Freedom Archives prison resistance

An Evening of Prisoner Resistance with the Freedom Archives

Join Claude Marks and Nathaniel Moore of the Freedom Archives for a screening and discussion of the following films: Attica is All of Us
September 9-13 marks the anniversary of the Attica… Details

Free our Prisoners! From Palestine to the US

5,150 Palestinians political prisoners are waging multiple hunger strikes to protest torture, administrative detention and abusive conditions of confinement in Israeli prisons.… Details

Posters of the Freedom Archives

Hello, My name is Krista and I’ve been an intern at the Freedom Archives since November 2016, winter of my senior year in high school. I spent my first eight months here working on an update… Details

Big George: A Docudrama About the Lucasville Rebellion

Experiences at the Archives, From the Archives..., Prison and Political Prisoners

Hello! Recently we have been looking into our collection on prison rebellions and we’d like to share with you what we have about the Lucasville 5. A highlight of our collection… Details

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

Freedom Archives Events and Trips, Liberation Struggles, Prison and Political Prisoners

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

The Movement Newspaper

Experiences at the Archives, From the Archives..., Liberation Struggles, Prison and Political Prisoners

Hello everyone, My name is Chris and over the past month I’ve been working as an intern at the Freedom Archives. I’m excited to announce its collection of the Movement Newspaper… 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

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