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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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Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 3 -  Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 3 - Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 499Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg and Laura Whitehorn are long-time activists in support of peoples’ liberation movements here and around the world. Come visit behind prison walls to speak with six people who the U.S. government has labeled “terrorists”. They discuss their lives, the politics of the armed actions they are accused of, the conditions they and other political prisoners face, and their vision for the times ahead.
Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 4 - Marilyn Buck Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 4 - Marilyn Buck
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 500Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg and Laura Whitehorn are long-time activists in support of peoples’ liberation movements here and around the world. Come visit behind prison walls to speak with six people who the U.S. government has labeled “terrorists”. They discuss their lives, the politics of the armed actions they are accused of, the conditions they and other political prisoners face, and their vision for the times ahead.
Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 5 Graphics Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 5 Graphics
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 501Format: VHSProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg and Laura Whitehorn are long-time activists in support of peoples’ liberation movements here and around the world. Come visit behind prison walls to speak with six people who the U.S. government has labeled “terrorists”. They discuss their lives, the politics of the armed actions they are accused of, the conditions they and other political prisoners face, and their vision for the times ahead.
Marilyn Buck from Resistance Conspiracy - 1 Marilyn Buck from Resistance Conspiracy - 1
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 502Format: Mini DVProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg and Laura Whitehorn are long-time activists in support of peoples’ liberation movements here and around the world. Come visit behind prison walls to speak with six people who the U.S. government has labeled “terrorists”. They discuss their lives, the politics of the armed actions they are accused of, the conditions they and other political prisoners face, and their vision for the times ahead.
Immigrant Rights: A Civil Rights Issue For the 90's - Part 3 Immigrant Rights: A Civil Rights Issue For the 90's - Part 3
Date: 8/27/1990Call Number: CV 280Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Khader Hamide, of the Los Angeles 8, speaks about his arrest and detainment with 6 other Middle Eastern immigrants and one from Kenya. Their rights were violated when, after being secretly watched by the FBI for months, they were arrested for passing Palestinian literature. One government document exposed a government plan to relocate Arab and Palestinians in the US to camps in Oakdale, Louisiana and later deport them. The forum also discusses domestic violence and rights violations of undocumented women including their ejection from homeless shelters.
El Salvador Consulate Action El Salvador Consulate Action
Date: 11/16/1990Call Number: V 507Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Pledge of Resistance leads other organizations including the Bay Area Religious Task Force, Center for International Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, and Trece to occupy the El Salvador Consulate in San Francisco, commemorating the anniversary of the brutal murder of six Jesuit priests and two women. Protesters drop a banner from the consulate's balcony and occupy the front offices, calling for an end to US backed Death Squad violence in El Salvador, the overthrow of the ARENA government, and an end to US intervention in Central America. Several members of the demonstration chain themselves to the desks and chairs in the office, while other protesters demonstrate outside of the consulate.
Public Enema Public Enema
Date: 11/13/1990Call Number: CD 727Format: DVDProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A short documentary about youth who clandestinely post political art throughout Pittsburgh, PA. The creative works are photocopied and distributed to challenge people's thinking about art and politics. Produced by Claude Marks (then living as Greg Peters while he was living underground and as a fugitive), with Paul Martello and Ping.
Guatemala 1 Guatemala 1
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: LA 189Format: Cass A & BCollection: Guatemala
Jose Ortiz , a former Guatemalan guerrilla fighter, describes the civil war. He recounts the origins of the conflict from Nov 13, 1960, the history of the war which would last over thirty years, to the conclusion of the fighting in 1996.
Women in Iraq Women in Iraq
Date: 12/20/1990Call Number: CE 379Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interview with Dr. Iqbal Jwaideh Coddington, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, on the situation of women in her native Iraq, and the situation of ethnic and religious minorities.
Nelson Mandela in Oakland Nelson Mandela in Oakland
Date: 6/30/1990Call Number: CD 658Format: Cass A & BCollection: African liberation movements
On June 30, 1990, Ron Dellums along with Harry Belafonte introduce Mandela and other speakers and artists take the stage to discuss the injustices of apartheid. Nelson Mandela speaks about ending apartheid in South Africa and establishing democracy. Mandela emphasizes the importance of the movement within the Bay Area to end apartheid and how it has inspired the people in South Africa to keep up the struggle.