Introduction: Against Oblivion: Community Archives, Building Alliances

This introduction to the seventy-first issue of PUBLIC provides background on the second Global Audio-Visual Archiving conference that serves as the basis for the issue as well as greater context on the critical issues facing local and community-driven archives as governments around the world lean evermore conservative—fiscally and ideologically— and the repercussions threaten to further erase histories already underrepresented and marginalized.