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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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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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The Movement [September 1968] The Movement [September 1968]
Publisher: The Movement PressDate: 9/1968Volume Number: Vol. 4-8Format: PeriodicalCollection: The Movement Newspaper
The cover of this issue is dedicated to the beginning of Huey Newton\'s trial. The other articles discuss police repression of Chicano student movement, anti-draft protests, Eldridge Cleaver\'s candidacy as President of the United States, the legal situation of the \"Oakland Seven,\" and the challenges posed by the efforts of organizing the National Lawyer\'s Guild.
Legal Journal: Women's Issues are Everyone's Issues Legal Journal: Women's Issues are Everyone's Issues
Author: National Lawyers GuildPublisher: Prison Law Project of the National Lawyers GuildYear: 1996Volume Number: Vol. 4-1 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison - Women
Includes: Women's Issues Are Everyone's Issues; Chowchilla Gateway to Prosperity; Women Jailhouse Lawyers -- On the Move (covers women as economic criminals, invisible prisoners, medical care, redress in courts, children, and more); Legal Issues For Women In Federal Prisons (covers access to legal aid, child care/custody, language difficulties, threat of sexual abuse, racism, sexism and sentence disparities, and more); Excerpts From A Letter To Kathleen Hawks, Thoughts On Preparing A Battered Women's Syndrome, Our Task: Our Duty (Mumia Abu Jamal); and more.
The Conspiracy [Vol. 1 No. 9] The Conspiracy [Vol. 1 No. 9]
Author: National Lawyers GuildPublisher: National Lawyers GuildDate: 5/1971Call Number: Volume Number: Vol. 1 No. 9Format: PeriodicalCollection: National Lawyers Guild
Published by the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), this issue includes: an article calling for more adequate defense of military cases categorized as AWOL and narcotics, which comprise the bulk of military trials in the U.S.; a copy of new resolutions being submitted to the state bar conference by the NLG on the subject of environmental justice and the need for more robust training in environmental law; guidelines and advice on how to research a jury; guidelines and advice on using public records; and an assessment of the Berkeley City Council’s rejection of a ballot initiative proposal called, "Establishing Peace and Solidarity Between the People of Berkeley and the People of Vietnam.”
Contempt [May - June 1974] Contempt [May - June 1974]
Publisher: National Lawyers Guild, Seattle ChapterYear: 1974Call Number: Volume Number: Vol.2, No. 5, May - JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: National Lawyers Guild
Articles include: - Change in disciplinary procedures at WA prisons. Analysis of bad conditions at Monroe. - Need for immigration reform; Including: equal legal protection, end dragnet raids, - Development of a women's collective at Seattle City Jail for counseling and support. - NLG at National Conference on Women and the Law. Topics included: Sex discrimination, Gay rights, Rape. - Editorial: US government violation of treaties at Wounded Knee and in Viet nam. - Poem "I Like To Think of Harriet Tubman" Susan Griffin. - The Muckleshoots Indian Tribe charges power company with stealing river water. affecting fishing. - US senate approves Legal services Bill. - Critique of Seattle police manual. Critique of Pentagon support for South Vietnam. Navy treats black sailors worse than whites. - Univ of WA racist re-admissions policies.
People's Energy: An Eastbay Community resource Handbook People's Energy: An Eastbay Community resource Handbook
Publisher: People's Energy, Inc.Date: 1/1974Call Number: Format: catalogCollection: North American Social Movements
This handbook provides information on social change efforts in the East Bay. It includes a catalog of organizations and institutions and articles about social justice issues. Intended to help people find jobs that they like in the social change world. Includes a bibliography and index. Worked with Vocations for Social Change. Articles: - some thoughts on work (Modern work places alienate us from ourselves. Trying to develop more democratic ways of working) - in search of Childcare (Berkeley. Types of care. Lack of infant care)(Childcare should be responsibility of entire community) - Ecology Recycling Centers (How to recycle) -Gay Alternatives (Gays must conceal their identity. It is impossible to be emotionally healthy while denying one's