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I_UndergroundPanther

(12,452 posts)
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 09:09 PM Apr 2020

Free store concept


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



https://www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit/1101d08142e54133b85b80afc1cf4d6f-baltimore-free-store-baltimore#menu


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?
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I_UndergroundPanther

(12,452 posts)
2. I'm proud of every free store that still stands
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 09:28 PM
Apr 2020

Dispite the capitalist greed and money system that is abusing this world and most the people on it.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,452 posts)
4. Yep,the hippies anarchist punks,and goths on different levels are right
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 12:13 AM
Apr 2020

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)
5. I've gotten even more convinced I want off to one side with the marginals as I've gotten older ...
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 12:22 AM
Apr 2020

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)
6. Yes I lean syndicalist myself.
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 12:32 AM
Apr 2020

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)
7. I started reading about it in the writings of one of Barry Goldwater's speech writers, Karl Hess ...
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 12:42 AM
Apr 2020

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)
8. Libertarians are right-wing idiot fans of Ayn Rand
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 01:04 AM
Apr 2020

Thier social liberty stance breaks down at some point when who pays is brought up .

marble falls

(56,359 posts)
9. It just falls off a cliff. Who pays for the roads etc. They act like they just take over the ...
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 10:05 AM
Apr 2020

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.

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