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There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
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Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic, specifcally AND/+, NOT/-, and OR operators. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.
Welcome to the Freedom Archives' Digital Search Engine.The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings which date from the late-1960s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements. We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings. Our collection includes weekly news, poetry, music programs; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; numerous voices from behind prison walls; diverse activists; and pamphlets, journals and other materials from many radical organizations and movements.

Periodicals

Small collection of periodicals produced by anti-imperialist organizations. Arm the Spirit is an information collective focusing on militant and revolutionary struggles with an autonomous perspective. Seize the Time was a Marxist-Leninist organization that grew out of the revolutionary national struggles of Black, Chicano, Asian American and Native American people. The White Panthers were White, leftist, anti-racists who formed the party in support of the Black Panther Party while White Lightning was produced by the White section of the Spirit of Logos organization, based in the Bronx, N.Y., a revolutionary organization dedicated to serving the people.

Subcollections

  • Arm the Spirit For Revolutionary Resistance
    Arm the Spirit For Revolutionary Resistance
    Arm The Spirit was an autonomist/anti-imperialist journal focusing on militant and revolutionary struggles published in Toronto, Canada between 1990 and 2000.
  • Seize The Time
    Seize The Time
    Seize the Time was a Marxist-Leninist organization that grew out of the revolutionary national struggles of Black, Chicano, Asian American and Native American peoples.
  • Tri-Continental Information Center Bulletin
    Tri-Continental Information Center Bulletin
    Published monthly by the Tri-continental Information Center in New York, this newsletter covers international anti-imperialist news.
  • White Lightning
    White Lightning
    Founded by ex-addicts, the White section of the Spirit of Logos organization, based in the Bronx, N.Y., a revolutionary organization dedicated to serving the people.
  • White Panther Party
    White Panther Party
    The White Panthers were White, leftist, anti-racists who formed the party in support of the Black Panther Party.

Documents

Arm the Spirit: For Revolutionary Resistance Arm the Spirit: For Revolutionary Resistance
Publisher: Arm the SpiritYear: 1992Volume Number: No. 11 January-FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Arm the Spirit For Revolutionary Resistance
Arm the Spirit: For Revolutionary Resistance Arm the Spirit: For Revolutionary Resistance
Publisher: Arm the SpiritYear: 1992Volume Number: No. 13 June-JulyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Arm the Spirit For Revolutionary Resistance
Arm the Spirit: For Revolutionary Resistance Arm the Spirit: For Revolutionary Resistance
Publisher: Arm the SpiritYear: 1992Volume Number: No. 14-15 August-DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Arm the Spirit For Revolutionary Resistance
Arm the Spirit: For Revolutionary Resistance Arm the Spirit: For Revolutionary Resistance
Publisher: Arm the SpiritYear: 1991Volume Number: No. 10 October-DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Arm the Spirit For Revolutionary Resistance
White Lightning: Victims of the Heroin Plague White Lightning: Victims of the Heroin Plague
Publisher: White LightningCall Number: Format: PeriodicalCollection: White Lightning
Newspaper to serve, and have articles by, oppressed poor and working class white people. Articles concern the profit-making oppression and genocide of drug addiction and treatment, as well as problems with treatment facilities; hardships of growing up poor and how that can make one politicized.
White Lightning: Methadone White Lightning: Methadone
Publisher: White LightningCall Number: Format: PeriodicalCollection: White Lightning
Articles on Methadone; alternative therapy for addiction; expose on drug programs; trial of Pablo Yoruba Guzman, Minister of Information of Young Lords; struggles of working-class youth.
White Lightning: Fire Attacks on Fordham Area! White Lightning: Fire Attacks on Fordham Area!
Publisher: White LightningDate: 3/1975Call Number: Volume Number: No. 30Format: PeriodicalCollection: White Lightning
White Lightning is described as a revolutionary organization dedicated to serving the people. Issue includes special section on urban renewal in Fordham area; brutality at Bedford Hills C.F., a women's prison in New York; Eli Lilly's 55-year-history of dope pushing; protests about university, school cutbacks.
White Lightning: Landlords & City Desert Arthur Ave Tenants White Lightning: Landlords & City Desert Arthur Ave Tenants
Publisher: White LightningDate: 5/1974Call Number: Volume Number: No. 27Format: PeriodicalCollection: White Lightning
Special section on slums on Arthur Avenue; Eli Lilly & Co. pushing drugs; free buses to prisons; Lehman student protest; heroin and imperialism; book review of Our Bodies Ourselves; boycott Gallo; Vietnam Vets rally in Washington, July 1-4.
White Lightning: We Need Daycare! White Lightning: We Need Daycare!
Publisher: White LightningDate: 11/1974Call Number: Format: PeriodicalCollection: White Lightning
Articles on Rockefeller and Methadone; women holding up half the sky; people's doctor Richard Taft murdered; dire need for daycare; student strike at Brooklyn College; Bronx delegates meeting Laotian Premier; war resisters boycott Ford's amnesty farce; Nixon's war crimes.
White Lightning White Lightning
Publisher: SOL White LightningCall Number: Volume Number: Vol. 1-1Format: PeriodicalCollection: White Lightning
Produced by the WHITE SECTION OF THE SPIRIT 0F LOGOS ORGANIZATION, the Alternative to Therapeutic Communities. Introduces the paper, the platform of the SOL Organization and lays out the community problems with drugs and drug addiction.