The Invisible Histories Project (InvisibleHistory.org) seeks volunteers to help to create a list of closed, closing, and at-risk of closure DEIA offices, programs, and centers across the US. From their social media and call:
The volunteers will work for the next three months to manually download two year’s worth of data (per volunteer) from DEIA offices that are closing, in order to save what remains of their work
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This list will be kept internal as we try to locate potential collections. The list of closed centers/programs may be shared publicly at a later time if safe and necessary to do so, but the list of closing or at-risk of closure will not be as we do not with to give out a map of potential targets.
After we have established a list, we will be recruting volunteers to pull any existing images, flyers, and documents from social media so that we might save whatever still exists. Stay tuned for that call if interested.
This data rescue effort is in response to recent executive order on “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs.”
Sign-up at https://bit.ly/DEIAclose. Note that the deadline has been extended.
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