kensington market

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Word of Mouth

de la bouche a l'oreille

Market Mystery#1:

thanks to a peeling poster pased to the side of a recycling/garbage combo bin on a sweltering smoggy downtown walk

"If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution"*

Bookstores:
following the faded and torn poster's final fading breaths of '6a-----kensington market' initiated the search for a bookstore or infoshop in Kensington market. Unraveling the stories of the cities by teasing at the few threads I know here, I am hoping to finally get to know more than just the storefront facad of the city. I have added more places to plant my feet onto my teasure map of the city, which begins here at Kensington market, and weaves through toronto...as i continue burrowing in through these here city cracks...

Part I:
'Who's Emma?'

A suggested this as one possibility for the unnamed yet intreguing sounding space
What in the market is it?: well, off the capitalist one, for a refreshing start:

an anarchist not-for profit store; "a toronto punk collective[...]open for anti-business" (source: Jim Munroe's Archive http://nomediakings.org/EMMA.htm)
today's research indicates it closed/imploded/disolved in 2000...

Where are the Infoshops ?
(european orig.) (or alternatively 'peace and justice centres' (u.s.ah orig.))
"Infoshops combine a social space, zine archive and library, meeting hall, day care center, concert venue and bookstore into one autonomous space." "infoshop supporters and participants aren't necessarily all anarchists. Infoshops are rooted in the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) ethic-they are created by people who are interested in making the revolutionary process happen, not just sitting around and talking about it. " (source: http://www.practicalanarchy.org/infoshops.html)

*knotting loose ends
In a moment of soundcatchinguptolight post-quotation twist, the original quotee of the poster in the Arlington street comunity abode is also the same Emma referred to in the now extinct book store's name,

namely "Anarcho-Feminist Emma Goldman". (original quotation above)

Leftovers and tabled scraps:
--aka a string of names, thoughts and action-spaces to pursue...
such as...
co-ops : Toronto Women's Book Store (73 Harbord)
not for-profit: Another Story (164 Danforth) and Pages (256 Queen W.)

where did it go?: Anarchist Free Space-Toronto

art and revolution
bioregionalism
Laurentian University Sulphur City Anarchist Collective scac [at] riseup.net

Favourite phrases and brainwaves picked up in this midnight-snack search:
website: http://www.practicalanarchy.org/

--escaping the 'corporate octapus'
--an arguement for consensus based organization
--the idea of lack of consistency...as a positive trait...
--people should be "long term counter institution[s]", mabye.

Mystery#1 solved--full circle:
the book store I've been searching for on Kensington was called UPRISING.
self referred to as 'radical' instead of 'anarchist'...a choice in order to be more accessible to many ideological perspectives/seekers.

hope you enjoyed tonights show...

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