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“My participation in the first Venceremos Brigade in 1969 was a transformative experience that set me on a path to becoming an anti-imperialist. The Cubans demonstrated such deep solidarity with revolutionary movements around the world, especially with the Vietnamese liberation struggle. I was able to see clearly the way much of the world saw the empire I was born into, and it made me want to commit myself to internationalism for the rest of my life...

End the US Blockade on Cuba! Join the VB52 “My participation in the first Venceremos Brigade in 1969 was a transformative experience that set me on a path to becoming an anti-imperialist. The Cubans demonstrated such deep solidarity with revolutionary movements around the world, especially with the Vietnamese liberation struggle. I was a

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Reflections on Movement Journalism For as long as Africans have engaged in revolutionary struggle within the present-day United States, they have always sought to document and report on their efforts to resist. What was very common and was known as “movement journalism” has been central to how Black people in the US have histori

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Join us Monday Nov. 6th for the Oakland book launch!

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Critical Resistance Look what we found... looking forward to celebrating 25 years.
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One of many great events happening in the next couple of weeks.
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Looking forward to celebrating 25 years!!

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We invite you to join us and the Palestinian Feminist Collective for a two-day virtual symposium honoring Palestinian Political Prisoners. The symposium centers the Palestinian concept and practice of Sumoud. Part I of the symposium (April 29th) will address the historic and contemporary enactment of Sumoud in the Palestinian prisoners’ movement with a special focus on organizing among Palestinian women prisoners. Part II (April 30th) of the symposium features former Palestinian women prisoners who will provide live testimony that details the dehumanization of the Zionist settler-colonial and carceral structure and the various ways sumoud animated their resistance, resilience, and survival.

Celebrating Indigenous People’s Day 30 Years After the 1992 International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nations In honor of Indigenous People’s Day, we want to highlight some items from our 1992 Tribunal Collection and acknowledge the 30th anniversary of the International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nations, held in San Francisco from October 2-4, 1992. Initiated by the American Indian Mov

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Very appreciative of all our wonderful interns and their commitment to engaging radical history.
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Substantiating the Role of Resistance Hello! My name is Mara Halpern. I’m a sophomore at Scripps College, and one of the interns at the Freedom Archives this summer. I came into the internship looking to get a sense of the archival field, and to contextualize my academic studies with history of people’s movements. After learning

Salah Hammouri is a French-Palestinian, lawyer, human rights defender, and political prisoner who has become synonymous with the Palestinian struggle for justice in Jerusalem. Israeli Occupation forces arbitrarily arrested Salah Hamouri on March 7, 2022, again and placed in administrative detention. Salah already spent more than seven years as a political prisoner in Israeli jails in previous arrests over the past 15 years. Visit https://justiceforsalah.net/ to take action.

Release Palestinian Lawyer Salah Hammouri End the occupying state of Israel’s harassment of Palestinian lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hammouri and raise awareness about the systematic and brutal policies against the Palestinian people.

Our comrades at Making Contact are looking for an executive director. Check out the link below to learn more and apply - https://www.radioproject.org/get-involved/jobs/

Jobs - Making Contact Radio Making Contact is hiring! Open positions Executive Director (full time) Producer (half time, 2 positions open) About Us Making Contact is a non-profit media organization that produces an award-winning, public radio program heard on over 151 radio stations, and via podcast, SoundCloud, and more. Maki...

Haitian Voices of Resistance on Saturday, April 30th 11 AM Pacific Time/ 2PM Eastern Time. REGISTER HERE:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KzhlBEmGQKu82l7fNPD_Bw
Endorsers: Advancing the Research, Africans Deserve Reparations, Africa Today/KPFA, All African People's Revolutionary Party, African Children's Advanced Learning Center, ANSWER Coalition-SF Bay Area, Anti Police-Terror Project, Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), Avotcja KPOO, BAYAN-USA, Bay Area Youth Arts, Black Cultural Zone, California Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, Caminante Cultural Foundation, Center for Political Education, Chiapas Support Committee, Code Pink, Communist Workers League, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Ecumenical Peace Institute, End Solitary Santa Cruz County, Flashpoints/KPFA, Four Nations, Freedom Archives, Global Exchange, Global Women's Strike, Hard Knock Radio/KPFA, International Action Center, John George Democratic Club, Justice Vanguard, Kemet Foundation, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Mandela Grocery Co-Op, Marcus Books, Massachusetts Peace Action, National Lawyers Guild - International Committee, National Lawyers Guild-SF, New Afrikan People's Organization (NAPO), NorCal TPS Coalition, Oscar Romero and Simone Weil Catholic Worker House - Hayward, Pan Afrikan People's Organization, PayDay Men's Network, Peace & Freedom Party of Santa Cruz County, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, People’s Eye Photography, People's Alliance Bay Area, Priority Africa Network, San Francisco Bay View, San Francisco Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, Sojourner Truth - Pacifica Radio, Task Force on the Americas, Venceremos Brigade - Bay Area, Venceremos Brigade - National, Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) East Bay, CA Branch; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) San Francisco, CA Branch; Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF) Santa Cruz, CA Branch; Women of Color in the Global Women's Strike, Workers World Party

Join us this upcoming Sunday for another 🔥 event from Art Against Imprisonment

“Palestinians of 1948 are planted in their lands as the olive trees and refuse to allow others to steal their land.” - Amer Qawasmi, et al.

This embroidered art piece was made by several Palestinian prisoners in Askalan prison on the occasion of Land Day in 1996.

Today marks Land Day, a commemoration of Palestinian resistance to land theft and violent expulsion. Today we remember the martyrs and prisoners who have paid the ultimate price in the struggle for freedom. Today we uplift the connection to land and life that has been safeguarded by the Palestinians despite over seven decades of brutal occupation and colonization.

On this day in 1976, six Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces while participating in protests to resist the Israeli government’s plan to steal 7,000 acres of land in the Galilee. In response, Palestinians rose up in protest across all of historic Palestine. Today Palestinians continue to struggle against imprisonment, expulsion, and land theft for freedom, liberation, and justice.

Visit the link in our bio to view more art resisting the dehumanizing and brutalizing carceral systems from Palestine to the US. There are also opportunities to take action.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! TONIGHT—Thursday March 17, join 100 Years From Mississippi for the first of our 2 SF Bay Area events at 7:30pm at Berkeley's Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, with a post-show Q&A with filmmaker Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, moderated by Song For Cesar filmmaker Andres Alegria. Tickets at: bit.ly/ElmwdMar17

On Sunday March 20, we're at SF's Roxie Theater, where Tarabu will be joined by Exec. Producer Barry Shabaka Henley for a Q&A moderated by Claude Marks and co-sponsored by Freedom Archives—tix at: bit.ly/100YFMRoxieSF
*Please note that Covid precautions are in effect at both theaters!*

Freedom Archives is co-sponsoring this amazing film! Join us March 20th!!

We left our heart in San Francisco, but we're coming SUN. MAR. 20—join us for a 2pm live screening of , followed by in-person Q&A with writer/director Tarabu Betserai Kirkland and Exec. Producer Barry Shabaka Henley at SF's Roxie Theater . This special event is co-sponsored by Claude Marks and Freedom Archives.
More info and tickets at: bit.ly/100YFMRoxieSF