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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.
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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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Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 11/1/1975Call Number: NI 086Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Nina SerranoProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Program is dedicated to the five Puerto Rican National Party political prisoners, Lolita Lebron, Oscar Collazo, Irving Flores, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, stemming from 1950 and 1954 attacks in Washington DC. Includes much actuality, including of Carlos Feliciano, at that time a recently released Puerto Rican Nationalist political prisoner.
Cuba: Andres Gomez Cuba: Andres Gomez
Date: 6/11/1993Call Number: CV 083AFormat: Cass ACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews Andres Gomez. coordinator for the Antonio Maceo Brigade, the leftist progressive Cuban organization out of Miami. Topics include the contemporary state of US-Cuban relations, right wing Cuban Americans, and the Cuban economy's troubles.
Prison Movement Reports Prison Movement Reports
Date: 1/4/1977Call Number: FI 057Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber Dreher, Mark SchwartzProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
On Jamaica with a quote (not actuality) from Assata Shakur; man speaking of his arrest with one of the San Quentin 6, Willie Tate; an excellent interview with activist Gary Lawton, just acquitted in Riverside.
Revolutionary Dissident Revolutionary Dissident
Call Number: CV 108Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Interview with Enrique, a Cuban professor and translator of Portuguese and French. Enrique talks about his support for the revolution in spite of his seemingly contradictory interests in religion, British radio, and books of ill repute. Interview includes discussions about race in Cuba, Enrique's time in the military and agronomy school, which resulted in a six-month jailing.
Interview with Cuban double agent, "Annie" who infiltrated CIA Interview with Cuban double agent, "Annie" who infiltrated CIA
Call Number: CV 124Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Interview of "Annie" about her espionage activities in the United States and the information that she learned about from the CIA. Information about the Cuban economy, and possible counterrevolutionary attacks on the island - biological warfare in the form of dengue fever. Annie discusses her role as a mother, spy, Cuban patriot, and wife. Interview is followed by radio commentary about the life and death of Tamara "Tania" Bunke.
Fidel Castro on the Embassy Scandal of 1990 Fidel Castro on the Embassy Scandal of 1990
Date: 7/26/1990Call Number: CV 150Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
A speech given by Fidel Castro during the Embassy Scandal of 1990 in which a total of about 50 cubans sought political asylum in foreign embassies in Havana, Cuba. By the 26 of July 1990, the date of the speech, groups of cubans had, some forcefully and others non-violently, entered the Czech, Italian, Swiss and Spanish embassies seeking for asylum. In this speech Fidel explains the crisis and denounces the actions of these foreign nations, going as far as to end political cooperation with Spain. Important themes are Human Rights, anti-imperialism and political asylum.
Interview with Miguel Angel Garcia Interview with Miguel Angel Garcia
Date: 6/14/1995Call Number: CV 146AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
About the popularity and history of Afro-Cuban music. Interview in Spanish.
Interview with Antonio Cruz Colon Interview with Antonio Cruz Colon
Call Number: CD 617Format: CDProducers: Juventud Nacionalista Puertorriquena de Nueva YorkCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Antonio Cruz Colon is a patriot and Nationalist combatant of the 1950 Puerto Rican insurrection. Cruz Colon was but one of the approximately 150 combatants of the Liberation Army of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (PNPR) who rose up in arms in late 1950, declaring the independence of Puerto Rico and rejecting the then-developing process towards the “commonwealth” system.
Puerto Rican Independence and Steven Biko Puerto Rican Independence and Steven Biko
Date: 9/24/1977Call Number: FI 089Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is S Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Roundup of Puerto Rico independence news: grand juries, UN decolonization, statement of Rafael Cancel Miranda. Speech in SF by a representative of MIR of Chile. Interview on situation in Namibia and plans for San Francisco demonstration. Protests against police murder of Steven Biko in South Africa.
Samouri Marksman on African and Caribbean people, Part 1 Samouri Marksman on African and Caribbean people, Part 1
Date: 1/16/1985Call Number: CD 652Format: CDProgram: African Activists in AmericaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Michael Warren, chairman of African Activists in America, speaks about Maurice Bishop, and introduces Samouri Marksman. Marksman speaks about struggles of African people around the world; how Europeans control Latin American economies, cultures, and societies, and the struggle for Latin American independence; the struggle to alter the slave relationship with Europeans in the Carribean and Africa; critisizes the IMF (International Monetary Fund) ; and American politics in South Africa and the struggle against Apartheid.