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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.

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Cecilia Rodriquez on EZLN Cecilia Rodriquez on EZLN
Date: 2/14/1995Call Number: SS 012Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Zapatista solidarity event put on by the Peralta Latino Association and the Raza Student Union at Laney College. Cecilia Rodriquez, the US spokesperson for the Zapatistas, talks about repression against the Zapatistas after the 94 uprising, democracy in Mexico and NAFTA, globalization, peso devaluation.
"Jamaica: Paradise for Whom?" "Jamaica: Paradise for Whom?"
Call Number: SS 046Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
This hour long documentary looks at the high unemployment and poverty rate in Jamaica due to its political, social and economic situation. Produced by Sue Supriano and mixed in the KPFA studios by volunteers.
Interview with Dr. K. Mathews Interview with Dr. K. Mathews
Call Number: SS 054Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Dr. K. Mathews at the Conference of Seeking the True Meaning of Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica. He is researching at the University of Oxford focusing on the refugee issue in Africa.
Interview with Dr. Carlos Belli Bello Interview with Dr. Carlos Belli Bello
Date: 9/2/1984Call Number: SS 055Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Dr. Carlos Belli Bello on the status of the African countries.
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 6/20/1985Call Number: JH 202Format: CassetteProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Karen parker, Human rights Lawyer on Derechos Humanos en las Naciones Unidas, testimony of Pedro from CRECE, a Central American Refugee Association in SF
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 6/27/1985Call Number: JH 203Format: CassetteProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Refugees and Undocumented, AMES
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 7/11/1985Call Number: JH 204Format: CassetteProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
2nd bilingual series on refugees and undocumented (bilingual), AMES a Salvadoran Women's Association, Voces de El Salvador
Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews
Call Number: JG/ 070Format: CassetteProducers: Judy Gerber, Lisa RudmanProgram: KPFACollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a collection of different interviews and recordings of female political prisoners from around the world. Lisa Rudman collages them together to show the injustice towards political prisoners and to highlight some of the many tactics used by the US government and prison system to get information out of political prisoners. Rudman defines political prisoners and interviews Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans and speaks about their cases and the circumstances leading to their imprisonment. The other political prisoners interviewed on the tape are: Dora Garcia, active in the national liberation struggles in the US colony of Puerto Rico; Mercedes Algado, a refugee active in the FSLM and FDR in El Salvador; Elizabeth Sebego, active in the Pan African Congress; Assata Shakur, active with the Black Panthers and now a refugee in Cuba; a Filipina imprisoned for her work with the church.
El Salvador In Focus El Salvador In Focus
Date: 10/5/1989Call Number: LA 103Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Radio El FarbeCollection: El Salvador
Salvadorian defense minister rejects Talia accord. No Negotiations between the Christiani Government and the FLMN. National UNTS union of workers demands negotiations based on human rights violations.
A Defiant Heart: U.S. role in Peru A Defiant Heart: U.S. role in Peru
Date: 6/1/1993Call Number: JG/ 091Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Reading of articles about the situation in Peru between both armed and peaceable opposition movements and the Fujimori government, including the U.S. role in the conflict. David Wilson of the Nica Network in New York condemns the Sandero Luminoso, a violent communist opposition group committing human rights violations. Wilson notes however, that the situation is very complex because U.S. foreign policies conflict with the will of the peaceable mass opposition movement to the Fujimori government. Abemal Guzman declares the United States the main terrorist force in the hemisphere.