Current and Ongoing

Some Ongoing Projects

1. Comprehensive SIP online archive: We are working with Professor Charles Venator Santiago of the University of Connecticut on several projects which will culminate in a carefully-curated, comprehensive, online public SIP archive. Working with professional archivists, we are digitizing documents related to SIP from El Centro de Documentación Obrera Santiago Iglesias Pantín (CDOSIP) and other collections. The digitization of 47 microfilms containing approximately 70,000 documents and comprising approximately 500,000 pages is nearly complete. In addition, we are conducting oral histories to preserve memories of SIP and related topics. And, we are creating a SIP bibliography that we will co-publish and update annually.

2. Developing relationships and partnerships with SIP-named schools: We are raising funds to develop a computer lab/podcast studio (click to read our grant proposal) with our partner Escuela Superior Santiago Iglesias in Ceiba. We are finalizing a Memorandum of Understanding with Escuela Santiago Iglesias in San Juan  which will include IFF sponsoring the Montessori certification of two teachers who will create SIP-related materials that IFF can share with other schools. We are newly engaged in partnership with Colegio Santiago Iglesias Pantín, a preschool in San Juan, to support its educational program.

3. With the University of Connecticut, we launched a massive endeavor to translate both volumes of SIP's autobiography, Luchas Emancipadoras. We will republish them as eBooks in English and Spanish. Starting with an initial draft of both volumes created by a machine translation, we’re now conducting a careful multi-level human translation of each word. We’ll add scholarly introductions, useful annotations to place people, places and events in their historical context, and a helpful index.

4. Quarterly newsletters.

5. 2nd annual essay contest at SIP high school in Ceiba, Puerto Rico.

6. Computer lab/media/podcast studio at SIP high school.

7. SIP mural with SIP elementary in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

8. Republishing and translation of SIP’s two-volume autobiography Luchas Emancipadoras.

9. Producing a documentary video about SIP.

10. Outreach to scholars, labor unions, and others to create additional partnerships.

We have many other future projects in mind which we will be happy to work on with you. Please subscribe to our emails!