Freedom Archives Productions
These materials were used in various Freedom Archives productions released between 2000 and 2013.
Subcollections
- Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle
The Freedom Is A Constant Struggle collection extends from February 1976 to August 1995. It continues the weekly summary of international, national, and local struggles on many fronts, interspersed with poetry and music. - General materials
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La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
"La Lucha Continua/The Struggle Continues" is the result of a 3 year collaboration between Susan Greene and Freedom Archives. -
Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Poetry and spoken word by activists, poets, and political prisoners. - Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Charisse Shumate: Fighting for our Lives”
- Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”
- Paul Robeson recordings
- Video materials shot and collected in the making of Cointelpro 101
- COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Documents
![Paul Robeson Speaks at Marine Cooks & Stewards Union](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Collection: Paul Robeson recordings
Sample of Paul Robeson, the great African-American Singer and activist, in a rare recording, takes from a speech to a union gathering in San Francisco.
![COINTELPRO 101 Trailer](images/thumbnails//30463.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Cointelpro 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Cointelpro refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the government's crimes are still unknown. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand, with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression and draws relevant lessons for the present and future.
![Waiting](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
Mumia Abu-Jamal on the intense isolation and sense of waiting on death row.
![La Lucha Continua](images/thumbnails//30471.jpg)
La Lucha Continua/The Struggle Continues; a mural located in the Mission at 3260 23rd St - between Mission and Capp Streets in San Francisco. features 35 portraits of activists, philosophers and artists and their recorded voices accessible via cell phone.
![Susan Greene: Muralist](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
Susan Greene is a social art practitioner, educator and clinical psychologist, using multiple media and formats to reveal, disrupt, and make connections leading to new ways of thinking, seeing and acting. Greene’s practice straddles a range of cultural arenas, new media, public art, video, and installation. She focuses on the borders and migrations involving memory, decolonization and the relationships between creativity, trauma and resilience in the context of globalism. Greene has led or participated in more than 30 public art projects worldwide.
Originally from NYC, Greene has been a resident of the Bay Area for 25 years. She is visiting faculty and director of the Learning Center at the San Francisco Art Institute and has a psychotherapy practice in San Francisco.
![Susan Greene on scaffolding of La Lucha Continua](images/thumbnails//30473.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
In progress shot of Susan Greene at work on "La Lucha Continua".
![Judy Bari on the Timber Workers](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
Charismatic environmental and social justice leader Judi Bari was born November 7, 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland. Judi was a fighter and organizer for many social and environmental justice causes. The common denominator was her indignation over injustice, whether in the form of war, racism, sexism, political repression, economic exploitation, or the unnecessary destruction of ecosystems.
Here she speaks on building a rapport with timber workers.
![Maurice Bishop at Hunter College](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
An excerpt from Maurice Bishop's speech at Hunter College, 5 June, 1983. Maurice Bishop was the Prime Minister of Grenada from March 1979 until October 1983 when he was executed at Fort Rupert.
![Madame Binh entreats US Congress](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
Madame Binh expresses the whole of Vietnam's wish to be liberated from American aggression.
![Wild Poppies](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
Buck recites her poem, "Wild Poppies". This audio was featured on La Luche Continua/The Struggle Continues Talking Mural project, as well as the CD, "Wild Poppies".
Marilyn Buck is a poet, activist and an anti-imperialist political prisoner. She began her anti-racist activism as a teen in Texas, organized against the war in Vietnam, and joined SDS and S. F. Newsreel. She fought for the self-determination for all people, and she aligned herself with the Black Liberation Movement. In 1973 she was convicted of purchasing two boxes of handgun ammunition and was given a ten year sentence. After serving four years in Federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia, she was granted a furlough and did not return. The following eight years she was underground.