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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.
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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.
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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.
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Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 1 - Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 1 - Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 497Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg and Laura Whitehorn are long-time activists in support of peoples’ liberation movements here and around the world. Come visit behind prison walls to speak with six people who the U.S. government has labeled “terrorists”. They discuss their lives, the politics of the armed actions they are accused of, the conditions they and other political prisoners face, and their vision for the times ahead.
Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 2 - Tim Blunk, Linda Evans, Laura Whitehorn Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 2 - Tim Blunk, Linda Evans, Laura Whitehorn
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 498Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg and Laura Whitehorn are long-time activists in support of peoples’ liberation movements here and around the world. Come visit behind prison walls to speak with six people who the U.S. government has labeled “terrorists”. They discuss their lives, the politics of the armed actions they are accused of, the conditions they and other political prisoners face, and their vision for the times ahead.
Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 3 - Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 3 - Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 499Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg and Laura Whitehorn are long-time activists in support of peoples’ liberation movements here and around the world. Come visit behind prison walls to speak with six people who the U.S. government has labeled “terrorists”. They discuss their lives, the politics of the armed actions they are accused of, the conditions they and other political prisoners face, and their vision for the times ahead.
Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 4 - Marilyn Buck Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 4 - Marilyn Buck
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 500Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg and Laura Whitehorn are long-time activists in support of peoples’ liberation movements here and around the world. Come visit behind prison walls to speak with six people who the U.S. government has labeled “terrorists”. They discuss their lives, the politics of the armed actions they are accused of, the conditions they and other political prisoners face, and their vision for the times ahead.
Geronimo Pratt Press Conference Geronimo Pratt Press Conference
Date: 2/27/1987Call Number: V 503Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Bobby Seale & Stuart Hanlon discuss Geronimo Pratt and how COINTELPRO framed him in the murder of a woman in Santa Monica. Seale also discusses his current political activity, his time in the Black Panther Party, and his next venture in cooking "Barbeque'n With Bobby."
Chasky Quilt Chasky Quilt
Date: 10/1/1991Call Number: V 527Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Close up shots of quilt made for International Women's Day to honor 500 years of resistance through women's eyes. Panels on quilt commemorate North American indigenous struggle, the end of US occupations across the globe, and the release of all political prisoners and prisoners of war.
Chasky Quilt - 500 years of resistance Chasky Quilt - 500 years of resistance
Date: 10/12/1991Call Number: V 528Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The quilt is displayed at International Women's Day march. The progressive women of color drum performance group Sistah Boom also performs.
Red Dragons protest war toys - Geronimo Pratt Parade and Press Conference Red Dragons protest war toys - Geronimo Pratt Parade and Press Conference
Date: 12/1/1986Call Number: V 529Format: Hi-8Producers: David SternCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Red Dragons, a children's group, protest against the selling of war toys like Rambo and GI Joe because they promote war as normal and fun. They attempt to go into a toy store to show the owners their petition and the owners then call San Francisco police to break up the demonstration. The Committee to Free Geronimo Pratt picket outside San Francisco's World Trade Center where the California Parole Board hears cases. Press conference held afterwards features actor Danny Glover, Pratt's attorney Stuart Hanlon, Pratt's wife Ashaki Pratt, and various activists from prisoner rights organizations, all calling for the release of Geronimo.
International Women's Day 1987 International Women's Day 1987
Date: 3/5/1987Call Number: V 571Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Annual celebration and demonstration on IWD. Speakers make point to call for an end to the Lexington Control Unit and a release of all political prisoners. Connect the struggles for independence in Central America to the struggle of political prisoners in the US.