existence) - Men's Liberation (A new and struggling movement. Men want to take back full humanity- more warmth, sensitivity, emotion , honesty. Oppressed by conditioning) - Military-Industrial Contracts (partial list of East Bay companies who make war products. Don't buy consumer goods from these companies) - who rules oakland (white, male, conservative,wealthy. Port expansion. Oakland real estate. Black bourgeoisie) Catalog: (Partial list. Most listings have description and contact info) - Anti-War (Ecumenical Peace institute, Institute for the study of Non-Violence, Mt. Diablo Peace Center, World Without War Council, Women for Peace, War Tax Resistance, War Resistors League) - Bookstores (Granma, ICI- A Womens Place, Latin American Library, Uphaste, Yenan) - Childcare (ASUC, Bananas, Berkeley Childcare Development Council, Children's Community Center, Community Childcrare, Oakland Schools) - Community Services (Alternative (food) Distributing Co, Animal Vaccination Clinic, Bay Warehouse Collective, By Hand, Berk. Independent Services for People, Dirty Rainbow Art Materials, Food Conspiracy, Handcrafted Furniture, Loving Grace Cybernetics, Ma Revolution, The Meadow, Missing link Bicycle, Splinter Group, Taxi Unlimited,A Dream for Berkeley, Arts and Crafts Cooperative Inc, Lockwood Buying Club) - Counseling (Advocates for Women, Berk. Job Rap, Berk. Youth Alternatives, Black Bart Memorial, Center for Intimacy and Sexuality, Community Counseling, Counseling Clinics, East Bay Info & Counseling, Fat Liberation, Pacific Counseling, People's Energy, Spanish Speaking Info. Center) - Creative Nourishment (Berk. Creators Assoc, Bishops Coffee House, The Clitrartists, Live Oak Theater Makeshift Mystery Co.Los Topos Theater Troupe/University Without Walls, Moving Men Theater Co, Red Star Singers, Women's Theater Dance Collective, Theater Laboratory) - Ecology (Audobon Nature Training, East Bay Group Against Smokers Pollution, Ecology Center, Nor Cal Committee for Environmental info, Pacific Recycling & Environmental Education Project, Sierra Club)(Various recycling locations) - Educational Alternatives (New Schools,Center for Open Learning & Teaching, Bay Area Radical Teachers Organizing Collective, Radical Education Resource Center, Coalition To Save Our Schools) --- pre-school (Bancroft Cooperative Nursery, Berkeley Hills, Berk. Montesori, Childrens Community Center, Diablo Valley Montesori, Mountain View Elementary, Noahs Ark, New School, Odyssey, Parents Co op, Platypus, Pickwick, Seven Hills, Skytown, Yellow Brick Road) --- elementary (Berkwood,Black Pine Circle, Crestmont, Hedge, Magic Mountain, Intercommunal Youth institute, Mujji Ubu, Najo, Pegasus, Pinel, Phoenix, Walden Center) --- high (Actualizing Relationship Institute, Berk. Environmental, East Bay Jr High School, Far West, Holden, Lakeside, Maybeck, Oasis, Odyssey, Our School, Rurban, The Street Acadamy) --- adult (Berk. Adult , Liberation School, People's Classes, People's Law School, University Without Walls) - Gay People (Chutzpah, East Bay Gay, East Bay Gay Men's Newsletter, Gay Literature Group, Gay Men's Collective/KPFA, Gay Men's Collective/Berk. Free Clinic, Gay Students Union-UCB &Laney, Lesbian Air/KPFA, Manicure) - GI Movement (Center for Servicemens Rights, Travisty/Travis GI Project, Vietnam Veterans Against the War/ Winter Soldier Program) - Health (Berk. Community Health Project, Center for the Study of Health Maintenance Practices, Child Health, East Oak., Community Clinic, Feminist Women's Health Center/Women's Choice, George Jackson Free Clinic, Planned Parenthood, Soul Site, Teen Family Planning/YWCA, West Oak, Women's Health Collective, West Berkeley, Medical Committee For human Rights) - Land Use ( Bateman Neighborhood Assoc, Berk Tenants Org Committee, Channing Community, Claremont Elmwood, Council of Neighborhood Orgs, Cow Hollow, Deakin St Klan, Concerned Citizens of Seminary and Havens Court, Flatlands, Hillside, Intercommunal Survival Committee to Combat Fascism, Leconte, National Housing Law Project, North Berk, Neighborhood Preservation Committee, Northgate, North Berk Concerns, Oak Housing Tenant Union, Oceanview, People's Housing Council, San Pablo, Savo Island , Sacramento/Univ/Dwight/Channing, Tenant Action Council, Walker St Plus, West Berk ,Westbrae) - Legal Help (Alameda County Legal Aid, ACLU, Asian Law Caucus, Berk Neighborhood Legal Service, Berk Own Recognizance Project, CA Indian Legal Services, Centro Legal, Contra Costa County Friends Outside, Lawyer's Listening Post, Pro Per Collective, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, NLG, Women's Legal Center East Bay) - Media (Acorn