Bay Area Action History Project — Goal #1

Goal #1: Digitize and organize the BAA Archives

Ensure Bay Area Action’s legacy is archived on the Internet. This way scholars, journalists, and the general public have access to newsletters, photos, videos, events, accomplishments, etc., that otherwise will be lost.

Details

• Key BAA founders and volunteers have contributed their personal archives and their assistance.

• We have compiled over 10,000 photos and scanned over 2,000 documents so far.

• We’re scanning, organizing, and tagging on a weekly basis.

• We’re building a website with deep filtering and contextual cross-references.

• Newsletter articles, list of species, photo galleries, modern interviews with people, and much more will go online.

Why?

Since Bay Area Action (BAA) operated from 1990–2001, most of what we did was never put on the internet. The web only began achieving wider use in 1994, and while BAA was an early pioneer on the web, those BAA websites have been gone for decades.

As a result, the global memory — the internet — has largely forgotten BAA. Today, do a Google search or ask ChatGPT about BAA, and you get very little info.

The historical record is missing big pieces of the environmental movement of the 1990s that were largely pre-digital. Historians, journalists, researchers, and scholars should have access to the history of BAA and its many accomplishments, and presently they do not.

The 3 project goals/fundraisers:

1. Digitize and organize the BAA Archives
2. Find a permanent home for the BAA Archives
3. Tell people's stories

Read more at our website:  https://bayareaaction.org/

Media Alliance is the fiscal sponsor of this project. Donations go to Media Alliance and are then distributed to the BAA History Project less a 9.5% administrative fee. Media Alliance is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit; EIN #94-2563400.