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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.
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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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Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 2/3/1973Call Number: RD 029Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Tet: The Lunar New Year passes, spring festival. 100,000 plus patriots locked up as prisoners of Thieu in South Vietnam, 10,000 protest war in China, and thousands in Cuba. 25,000 people and a military parade commemorate the assassinated African revolutionary leader, Amilcar Cabral in Conakry Guinea. President Sekou Toure, Amiri Baraka and outlawed Portuguese Communist Party leader Perdo Suarez speak. Military resistance and bombings in Portugal support the people’s struggle in Guinea Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique and against Portuguese colonialism. Several major strikes by Black workers in South Africa. Bloody Sunday commemoration in San Francisco calls for unity among Catholics and Protestants to oppose 21,000 British occupation troops. Two students killed by police at University of Mexico, student strikes closes schools over the U.S. Continued genocide against indigenous people in Brazil. Waimiri Atroari attack National Indian Foundation that aims to “pacify and help Indians adapt to civilization” Puerto Rico House of Representatives passes a resolution asking Nixon to pardon and release the Puerto Rican 5. Continued arrest of Native Americans involved in Bureau of Indian Affairs occupation, convictions reversed for two accused of stealing copper wire from the Alcatraz occupation, more protests of racist hiring practices of California. More on the trial verdicts of Kitty Hawk and sailor resistance. 3,000 men discharged from Navy (many blacks and poor whites) because they “lack intelligence.” Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark spoke negatively of the U.S. position as a paramilitary police state. Senator Stennis the menace shot and wounded in D.C. Earl Whittaker, a sympathetic Black Tombs Rebellion Prison guard acquitted of trumped up charges. Jury chosen for Rap Browns participation in the 1960 Woolworth lunch counter sit-in that motivated waves of Black student protests and started the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Includes excerpts from Brown’s opening statements. Parole denied to Robert Wells imprisoned for 44 yrs for defending himself against racist prison guard. Venceremos: Laura Taulbee and Milton Taulbee jailed for refusing to testify to Grand Jury. Guns and property seized from December FBI seizure of Mountain View home returned Governor Reagan and Lt. Governor Ed Reinecke make misogynist comments about birth control.
Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 3/24/1973Call Number: RD 035Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Real Dragon roundup of events: Wounded Knee, grand juries in San Francisco, Harlem 4, Ruchell Magee, H. Rap Brown, international news items
Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 8/25/1973Call Number: RD 060 R1Format: Reel 1Producers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
This is the LAST Real Dragon program and has an explanation of the change to the next iteration of the program--Nothing Is More Precious Than...
Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 8/25/1973Call Number: RD 060 R2Format: Reel 2Producers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
The LAST Real Dragon program and explains the change to the next iteration of the program - Nothing Is More Precious Than...
Revolution? -- Or Education Through the Media Revolution? -- Or Education Through the Media
Author: Bernard R. SmallwoodDate: 2/19/1974Volume Number: 19-FebFormat: ArticleCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This article comments on the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst and the role of mass media in meeting the left's demands.
Apocalypse for the SLA: The Revolution was Televised Apocalypse for the SLA: The Revolution was Televised
Author: Tim FindleyPublisher: Rolling StoneDate: 6/20/1974Volume Number: 20-JunFormat: ArticleCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This article was written in response to the May 17, 1974 shootings of six members of the SLA. It gives a biographical snippet of the six members who were killed, Patricia Hearst, and Bill & Emily Harris.
Statement on the Symbionese Liberation Army Statement on the Symbionese Liberation Army
Publisher: Ex-Venceremos of San Mateo County- San Francisco Marxist-Leninist OrganizationDate: 2/13/1974Volume Number: 13-FebFormat: StatementCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
Statement in opposition to the SLA. SLA is labeled as anti-working class, anti-revolutionary, anti-communist and playing the role of provacateurs.
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 1 AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: BARC's Statement on Dragon, NWLF Chronology, NWLF Communique: GM Bombing, Fuck-the-World-for-Profits: GM Leaflet, NWLF Communique: PG&E Skyline Blvd, NWLF Communique: PG&E San Jose, Second PG&E San Jose Communique, Critique by Orphans of Amerika, NWLF Response, NWLF Communiqe: CDC Bombing, NWLF Communique: PG&E Berkeley, NWLF Letter to the Barb, Response by BARC & Orphans, Red Guerrilla Family Chronology, RGF Letter to the Alternative Media
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 5 DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Letter from the Smybionese Liberation Army December/75, Our Back Pages: B.A.R.C., Letters, Nam Brothers: Ashanti, Black Liberation Army, The Weather Underground Organization film, Blurbs, Politics in Command: Weather Underground, Women's Gun Pamphlet: book review, New World Liberation Front, structure, New Worl Liberation Front, community health strategy, The Zapata Unit: B.A.R.C., An Open Letter to the People, the Zapata Unit, and New Dawn.