RESOURCE HUB FOR BRYN MAWR’S HISTORY OF STUDENT RESISTANCE & PUBLIC ARCHIVES ON BMC STRIKE & Liberation movements
Table of Contents:
Student Organizing 2020 Strike 2024 People's College Community-made Archives Continuing Advocacy
STUDENT ORGANIZING
THE BRYN MAWR STRIKE COLLECTIVE
STILL ACTIVE: THE BLACK STUDENT LIBERATORY COALITION
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Student-Organizing in practice
Bryn Mawr Strike Collective linktr.ee
2020 STRIKE
here find recordings and documents relevant to the organization and archiving of the 2020 strike
Town Hall Chat Transcript Here
Demand Lists
Final Strike Collective Demands
Meeting Notes
Notes from various meetings from 11/5/20-11/19/20
President Cassidy Emails to All-Campus
Emails from Bryn Mawr’s president in 2020 concerning the Strike, from 11/3/20-11/16/20
…and to conclude the strike, the Bryn Mawr Strike Collective released “On Normalcy” as a document to (among much more):
- Acknowledge “BIPOC laborers on this campus throughout the history of the College, from students to faculty and staff”
- Challenge our conceptions of “normal” in “Thoughts from an Afropessimist”
- Archive the reasons for and achievements of organized dissent
On February 22, 2024
the SGA Institutional Memory Committee and The Impact Center collaborated on a Teach-in on the 2020 Strike. This Teach-in had an audience of around 70 students and staff, and was available on Zoom. No transcript could be retrieved from this Teach-in. More information can be found about this Teach-in from this piece by the Bi-Co News.
Interested in Bryn Mawr Teach-ins?
Learn more here
2024 PEOPLE’S COLLEGE FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE (PCLP)
On April 15, 2024, the ’24 SGA President ended her term with an announcement concerning the voting results of the Spring 2024 Plenary. With over 60% of the student body casting their ballots,
Resolution #11: Calling for an Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza (89.7 / 4 / 6.3)
Resolution #12: The Development of an SGA Ethical Spending Committee (77.4 / 9.3 / 13.3)
passed with 89.7% YES and 77.4% YES, respectively. Because this decision depicted an overwhelmingly large population of the college concerned for the humanitarian catastrophe in Palestine, we feel the need to archive this year-long (and counting) movement at Bryn Mawr to represent the voice and power of the people, even as it is happening.
The Bi-Co News, a primary source of student coverage on the PCLP, is an excellent source to monitor the on-going student resistance movement at Bryn Mawr and Haverford. Earliest mentions of Pro-Palestine protesting can be found on November 7, 2023, and over 50 (and counting) pieces have been written to document the PCLP (and earlier actions on campus) since.
More Coming Soon!
COMMUNITY-MADE ARCHIVES
Educational Resource: Interactive Timeline
Access additional resources for citations included in the timeline
CONTINUING HISTORY
BRYN MAWR HISTORY: THE SILENCING OF BIPOC VOICES
WHO BUILT BRYN MAWR?
Explore further with “WHY BUILD BRYN MAWR”
CONTINUING ADVOCACY
Template Resources
shareable BMC Strike Resources
Working & active orgs for student advocacy
black student liberatory coalition
Student Advocacy Archiving: To be continued
-Further archives on the 2024 People's College for the Liberation of Palestine -Guide to research BMC Student Resistance -Further transcribing of 2020 Strike recordings