners and A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Prison\, both with former political prisoner Eric King\, and is the author of the forthcoming children’s book on abolition\, A Cage Is a Cage. Davidson works with the Zinn Education Project\, which promotes the teaching of people’s history in classrooms and provides free lessons and resources for educators.
URL:https://freedomarchives.org/event/a-generation-of-political-prisoner-support-and-archiving-resistance/
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CATEGORIES:Speaker Series
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