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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.

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Speech by Ricardo Romero Part 1 Speech by Ricardo Romero Part 1
Date: 11/17/1981Call Number: KP 512Format: Cass A & BCollection: Xican@
Cultural, historic, and political analysis of the Chicano and Mexican struggle in the Americas. Topics include ancient civilizations and their cultural contributions, an overview of political struggles, their development with a specific focus on armed struggle. Following the speech is a Q and A session (Tape 2).
Speech by Ricardo Romero Part 2 Speech by Ricardo Romero Part 2
Date: 11/17/1981Call Number: KP 513Format: Cass A & BCollection: Xican@
Cultural, historic, and political analysis of the Chicano and Mexican struggle in the Americas. Topics include ancient civilizations and their cultural contributions, an overview of political struggles, their development with a specific focus on armed struggle. Following the speech is a Q and A session (Tape 2).
An evening with Arundhati Roy An evening with Arundhati Roy
Date: 8/18/2004Call Number: V 677Format: DVDProducers: Pacifica Radio, KPFACollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Indian novelist and political writer Arundhati Roy speaks at the Berkeley Community Theater. The dvd contains Roy reading selections from her latest collection of essays, “An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire” and also interviews between Roy and others.
The Stump Makers The Stump Makers
Call Number: V 726Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The Stump Makers delivers an indictment of the wasteful forestry practices and ecological devastation caused by major logging companies operations in California and Oregon. Using some of the same footage as Wasted Woods, this film documents the impact of clear cutting on the environment and the logging communities reliant upon the industry.
Wasted Woods Wasted Woods
Call Number: V 730Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Wasted Woods shows destructive forestry practices used on the west coast during the 1950s and 1960s. Focusing on clear cutting and the immense machinery that cut and processed the giant redwoods, the film reveals the rapid deterioration of the forest ecology and the disappearance of towns and businesses, along with the forests, in large areas of the west coast.
Two Trevors Go to Washington Two Trevors Go to Washington
Call Number: V 751Format: VHSProducers: Ben CashdanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This film shows the IMF/World Bank meetings and protests in April 2000 through the eyes of two South Africans. One the inside Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, champion of of South Africa's conservative economic policy and chair of the IMF/World Bank board and in the streets dissent Johannesburg Metro Government Councillor and African National Congress member, Trevor Ngwane from Soweto.
We Still Charge Genocide We Still Charge Genocide
Publisher: New Afrikan Prisoners OrganizationDate: 8/31/1977Volume Number: August 31Format: MonographCollection: New Afrikan Prisoners Organization
The Thirteenth Amedment: Instrument of Legalized Slavery and the Re-subjugation of New Afrika.
Our Socialism - Israel and Palestine: The Search for Justice Our Socialism - Israel and Palestine: The Search for Justice
Publisher: American SocialistsYear: 1983Volume Number: Vol. 1-6Format: PeriodicalCollection: Anti-Zionist Criticism
A Gift of Kindness - A Fond Recollection A Gift of Kindness - A Fond Recollection
Author: Moshe MehuhinFormat: ArticleCollection: Anti-Zionist Criticism
Begin and Co As they Really Are Begin and Co As they Really Are
Author: Dr. Israel ShakakYear: 1977Format: MonographCollection: Anti-Zionist Criticism