Welcome to Basil Al Araj Revolutionary Mobile Library! We are so excited to have you join us, and we are honored to build community with all of you. We exist to share knowledge, resources, and power. We keep us safe, we get us free! Check out the separate pages on this website for more info and ways to get involved!
We are a library for the people, to share and learn with the community. We run on an honor system, founded in the trust we build with those around us.
Just as an introduction to us, we were founded at the end of March 2025. The co-founders, a Queer and Trans Asian American Artist/Librarian/all around rad dude and an anti-Zionist Jewish public school history teacher who had just been forced to resign due to political charges stemming from the pro-Palestine student encampment the previous summer. Both had the wish to study and read with everyone, to build a common revolutionary consciousness, and get organized to fight for liberation!!!
As we continue to grow and collaborate with new people and organizations, we continue to learn and develop. We aim to create a space welcoming to all oppressed and marginalized people, a space to promote and lift up their voices/narratives/praxis. We began in the encampments as an archival and library project to maintain indigenous and pre/anti-colonial knowledge traditions. We maintain that mission as we engage both at the unhoused distros we go to and the collaboration events!
Finally, this space is unequivocally not for Nazis, TERFS, SWERFS, bigots of any kind. We will not shy from our radical language and views, and we will not compromise our values and principles for ‘a big tent’. If we intend our space to be welcoming, build community, and educate, than we have no room for oppressive and fascist ideologies or people. We keep us safe, together! We get ourselves free, together!
