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Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
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Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.
Welcome to the Freedom Archives' Digital Search Engine.The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings which date from the late-1960s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements. We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings. Our collection includes weekly news, poetry, music programs; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; numerous voices from behind prison walls; diverse activists; and pamphlets, journals and other materials from many radical organizations and movements.

Palestine

This collection includes a wide range of audio tapes and English publications about the Palestinian struggle for self determination, the colonization of Palestine and Zionism. Political journals and monographs from multiple viewpoints on topics such as Zionism, Israeli abuses of human rights and international law, the role of the US and Britain policy in shaping Palestine, as well as on the Middle East and the Arab world. Perspectives in this collection are drawn from international organizations in the West and the Middle East, Palestinian revolutionary organizations, academics, thinkers and students, and voices of everyday Palestinian resistance. The majority of the materials in this collection are paper documents; monographs, periodicals, articles and pamphlets; however it also includes a number of important and unique audio materials. The bulk of the collection focuses on Palestinian resistance between 1948 and the early 1990s.   

News and information about Palestine: Institute for Middle East Understanding; If Americans Knew; B’TSELEM (Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories);

Analysis on Palestine: ElectronicIntifada; Mondoweiss; +972 Magazine

Documents

On the Necessity for an Anti-Racist Solution to the Palestine Conflict On the Necessity for an Anti-Racist Solution to the Palestine Conflict
Author: Jibran MajdalanyPublisher: Fifth of June SocietyYear: 1969Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Analysis of race and racism with the Palestinian Israeli conflict and anti-racism as necessary for resolution. Translated from an unpublished paper in French entitled "Reflexions sur le Racisme et le Neo Anti-Semitisme."
For a New Approach to the Israeli-Arab Conflict For a New Approach to the Israeli-Arab Conflict
Author: I.F. StonePublisher: Fifth of June SocietyYear: 1967Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Book Review of Jean Paul Sartre's special issue of "Les Temps Modernes" featuring a confrontation between Arab and Israeli intellectuals. Reprinted from the New York Review of Books, August 3, 1967.
Israel and Negotiations Israel and Negotiations
Author: Ibrahim Al-AbidPublisher: Palestine Liberation Organization Research CenterDate: 7/1970Volume Number: Palestine Essays No. 20Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Essay on the Israeli attitude and dismissals of international agreements and peaceful settlements with Palestine.
Israeli Racism Israeli Racism
Publisher: Palestine National Assembly Research CenterDate: 9/1975Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Short piece on Israeli racism and its affects on the Palestinian and Arab populations.
A Verdict on Sponsored Terrorism - The Bouchiki Case A Verdict on Sponsored Terrorism - The Bouchiki Case
Publisher: The Palestine Research CenterDate: 11/1974Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
"Translation of the Oslo magistrate's summary and jurisdiction of the Bouchiki trial" evidencing "Israeli clandestine activities in many parts of the world" and revealing "the manner in which state conducted terrorism was carried out against innocent individuals thought to be Palestinian leaders or activists."