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
6 Documents Found
![Lexington Female High Security Unit](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CD 740Format: DVDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
News clips and short interviews with women at Lexington Control Unit prison - Susan Rosenberg, Silvia Baraldini, Alejandrina Torres.
![War on America- The Puerto Rican Independence Movement](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Documentary about the Puerto Rican Independence Movement & the FALN, the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (Armed Forces of National Liberation) of Puerto Rico.
![Presos por la libertad- The FALN](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
About the FALN of Puerto Rico, its history and status with Edwin Cortez in USP Lewisburg, Alejandrina Torres in FCI Danbury, Lisa Torres and Peope's Law Office attorney Jan Susler in Chicago, and politicians.
![Lexington Prison Interviews 1987](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 5/1/1987Call Number: CD 779Format: CDProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Alejandrina Torres, Silvia Baraldini, and Susan Rosenberg describe their living conditions at the control unit of the federal women’s prison in Lexington which opened in 1986. The interviews stress the importance of public pressure to have the unit closed.
![NPR Report on Lexington Control Unit](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 10/1/1986Call Number: CD 819Format: CassetteProducers: National Public RadioCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Jacki Lyden reports on the lawsuit challenging the placement of Susan Rosenberg, Alejandrina Torres and Sylvia Beraldini in the Lexington control unit, which resulted in Lexington's closure.
![Women in the US Prison System](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CD 800Format: CDProducers: KPFAProgram: KPFACollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A news segment, then a discussion of the treatment of women in US prisons. Covered in depth are the women in FCI Dublin and Alejandrina Torres in the Lexington Control Unit - a facility which used sensory deprivation and other experimental methods of psychological torture on prisoners.
6 Documents Found