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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.
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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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Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt (#1) Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt (#1)
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: C 10 108Format: Mini DVProducers: Lisa Rudman, Judy GerberCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Filmed in San Quentin Prison. Exteriors in the yard & outside the Adjustment Center where George Jackson was murdered. Why Geronimo was put in the hole, COINTELPRO & George Jackson, exterior shots.
Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt (#2) Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt (#2)
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: C 10 109Format: Mini DVProducers: Lisa Rudman, Judy GerberCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Filmed in San Quentin Prison. Includes comments on his framing, government trying to neutralize the Panthers, Fred Hampton, COINTELPRO including Marcus Garvey & attacks against the Muslims, Psyops and the Panthers. Includes comments on J Edgar Hoover & the FBI targeting the Panthers, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X - Black Nationalist hate groups. Includes comments on political prisoners, prisoners of war, the Republic of New Africa, African People's Party. Talks about growing up in the South - the Deacons for Defense, Maroons & the Klan.
Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt (#3) Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt (#3)
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: C 10 110Format: DV CamProducers: Lisa Rudman, Judy GerberCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Filmed in San Quentin Prison. Comments on Vietnam, Martin Luther King, police as occupiers and the concept of self defense and similarity of the war against the Vietnamese peole and the racism and resistance in the Black community. He also talks about prison isolation and meditation. Comments on international struggles, South Africa, Black solidarity in the U.S.. Additional remarks about Revolutionary nationalism, New Africans, the importance of a land base for the Black nation, how the Black liberation movement is thinking about drugs and violence in Black communities as well as establishing community and family values.
Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt (#4) Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt (#4)
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: C 10 111Format: DV CamProducers: Lisa Rudman, Judy GerberCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Filmed in San Quentin Prison. Comments on Bernard Goetz, Henry Kissinger and Operation Tar Baby, Howard Beach incident in Queens, right-wing white groups and how the Black community needs to build a new model taking lessons from the Panthers and self defense. Mainly questions and cutaways. Comments about Vietnam vets in prison.
Today's Legal Repression Session 2 Today's Legal Repression Session 2
Date: 11/1/1986Call Number: PM 433AFormat: Cass ACollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Rachel Rosen Degolia on the government's war on the bill of rights and the Freedom of Information Act. Maryann Corley on the Sanctuary movement and the use of prohibition laws to conduct illegal searches. Michael Deutsch on the fundamental use of repression by the state, especially in the last 10 years.
Today's Legal Repression Session 2 Today's Legal Repression Session 2
Date: 11/1/1986Call Number: CD 823Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Rachel Rosen Degolia on the government's war on the bill of rights and the Freedom of Information Act. Maryann Corley on the Sanctuary movement and the use of prohibition laws to conduct illegal searches. Michael Deutsch on the fundamental use of repression by the state, especially in the last 10 years.
Today's Legal Repression Session 1 Today's Legal Repression Session 1
Date: 11/1/1986Call Number: CD 820Format: CDProducers: CEMLCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Rachel Rosen Degolia on the government's war on the bill of rights and the Freedom of Information Act. Maryann Corley on the Sanctuary movement and the use of prohibition laws to conduct illegal searches. Michael Deutsch on the fundamental use of repression by the state, especially in the last 10 years.
Changing Nature of the US Prison System Changing Nature of the US Prison System
Date: 11/1/1986Call Number: CD 822Format: CDProducers: CEMLCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Steve Whitman and Jose Lopez talk about the US Prison system and it affects on communities of color. Speakers provide detailed statistics concerning mass incarceration and mass incarceration is placed in a historical context.
Changing Nature of the US Prison System Changing Nature of the US Prison System
Date: 11/1/1986Call Number: PM 432Format: CassetteProducers: CEMLCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Steve Whitman and Jose Lopez talk about the US Prison system and it affects on communities of color. Speakers provide detailed statistics concerning mass incarceration and mass incarceration is placed in a historical context.
In the Midst of Struggle - 7 In the Midst of Struggle - 7
Date: 2/22/1986Call Number: FI 185Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
US labor songs from the post-WW 2 era including "A Dollar Ain't A Dollar Anymore," GI Joe and the CIO, " "Put My Name Down," "Listen Mr. Bilbo," "Jim Crow," "Roll the Union On," and "Put It On the Ground." Brief historical and musical information provided.