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 We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings.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

New Movement

An anti-imperialist group in solidarity with the Puerto Rican Independence movement, this collection contains pamphlets, monographs and bulletins. Originally part of the Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee, it formed an independent organization to support all aspects of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement - including clandestine groups on the island and in the Diaspora. Issues included the freeing of Puerto Rican political prisoners, an end to the US military presence in Vieques, ending forced sterilization of Puerto Rican women, and economic and social justice for Puerto Ricans living in the United States.

Documents

Already the Hour: History and Analysis of the Guerilla Movements in Mexico: 1965-1978 Already the Hour: History and Analysis of the Guerilla Movements in Mexico: 1965-1978
Publisher: New Movement in Solidarity with the Puerto Rican and Mexican RevolutionsDate: 10/2/1983Format: MonographCollection: New Movement
This is a collection of translated documents from the Mexican movement against the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.): "Excerpts from 10 Years of Guerrilla Struggle in Mexico" by Jaime Lopez, including chapters on Arturo Gamiz, Genaro Vasquez and the National Civic Revolutionary Association, and Lucio Cabanas and the Party of the Poor; "Nothing is Free in History: Analysis of the Guerrilla Struggle of Arturo Gamiz" by a political collective in Chihuahua, Mexico; excerpts from the writings of Arturo Gamiz; several photographs; an afterword by the New Movement in Solidarity with the Puerto Rican and Mexican Revolutions.