WJCT (Jacksonville, FL), “Co-Op Cafe Expands As Counter-Culture Hub In Downtown Jacksonville”
Info shops sprang up in the 1990s, often with counter-culture or anarchist tilts. Friar said Coniferous Cafe doesn’t adhere to one political philosophy, but rather aims to be a conduit to thinking outside the mainstream partisan divide. Continue Reading
Riverfront Times, “Chavisa Woods’ Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country Leads Readers Deep into Rural America”
Woods was also an early resident of C.A.M.P., a south city anarchist collective still in existence today. Even then she was already seriously pursuing writing, choosing to work part-time whenever it was feasible in order to dedicate time and energy to her craft. “That means I have made less money than I could have, and […]
Quartz, “Co-living startups are selling millennials the hippie dream—minus the hard work and revolution”
Individual communities may also grow out of a shared commitment to a given political cause—anarchists working together to participate as little as possible in the mainstream economy, or eco-villages in which single-family homes share a piece of land and a commitment to green living. In other words, they’re doing a lot more intellectual and social […]
City Pages (Minneapolis), “How gospel innovator Kirk Franklin and “Stomp” unexpectedly stormed the pop charts 20 years ago this week”
If gospel choirs and anarchist collectives had anything in common, surely it was bashing the video channel and its skin-drenched paeans to mammon. Credit the groups’ shared evangelical impulse. With these two simple motivational anthems — each had a second verse same as the first — the groups sought unlikely fans outside their normal audiences. […]