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Black Sheep Books, a community space and bookstore in Montpelier, Vermont, offers affordable radical and scholarly books, and hosts educational events on cultural and political topics. As an all-volunteer project, we are operated by a five-member collective hand in hand with a group of dedicated volunteers. Our principle focus is to provide access to anti-authoritarian Left ideas in a way that promotes intellectual debate and challenges today’s hegemonic culture.

We see print media and public talks as necessary for the development of critical consciousness and ultimately social change. Such engagement with the transformative power of ideas connects us to each other, helps us to understand our historical context, and guides us in action. This linking of past to present, theory to practice, is a crucial precondition for the emergence of a free and directly democratic society.

By creating this space in public, we strive to contest the depoliticization and alienation rampant under statist and capitalist social relations. We also aim to generate visibility for identities marginalized by normative values and systems of domination through providing community resources and a welcoming space in the context of our rural location.

Together with horizontalist social movements and political projects, bookstores, infoshops, and publishers, Black Sheep Books works toward an egalitarian, ecological, and nonhierarchical society.

Black Sheep Books is an all-volunteer, collectively run project specializing in radical and scholarly used books.
5 State Street, Montpelier, VT | (802) 225-8906

Food Not Bombs: Organizational Meeting

Thursday, May 14 at 7:00 p.m.

Black Sheep Books, 5 State Street, Montpelier

Food Not Bombs: Organizational Meeting

All welcome! Help organize a Food Not Bombs chapter in central Vermont.

The first Food Not Bombs group was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1980
by antinuclear activists. Food Not Bombs is an all-volunteer organization; it has no formal leaders, and strives to include everyone in its decision-making process. Each group recovers food that would otherwise be thrown out, and makes fresh hot vegan and vegetarian meals that are served in outside in public spaces to anyone without restriction.

Food Not Bombs is one of the fastest-growing revolutionary movements worldwide, with hundreds of autonomous chapters sharing free food with hungry people, while supporting actions to stop the globalization of the economy and oppose capitalism, end restrictions to the movements of people and exploitation in general, and halt the destruction of the earth.

Food Not Bombs works in coalition with groups like Earth First!, the Leonard Peltier Defense
Committee, Anarchist Black Cross, the IWW, Homes Not Jails, Anti-Racist
Action, In Defense of Animals, the Free Radio Movement, and other
organizations on the cutting-edge of positive social change and
resistance to capitalism. Volunteers helped organize and share meals at the 1999 WTO
protests in Seattle, and provided meals to protesters at the Democratic and
Republican National conventions, among other mobilizations globally. Many groups organize Really Really Free Markets, giving away all kinds of items for free, or plant Food
Not Lawns community gardens; others oganize Bikes Not Bombs programs, collecting
and repairing used bicycles to provide to people in  ow-income
communities. And on and on.

We hope you will join us in taking direct action toward
creating a world free from domination, coercion, and violence. Food is a
right, not a privilege.

For more on Food Not Bombs, see http://www.foodnotbombs.net/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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