Search Help

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.

Search Results

La Huelga de los Locos La Huelga de los Locos
Date: 1/1/2002Call Number: V 287Format: VHSProducers: Mariana ArrutiCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
En el año 1956, un año después del golpe de Estado que derroca al General Perón, la Federación de Obreros en Construcciones Navales, de tradición anarquista, inicia reclamos por las 6 horas de trabajo debido a las tareas insalubres, invocando el derecho a la cultura y al tiempo libre. Las patronales comienzan a cerrar sus puertas originando un Lock Out patronal. Los obreros Navales transforman el Lock Out en un huelga, resistiendo durante 14 meses - conocida como la huelga más larga del siglo - en defensa de sus puestos de trabajo. El conflicto gremial se pierde. La patronal reconoce un sindicato paralelo que no representa los intereses de los trabajadores. La industria naval comienza a declinar y los puertos argentinos prácticamente no construyen ni reparan buques. Los obreros de la Construcción Naval, sin embargo, recuerdan esta huelga como un hecho histórico y personal, y se siguen reuniendo para conmemorarla, como un hito en la historia de Argentina, que recupera la dignidad y la libertad.
NACLAs Latin America & Empire Report NACLAs Latin America & Empire Report
Publisher: The North American Congress On Latin AmericaYear: 1972Volume Number: Vol. 6-9 NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: NACLA
The New Imperial Navy; Moving Against the Corporations; NACLA in Spanish; Keeping Up with Latin America