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

N-Goma: Echos of the Drum N-Goma: Echos of the Drum
Publisher: Pelican Bay Support ProjectYear: 2005Format: EulogyCollection: Pelican Bay
Compilation of reflections and memories of Gahisi Sowande
Pelican Bay Prison 2005 Calendar Pelican Bay Prison 2005 Calendar
Publisher: Santa Cruz Barrios UnidosYear: 2005Format: EphemeraCollection: Pelican Bay
N-Goma: Echos of the Drum N-Goma: Echos of the Drum
Publisher: Pelican Bay Support ProjectYear: 2005Format: EulogyCollection: Pelican Bay
Compilation of reflections and memories of Gahisi Sowande
Pelican Bay Prison 2005 Calendar Pelican Bay Prison 2005 Calendar
Publisher: Santa Cruz Barrios UnidosYear: 2005Format: EphemeraCollection: Pelican Bay
The Forest for the Trees: Judi Bari v. the FBI The Forest for the Trees: Judi Bari v. the FBI
Date: 7/5/2005Call Number: CD 274Format: DVDProducers: Redbird Films - Bernadine MellisCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
In 1990, Earth First! organizer Judi Bari's car was bombed. Within three hours of the bombing, Bari was accused of transporting the explosives that had nearly killed her. Still in the hospital, she was arrested, and labeled a terrorist in the national media. The Forest for the Trees follows the bombing and arrest of Judi Bari, and her subsequent civil suit against the FBI. At the heart of the film, made by Bari’s lawyer’s daughter, is Bari, a folk hero with an electrifying onscreen presence, and the legal battle against law enforcement that few believed she could win.
Accumulated Silence: The Disappeared Women of Juarez. Accumulated Silence: The Disappeared Women of Juarez.
Date: 3/5/2005Call Number: CD 315Format: CDProducers: Nina SerranoCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Accumulated Silence. A poem by Peruvian poet Adrian Arias translated by Nina Serrano. This 17 1/2 minute program explores the issue of the disappeared women of Juarez. The poem is read by Lincoln Bergman and Nina Serrano with narration read by Andres Alegria. Mixed by Camilo Landau
Robert F Williams - Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination Resource Guide TEXT and GRAPHICS Robert F Williams - Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination Resource Guide TEXT and GRAPHICS
Date: 3/24/2005Call Number: RFW 068Format: CDProducers: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! RFW Book Resource Guide - Final Layout and graphic design in ‘In Design’
A Native Voice - Bringing Life to hawaii’s Forgotten Past A Native Voice - Bringing Life to hawaii’s Forgotten Past
Date: 4/1/2005Call Number: CD 329Format: CDProducers: Samson Reiny, Freedom ArchivesCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A narrative about Indigenous land rights in Hawaii.
Marilyn Buck statement Marilyn Buck statement
Date: 9/15/2005Call Number: WP 024Format: CDProducers: National Radio ProjectCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Marilyn Buck greeting and thanking supporters attending the release parties for the Wild Poppies CD in New York City and Berkeley, CA. This is a call from a federal prison.
Commentaries by Mumia Abu Jamal Commentaries by Mumia Abu Jamal
Date: 5/1/2005Call Number: CD 360Format: CDProducers: Noelle HanrahanCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
1 & 2 - Harder & harder to recruit 3 & 4 - Assata terrorist or Victim? 5 & 6 - Lynne Stewart Speaks 7 - Philadelphia Lifer Speech 8 - Why May 13th is so Important 9 - Mumia’s Interview with Lynne Stewart