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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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Normon Solomon at UCSC Normon Solomon at UCSC
Date: 1/15/1998Call Number: PM 334AFormat: Cass ACollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
About media, democracy, and progressive social change.
Zapatista Zapatista
Date: 1/1/1998Call Number: V 538Format: VHSProducers: Big NoiseCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
With exclusive access and interviews with Subcomandante Marcos, Noam Chomsky and others, Zapatista is the definitive look at the Zapatista uprising, its historical roots and its lessons for the present and the future. January 1, 1994. The day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect. A few minutes after midnight in Southeastern Mexico,several thousand Mayan soldiers take over half the state of Chiapas, declaring a war against the global corporate power they say rules Mexico. They call themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army(EZLN). Zapatista is the definitive look at the uprising in Chiapas. It is the story of a Mayan peasant rebellion armed with sticks and their word against a first world military. It is the story of a global movement that has fought 175,000 federal troops to a standstill and transformed Mexican and international political culture forever. FeaturingInterviews with: Subcomandante Marcos, Noam Chomsky, Comandante Tacho,David and Zebedeo, Mayor Insurgente Ana Maria, Javier Elorriaga, Zachde la Rocha.
Critical Resistance - 1 Critical Resistance - 1
Date: 9/25/1998Call Number: V 576Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
First Critical Resistance conference on prison abolition. Voices for freedom: former & current prisoners speak out. Political Economy of the Prison Industrial Complex. What is the PIC? What are the goals of Critical Resistance? New Vocabularies of resistance - building a language for real justice.
Critical Resistance - 2 Critical Resistance - 2
Date: 9/26/1998Call Number: V 577Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
First Critical Resistance conference on prison abolition. Resisting the growing criminalization and stigmatization of sex workers. Histories of prison activism: past, present and future. Welfare as warfare: progressive and regressive traditions in welfare policy. Native Women in and the PIC. Alliance Building - part 1.
Critical Resistance - 3 & Welcome Home Geronimo Critical Resistance - 3 & Welcome Home Geronimo
Date: 9/26/1998Call Number: V 578Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
First Critical Resistance conference on prison abolition. Alliance building - part 2. Research and activism. Media-Culture. Prisons - the new slavery. Day one of the campaign. Welcome Home Geronimo from LA 7/26/1997.
Letter to Richard Kamler in support of The waiting room Letter to Richard Kamler in support of The waiting room
Author: Corey WeinsteinPublisher: California Prison focusYear: 1998Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Death Penalty/Waiting Room Rick Kamler
Reproduction
Human Rights Report- May 1998 Human Rights Report- May 1998
Publisher: Human Rights Commission of South AfricaDate: 5/1998Volume Number: MayFormat: ReportCollection: South Africa: Human Rights Reports
The HRC Human Rights report is compiled with information from a variety of sources including newspapers, monitoring and peace structures, community organizations, trade unions and government departments.