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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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

International Liberation Struggles - General

This collection contains articles, periodicals, and ephemera reflecting a variety of international perspectives on third world liberation struggles around the globe.

Documents

Series One - April 1984 Series One - April 1984
Publisher: Series OneDate: 4/1984Call Number: Format: PeriodicalCollection: International Liberation Struggles - General
In this issue, a report entitled, "What Happened to the Zimbabwe Revolution," describes the penetration of the Zimbabwean liberation movement by imperialist forces. Topics covered include U.S. intervention, the C.I.A.'s counter-insurgency agenda, and co-optive neo-colonial strategy.
Series One - July 1984 Series One - July 1984
Publisher: Series OneDate: 7/1984Call Number: Format: PeriodicalCollection: International Liberation Struggles - General
This issue contains a report entitled, "Neo-colonialism vs. Zimbabwe Women" and a short piece on life in Zimbabwe covering conditions, plantation labor, wages, and communal living. The bulk of the issue focuses on the Mugabe regime's short-term strategy--it's pretense of supporting women's struggles while in actuality only modernizing colonialism's heavy exploitation of Afrikan women. The Ministry of Community Development and Women's Affairs' is the government's task force assigned to pacify women's political activism and promote Western values of individualism and bourgeois feminism. Topics covered include patriarchal law and property, the subordinate legal status of women, violence against women, and a report by the Zimbabwe Women's Bureau on the central role of women in maintaining the family of the present labor force.