Mission: Freedom archives is dedicated to organizing and preserving a growing collection of archival media. This includes historical audio and video chronicling progressive social movements, poetry, and music for over 30 years. The goal is to preserve, re-master, and catalog all of these materials as a community-based resource. The second main purpose and function of the freedom archives is to provide documentary and primary materials for historians, educators, teachers, media producers, and other scholars and/or documentarians.
Programs: Organizing and preserving the growing collection of archival media found in the freedom archives, providing documentary and primary materials for historians, educators, teachers, media producers, and other scholars and/or documentarians, and training students, diverse community youth, and other interns in media production, historical research, and related skills.
All stars possible! This is an excellent organization, with a dedicated Director and Youth Coordinator. Find out more at www.freedomarchives.org
10 years ago I was one of the founders of the Freedom Archives and since then, in addition to contributing to many of its audio productions (making use of many thousands of hours of unique sound recordings on social movements and cultural currents), I have come in regularly as a volunteer to enter detailed information about radical radio programs produced in the late 60s and 70s (through the mid-90s) into the online database. I am an elder, but most of the volunteers and interns at the Archives are college and high school students.