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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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David Gilbert & Marilyn Buck read for the book release events of David Gilbert’s “No Surrender” David Gilbert & Marilyn Buck read for the book release events of David Gilbert’s “No Surrender”
Date: 7/15/2004Call Number: CD 187Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Statements by David Gilbert for “No Surrender” his book release events. (Re-mastered) MCI call 0:33 Welcoming remarks 4:02 Haikus for Mumia 0:47 It’s This Way - Nazim Hikmet 0:54 Marilyn Buck’s statement to the gathering 2:23
David Gilbert reads for the book release events of David Gilbert’s “No Surrender” David Gilbert reads for the book release events of David Gilbert’s “No Surrender”
Date: 7/15/2004Call Number: CD 188Format: CDProducers: Resistance in BrooklynCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Statements by David Gilbert for “No Surrender” his book release events. MCI call 0:33 First Court Statement 2:25 Haikus for Mumia 0:50 Welcoming remarks 4:05 Bust a Grape 3:31 Coming of Age Politically 3:07 Global Lords of Poverty 2:18 It’s This Way - Nazim Hikmet 0:54 SDS 2:27 Thinking About Women 2:53 Gilbert News 3:16 Silly Outtake 0:21 Test 4:21
Marilyn Buck reads for the book release events of David Gilbert’s “No Surrender” Marilyn Buck reads for the book release events of David Gilbert’s “No Surrender”
Date: 7/15/2004Call Number: CD 189Format: CDProducers: National Radio ProjectCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Statement by Marilyn Buck for “No Surrender” David Gilbert’s book release events. (raw)
David Gilbert reads for the book release events of David Gilbert’s “No Surrender” David Gilbert reads for the book release events of David Gilbert’s “No Surrender”
Date: 7/15/2004Call Number: CD 190Format: CDProducers: Resistance in BrooklynCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Statements by David Gilbert for “No Surrender” his book release events. MCI call 0:33 It’s This Way - Nazim Hikmet 0:54 Coming of Age Politically 3:07 SDS 2:27 Global Lords of Poverty 2:18 Bust a Grape 3:31 Thinking About Women 2:5 Haikus for Mumia 0:50
Dispatches From Death Row: Mumia Abu-Jamal Dispatches From Death Row: Mumia Abu-Jamal
Date: 7/24/2004Call Number: CD 191Format: CDProducers: Prison Radio ProjectCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Mumia commentaries: On new books by Yuri Kochiyama and David Gilbert Black Struggles: Roots of Resistance 3:58 Black Struggles: Roots of Resistance 4:58 Four Years of Hope, Four Years of Hell 3:06 Four Years of Hope, Four Years of Hell 4:31 Four Years of Hope, Four Years of Hell 5:24
The Weather Underground: the Explosive Story of America’s Most Notorious Revolutionaries The Weather Underground: the Explosive Story of America’s Most Notorious Revolutionaries
Date: 7/1/2004Call Number: CD 192Format: DVDProducers: Sam Green, Bill SiegelCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The Weather Underground is a feature-length documentary that explores the rise and fall of this radical movement, as former members speak candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home" and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI's most wanted list. Thirty years ago, with those words, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to overthrow the U.S. government. In THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, former Underground members, including Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, David Gilbert and Brian Flanagan, speak publicly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home" and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI's most wanted list. Fueled by outrage over racism and the Vietnam War, the Weather Underground waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s--bombing targets across the country that they considered emblematic of the real violence that the U.S. was wreaking throughout the world. Ultimately, the group's carefully organized clandestine network managed to successfully evade one of the largest manhunts in FBI history, yet the group's members would reemerge to life in a country that was dramatically different than the one they had hoped their efforts would inspire. Extensive archival material, including, photographs, film footage and FBI documents are interwoven with modern-day interviews to trace the group's path, from its pitched battles with police on Chicago's streets, to its bombing of the U.S. Capitol, to its successful endeavor breaking acid-guru Timothy Leary out of prison. The film explores the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time and features interviews with former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Panthers. It also examines the U.S. government's suppression of dissent in the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back at their years underground, the former members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times, and the forces that drove their resistance.
Ward Churchill at AK Press Tape 1 of 2 Ward Churchill at AK Press Tape 1 of 2
Date: 7/30/2004Call Number: KP 205Format: Cass A & BCollection: Native Americans
A panel discussion on political prisoners, hosted by Linda Evans at AK Press. Features lectures by Chesa Boudin, Maria Poblet, and Ward Churchill. Chesa Boudin, son of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert who were members of the Revolutionary Armed Task Force discusses Gilbert's book No Surrender. Poblet reads poetry, and Churchill speaks on Leonard Peliter.