Community TV, Asian Media, Berk Film House, Bay Area Broadcast Skills Bank, Calif La Raza Media Coalition Community Coalition for Media Change, village of Arts & Ideas, Mediavan, Mediatron, KPFA Women's News Collective, KPFA/KPFB, Poor People's Radio/KPOO, Padific Film Arschive/Univ Art Museum, People's Translation Service, Tricontinental Film Center West, Quantum Communications, Third World Photo Workshop) - Men's Liberation (Berkeley Men's Center) - Mental Health (Berk Feminist Counseling Collective, Berk Place, Bonita House, Berk Radical Psychiatry Center, Counseling Clinics, Creative Community, In Touch, Rap Center/Berk Free Clinic, Parental Stress, Phoenix House, Women's Sexuality) - Political Organizing (Berk Black Caucus, Black Panther Party, Campus Farmworkers Support Committee, East Bay Bicycle Coalition, Educational Liberation front, New American Movement, Radical Student Union, Revolutionary Union, Refusers Of Illegal and Oppressive Taxes, Slate, Socialist workers Party, Young Socialist Alliance, New Oakland Democratic Org Committee, Berkeley Kid's Liberation And Youth Action Squad, National Caucus Of Labor Committees, Oakland Training institute) - Prison (Allied Fellowship Services, Black Churchmen Penal Chaplancy Program, Calif Institution for Women Support Group, Connections, Committee for Prisoner Humanity and Justice, Prison Law Collective, White Cloud Lodge, Prisoners Union, United Prisoners Union, Vocare Foundation Halfway House, Women's Prison Project, Community Concern For Prisoners) - Publications (Amazon Quarterly, Bay Area Center for Alternative Education, Berkeley/Oakland Women's Newsletter, Brother, East Bay Gay Men's Newsletter, Issues in Radical Therapy, Libera, Maude Gonne Press, New Seed Press, Radical Psychiatry Press, Toward Revolutionary Art, Vocations for Social Change, Women and Film, Women's Press Collective, Grassroots, People's World) - Research (Bay Area Institute, Berk Neighborhood Traffic Study, Center for the Study of Legal Authority and Mental Patient Status, Feminist Research Center, North American Congress on Latin America, Pacific News Service, SF Studies Center, Women's History Research Center, Student Research Facility) - Survival (Berk Emergency Food Project, Good Samaritan Home, Hillel Streetwork Project, Youth Hostel) - Switchboards (Alameda Family Service, Berk Free Clinic, Berk Youth Alternatives, Cal State Switchboard & Rap Center, Care Center, Chrysalis,Draft & Military, East Bay Sex Help, East County Crisis Center, In Touch, Men's, Music, Project Eden, Sickle Cell Anemia, Streetwork Project, West Oakland, Suicide Prevention) - Third World --- Liberation Struggles (Indigena, Liberation Support Movement, Friends of Micronesia, non-intervention in Chile) --- Asian Liberation (Asian Information Group, Asian Student Union/Berk High, Bay Area Japanese American Citizens League, Chinese Community Council, Concerned Filipinos of Berkeley, East Bay Asians for Community Action, East Bay Japanese for Action, October 1st Friendship Week Committee, Thai Assoc of Nor Cal, Taishu, United Asians for Equal Employment, Union of the Vietnamese in the US) --- Black Liberation (Africa: Aid Famine Relief in Central Africa, Rainbow Sign, Black Aid Center Foundation, Sisters of Motivation) --- Latin Struggles (CSUH/MECHA, Comite Pro Centro de La Raza, Comite Popular Education De La Raza, Frente Foundation Hayward Chicano Concilio, Latin American Library, Laney College/La Raza Student Union, La Raza Educators, UCB/MECHA) --- Native American (American Indian Center, American Indian Socialization to Urban Life Project, Friendship House, Intertribal Friendship House) - Union Organizing (American Federation of Govt Employees, Social Responsibilities Round Table/American Library Assoc, Berk Tenants Union, Berk Woman's Affirmative Action Union, Coyote, Militant Action Caucus, Scientists and Engineers for Social and Political Action, United Farmworkers Union, Union of Radical Criminologists, United Massage Therapists Union, Workers Action Coalition) - Women (Advocates For Women, Bay Area Women Against Rape, Berkeley Women's Center, Berkeley Women's Speakers, Berkeley YWCA, Breakaway, Campus Women's Forum, Female Liberation, National Organization of Women:East Bay, Women's Refuge, Union Women's Alliance To Gain Equality, Women's Action Training Center, Women Endorsing Decriminalization, Women's Job Rights) -Community Center (Telegraph Community Center, Recreational Youth Center, The People's Program, North Oakland Emergency Food Pantry, Senior Citizens Nutrition Program, UNITAS) - Older People (East Bay Legislative Council Of Senior Citizens, Senior Action Project)