People's Library of Resistance/Biblioteca del pueblo de Resistencia

People’s Library of Resistance/Biblioteca del pueblo de Resistencia (PLR) is a multimedia, multigenre library and repository. It centers on the emerging stories of cultural arts and resistance from the perspectives of prisoners, Native Americans, Chicana/o/x/Latina/o/xs, African Americans, working class, and queer folk of Austin and across the Southwest. It is housed in Red Salmon Arts, both as a physical and digital collection. PLR is part of a growing movement of creating autonomous centers of learning and research, which are free and accessible, and local in their scope. Other exemplars include: Southern California Library in South Los Angeles, the Freedom Archives in San Francisco,  and Interference Archive in Brooklyn, which focus on documenting the struggles and histories of activism and liberation within communities of color and working class people through interviews, photographs, audio, and video.