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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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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.
Communiqué from Patricia Hearst and Cinque 2/16/1974 Communiqué from Patricia Hearst and Cinque 2/16/1974
Date: 2/16/1974Call Number: KP 236Format: 1/4 1 7/8 ipsProducers: SLACollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
Patty Hearst attempting to clarify demands around food program. She discourages FBI from ambushing SLA and explains that she is a prisoner of war. Cinque speaks briefly at the end of recording to further clarify call for a good faith effort from the Hearst family to create food program.
LA5 Defense Update LA5 Defense Update
Publisher: PFOCFormat: MonographCollection: LA Five
Update on the defense case of the LA Five. Includes a focus on Weathfug/RAIPE Programs that entrapped the LA Five.
Free the L.A. Five! Free the L.A. Five!
Publisher: PFOCYear: 1978Format: MonographCollection: LA Five
Contents include: Who are the LA 5?; The US State and the LA 5- the Campaign Against Terrorism; and Why we support the LA 5.
Who Killed Alex Odeh? -FBI Probe of FDL Bombers Gets No Help From Israelis Who Killed Alex Odeh? -FBI Probe of FDL Bombers Gets No Help From Israelis
Author: Robert I. FriedmanPublisher: Village VoiceDate: 11/24/1987Volume Number: 24-NovFormat: ArticleCollection: US and British Foreign Policy on Palestine
Reprint of original article.
Chilean Resistance Courier: Interview with Gladys Diaz: Chilean Woman in the Resistance Chilean Resistance Courier: Interview with Gladys Diaz: Chilean Woman in the Resistance
Publisher: MIRYear: 1976Volume Number: No. 6Format: PeriodicalCollection: Chile
Contents of the periodical include an editorial on the nature of the military state and its implications on the left; comments on the junta's initiative in juxtaposition with political division on the left; the Direcci
Chilean Resistance Courier: Interview with Gladys Diaz: Chilean Woman in the Resistance Chilean Resistance Courier: Interview with Gladys Diaz: Chilean Woman in the Resistance
Publisher: MIRYear: 1976Volume Number: No. 6Format: PeriodicalCollection: Chile
Contents of the periodical include an editorial on the nature of the military state and its implications on the left; comments on the junta's initiative in juxtaposition with political division on the left; the Direcci
Angel Rodriguez Cristobal Commando communique Angel Rodriguez Cristobal Commando communique
Publisher: FALNDate: 12/31/1982Volume Number: December 31Format: CommuniqueCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Communique taking responsibility for coordinated attacks against US agencies of repression.
Why was Patricia Hearst Kidnapped? Why was Patricia Hearst Kidnapped?
Publisher: The RealistDate: 2/1974Volume Number: FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This periodical is dedicated to the conspiracy that the SLA was colluding with the FBI and the CIA and uses many of Mae Brussell's conspiracy theories.
Welcomes Guerilla Warfare Welcomes Guerilla Warfare
Date: 2/22/1974Volume Number: 22-FebFormat: ArticleCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This is an article addressed to the Symbionese Liberation Army that commends their work in the liberation struggle.