Radical Archives and the New Cycles of Contention

This is a call for better preservation of our historical legacy and guides to organizing for future generations. Like everything else we humans touch, archives are political. At the heart of calls for preserving our past – recent and even further back – is a question of trust. Who are activists going to trust with telling the history of their movements, achievements, and defeats? Who will be able to tell that story if our memories are locked behind a paywall, discarded, or misplaced as the result of a change in ownership of the services we use daily?

Interessanter Text zur Überlieferungssicherung sozialer Bewegungen, v.a. von digitalen Quellen.

Volltext: https://viewpointmag.com/2015/10/31/radical-archives-and-the-new-cycles-of-contention

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