Search Help

How does this work?
There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
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
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic, specifcally AND/+, NOT/-, and OR operators. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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.

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Prison Art Newsletter - January 2006 Prison Art Newsletter - January 2006
Publisher: Prison Art NewsletterDate: 1/2006Volume Number: Vol. 6-1Format: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Art Newsletter
Cover story is "Richard Williams está presente!", consisting of tributes to Richard Williams following his death. Other articles are on topics including voting rights for prisoners, the connection between solitary confinement and torture, the expansion of the prison system, a report from the Beyond Bars Conference, a response to the previously published article "The Struggle", the execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, and the role of combat in liberation. Also includes a tribute to Bruce Seidel, an article by Michael Africa about the experience of isolation, a day of mourning message from Leonard Peltier, and articles from Mumia Abu Jamal and David Gilbert in honor of the international day of solidarity with political prisoners.
Prison Art Newsletter - May 2003 Prison Art Newsletter - May 2003
Publisher: Prison Art NewsletterDate: 5/2003Call Number: Volume Number: Vol. 3 No. 5Format: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Art Newsletter
Cover story is "Break the Chains" about a conference on the prison abolition movement. Other articles are on topics such as a meeting of former prisoners in Oakland, the treatment of prisoners of war, a report on the U.S. inmate population, and private companies in position to profit from war with Iraq. Also includes a statement by Richard Williams about his treatment in prison, and an article by Mumia Abu Jamal about the use of the word "terrorism".
Prison Art Newsletter - June 2002 Prison Art Newsletter - June 2002
Publisher: Prison Art NewsletterDate: 6/2002Volume Number: Vol. 2-6Format: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Art Newsletter
Cover stories are "What is a Terrorist?" with commentary on the United States government's definition of terrorism, and "Beyond the New Unemployment Numbers" about the economic consequences of the unemployment rate. Other articles are on topics such as rape in prison, the U.S. government renouncing the International Criminal Court treaty, medical experiments on prisoners, the role of the United States in the Israel-Palestine Conflict, guards convicted for conspiring to have inmates attack other prisoners, and cannabis use in Canadian prisons. Also includes a statement from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) about the killing of the organization's founder.
Prison Art Newsletter - February 2006 Prison Art Newsletter - February 2006
Publisher: Prison Art ProjectDate: 2/2006Call Number: Volume Number: Vol. 6-2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Art Newsletter
Cover story is "The Ethics of Black Atonement in Racist America: The Execution of Stanley Tookie Williams", by Dhoruba Bin-Wahad. Other articles are on topics including the organs of executed prisoners in China being used for transplants, discussion in the European Union's Parliament about the death penalty, and an argument for releasing elderly prisoners. Also includes a reprint of an interview of George Jackson by Karen Wald, and a solidarity statement from the Jericho Movement at the 4th International Symposium Against Isolation.
Prison Art Newsletter - November 2001 Prison Art Newsletter - November 2001
Publisher: Prison Art NewsletterDate: 11/2001Volume Number: Vol. 1-1Format: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Art Newsletter
Cover story is "Political Prisoners, Others, Locked Down Following September 11th Actions" about the reactions of the prison system and other agencies to the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. Additional articles are on topics such as profits gained by private companies through working with prisons, the harassment of Alvaro Luna Hernandez by prison guards, the listing of Cuba as a terrorist state, revolutionaries in Turkish isolation prisons, and interrogations of suspects in relation to the September 11th attacks. Also includes a quote from Boots Riley about the meaning of communism, and a communiqué from the PFLP reacting to a ban on their military wing by the Palestinian Authority.
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveDate: 4/1976Volume Number: No. 8 AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Open Letter To the Movement: BARC, George Jackson Brigade, A Comrade on the Weather Underground, New World Liberation Front, Red Guerrilla Family, Black Liberation Army, Political Fugitives Statement, Graham and Allen Sentenced to Death, California Institute for Women