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<p>Here's an example from a couple years ago in NYC -- the NYPD was required, through a court decision, to preserve their records of surveilling the Young Lords. And then....well, you can read about it. There was also an interview on Democracy Now & plenty
of other news articles, as well as the book that was the original impetus to find the records. (FTR, I'm acquainted, through political work, with the lawyer who made the NYPD find the records, as well as the writer of both articles below.)</p>
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<p><a href="https://gothamist.com/news/remember-the-young-lords-neither-does-the-nypd-which-is-odd" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk776214">https://gothamist.com/news/remember-the-young-lords-neither-does-the-nypd-which-is-odd</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://gothamist.com/news/remember-the-young-lords-neither-does-the-nypd-which-is-odd" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk776214"></a><a href="https://www.villagevoice.com/2016/06/16/under-media-spotlight-city-locates-missing-records-of-nypd-political-meddling/" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk860701">https://www.villagevoice.com/2016/06/16/under-media-spotlight-city-locates-missing-records-of-nypd-political-meddling/</a>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> themaintainers-bounces@lists.stevens.edu <themaintainers-bounces@lists.stevens.edu> on behalf of Irish, Sharon Lee <slirish@illinois.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 11, 2020 5:34:15 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Themaintainers] invitation to engage: Race and Maintenance</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Dear colleagues,<br>
I have been in a number of Zoom meetings about policing during the last week, and the Maintainers' "invitation to engage" has prompted me to wonder about mechanisms that have been created in response to _lack of maintenance_ of information about policing. In
other words, if data is not collected or maintained, then we remain even more ignorant or in denial about the scope of the problem.
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<br>
Specifically journalist Brian Burghart (whom I do not know) in 2012 created fatalencounters.org as a way "toward creating an impartial, comprehensive, and searchable national database of people killed during interactions with law enforcement." This data is
not maintained by government or other entities, as far as I understand it, and it is hard to obtain, and even harder to maintain, especially given trolls' efforts to intervene. I have been very minimally involved with his huge effort by occasionally recruiting
volunteers for data entry.<br>
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Burghart's website provides information about his impetus to start this project, his collaborations and uneven support for his work. I imagine there are similar efforts out there to track other state actions that some would prefer to remain undocumented. In
this essay, Burghart noted in 2014 "the most heinous thing I’ve learned in my two years compiling Fatal Encounters: You know who dies in the most population-dense areas? Black men. You know who dies in the least population dense areas? Mentally ill men. It’s
not to say there aren’t dangerous and desperate criminals killed across the line. But African-Americans and the mentally ill people make up a huge percentage of people killed by police."<br>
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I am way outside of my research areas, so perhaps there is ample attention to this already, but I am interested in this DIY approach to tracking state violence, which also means maintaining documentation about it for others to consult.<br>
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Also, big congratulations to Jess, Lee,+ Andy on the Sloan Foundation grant!<br>
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Sharon Irish<br>
Research Affiliate<br>
School of Information Sciences<br>
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<br>
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Message: 1<br>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 16:22:55 -0500<br>
From: Jessica Meyerson <jmeyerson@themaintainers.org><br>
To: themaintainers@lists.stevens.edu<br>
Subject: [Themaintainers] Community Message and Invitation to Engage:<br>
Race and Maintenance<br>
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Fellow Maintainers,<br>
<br>
<br>
Like many of you, we have been watching the events of the past few weeks<br>
with sadness, trepidation, but also hope. We see people suffering right now<br>
because of deep-seated racism that results in inequities and violence; we<br>
also find hope in the incredible protests and movement to build a more just<br>
and equitable society.<br>
<br>
Racial inequity is a critical consideration in discussions of maintenance,<br>
maintainers, and infrastructure. We know - and data makes clear - that<br>
Black people in the United States are disproportionately affected both in<br>
terms of being maintainers (people of color hold a larger number of<br>
essential, front-line jobs during the pandemic1<br>
<<a href="https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/color-and-gender-covid-19-essential-workers-not-disposable-people">https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/color-and-gender-covid-19-essential-workers-not-disposable-people</a>>,<br>
2<br>
<<a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/01/texas-coronavirus-frontline-workers/">https://www.texastribune.org/2020/05/01/texas-coronavirus-frontline-workers/</a>>,<br>
3<br>
<<a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kadiagoba/coronavirus-new-york-brooklyn-essential-workers-black-poc">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kadiagoba/coronavirus-new-york-brooklyn-essential-workers-black-poc</a>>,<br>
