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The People's History of Fallujah Digital Archive is grassroots effort to create a people's history of Fallujah as an act of reparations. We conceive of grassroots reparations as a broad process of social repair, in which truth telling is an essential first step. We work to gather documentation of the conflict in Fallujah, Iraq, make it available to the public through our digital archive, and collaboratively craft a revisionist account of the sieges of Fallujah that highlights the experiences of the human beings involved in or affected by these events.
Subjects or Themes
Iraq War 2003 - 2011, Fallujah (Iraq)--History, Veterans, War, Refugees, Propaganda, Military History,
Project Language(s)
English
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Content Type
Oral history, reports, documents, images
Target Audience(s)
Creators
Ross Caputi is the curator and creator of A People's History of Fallujah Digital Archive. Ross is a former U.S. Marine who fought in the second siege of Fallujah. Today he is a PhD student of history at UMass, a coauthor of The Sacking of Fallujah: A People's History (2019), and a co-founder of the Islah Reparations Project.
Year(s)
2020
Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location
The Islah Reparations Project
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Labor and Support
All of the labor given to this project has been volunteered. We are a zero-overhead organization, meaning that all donations go towards maintaining the website or paying fees associated with collecting and digitizing primary source materials.
Project Cost
Partnerships, funding sources, or grant-funding acknowledgement
All of our funding comes from donations offered as reparations.