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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.
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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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Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1983Volume Number: Vol. 7-1 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Repression, Resistance and the Left: the Empire Strikes Back p. 1 -On New Afrikan Freedom Fighters Day, Judith Mirkinson for PFOC Aug. 1982 p. 5 - Taming of the Freeze: Imperialist War and the Anti-Nuclear Movement p. 8 - War on Imperialist War (Krieg Dem Imperialist Krieg) p. 16 - RAF Communique: Assassination Attempt on General Kroesen Sept. 19, 1981 p. 16 - "War on Imperialist War" Women Against Imperialist War, Hamburg, West Germany p. 18 - Judgment of the Grand Jury, Carlos Noya, Liga Socialista Puertorriquena, Correo de la Quincena, Mar-Sept 1982 p. 24 - "This Court Has No Right to Try Us" Statement by New Afrikan and White Anti-Imperialist Freedom Fighters p. 28 - Stop the Grand Jury! Defeat the Federal RICO Indictment! May 19th Communist Organization p. 31
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1989Volume Number: Vol. 13-1 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorrial: El Salvador p. 1 - Editorial - Political Prisoners in the US: Breaking the Silence p. 3 - Post-feminist Mystique by Judith Mirkinson p. 5 - We're PISD, We're Gonna Seize Control, Ferd Eggan PISD Caucus of ACT NOW p. 10 - Battlezone L.A, Makungu Akinyele, New Afrikan People's Organization p. 15 - Namibia and Angola: Free at Last? Felix Shafer p. 19 - Women of the Philippine Revolution, interview with Makibaka p. 22 - Mexico: Cardenas, the Left and the PRI, interview with Gabino Gomez, Comite de Defensa Popular p. 33 - Occupied Mexico: Land Struggle in Tierra Amarilla p. 37 - Write Through the Walls p. 43
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1991Volume Number: Vol. 15-2 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
David Stern, 1954-1991 p. 1 - Editorials: PC, Palestine and Other Post-War Ponderings p. 2 - Gulf War Aftermath: The Arab Nation, the War and the West, interview with Egyptian human rights activist Soheir Morsy p. 5 - The Kurds, Jimmy Emmerman p. 11 - War & Racism, interview with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement p. 15 - Femininity Revisited: Survey Results, Judith Mirkinson, Sally Thomas, Janice Shreckengost p. 20 - The Splice of LIfe: Behind the Myths of Genetic Engineering, ANTIGENA Women's Collective, Zurich, Switzerland p. 28 - The New Eritrea, Frank Duhl p. 36 - 500 Years after Columbus: Puerto Rican Prisoners of War p. 38 - Write Through the Walls p. 39
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1994Volume Number: Vol. 18-1 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Defend Democracy in Cuba, Restore Democracy to Haiti p. 1 - Eritrea, Dawn, Les Gottesman and Frank Duhl p. 3 - Red Light, Green Light: the Global Trafficking of Women, Judith Mirkinson p. 10 - Palestine: Reflections on a Besieged Homeland, Elias A. Rashmawi p. 16 - It's Hard to Forget...the Pain of Apartheid Still Lingers On, and I Can't Stop Crying, Simon Nkoli p. 23 - Contested Ground: the Struggle for Democracy in Burma, Alan Senauke p. 25 - Waiting Out the Storm: Haiti's Season of Terror, interview with Pierre Labossiere, commentary by Timothy Pershing, Nancy Laleua, Max Blanchet p. 32 - Cry Till Day: African Women Confront Violence, Elsa Gebreyesus p. 41 - Stolen Island: Hawai'i Demands Sovereignty, Kekuni Blaisdell p. 47 - GATT: The Great Global Rip-off, excerpts from The Uruguay Round and Third World Sovereignty, Mrtin Khor p. 50 - Message from Chiapas, documents from the Zapatista Natinoal Liberation Army (EZLN) p. 56 - AIDS in the World: a Global Report, reviewed by David Gilbert p. 60 - Write Through the Walls p. 64
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1995Volume Number: Vol. 19-1 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Contract with a Vengeance p. 1 - Reading, Writing, and Rebellion: Reflections on Education in the 90s p. 2 - "Ours is the First History: Raza Youth Speak Out," edited by Robert Roth and Annie Johnston p. 4 - Clemente! Chicago's Puerto Rican Community Takes Back its High School, Douglas Spalding p. 14 - Berkeley High: the "School Colors" Debate, Hodari Davis, Annie Johnston and Regina Segura p. 19 - Schoolgirls: Gender and Self-esteem, interview with Peggy Orenstein by Sallly Thomas and Judith Mirkinson p. 25 - Talking Queer in Kindergarten: Stopping Homophobia Before it Starts, Camomile deQuelquechose p. 31 - Minds at Work: Journeys in the South Bronx, photos by Ruth Morgan, poetry by South Bronx students p. 36 - East Timor: an Island Prison, Pam Sexton p. 41 - The Waste Makers: studies by and for the Environmental Justice Movement review by Mickey Ellinger p. 47 - Throwing Away the Key: Crime and Punishment U.S.A., Charles King p. 50 - Write Through the Walls p. 56