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Elm City Infoshop

www.elmcityinfoshop.org

About Me

The Elm City Infoshop is a not for profit, collectively run space. We deal with practically no money whatsoever, except occasional donations to the Neverending bookstore, who let us use their space. It is a place to exchange ideas about the community and the world: and to come up with plans of action that coincide. We hold film screenings, art gallery shows, history exhibits, small music shows, and workshops and also provide a meeting place for local activist groups here in New Haven. The space also acts as a radical lending library with ongoing art/history exhibits[currently not up], open every Thursday from 5pm-9pm and Friday from 2pm-7pm.We are non-exclusive and welcome feedback and participation from all members of the community.To get involved, request more information, or to contact the infoshop , please stop by at 810 State St in New Haven (b/w Margaret's Polish Deli and D'alfonso's, inside Never Ending Books) or e-mail us [email protected] State St.New Haven, CT(inside Neverending Books, the incredible for-donation book store who's letting us use their space)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

... Everyone who's fed up with injustice and oppression and is looking for a starting point for resistance.... Those already engaged in struggle, to network and build solidarity with.... People who want to teach skillshares and workshops, and people who want to learn....Radical and DIY musicians and performers ramblin' through CT....Anyone who wants us to take books, music, money, or other junk off their hands and put it to use.

Movies:

New Haven in 1970 witnessed the largest trial in Connecticut history. Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale and ten other Party members were tried for murdering an alleged informant. May Day, 1970 saw the beginning of the pretrial proceedings for the first of the two New Haven Black Panther trials; it was met with a demonstration by twelve thousand Black Panther supporters, including a large number of college students, who had come to New Haven individually and in organized groups and were housed and fed by community organizations and by Yale students in their dorms. The demonstrations continued through the Spring. By day protestors assembled on the New Haven Green across the street from the Courthouse to hear speakers including Jean Genet, Benjamin Spock, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and John Froines; afterwards, many taunted the New Haven police, and in return were tear gassed and retreated to their temporary quarters. The police behind them half-heartedly assaulted the dormitories, as was customary for such demonstrations at the time, but on the whole it was peaceful, with very little injury or property damage and only two minor bombings. The National Guard were kept ready on the highways into the city, but police chief Jim Ahern determined that the city police were controlling the situation adequately, and that the presence of the Guard would only inflame the situation; the events at Kent State University a few days later were to prove him prescient. This coincided with the beginning of the national student strike of May 1970. Yale (and many other colleges) went "on strike" from just before May Day until the end of the term; as at many colleges it was not actually "shut down", but classes were made "voluntarily optional" for the time and students were graded pass/fail for work done up to then.

My Blog

Call for an Anarchist Contingent at May Day New Haven

As anarchists, we oppose domination, - be it a boss against a worker, a man against a woman, a cop against a street kid.. We struggle in our everyday lives - at school, in the workplace, and in the st...
Posted by Elm City Infoshop on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:26:00 PST

A Place Called Chiapas 3/16/07

A documentary produced by a canadian during the historic San Andres accords between the Zapatista National Liberation Army and the Government forces, under pres Ernesto Zedillo.  The negotiations...
Posted by Elm City Infoshop on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:36:00 PST