The Freedom Socialist newspaper, 1977, 1981-1983

The Meryl and Manny Sunshine papers, 1950-2002, undated, comprise convention and conference materials, leaflets, discussion bulletins, minutes, reports, memoranda, press releases, and subject files related to the activities and statuses of the Freedom Socialist Party, Radical Women, and the Committee for a Revolutionary Socialist Party. Also included are membership documents, election materials, leaflets, photographs, convention documents, minutes, by-laws, platforms, reports, publications, and draft proposals regarding the Peace and Freedom Party, as well as one file regarding the incarceration of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Various subject files concerning political committees, such as the Ad Hoc Committee to Aid Journalists of Principle, the Los Angeles Conference on Revolutionary Regroupment, the Physicians Organizing Committee, and the Bay Area Supporters of the Mark Curtis Defense are present. The collection contains materials from conferences held by political and labor organizations, such as the Coalition of Labor Women and the Committees of Correspondence, as well as the “‘Progressive Politics in a Conservative Era,’ West Coast Conference on Socialism and Activism,” and a Jewish Feminist Conference, among others. Subject files concerning women and employment, as well as international politics and the environment are also present.