Search Help

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

Mexico Clerical Workers Mexico Clerical Workers
Date: 3/20/1992Call Number: CV 064BFormat: Cass BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews Vicente Villamar Calderon about the international relationship between North American and Mexican banks, their clerical workers, and their unions. Calderon is visiting San Francisco for a conference on international banking as Secretary of International Relations for the National Federation of Banking Syndicates (FENASIB).
Mexican Elections Mexican Elections
Date: 8/16/1994Call Number: CV 100BFormat: Cass BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
California Policy Seminar Director, Antonio Jimenez, discusses the Mexican elections, NAFTA and the different effects each candidate would have on US-Mexico relationships and specifically economic relationships between Mexico, the US and Latinos living in California.
'Ahora' on KPFA: PRT and the election 'Ahora' on KPFA: PRT and the election
Date: 8/6/1988Call Number: CV 198BFormat: Cass BProducers: Chuy VarelaProgram: AhoraCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Edgar Sanchez and Rosario Ibarra from the Partido Revolucionario de Trabajadores (Revolutionary Party for Workers) speak about their socialist agenda and presidential campaign.
Labor Organizing and Latino Arts Labor Organizing and Latino Arts
Date: 9/1/1992Call Number: CV 224BFormat: Cass BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Rene Castro speaks about how the Mission Cultural Center has sustained itself on their 15th anniversary.
Justice. Do It Nike. Justice. Do It Nike.
Date: 5/31/1996Call Number: JG/ 161BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Judy Gerber reads excerpts from an article called “The Globe Trotting Sneaker” to talk about human rights and globalization. Justice. Do It Nike is a group that is fighting against inhumane treatment in Nike sweatshops in Indonesia and countries throughout South East Asia. Nike is not the only target of this campaign, low wages and labor exploitation is a problem associated with many American sports companies who export their jobs to places like Southeast Asia where they are free to ignore human and labor rights.