Harvesting of seals was outlawed in South Africa in 1990.

Other important projects are Balcony with Wind Turbine ( Liverpool, 2004 ), Power from Nature ( Barefoot College, Rajasthan, India, and the Catherine Ferguson Academy, Detroit, Mich., USA, 2005 ), and A Farm in Murcia: Rainwater Harvesting ( Murcia, Spain, 2007 ).

In 1955, the Congress of the People officially adopted the Freedom Charter, stating the core principles of the South African Congress Alliance, which consisted of the African National Congress and its allies the South African Communist Party ( SACP ), the South African Indian Congress, the South African Congress of Democrats ( COD ) and the Coloured People's Congress.

* 1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.

Following the agreement a new African party, the Kenya African National Union ( KANU ), with the slogan " Uhuru ," or " Freedom ," was formed under the leadership of Kikuyu leader James S. Gichuru and labor leader Tom Mboya.

This tool has been used as a weapon: in the Rwandan Genocide ; in South Africa particularly in the 1980s and early 1990s when the former province of Natal was wracked by conflict between the African National Congress and the Zulu-nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party.

The parties originally comprising the GNU – the African National Congress ( ANC ), the National Party ( NP ), and the Inkatha Freedom Party ( IFP ) – shared executive power.

* Mitch Kachun, Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808 – 1915 ( 2003 )

* C. Peter Ripley, Roy E. Finkenbine, Michael F. Hembree, Donald Yacovone, Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation ( 1993 )

* Griffler, Keith P .( 2004 ) Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley.

** In South Africa, Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party agree to end the violence that had plagued relations between the two organizations.

* Thurber, Timothy N. The Politics of Equality: Hubert H. Humphrey and the African American Freedom Struggle.

In 1987 Washington starred as South African anti-apartheid political activist Steven Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

The racial makeup of Freedom was 1, 452 ( 47. 3 %) White, 44 ( 1. 4 %) African American, 31 ( 1. 0 %) Native American, 100 ( 3. 3 %) Asian, 1, 285 ( 41. 9 %) from other races, and 158 ( 5. 1 %) from two or more races.

The museum is dedicated to the African American soldiers that have fought for their country from Buffalo Soldiers to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Forrest County was also a center of activity for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ( MFDP ) which sent a slate of delegates to the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City to challenge the seating of the all-white, pro-segregation delegates elected by the regular party in primaries in which African Americans could not participate.

She is best known to American audiences for her portrayal of South African anti-apartheid activist Wendy Woods in the 1987 film Cry Freedom.

Reagon's work as a scholar and composer is reflected in publications on African American culture and history, including: a collection of essays entitled If You Don ’ t Go, Don ’ t Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition ( University of Nebraska Press, 2001 ); We Who Believe In Freedom: Sweet Honey In The Rock: Still on the Journey, ( Anchor Books, 1993 ); and We'll Understand It Better By And By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers ( Smithsonian Press, 1992 ).

The Freedom Summer relied heavily on college students ; hundreds of students engaged in registering African Americans to vote, teaching in “ Freedom Schools ”, and organizing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

In 2002, fighting Abu Sayyaf became a mission of the American military's Operation Enduring Freedom and part of the U. S. War on Terror .< ref >

This organization produced the first American publication for gays, Friendship and Freedom.

* Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929 – 1945, a Pulitzer-winning history of the era.

" Freedom, Planning, and Totalitarianism: The Reception of F. A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom ", Canadian Review of American Studies

He has also advised the Independent Institute, the American Council on Science and Health, and Frontiers of Freedom.

All Latin American and Caribbean countries except Cuba and Venezuela enjoyed much more economic freedom than Haiti on the Index of Economic Freedom of 2006.

When the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden to US authorities and to disband al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in which teams of American and British special forces worked with commanders of the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban.

Pioneers of American Freedom: Origin of Liberal and Radical Thought in America.

* 1961 – American civil rights movement: The " Freedom Riders " begin a bus trip through the South.

* 1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for " disturbing the peace " after disembarking from their bus.

* 1961 – American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.

Abernathy was also the vice president of the Unification Church-affiliated American Freedom Coalition, and served on boards of directors for two other related organizations.

A Liberty figure adorned most American coins of the time, and representations of Liberty appeared in popular and civic art, including Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom ( 1863 ) atop the dome of the United States Capitol Building.

The next American space station project was Space Station Freedom, which was never completed, although it eventually led to the construction of the US Orbital Segment of the International Space Station, starting in 1998.

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Massoud's United Front troops and United Front troops of Abdul Rashid Dostum ( who returned from exile ) ousted the Taliban from power in Kabul with American air support in Operation Enduring Freedom.

* Alexander Tsesis, The Thirteenth Amendment and American Freedom: A Legal History ( 2004 )

The American base there was called " Camp Stronghold Freedom ," yet was more often referred to as " K2 Airbase " by the personnel in theater.

* May 14 – American civil rights movement: A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.

* May 24 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for " disturbing the peace " after disembarking from their bus.

** American President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act, which goes into effect the following year.

The second manned spacecraft was named Freedom 7, and it performed a sub-orbital spaceflight in 1961 carrying American astronaut Alan Shepard to an altitude of just over.

The Freedom of information act provides American citizenry with a means to read intelligence reports that were mired in error.