Freedom Archives Productions
These materials were used in various Freedom Archives productions released between 2000 and 2013.
Subcollections
- Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle
The Freedom Is A Constant Struggle collection extends from February 1976 to August 1995. It continues the weekly summary of international, national, and local struggles on many fronts, interspersed with poetry and music. - General materials
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La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
"La Lucha Continua/The Struggle Continues" is the result of a 3 year collaboration between Susan Greene and Freedom Archives. -
Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Poetry and spoken word by activists, poets, and political prisoners. - Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Charisse Shumate: Fighting for our Lives”
- Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”
- Paul Robeson recordings
- Video materials shot and collected in the making of Cointelpro 101
- COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Documents
Democracy Now!: The Best of Enemies: a story of friendship between a prominent member in the KKK and a Black Civil Rights activist
Date: 7/4/1996Call Number: KP 123Producers: Pacifica Radio ArchiveProgram: Democracy Now!Collection: General materials
A very interesting and inspiring interview between two friends brought together by their similarities after many years of highlighting their differences. CP Ellis was the Exalted Cyclops of the Durham, NC, Ku Klux Klan when he met Ann Atwater, a militant black community organizer. They were elected to organize the public school system through the AFL-CIO. While there was much hostility to their interactions, they soon learned that they shared many of the same problems as working/lower class citizens struggling in an impoverished school district. Their friendship grew from this connection and led Ellis to leave the KKK. He talks about the hardships he faced as a result of this.
Also interviewed is Osha Gray Davidson author of The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South a book about the two’s friendship. This book was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1997.
Mumia: A Case for Reasonable Doubt
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: CD 382Format: DVDProducers: Fox LorberCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
For the first time, Mumia speaks on camera from behind prison walls in a television interview. Convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a 25-year-old white Philadelphia policeman, former NPR radio journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal has voiced his innocence for 14 years. This high-profile case has garnered the interest of such celebrities as Jesse Jackson, Alice Walker, Paul Newman, Whoopi Goldberg, Ed Asner, Mike Farrell and Danny Glover, who believe Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner. Narrated by Marlene Sanders.
Radio Freedom: Voice of the African National Congress and the People’s Army, Umkhonto We Sizwe
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: CD 388Format: CDProducers: Rounder recordsCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Voice of the African National Congress
Radio Freedom was the underground radio station of the ANC. Founded in 1967, it would eventually broadcast into South Africa daily from neighboring African states. These selections are from broadcasts out of Lusaka Zambia, circa 1985. Note how the insurrectionary character of that period is reflected in both the form and content of the broadcasts.
Selections from Radio Freedom:
Radio Freedom Sign-On [1:27]
Revolutionary Violence [commentary, 3:47]
Uphi Lomkonto? (Where is our Army?) [music, 1:22]
Our Task is to Make Government Impossible [commentary, 4:53]
Solomon Mahlanghu [music, 1:57– Solomon Mahlangu was a young MK soldier who was captured and executed in 1979]
Tribute to the Anti-Apartheid Movement in USA [music and commentary, 1:52]
Closing Signature [0:56]
Bashir Hameed - Attica Prison Hearing - 1 of 2
Date: 12/20/1996Call Number: CD 679Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
BLA Political Prisoner fights prison write-up in this hearing recorded in Attica New York State prison. Hameed defends himself against charges of refusing a urinalysis. Clearly an attack on him as an effective organizer.
Bashir Hameed - Attica Prison Hearing - 2 of 2
Date: 12/20/1996Call Number: CD 680Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
BLA Political Prisoner fights prison write-up in this hearing recorded in Attica New York State prison. Hameed defends himself against charges of refusing a urinalysis. Clearly an attack on him as an effective organizer.
All Power To The People Part 2
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: LT 022Format: Mini DVProducers: Lee Lew LeeCollection: Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native American and women's power movements which followed
The party struck fear in the hearts of the "establishment" which viewed it as a terrorist group. Interviews with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, CIA officer Philip Agee, and FBI agents Wes Swearingen and Bill Turner shockingly detail a "secret domestic war" of assassination, imprisonment and torture as the weapons of repression. Yet, the documentary is not a paean to the Panthers, for while it praises their early courage and moral idealism. it exposes their collapse due to megalomania, corruption, drugs, and narcissism
La Habana Si (Havana Yes)
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: Vin 038Producers: Areito, Los Van Van, Juan FormellCollection: General materials
A compilation of hits by the Castro-era Cuban band Los Van Van, led by songwriter Juan Formell. Following the Cuban Revolution, the government instituted a policy of recruiting youth talents to various sectors: sports, science, and music to name a few. The regime discovered Los Van Van, sponsoring several tours domestically and abroad. Called 'the Rolling Stones of Latin music' Los Van Van revolutionized and popularized Cuban music in the 1980s and 90s.
Racism and the War on Drugs
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: CD 793Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
In a panel discussion, several speakers express their views about how racism and the war on drugs are connected. Racism is found in every step of the criminal justice law enforcement process. Blacks and Hispanics are unfairly targeted in the drug war. The speakers advocate that federal law enforcement change, and that mandatory minimums, crack laws, and guideline sentences be revised.
Voices on and of Prisons
Date: 2/1/1996Call Number: CD 809Format: CDProducers: WMVA AmherstProgram: UndercurrentsCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Steve Whitman on: The basics of imprisonment rates, racial hysteria and its beginnings, what kind of people are in control units and how control units are used against political prisoners, as well as the Amnesty International investigation into control units violations of human rights.
Biography of Rev. Michael Yasutake, (1920-2001) A tireless advocate for social and economic justice – and especially for the rights of political prisoners in the U.S. – Yasutake founded and directed the Interfaith Prisoners of Conscience Project in Evanston, Ill.
Shumate Deposition 1A
Date: 7/24/1996Call Number: SHU 035Format: DV CamCollection: Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Charisse Shumate: Fighting for our Lives”
Charisse Shumate's Deposition.
