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ProjectARCC
(Archivists Responding to Climate Change) is preparing for the 4/22
March for Science and the 4/29 People's Climate March, and organizing to
ensure LAM (Libraries, Archives, Museums) representation at both
marches. We're calling this Project mARCCh in
recognition that as professionals charged with the preservation of
cultural heritage, and an abiding commitment to information and
knowledge access, we stand proudly in solidarity with our sisters and
brothers who are at the forefront of information work around climate
change, particularly scientists and journalists.
We're
keeping this pretty simple: if you are a librarian, archivist, or
curator who would like to be a point of contact for an upcoming sister
city march, we'd like to count you as a Project mARCCh
point of contact. Contacts will be expected to serve as a local point
of contact for organizing to increase the visibility and solidarity of
LAM professionals at the 4/22 and 4/29 events. If you volunteer with
Project mARCCh, you will be publicly identified
on our website as the point of contact for your area. If you plan to
remain local, we hope you will recruit other LAM professionals to attend
sister city events. If you plan to come to DC, we will do our best to
all congregate together.
So far, Madison, Cincinnati, Denver, Boulder, Ann Arbor, Boston, and Washington DC are represented in Project mARCCh
efforts. If you would like to join the march as a LAM professional but
not be a point of contact, please use the contacts provided on our map: https://projectarcc.org/project-marcch/