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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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Watsonville Elections #1 Watsonville Elections #1
Date: 12/5/1989Call Number: CV 067Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews candidates and voters in Watsonville, CA about the election taking place. Focuses on the Chicano and Latino voting in the historic elections.
Watsonville Elections #2 Watsonville Elections #2
Date: 12/5/1989Call Number: CV 071Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews candidates and voters in Watsonville, CA about the election taking place. Focuses on the Chicano and Latino voting in the historic elections. Results are announced, Varela interviews outgoing politicians and defeated candidates. Cruz Gomez, Rex Clark, John Radin, etc.
Watsonville Earthquake Victims and Relief Watsonville Earthquake Victims and Relief
Date: 10/22/1989Call Number: CV 072Format: Cass A & BCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews victims, volunteers, and city officials in Watsonville one week after the earthquake turned thousands homeless and in need of disaster relief. Includes interview with Oscar Rios, farmworkers advocates, community health organization workers, and victims living in Tent Cities. Interviews in Spanish and English.
Dolores Huerta - One Year Later Dolores Huerta - One Year Later
Date: 9/14/1989Call Number: CV 236Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
John Crew, of the American Civil Liberties Union, discusses the case of a San Francisco police officer beating Dolores Huerta at an anti-Bush demonstration. Crew also explains why the Office of Citizens Complaints is not fulfilling its duty as a police watchdog agency.
United Framer Workers: Boycott Against Safeway- 1 United Framer Workers: Boycott Against Safeway- 1
Date: 9/20/1989Call Number: CV 247Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Cesar Chavez, along with other organizers and community leaders demand that Safeway stop selling grapes grown with pesticides. Chavez explains that the pesticides are contributing to cancer among farm workers.
United Framer Workers: Boycott Against Safeway - 2 United Framer Workers: Boycott Against Safeway - 2
Date: 8/25/1989Call Number: CV 248AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Cesar Chavez, along with other organizers and community leaders rally and demand that Safeway stop selling grapes grown with pesticides. Chavez explains that the pesticides are contributing to cancer among farm workers.
Cuauhtemoc Cardeñas speaks at UC Berkeley Cuauhtemoc Cardeñas speaks at UC Berkeley
Date: 11/16/1989Call Number: JG/ 139AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
The founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PDR) in Mexico speaks against US intervention in Central and Latin America. He addresses questions about the role of anti-imperialist actions in the US in support of Mexico, and discusses the creation of new, egalitarian trade relationships between North and South American economies.