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Defending Our Communities, Defending Our Lives – Former Women Political Prisoners Speak Out for International Women’s History Month

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Art Against Imprisonment: a Virtual Art Exhibit

Art Against Imprisonment, a Virtual Art Exhibit, features art from incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in Palestine and in the US as a small testament to their creativity,… Details

Resisting Forced Sterilizations

Hello, We hope this reaches everyone safe and doing as well as possible under the circumstances. While most news around California prison issues is rightly focused on the Covid-19 outbreak,… Details

Movements in Time: Celebrating Anti-Imperialist Feminism

For fifty years and more, the Bay Area has been home to feminist and queer movements as they interact with anti-racist, anti-militarist, abolitionist, and internationalist politics… Details

Rethinking Solidarity

Experiences at the Archives, Youth

Hi, my name is Emma and I’ve been an intern at the Freedom Archives for the past two months. I started my internship hoping to educate myself more on past struggles and to learn how to organize… Details

Celebrate International Women’s Day

From the Archives..., Prison and Political Prisoners

To celebrate International Women’s Day check out these archival videos of demonstrations from 1988 outside of the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin, CA. At the time,… Details

Lupe Briseno and the Kitayama Carnation Strike

Freedom Archives Productions, From the Archives..., Important Figures, Liberation Struggles

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We’re excited to release a short video we put together focused on Lupe Briseno and her leadership around efforts to unionize Chicana carnation workers in the late… Details

Resistance Conspiracy Case

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

During my internship at the Freedom Archives, I worked mainly on recording, organizing, and digitizing materials relating the Resistance Conspiracy Case (RCC) and creating a finding… Details