D.C. leftists find a below-ground home at bookstore

[Nambe]

By Manny Fernandez ~ The Washington Post (Infoshop News)

It is run by volunteers, and it stocks the shelves with books and magazines for sale, for free and for in-store reading. Many staffers are Washington activists who have moved their defiance from the street to the world of retail. They operate the place as a kind of protest, filling the basement of a complex of renovated rowhouses in Shaw with some of the most incendiary and thought- provoking titles in Washington D.C.

There's William Upski Wimsatt's "Bomb the Suburbs" and Katie Alvord's "Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair With the Automobile." There's a children's book called "The Story of Colors/La Historia de los Colores," by Subcomandante Marcos, leader of the Zapatista rebels in Chiapas, Mexico. On the jacket is a picture of the author in a black ski mask, bandoleers draped across his chest. There are journals and do-it-yourself magazines or 'zines, including Covert Action Quarterly (No. 70, with an article on "Kissinger's brutal history") and a tiny publication called Thomasina (by Chloe Joy, a "radical" said to be 7 years old). ---

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[alfredo]

1. We have a book exchange here

in Kentucky. It is run out of a house, nothing is sold, just passed around. Some good titles go around. A lot of Open Media titles can be found.


I used to have a recumbent. Loved it. It was an old HyperCycle. It was crude, but it was fast as greased lightening. Hoping to find another sitback bike sometime soon.

[RainDog]

2. I work at a bookstore

which is on the townsquare. we carry covert quarterly, anarchist journal...and Newsmax and Insight on the News (Wash.Times).

The store has been there for 60 years.

If you want stores like this, you have to shop at them and request mags.

Hint- they're easier to find when you're not in the suburbs and when you have a good university nearby.

[veganwitch]

3. they also have hotties working there!!

i bought a book of essays on anarcha-feminism. we need to go back, as soon as i finish my currently supply of books.

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. We have one of these in Chicago.

It's called the New World Resource Center. It's the Energizer Bunny of leftist bookshops--its moves from place to place, but it's been around for a long time.