Help Support the Free Society Mobile Library!
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I am an educator, organizer, and writer building a radical community library in Portland, Oregon. I have spent the last 15 years as a scholar of 20th-century Black history and revolutionary social movements, and I am currently an organizer with Study and Struggle, an abolitionist collective concentrated in Mississippi that organizes through mutual aid and political education across prison walls.
The Free Society People's Library will begin as a mobile library, offering accessible revolutionary literature to people in our communities. Eventually, I hope the FSPL will grow into a brick-and-mortar community space that offers opportunities for political education, communal study, organizations to meet, and a community archive that chronicles, preserves, and shares histories of local struggle.
I recently purchased a 1969 Chevy step-van, which will be equipped with bookshelves, flooring, and other library coziness this coming summer and fall. The Free Society's collection currently holds about 250 books with a goal of reaching 1,200 by the end of 2023.
This fundraiser will support a few of the following crucial needs:
- Materials and equipment for outfitting the van (assembling and installing bookshelves, flooring, etc.)
- Mechanical repairs and van upkeep
- Van stenciling and any exterior artwork
- Library infrastructure (ie. protective book covers, barcode scanner, barcode labels, etc.)
- Book club subscriptions to radical presses such as AK, PM, Verso, Haymarket, Pluto, and others
- Stocking mutual aid packs and other survival supplies for patrons
- Books, zines, stickers and other materials!
Thank you for sharing and/or contributing, and to those who have asked how they could support this effort!
If you'd like to donate books or have questions about other ways to support, please contact me at [email redacted] [dot] com
With love and gratitude,
Garrett
Organizer
Garrett Felber
Organizer
Portland, OR