4<br>
<<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Business/heroes-hostages-communities-color-bear-burden-essential-work/story?id=70662472">https://abcnews.go.com/Business/heroes-hostages-communities-color-bear-burden-essential-work/story?id=70662472</a>>,<br>
5<br>
<<a href="https://sff.org/bay-areas-essential-workers-are-disproportionately-people-of-color-women-and-immigrants-new-study-finds/">https://sff.org/bay-areas-essential-workers-are-disproportionately-people-of-color-women-and-immigrants-new-study-finds/</a>>,<br>
6<br>
<<a href="http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/most-bay-area-essential-workers-are-people-of-color-women-immigrants">http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/most-bay-area-essential-workers-are-people-of-color-women-immigrants</a>><br>
and often receive lower compensation for the same hours worked1<br>
<<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_wage_gap_in_the_United_States">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_wage_gap_in_the_United_States</a>>,2<br>
<<a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/news/2019/08/22/473775/racism-sexism-combine-shortchange-working-black-women/">https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/news/2019/08/22/473775/racism-sexism-combine-shortchange-working-black-women/</a>><br>
,3<br>
<<a href="https://www.epi.org/blog/black-white-wage-gaps-are-worse-today-than-in-2000/">https://www.epi.org/blog/black-white-wage-gaps-are-worse-today-than-in-2000/</a>><br>
,) and regular maintenance (crumbling infrastructure is most often found in<br>
communities of color1<br>
<<a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2016/04/25/136361/5-things-to-know-about-communities-of-color-and-environmental-justice/">https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2016/04/25/136361/5-things-to-know-about-communities-of-color-and-environmental-justice/</a>><br>
,2<br>
<<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/feb/21/roads-nowhere-infrastructure-american-inequality">https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/feb/21/roads-nowhere-infrastructure-american-inequality</a>><br>
,3<br>
<<a href="https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/any-federal-infrastructure-package-should-boost-investment-in-low-income">https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/any-federal-infrastructure-package-should-boost-investment-in-low-income</a>><br>
,4<br>
<<a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/08/28/to-build-safe-streets-we-need-to-address-racism-in-urban-design/">https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/08/28/to-build-safe-streets-we-need-to-address-racism-in-urban-design/</a>><br>
,).<br>
<br>
With members of this community, we earlier articulated our Maintainers<br>
values <<a href="http://themaintainers.org/about-us">http://themaintainers.org/about-us</a>> of Care, Research, and<br>
Capacity. Under Care: ?Our community is dedicated to recognizing these<br>
crucial individuals who keep society?s systems running. We seek to identify<br>
and confront the issues that prevent maintainers from flourishing as<br>
individuals, in collectives, and in their varied occupational roles.?<br>
<br>
Grounding ourselves in these values, we want to invite a discussion on the<br>
list that will inform our activities moving forward. Some prompts for this<br>
discussion might include:<br>
<br>
<br>
-<br>
<br>
What questions should we all be asking and discussing about the<br>
relationship between race and maintenance?<br>
-<br>
<br>
Where have you already seen this connection being made (projects,<br>
community-based work, scholarship)? Examples that we enjoy include books<br>
such as Venus Green?s Race on the Line<br>
<<a href="https://www.booksandcranniesva.com/book/9780822325734">https://www.booksandcranniesva.com/book/9780822325734</a>>, Ruha<br>
Benjamin?s Race<br>
After Technology<br>
<<a href="https://blackpearlbookstore.com/?q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&alt_filter=1">https://blackpearlbookstore.com/?q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&alt_filter=1</a>>,<br>
and Meredith Broussard?s Artificial Unintelligence<br>
<<a href="https://www.thedockbookshop.com/book/9780262537018">https://www.thedockbookshop.com/book/9780262537018</a>>, to name a few, as<br>
well as papers at Maintainers conferences--such as Renee Blackburn?s<br>
paper on busing<br>
<<a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a8e2fca12f446482d67a7a/t/5703d6be356fb0cea95a32db/1459869374305/Maintainers+RMB+2016.pdf">https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a8e2fca12f446482d67a7a/t/5703d6be356fb0cea95a32db/1459869374305/Maintainers+RMB+2016.pdf</a>><br>
and Nancy Anderson?s paper on apartheid<br>
<<a href="http://themaintainers.org/s/MAINTAINING_DESTROYING-APARTHEID-79es.docx">http://themaintainers.org/s/MAINTAINING_DESTROYING-APARTHEID-79es.docx</a>>.<br>
-<br>
<br>
What forms or formats would be helpful for highlighting existing work,<br>
or encouraging/supporting new work on race and maintenance (e.g.,<br>
commissioned essays or other creative works, virtual roundtables, financial<br>
support for ongoing projects)?<br>
<br>
<br>
Based on our own research, and resulting discussion on the list, we commit<br>
to reparative work, monetarily and otherwise, that explores the<br>
relationship between race and maintenance. As Robin D. G. Kelly and others<br>
teach us, we believe this work should acknowledge both the pain currently<br>
and historically felt as well as ?shared knowledge, joy, and humor? (Robin<br>
D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams<br>
<<a href="https://www.booksandcranniesva.com/book/9780807009772">https://www.booksandcranniesva.com/book/9780807009772</a>>).<br>
<br>
<br>
Thank you all so much.<br>
<br>
<br>
Yours in Maintenance,<br>
<br>
Jessica, Lee, Andy<br>
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