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Slideshow- Recent 2015 Additions to the Freedom Archives

From the Archives...

Hello, One of the core functions of the Freedom Archives is to preserve the audio, video and paper documents of revolutionary and progressive movements of the past 50+ years. Below you… Details

Prisoners and Politics: from the San Quentin Six to Pelican Bay

Greetings, Last Wednesday we co-sponsored Prisoners and Politics: from the San Quentin Six to Pelican Bay with Shaping San Francisco. 518 Valencia was standing room only with the space… Details

Another Year of COINTELPRO

COINTELPRO, Freedom Archives Productions, From the Archives...

Greetings, March 8th marks the 44th anniversary of the Media, Pennsylvania break-in that helped expose COINTELPRO to the world. The story received even more attention last year when… Details

Preservation of the Past: George Jackson at San Quentin

From the Archives..., Liberation Struggles

One of the many things the Freedom Archives did in 2014 is we transferred George Jackson/San Quentin to digital video from a 16mm film “work print” made in 1971–1972. This extraordinary… Details

Emory Douglas Donates Print to Support 15th Anniversary

Experiences at the Archives, Freedom Archives Events and Trips, From the Archives...

Exciting news! Emory Douglas has donated an original print entitled Mother, Child, Peace for the Freedom Archives’ 15th anniversary. Emory has been a supporter for years and… Details

Honoring the Life and Legacy of Ronald Elder Freeman

Freedom Archives Productions, Important Figures, Liberation Struggles

Ronald “Elder” Freeman was a life long Freedom Fighter in the Black Liberation Struggle and Field Secretary and original member of the Southern California Chapter of… Details

Anniversary and Anarchy

Freedom Archives Events and Trips, From the Archives..., Prison and Political Prisoners

My name is Katie Hanks and I am currently an intern here at the Archives. My most recent task has been diligently working on the Black Flag collection. With our upcoming 15th anniversary… Details

All Power to the People

From the Archives..., Liberation Struggles

Six months ago we announced that a project to catalog and at least partially digitize our collection of Black Panther Party Newspapers had begun. Today, we are proud to report that our… Details