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How does this work?
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.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
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. 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.

Search Results

No Grapes No Grapes
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: V 050Format: VHSProducers: American Farm Workers of AmericaCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In small farming communities across California, children are dying. Birth defects--open spines and missing limbs--are common. And childhood cancer is 1200 percent above the national average. The cause: the 8 million pounds of unnecessary toxic pesticides used on table grapes each year- pesticides that the corporate growers refuse to stop using despite the rising loss of human life. Cesar Chavez and a host of celebrities, farmworkers and parents show us, as consumers, how we can fight back against these oil based poisons.
A Memorial for Attorney William Kunstler A Memorial for Attorney William Kunstler
Date: 4/26/1992Call Number: V 155Format: VHSProducers: WBAICollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Attorney William Kunstler speaks to the Palestine Solidarity Rally at John Jay High School, April 26, 1992.
Outcry LA Outcry LA
Date: 3/25/1992Call Number: V 305Format: UmaticCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A special about the April 1992 Los Angeles rebellion in the wake of the Rodney King verdict and the exoneration of the cops. opening 10 minutes only
Behind the Burning Cross - In the Face of Hate Behind the Burning Cross - In the Face of Hate
Date: 11/6/1992Call Number: V 333Format: VHSProducers: Workers' Film, Video ForumCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Two films from the Workers' Film and Video Forum cover issues of racist hate crimes in America. "Behind the Burning Cross" presents the history and present actions of the Ku Klux Klan, the New Klan, WAR and Neo-Nazi skinheads. "In the Face of Hate" discusses hate crimes in the Pacific Northwest.
Workers' Film & Video Forum Workers' Film & Video Forum
Date: 12/11/1992Call Number: V 340Format: VHSProducers: Workers' Film, Video ForumCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
"4 Dollars a Day? No Way!" on US corporations in Mexico following the signing of NAFTA, the conditions of workers at the Ford plant, where armed strikebreakers and rigged company elections were used to keep the workers repressed. "The Last Pullman Car" follows the story of the Steelworkers Union members at Pullman-Standard who fought to keep their jobs despite the impending closure of the passenger car plant.
World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet - 1 World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet - 1
Date: 2/1/1992Call Number: V 380Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Interviews with Dr. Rosina Wiltshire from DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) and Magda Renner from ADFG (Acao Democratica Feminina) who took part in the World Women’s Congress for a Healthy Planet. Both women discuss hardships for women in developing countries. They share their anguish about disparities of wealth which keep widening and their desire for greater human rights, morality, equality and justice for all. The congress sought to produce a Women's Action Agenda , to demand global gender balance, and to build an international network of women acting in solidarity to ensure a strong women's voice on all issues pertaining to environment and development.
Navajo/Dine: the Weaving Project, No. 2 Navajo/Dine: the Weaving Project, No. 2
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: V 381Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Since 1974 the US government has tried to remove 10,000 Dine/Navajo from their ancestral lands to make profits of the huge amount of energy resources they possess. Marsha Gomez discusses the Weaving Project which aims to sell Navajo rugs made by the traditional weavers of the Joint Use and Big Mountain Area. Rug sales help restore self-sufficiency and sovereignty of the Dine/Navajo peoples and supports the women and their families in their resistance to the US government’s policy of forced relocation.
Broken Rainbow Broken Rainbow
Date: 2/1/1992Call Number: V 382Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Documentary about the resistance by the Navajo and Hopi nations against forced relocation, genocide and white supremacy. Also about their struggle to repeal a 1974 law calling for their removal from the site of a massive strip mine run by Peabody Western Coal Company.
The Iran - Contra Affair: and when did you first know? The Iran - Contra Affair: and when did you first know?
Date: 3/1/1992Call Number: V 384Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Sissy Farenthold and John C. Mattes discuss the Iran-Contra affair, a political scandal in the US which came to light in 1986. It involved President Reagan and his administration which organized and financed an armed opposition group (the Contras) who waged war against Nicaragua to overthrow their government.
Women's Congress for a healthy planet - 3 Women's Congress for a healthy planet - 3
Date: 2/1/1992Call Number: V 385Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The Women's Action Agenda was organized to demand global gender balance and to build an international solidarity network of women on the environment and development. Winona La Duke, Carrie Dann, and Marilyn Manibusan defend indigenous people’s values and their rights to live in harmony with nature. They denounce the massive and widespread devastation of the eco-system by the US and Canadian governments.