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
![Interview with Herman Bell](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 8/31/1977Call Number: CD 541Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Interviews with Herman Bell on August 31, 1977 at USP Marion. He speaks mainly about prison conditions, control units, behavior modification, the injustice of the prison system.
![Chicago Conspiracy Trial - Part 9](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Date: 1/1/1970Call Number: CD 778Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Country Joe McDonald, Stuart Meecham, Ed Sanders, Paul Krassner, Monsignor Rice. This recording was downloaded from http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/audio.html on 2/23/12. Credit is due to the University of Missouri Kansas-City School of law.
National distribution of these tapes as through activist networks in preparation for the TDA ("The Day After") demonstration to be initiated the day following the announcement of the verdicts by Judge Julius Hoffman (February 18, 1970_. Demonstrations broke out in a number of cities on February 19; a police riot led to several dozen arrests at the Westwood office of Bank of America in Lost Angeles. Demonstrators reported that undercover plainclothes officers, without warning, physically attacked specific targeted individuals with blackjacks, brass knuckles and other weapons.
![Lexington Prison Interviews 1987](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 5/1/1987Call Number: CD 779Format: CDProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Alejandrina Torres, Silvia Baraldini, and Susan Rosenberg describe their living conditions at the control unit of the federal women’s prison in Lexington which opened in 1986. The interviews stress the importance of public pressure to have the unit closed.
![Interview with Herman Bell](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 8/31/1977Call Number: CD 780Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Interviews with Herman Bell on August 31, 1977 at USP Marion. He speaks mainly about prison conditions, control units, behavior modification, the injustice of the prison system.
![Pelican Bay Program (1 of 2)](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 10/1/1991Call Number: CD 781Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Corey Weinstein and Catherine Campbell discuss their trip to Pelican Bay Prison as part of a legal delegation affiliated with the Real Dragon Prison Project. Included are descriptions of Control Units and the infamous "SHU de-briefing” techniques, as well as the prison system’s use of informants and the effects of the psychological torture used against prisoners. Weinstein and Campbell also dispel some of the myths surrounding the "worst of the worst" label put on many prisoners housed in Pelican Bay and expose the roundup of antiauthoritarian and prisoner with organizing and leadership potential.
![Pelican Bay Program (2 of 2)](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 10/1/1991Call Number: CD 782Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
CONTINUED FROM PM 220: Corey Weinstein and Catherine Campbell continue their discussion of the conditions within the Pelican Bay Prison. Weinstein and Campbell elaborate on the relationships between different prison groups, guard torture and brutality, and the economic condition and opinions of the communities surrounding Pelican Bay Prison.
![The Case of Silvia Baraldini](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 4/16/1991Call Number: CD 787Format: CDProducers: Sally O'BrianProgram: Where We LiveCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Silvia Baraldini describes her harsh treatment and that of other U.S. political prisoners. Her attorney, Elizabeth Fink, comments on the lack of evidence presented at trial and the extreme sentencing and punishment of Baraldini at the Lexington Federal Prison. Italian member of Parliament Emma Bonino, and Italian journalist Patricia Lambroso comment on Italian parliamentary and public support for Baraldini.
![Out of Control Lesbian Committee](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 8/28/1995Call Number: CD 791Format: CDProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The OutsideCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Rita Brown and Jane Segal discuss the Out of Control Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. They organize to support women political prisoners, publish a newsletter and are organizing a grassroots movement. The interview includes a discussion of their lives as political activists.
![Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control?](images/thumbnails//7886.jpg)
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: CD 794Format: CDProducers: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML)Collection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
About closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML (Committee to End the Marion Lockdown), Dr. Alan Berkman who has provided medical care for Black Liberation Army and Panther members as well as AIM activists at Wounded Knee in the 1970s. Berkman also speaks about being a former political prisoner, the prison system and control units as forms of social control which target revolutionary movements. Film segments about former LA gang member and Pelican Bay prisoner Sanyika Shakur.
Transcript available for download.
![Political Prisoners in US Control Units](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 1/24/1992Call Number: CD 797Format: CDProgram: KPFA BrainstormCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Discussion of Control Unit prisons with interviews by Bo Rita Brown. Interview with Dr. Corey Weinstein, and Political Prisoners Susan Rosenberg and Sylvia Baraldini while imprisoned at Marianna, Florida.