Help The Anarchist Coffee Shop!
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The Anarchist refuses to operate according to the logic of Capitalism, employing exploitation in the mindless pursuit of growth and profit. All donations help to keep this place operating as a genuine community resource, not another petite bourgeois cafe that says, "community" when it means, "gentrification." This is not a money-making venture; I am significantly poorer than I was 2 years ago, and I had $0 to my name back then. I would love if the cafe could achieve the stability to provide a living wage for myself and a few other work-owners, but I will not dilute my politics to achieve that, whatever the consequences.
In the nearly two years the cafe has been running, it has, among other things, already:
- contributed internationally to thrusting anarchism and anti-capitalism back into mainstream dialogue
- distributed hundreds of pieces of radical literature and propaganda
- given cheap, or free, food and drinks to any who can't afford to pay
- connected hundreds of leftists, who otherwise may never have met or collaborated
- provided a comfortable, humanising space to dozens of unhoused, precariously housed, and otherwise marginalised community members
- inspired others to conceive their own anti-capitalist community projects
- supported leftist artists and creators, and given locals access to their work at the lowest prices possible
- provided a free public bathroom in a neighbourhood full of shit-bag business owners who pretend theirs are "out of order" or reserve their use, "for paying customers only"
- provided lots of opportunities for me to engage in mutual aid, in many cases life-saving
- created a safe community space that is explicitely police and military-free
All of this is more than I planned for, and I'm constantly finding new ways that this place can serve as a radical resource.
I plan to add a list here of things I've not yet been able to achieve, that donations will help with.
Fuck the rich, the police, and Kkkanada.
Gabriel, a.k.a The Anarchist
Organizer
Gabriel Sims-Fewer
Organizer
Toronto, ON