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How does this work?
There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
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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School of the Assassins School of the Assassins
Date: 1/1/1994Call Number: V 103Format: VHSProducers: Maryknoll World Productions - Richter ProductionsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Shown here is explosive information about the teaching of torture techniques, which is paid for by U.S. taxpayer dollars. This training is taking place at the United States Army School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia. Soldiers, mostly from Latin America, are taught "counter-insurgency," or how to control "insurgents" in their homeland. Often this amounts to the murdering of targeted persons, such as human rights activists, or health care workers, or labor organizers, or sometimes just hungry protesters seeking change. This military response has even lead to the annihilation of whole villages. Not only is this training promoting a military mentality, instead of improving living conditions in these countries and helping to solve human problems, it is promoting wasteful and expensive military hardware, thereby creating more debt for these countries. Momentum to shut down this hideous affront to democracy and to human decency is growing with ever-wider public awareness.