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Basic Searching
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Advanced Searching
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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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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.

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Face Reality - There Are Political Prisoners in the U.S.A. Face Reality - There Are Political Prisoners in the U.S.A.
Publisher: Freedom Now!Call Number: Format: FlyerCollection: Freedom Now
One side of this poster pictures the names and faces of political prisoners in the United States, with some identified as prisoners of war. The other side provides information about the experience of political prisoners, and the U.S. government's denial of their existence. It list human rights violations against prisoners, provides brief information about the movements political prisoners have been imprisoned for being part of, and includes a call to action.
LIBERTAD - Vol. III-I: Special Edition - April 1982 LIBERTAD - Vol. III-I: Special Edition - April 1982
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of WarDate: 4/1982Volume Number: Vol. III-I: Special EditionFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Libertad
This special edition of LIBERTAD includes a section entitled "Who We Are," with an explanation of the choice to consolidate the National Committee to Free the Four Puerto Rican Prisoners of War and the William Morales Defense Committee in order to broaden political support to all Puerto Rican Prisoners of War. The editorial, "When Collaboration is Treason," describes the Puerto Rican Independence Movement's stance on non-collaboration with all aspects of the U.S. judicial system, including Grand Juries, and features a 1981 chronology of the independence movement. Additional contents include coverage of the FALN attack on Wall Street; an article by Don Juan Antonio Corretjer; a commemorative piece on the Ponce Massacre; updates on tactics to isolate POW Haydee Beltran; and Messages from the Puerto Rican Prisoners of War on the Second Commemoration of their Capture.
The Puerto Rican Prisoners of War and Violations of their Human Rights The Puerto Rican Prisoners of War and Violations of their Human Rights
Author: Juan Manuel DelgadoPublisher: United Church of ChristFormat: MonographCollection: Puerto Rico Small Books and Monographs
The Puerto Rican independence movement and other advanced sectors of our people view the POWs as patriots. And that is how they have been viewed since the 19th Century. Great historical figures have been characterized by their defense of our prisoners of war. The US wants to sow the idea that those who use armed revolution as an organized means of resistance, as anti-colonial protest, as prolonged people\'s war, as the seizure of power, as an act of self-defense against aggression which have included assassinations of independence activists or any other means of struggle, are terrorists. Estados Unidos quiere sembrar la idea, de que los que utilizan la revolucion armada como resistencia organizada, como protesta anticolonial, como guerra prolongada, como toma de poder, como acto de defensa propia ante agresiones de asesinatos a independentistas, o como cualquier otra forma de visualizar la lucha, son unos terroristas. El independentismo y los sectores mas alertas del pueblo no lo ven de esta forma. Lo ven como deben verlos, como patriotas. Y asi han sido visualizados desde el siglo XIX. Grandes personalidades de nuestra historia se caracterizaron por la defensa a los prisioneros de guerra. Photographs. 40 pages