— Builds Portable Monuments Against Ignorance
Because we believe histories cannot survive without a purpose, we intend for this archive to foster those values that lead us to enjoy greater equality and freedom in better harmony with the natural world.

To that end the contents of our archive are also becoming a kind of living monument — with index and documentation! — to the histories of achievement and failure that we need to preserve now more than ever.

Why now? Most urgently because the active memory of our recent past protects the advances we enjoy today against the depredations of future — and present! — ignorance. We cannot forget that if waterways and air are cleaner, forestlands better protected, and if we are more free now to wear our hair the way we please without police harassment, it is not because of blind progress but thanks to political struggle.

And as we see today, that struggle is never ending.

To wit, ramped up gutting of environmental protections in early 2020 by the Trump Administration have been carried out with greater ease because enough of the public will accept deliberate lies that distort the past. Imagine if there had been store-front archives of environmental struggle across the land actively re-presenting and advocating for their histories over the last half century?

Facebook Pages, and personal posts are great, but unregulated for-profit social media will always better serve the politics of ignorance than progress. Just try to check back on any of your most enlightened threads from 2016!