By Manny Fernandez ~ The Washington Post (Infoshop News)It is run by volunteers, and it stocks the shelves with books and magazines for sale, for free and for in-store reading. Many staffers are Washington activists who have moved their defiance from the street to the world of retail. They operate the place as a kind of protest, filling the basement of a complex of renovated rowhouses in Shaw with some of the most incendiary and thought- provoking titles in Washington D.C.
There's William Upski Wimsatt's "Bomb the Suburbs" and Katie Alvord's "Divorce Your Car! Ending the Love Affair With the Automobile." There's a children's book called "The Story of Colors/La Historia de los Colores," by Subcomandante Marcos, leader of the Zapatista rebels in Chiapas, Mexico. On the jacket is a picture of the author in a black ski mask, bandoleers draped across his chest. There are journals and do-it-yourself magazines or 'zines, including Covert Action Quarterly (No. 70, with an article on "Kissinger's brutal history") and a tiny publication called Thomasina (by Chloe Joy, a "radical" said to be 7 years old). ---
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