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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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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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Five Days Over Seattle Five Days Over Seattle
Date: 12/3/1999Call Number: CD 197Format: CDProducers: Cascadia Radio CollectiveCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Under incredibly rough conditions up high in a tree, Y2WTKO/Free Radio Cascadia kept a signal of resistance up throughout the Battle of Seattle '99. These tracks were recorded off the air or from the raw program material itself. The broadcast is alternately hilarious and anguished; thoughtful and frustrated; low-tech and high art. Microradio is a truly powerful tool for tactical communication - nobody's used it better than Y2WTKO." DIY Media.Net This CD is an audio document of free radio station Y2WTKO. Recorded Nov 29 to Dec 3, 1999. Includes 24 page booklet with photos graphics, and gripping personal accounts.
Crimethink, Guerilla Fil Series, Volume 1 Crimethink, Guerilla Fil Series, Volume 1
Date: 1/1/2008Call Number: V 283Format: DVDProducers: CrimethinkCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Our first DVD release features two discs loaded with some of the best films in modern anarchist filmmaking: three feature-length documentaries (Pickaxe, Breaking the Spell, and The Miami Model) and five short films (three documenting various thinktank experiments and two CrimethInc. essays brought to life by SubMedia). New commentary tracks recorded by the filmmakers are included for the films Pickaxe, Breaking the Spell, and Auto-Revision. All films are in English. All three features have subtitles in Spanish and English, additionally The Miami Model has Portuguese subtitles. Disc Two features computer-accessible DVD-ROM content including MP3s, PDFs, and other assorted documentation & reading materials. PICKAXE An eclectic mix of activists take a stand to protect an old growth forest from logging at Warner Creek in the Willamette National Forest of Oregon, blockading the logging road and repelling the State Police. Over months a community builds around the illegal blockade as it develops into the Cascadia Free State and similar actions spread across the region. Years after its release, Pickaxe has become a classic document of the potential for grassroots direct action to achieve victory against the forces of both government and big business. Lovingly crafted by the participants themselves, the film expertly presents every moment, from confrontation to celebration. Includes new commentary track by filmmakers Tim Lewis and Tim Ream. [94 min.] BREAKING THE SPELL An hour-long look at the 1999 Seattle WTO protests and the anarchists who traveled there to set a new precedent for militant confrontation, this documentary picks up where Pickaxe left off. Filmed in the thick of the action, including footage that aired nationally on 60 Minutes, it captures a moment when world history was up for grabs. Includes new commentary track by filmmakers Tim Lewis, Tim Ream & Sir Chuck A. Rock. [63 min.] THE MIAMI MODEL Against the prescribed template of paramilitary oppression, information warfare, and profit above all values, activists converge in Miami to demonstrate grassroots resistance, creative action, and international solidarity—a clash between competing visions of globalization, soon to be known as the Miami Model. Indymedia activists shot hundreds of hours documenting the 2003 FTAA protests in Miami and shaped it into a documentary that cuts through the mass media blackout to reveal the brutal repression and assault on civil liberties that took place, as well as the inspiring alternatives to capitalist globalization that were also in full effect in Miami. [91 min.] FIVE SHORT FILMS An hour of shorts with three documented thinktank experiments and two CrimethInc. essays recreated for the screen by SubMedia. Thinktank: Safetybike [3 min.] How to Turn a Bicycle into a Record Player (includes original version and new 21st century version) [13 min.] Auto Re-Vision (includes new commentary track by participants Mark, Etta & James) [26 min.] SubMedia: Join the Resistance, Fall in Love [17 min.] Why I Love Shoplifting From Big Corporations [5 min.]
World Trade Watch: Corporate Globalization World Trade Watch: Corporate Globalization
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: KP 279BFormat: Cass BProducers: National Radio Project, Corporate Watch, Insitute for Public AccuracyCollection: Eco-justice
Recorded before the WTO Summit in Seattle in 1999. Speakers Norman Soloman and Julie Light moderate brief interviews and clips from a number of activists who have are critical of the WTO and the dissolution of trade barriers. Arif Jamal, a Sudanese scholar and activist, speaks about farmers and agriculture. Colin Raja, a Malaysian national in the US, discusses inflation and Malaysian economic collapse. Kevin Danaher, author of 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF and World Bank, discusses who gets representation at the summit. Paige Fischer of the Pacific Environment and Resource Center speaks about the timber lawsuit against US trade representatives and the Department of Commerce that her organization filed. Peter Rosset, executive director of Food First, Oakland, presents the problem of access to food that has manifested because of free trade and deregulation. There is also a clip from Renato Ruggiero, former director general of the WTO.
Breaking the Bank Breaking the Bank
Call Number: V 749Format: VHSProducers: Deep Dish TVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Two half-hour television segments focusing on the thousands who converged on Washington D.C. to challenge the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank at their meeting in April 2000.