User:Lincoln Bergman/sandbox

TO BE EDITED! STILL IN EARLY DRAFT STAGE. I HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND NEED FOR REFERENCES AND ENCYCLOPEDIC CONTENT AND TONE. I WILL ALSO CLARIFY THAT I AM A VOLUNTEER AT THE ORGANIZATION BUT HAVE NEVER BEEN PAID BY IT.

The Freedom Archives (www.freedomarchives.org) is a non-profit educational organization and media archive founded in 1999, located in San Francisco’s Mission district, that engages in the preservation, classification, dissemination, and contemporary programmatic use of historical audio, video, and documentary materials focusing on progressive and radical movements from the 1960s to the present. There is a youth outreach and training program, with course connections with high schools, colleges, and universities in Northern California and nationwide. The website includes a searchable database of materials found in the Archives (http://www.search.freedomarchives.org/) as well as sound and video files. Some produced programs and audio clips can be downloaded at http://freedomarchives.org/downloads.html

The combined collections include over 12,000 hours of audiotapes, videotapes, and documents. They include a weekly news/ poetry/ music program that was broadcast on community radio stations from 1970–1995 with reports on social and cultural issues; activist voices from social justice movements; original and recorded music, poetry, and sound collages. These programs were named The Midnight Flash, The Real Dragon, Nothing Is More Precious Than, and Freedom Is A Constant Struggle.

The collections and productions also contain many recordings and documents related to the prison movement, prison rebellions, political prisoners, and the movements to free them. There is a large La Raza/Latino/a collection—much of it bilingual or in Spanish. Major segments include the Communicacíon Atzlán Archive, a collection from the early 1970s that includes “Reflecciones de la Raza,” one of Northern California's first bilingual community radio programs broadcast from November 1971–November 1974. Among other large collections are audiotapes about Latino/a movements from independent producer Jesse ‘Chuy’ Varela. In addition, the Archives contains hundreds of programs produced by the late Colin Edwards—a wide range of programs for the BBC, Canadian Broadcasting, Irish Radio, and Pacifica Radio about the civil rights and Black Power movements, the Middle East, Vietnam and interviews with newsmakers and activists. The document collections focus on Black liberation, radical white anti-imperialist publications, and the prison movement.

References

http://www.chuyvarela.com/37.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Edwards_(journalist)

External References

Interview with Claude Marks, Director of Freedom Archives http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/the-freedom-archives-an-interview-with-claude-marks/

Field Trip to the Freedom Archives http://kboo.fm/node/8799

Freedom Archives videos on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/claudemarks49

Article in El Tecolote,Mission district community newspaper http://eltecolote.org/content/freedom-archives-a-place-where-subjugated-histories-thrive/2011/01/26/

Audio Interview: 10 Years of the Freedom Archives http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wandas-picks/2009/11/10/freedom-archives-at-10-years

Discussion of Freedom Archives film, Cointelpro 101 http://angola3news.blogspot.com/2010/09/fbis-war-on-democracy-claude-marks.html

Making Contact: Audio Version of Cointelpro 101 http://www.radioproject.org/2012/09/cointelpro-101-part-one/