Making Worlds Bookstore and Social Center

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Making Worlds is a worker cooperative nonprofit bookstore and social center that promotes collective knowledge, skills, and visions of liberation from local communities. By distributing literature and other resources, as well as fostering a vibrant cultural programming space, the organization aims to strengthen neighborhood and Philadelphia grassroots organizing for people to care and support each other and make worlds of liberation possible. Through diverse political and cultural education initiatives, Making Worlds promotes learning from one other and the intersecting histories and futures of community organizing and movement building of Indigenous, Black, and Brown people and others resisting oppression worldwide.

Grantee type
Organization

Grants Awarded to Making Worlds Bookstore and Social Center

$70,000 - Awarded August 2021

Focus areas
Movement Media
Description

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support building community narrative power rooted in a cooperative nonprofit community bookstore and social center movement space. This project will feature an open access library, archive, and reading room; a year-long oral history and lecture series around Philadelphia's Black Radical Tradition; political education around media systems and community media literacies around policing, housing, education, care, and food issues; and community-based media content creation licensed under creative commons for community use.

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