Comments on: Anarchist Craft Stores? http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/12/anarchist-craft-stores/ anarchism, travel, music, and book design Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:01:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daniel http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/12/anarchist-craft-stores/#comment-972 Daniel Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:46:31 +0000 http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/?p=296#comment-972 I know exactly what you mean. I found this pretty cool website that relates to Anarchy...its www.anarchistcrafts.blogspot.com I know exactly what you mean. I found this pretty cool website that relates to Anarchy…its http://www.anarchistcrafts.blogspot.com

]]> By: bt http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/12/anarchist-craft-stores/#comment-726 bt Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:01:45 +0000 http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/?p=296#comment-726 Just saw <a href="http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20090101195837585" rel="nofollow">this</a> on Infoshop. <cite>[1-2-3 Community Space in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn has] many resources available (also free or cheap), including a screenprinting and photo development studio, access to welding, power tools, art supplies, a library, kitchen, and open meeting and activity space.</cite> Just saw this on Infoshop.

[1-2-3 Community Space in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn has] many resources available (also free or cheap), including a screenprinting and photo development studio, access to welding, power tools, art supplies, a library, kitchen, and open meeting and activity space.

]]> By: Kate http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/12/anarchist-craft-stores/#comment-691 Kate Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:53:19 +0000 http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/?p=296#comment-691 There is the Blauwe Duim (The Blue Thumb) in Amsterdam - not quite the same thing, but a place where one can rent tools and find various other hardware-ish types of things and, if you're lucky, get some advice on how to do whatever it is you're trying to do. Run collectively, some volunteers, some paid staff, I think. Grew out of the squatting community some 25 odd years ago. It feels a lot like a neighborhood hardware store, and the folks who work there really see it as a kind of DIY activism in and of itself. There is the Blauwe Duim (The Blue Thumb) in Amsterdam – not quite the same thing, but a place where one can rent tools and find various other hardware-ish types of things and, if you’re lucky, get some advice on how to do whatever it is you’re trying to do. Run collectively, some volunteers, some paid staff, I think. Grew out of the squatting community some 25 odd years ago. It feels a lot like a neighborhood hardware store, and the folks who work there really see it as a kind of DIY activism in and of itself.

]]> By: Prof. Offlogic http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/12/anarchist-craft-stores/#comment-671 Prof. Offlogic Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:44:09 +0000 http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/?p=296#comment-671 Hmmm, "Anarchtica"? Iz a good idea, komrade. There used to be a couple of businesses in town here, co-op shade-tree mechanic and woodworking shops with pooled-tools (like everyone can afford a plasma cutter?). They lasted a while, but maybe they didn't do it so right, or maybe it was the weirdness of the Reagan years? T-town once had a whole food co-op ($10 a month for a buttload of fresh whole foods). That died, but some of the same folks went on to start "The Middle Path Cafe", worker-owned, with some of the best food in town (I'd kill for their potato toddy bread, 20 years later). It was waaay hippy and I loved it. The electronic maker community has a few resources like www.sparkfun.com (established by some EE students that managed to keep it up after graduation), and they offer some pretty cool "toys", but a maker-doer anarcho-flea-market of goods, services and information under one roof would be a fun experiment (he said thinking about this vacant former Safeway down the street, right downtown). I may have to leaflet, see if there's any local interest in such a venture. What's to lose? Hmmm, “Anarchtica”?

Iz a good idea, komrade.

There used to be a couple of businesses in town here, co-op shade-tree mechanic and woodworking shops with pooled-tools (like everyone can afford a plasma cutter?). They lasted a while, but maybe they didn’t do it so right, or maybe it was the weirdness of the Reagan years?

T-town once had a whole food co-op ($10 a month for a buttload of fresh whole foods). That died, but some of the same folks went on to start “The Middle Path Cafe”, worker-owned, with some of the best food in town (I’d kill for their potato toddy bread, 20 years later).
It was waaay hippy and I loved it.

The electronic maker community has a few resources like http://www.sparkfun.com (established by some EE students that managed to keep it up after graduation), and they offer some pretty cool “toys”, but a maker-doer anarcho-flea-market of goods, services and information under one roof would be a fun experiment (he said thinking about this vacant former Safeway down the street, right downtown).

I may have to leaflet, see if there’s any local interest in such a venture. What’s to lose?

]]> By: David S Dowling http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/2008/12/anarchist-craft-stores/#comment-667 David S Dowling Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:07:51 +0000 http://www.birdsbeforethestorm.net/?p=296#comment-667 Word. Word.

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