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Category: Organizing

Posted on April 26, 2021April 30, 2021

Remembering the Spirit of the Bandung Conference

On April 18-24, 1955, delegates from 29 nations from Asia and Africa came together in Bandung, Indonesia for the Konferensi Asia-Afrika. This conference was a gathering of independent nations to discuss issues of sovereignty, racism and colonialism, and became known …

Posted on April 15, 2021April 19, 2021

Affirming Resistance Left to the Footnotes

I’ll be honest. As I’ve learned more about the research some of my CR cohort colleagues are up to, I’ve sometimes felt that my research topic is a little light on significance. Fellows are researching the history of abolitionism in …

Posted on February 2, 2021February 17, 2021

Both the Researcher & the Archive

Both the researcher
and the archive.
Webs of innanets,
your conversations
meditations and memories too
are essential to the accuracy
of historical accounts.

You are a better source of information than you might allow yourself to be.



I was in …

Posted on January 27, 2021February 17, 2021

Farming while Southeast Asian

What does it mean to Farm as descendants of a displaced Southeast Asian diaspora? What would a growing guide that captures our community’s stories of land look like that can be a time capsule of self–determination skills for …

Posted on October 1, 2020October 28, 2020

Research Revelations Episode 11.0 – Caring for Community while Telling the Story of Now – Part 1

Back in April, the coronavirus was the stop story because of how it was affecting folks far from the White House, and I was thinking about how the pandemic might be affecting organizers and their priorities. Would documenting the current …

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The thirty-five member libraries and archives of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) collect, care for, and share with a world-wide audience collections that comprise an internationally important body of unique materials for students, scholars and lifelong learners at any level.

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Implementation of Chronicling Resistance at the Free Library of Philadelphia is made possible by a generous grant from the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation.

Support for the research and development of “Chronicling Resistance” was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and continues to support the ongoing programming and exhibitions of the project.

Funding for the Research Revelations podcast was provided by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

The thirty-five member libraries and archives of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) collect, care for, and share with a world-wide audience collections that comprise an internationally important body of unique materials for students, scholars and lifelong learners at any level.

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