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 […]
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 […]
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 - […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Click to Buy Tickets 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 […]
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 […]
