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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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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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Robert and Mabel Williams on Viet Nam Robert and Mabel Williams on Viet Nam
Call Number: Format: mp3Collection: Viet Nam
Clip discusses how Robert and Mabel Williams resisted the war in VietNam. Robert and Mabel recount their experiences.
Radio Free Dixie [CD] Radio Free Dixie [CD]
Date: 7/30/1965Call Number: RFW 001Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Mabel and Robert F. Williams
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! Through features on the Birmingham church bombing and the Deacons for Defense and Justice, the show dismantles the case for nonviolence and promotes Afro-Asian solidarity. An approximately 15-minute documentary on the 1963 Birmingham church bombing features explosive sounds and screams, followed by analysis by Malcolm X indicting the U.S. government and hailing African and Asian nations’ support of African Americans. RFW commentary on the hypocrisy of urging Black nonviolence and drafting Black men to fight in Vietnam. Mabel Williams reads 7/17/65 Pittsburgh Courier editorial on the “Deacons of Justice,” asserting that nonviolent struggle for civil rights is an anomaly, not the norm.
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution [DVD] The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution [DVD]
Date: 2/16/2016Call Number: V 816Format: DVDProducers: Stanley Nelson, Laurens GrantCollection: Videos – camera originals and reference materials
Change was coming to America and the fault lines were no longer ignorable — cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change.
The Movement [June 1968] The Movement [June 1968]
Publisher: The Movement Press (Affiliated with SNCC and SDS)Date: 6/1968Call Number: Volume Number: VOL. 4 NO. 5Format: PeriodicalCollection: The Movement Newspaper
A monthly newspaper covering social justice issues and the movements of the 60s. Articles include: police shooting of Bobby Hutton, Columbia University taking over Harlem land, bombing of office of La Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres, arrest of Reies Tijerina, white response to white racism, poem (We Are Not Americans), review of "Soul on Ice", analysis of progressive movement failures, SF Bay Area high school participation in International Student Strike, National Community Union school for organizers, seizing streets in Oakland, critique of Ralph Gleason, Sanitation worker strike/union success (Memphis, TN), German student demonstrations, Anti-war activities on military bases, high school organizer arrested, Oakland 7 court case, Oakland police attack on Black Panther Party.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 7/13/1974Call Number: NI 035Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark Schwartz, Camomile, Andres Alegria, Nina SerranoProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: Nothing is More Precious Than…
Long many actuality report on San Quentin 6, then American Indian Movement and Black Liberation Army-related news, Vietnam/anti-war, and Chile.
Interview with Huey Newton Interview with Huey Newton
Date: 8/11/1970Call Number: KP 020Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Elsa Knight ThompsonProgram: KPFA generalCollection: Huey Newton
This interview with Huey P. Newton took place shortly after the Marin county courthouse rebellion incident. It is the first press contact with Newton after his release from prison. Newton discusses how the Panther party looked to form alliances with the Vietnamese on an ideological level and speaks of common goals of oppressed people, with special attention to organizations like the Women's Liberation Front in the United States and homosexual rights advocates. This tape includes a brief discussion of the movement to decentralize the police in Berkeley, CA., and has a brief discussion of Eldridge Cleaver in exile and the expectations of the United Nations to return Cleaver to the U.S.
Sundance Sundance
Publisher: White Panther Information ServiceDate: 7/1970Volume Number: Vol. 1-1Format: PeriodicalCollection: White Panther Party
Youth Will make the Revolution, and Youth will Keep it! Contents include: Spirit of the Sundance; Message to the People of Woodstock Nation (John Sinclair, chairman, White Panther Party); Interview with John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival; On Method, Time and Revolution (Eldridge Cleaver); The New Nation's Army (speech by Rennie Davis); Vietnamization; Junk Sucks Life!; Palestine Will Win; The Minister of Defense Speaks from Underground: Surprise Attack; The Red Panthers: The Young People of E. Germany are Watching Us; Chapter Reports; From Hip to Revolution; White Panther Party Ten Point Program.
Vietnam War Protest April 15 1967 Reel 1 Vietnam War Protest April 15 1967 Reel 1
Date: 4/15/1967Call Number: CE 899Volume Number: Reel 1Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Oakland Induction Center
Begins with protest songs by Judy Collins, and contains interviews with protesters and war dissenters as well as a summary of a protest through San Francisco.
Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 3-3 and 3-4 Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 3-3 and 3-4
Authors: David Horowitz, Chung-wu Kung, Kathleen Aberle, William Pomeroy, Ben Kerkvliet, John K. FairbankPublisher: Committee of Concerned Asian ScholarsYear: 1971Call Number: Volume Number: Summer-Fall, Vol, 3-3 & 3-4Format: PeriodicalCollection: Asian Liberation Struggles
Quarterly periodical edited by Jim Peck and Mark Selden. Contents: An Indochinese Conference in Vancouver; Interview with Chou En-lai; A New May Fourth Movement?; Source Material on Philippine Revolutionary Movements; Additional Source Materials on Philippine Radical Movements; Modern China Studies; The American Asian Studies Establishment; Comment; The structure and Direction of Contemporary China Studies; Politics and Knowledge: an Unorthodox History of Modern China Studies.
The Hapotoc Rebel Nov./Dec. 1976 The Hapotoc Rebel Nov./Dec. 1976
Publisher: The Hapotoc Family InternationalYear: 1976Call Number: Volume Number: November/DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Political Prisoners- General Info
Building for Winning by the Year 2000: Proposals for Bettering the HAPOTOC Vehicle of Struggle; Anti-Vietnam War Warrior: The Story of Lorenzo "Komboa" Ervin; the Political Status of Prisoners of War in Northern Ireland; Against Vile Prison Conditions, Torture, and the Death Penalty in Southern Ireland; more.