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ORGANIZATION
Baltimore Free Store
Baltimore, MD | http://www.baltimorefreestore.org
About Us
The Baltimore Free Store collects donated and salvaged items and provides them to people for free. We hold one day temporary Free Markets every other week in different locations throughout Baltimore City. We target low-income neighborhoods but do not require one be low income to take items.
We do this as a way to highlight the amount of waste created by a consumerist driven society, to promote recycling and reuse, to help alleviate the traumas of poverty, and to involve communities in working together to meet their needs. Our goal is to demonstrate an alternative model of relating to neighbors and commodities, a way of life not driven by profit and ownership
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When the social contract becomes invalid due to political abuse of power ,corporate CEO greed
It's time to change the system and break out. It has been invalidated over and over. When is it time to say enough?
marble falls
(56,359 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,452 posts)Dispite the capitalist greed and money system that is abusing this world and most the people on it.
marble falls
(56,359 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,452 posts)And I am damn proud. When I was a kid I grew up on Abbie Hoffman steal this book and revolution for the hell of it were required reading in my house. Lifelong hippies even though I was a punk when I was a teen. I'm 54 and still wear my mowhawk.dammit.
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marble falls
(56,359 posts)Syndicalism has gotten less theoretical and more a viable system for me. I try to work it in as much as I can into my life. The trick is to tie in with a large enough group of individuals so as to be viable as a group.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,452 posts)There's a decent anarchist community in Baltimore can find them at Red Emma's coffee shop.
I haven't been to Baltimore in several years, I hope Red Emma's is still there.
marble falls
(56,359 posts)in '64 - '65. I started reading Hegel and Mikhail Bakunin after that. Akron U had one 'Left' Hegelian philosophy prof in a department full of Roman Catholic 'Right' Hegelians.
Good bit on Hess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Hess
I think Wiki plays up the Librarian crap too much. I found Libertarians to be mostly Republicans who wanted to smoke pot and consort with sex workers legally rather than seriously politically swayed. And Hess did, too.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,452 posts)Thier social liberty stance breaks down at some point when who pays is brought up .
marble falls
(56,359 posts)franchise of the system and then go fishing. And the Ayn Rand-ers? They are true classists. They want to let serfs do all the heavy lifting while the supermen get to debate politely over cocktails and wienies on toothpicks.