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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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Bolivia: Drug War Bolivia: Drug War
Date: 8/25/1989Call Number: JG/ 033AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
ACLA (Atlantic Committee on Latin America) show. Covers Bolivia following the murder of 2 Mormon missionaries the crackdown on left wing guerilla organizations and the US War on Drugs , FBI involvement and $11 million for War on Drugs in 1989. Uruguay from a article in the "Guardian" on massive unemployment, the exodus of youth and youth withdrawal from activism. El Salvador on the ARENA party and Salvadorian refugees in the US and the repression they face when trying to organize against right wing ARENA. Vieques: 4 month stand off between Puerto Rican residents and the US Navy, history of resistance on Vieques and the living/environmental conditions.
Centro de Cambio Centro de Cambio
Date: 4/8/1972Call Number: RP 015 R1Format: Reel 1Producers: Raul Torres, Emiliano EcheverriaCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Raul Torres introduces Gene Royal, Director, and Judy Copeland, Education Coordinator for Centro de Cambio, a Mission District Drug counseling program at Harrison & 24th Sts. Recorded 3/3/72
Centro de Cambio Centro de Cambio
Date: 4/8/1972Call Number: RP 015 R2Format: Reel 2Producers: Raul Torres, Emiliano EcheverriaCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Raul Torres introduces Gene Royal, Director, and Judy Copeland, Education Coordinator for Centro de Cambio, a Mission District Drug counseling program at Harrison & 24th Sts. Recorded 3/3/72
Interview with Ron Sinoway Interview with Ron Sinoway
Date: 7/3/1991Call Number: SS 137AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Ron Sinoway about the legal and ecomonic issues of the anti-marijuana campaign in Northern California.
Interview with Lady J Interview with Lady J
Call Number: SS 097AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Lady J about Cuba and drugs.
Prisons, Drugs and Students Prisons, Drugs and Students
Date: 1/13/1973Call Number: RP 059 R1Format: Reel 1Producers: Emiliano Echeverria, Nina Serrano, Diana Gillespie, Lillian del Sol, Tim del Dol, Daniel del SolarCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Reflecciones covers the community with poetry from the prison, an interview about methadone Maintenance programs and their impact on addicts, and an interview about the situation with the university students in Mexico City and Puebla.
Juventud:  Latino Youth Juventud: Latino Youth
Date: 4/28/1973Call Number: RP 066Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano Echeverria, Chata Gutierrez, Bernice Ramirez, Isabel Alegria, Andres Alegria, and Lillian del SolCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Emiliano Echeverria, Chata Gutierrez, Bernice Ramirez, Isabel Alegria, Andres Alegria, and Lillian del Sol produce Programming by and about Latino Youth
All Power to the People All Power to the People
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 014Format: VHSProducers: Lee Lew LeeCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native American and women's power movements which followed The party struck fear in the hearts of the "establishment" which viewed it as a terrorist group. Interviews with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, CIA officer Philip Agee, and FBI agents Wes Swearingen and Bill Turner shockingly detail a "secret domestic war" of assassination, imprisonment and torture as the weapons of repression. Yet, the documentary is not a paean to the Panthers, for while it praises their early courage and moral idealism. it exposes their collapse due to megalomania, corruption, drugs, and narcissism
News Mix, 10/4/1970 News Mix, 10/4/1970
Date: 10/4/1970Call Number: KP 064Format: 1/4 15 ipsCollection: Vietnam
Mix of different news stories including Jimi Hendrix’s funeral, problems with overcrowded New York Jails, continued fighting in Vietnam, and the Cambridge, Massachusetts mayor’s remarks about ending drug dealing by “creating an army of bounty hunters.”
Jane Spielman and Sylvia Baraldini on Zimbabwe liberation Jane Spielman and Sylvia Baraldini on Zimbabwe liberation
Call Number: AFR 013Format: Cass A & BCollection: May 19th Communist Organization
Jane Spielman of the May 19th Communist Organization welcomes the Material Aid Campaign for ZANU and the Women’s Organization against Genocide to New York. Discusses the recently liberated Zimbabwe, and how the OAU (Organization of African Unity) and ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) fought for independence and support for reconstruction. Sylvia Baraldini, National director of the May 19th Communist Organization, celebrates the victory of Zimbabwe liberation and free elections. She discusses the rebuilding of Zimbabwe as a socialist society.