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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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Chilean musical concert, March 1973 Chilean musical concert, March 1973
Date: 3/1/1973Call Number: LA 199Format: CassetteCollection: Chile
Popular Chilean revolutionary music concert at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Devlopment (UNCTAD) Building, with Quilapayun and Dean Reed.
Chilean musical concert, March 1973 Chilean musical concert, March 1973
Date: 3/1/1973Call Number: LA 200Format: CassetteCollection: Chile
Continuation of popular Chilean revolutionary music concert at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Building, with Quilapayun and Dean Reed.
Interview with Noam Chomsky Interview with Noam Chomsky
Date: 2/15/1988Call Number: KP 475Format: Cass A & BProgram: Alternative RadioCollection: North American Anti-Imperialists
Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics at MIT, interviewed at his home in Lexington, Massachusetts. He discusses the relationship and shared interests between the elite structure of the US, the control of information and corporations. He also shares his perspectives on Latin American politics, Israel, and what the US public can do to increase political awareness and transform the situation.
La dignidad de los nadies La dignidad de los nadies
Date: 9/15/2005Call Number: CD 757Format: DVDProducers: Fernando SolanasCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The degraded socio-economic condition of Argentina leading to the December 2001 rebellions, and its consequent social chaos analyzed by focusing on real people from Buenos Aires poorest shantytowns, crumbling hospitals, and women middle class farmers fighting multi national banks that are shamelessly appropriating their farmlands.
Aids in Cuba, Mi Hermano Fidel, Los Ojos Como Mi Papa Aids in Cuba, Mi Hermano Fidel, Los Ojos Como Mi Papa
Date: 1/1/1977Call Number: V 608Format: VHSProducers: Santiago Alvarez, Pedro ChaskelCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Aids in Cuba: Successful Cuban efforts to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. Interviews and forums with HIV/AIDS patients that live in a sanatorium and their families. Statistics on who has AIDS, the most common ways to get AIDS, and who gets tested for AIDS in Cuba. The need for sexual education, condom use, and the misinterpreted linkage between HIV/AIDS and homosexuality. Mi Hermano Fidel. (1977) Fidel Castro interviews an old man who participated in the Sierra Maestra campaigns. Man has poor eyesight and does not realize that it is Fidel Castro who is interviewing him. Los Ojos Como Mi Papa:(1979) - Conversations among young adults and children of political refugees. Discuss Cuba and Latin America Topics include the Cuban Revolution, US influence, and socialism.
Radio- Daniel Oscoz Radio- Daniel Oscoz
Call Number: CV 300AFormat: Cass ACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Daniel Gomez Oscoz in Argentina. Comments about a march to the Congress against a “proyecto de reforma provisional” under President Carlos Menem. Also comments about the “Organisacion multipartidaria de la Mujer” in the city La Plata.
2nd Festival Latino in San Francisco 2nd Festival Latino in San Francisco
Date: 1/1/1994Call Number: CV 305AFormat: Cass ACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Second Festival Latino, San Francisco. Puerto Rican singer Lucecita Benitez and Chicano singer Jose Montoya on the roots of their music.
Chile: Songs for the Resistance Chile: Songs for the Resistance
Date: 1/1/1975Call Number: Vin 010Format: VinylProducers: Paredon Records, Patricio Manns, Angel Parra, KaraxuCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Protest songs about the political resistance of the Chilean people following the violent coup that occurred in 1973. The album serves largely as a call to arms to subvert the oppressive regime.
Cancion Protesta: Protest Songs of Latin America Cancion Protesta: Protest Songs of Latin America
Date: 1/1/1970Call Number: Vin 031Producers: Paredon Records, Organization of Latin American SolidarityCollection: General materials
Protest songs recorded by activist musicians from Argentina Chile, Cuba, Peru, and Uruguay. In 1967, the Cuban revolutionary government under Fidel Castro held a meeting of the Organization of Latin American Solidarity (OLAS) in Havana. Artists and activists discussed the importance of protest songs in communicating the messages of freedom movements. After this conference, OLAS recorded this album. Includes liner notes with contextual information and lyrics.
US Government Responses to Vietnam War Protests/Che Guevara Interview US Government Responses to Vietnam War Protests/Che Guevara Interview
Call Number: C 10 005Format: Beta SPCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Various footage of late 1960s and 70s, including:murder of John Huggins and Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter; news report and footage of arrests of BPP members in New Orleans; Nixon delivering “thugs and hoodlums” speech; LA District Attorney criticizing militant protestors; Mayher; students reading newspaper on Kent State shootings; Free Bobby Seale and anti-war protest; burning of US flags at protest; Charles Brennan, FBI Internal Security chief, questioned by Frank Church during the Church Committee hearings. In Spanish, a short interview with Che Guevara.