Flagstaff Infoshop Set to Open, Seeking Donations : AZ IMC

Greetings from the Flagstaff Infoshop Collective!

We're opening our doors in the next couple of weeks in partnership with the Flagstaff Indigo Movement. The Indigo Movement is a youth-advocacy group that has been working for the past 5 years within the Flagstaff School District and now at their own space, the Hive. The organization seeks to foster self-empowerment, personal development, community involvement, and creative expression in children and youth who lack access to monetary and educational resources.

At the Hive community center, we have a committed group of people who act as teachers and mentors for local youth. The Hive offers classes ranging from circus practice to martial arts to self-defense, bike-repair, yoga, and an after-school art program for grade-school kids. The space also serves as a meeting-place for local activists, a gallery for local artists, a kitchen and serving-space for Food Not Bombs, and houses the bi-weekly poetry slam and the community garden's tools.

One aspect that we're missing in this town in general, and from the Hive, is an Infoshop (radical library). We think that a good Infoshop is a necessary aspect in the empowerment of youth and community. With this project, we aim to build a place where compelling subject matter is able, in addition to being touched on in classes and discussions, at film-screenings and art showings and poetry slams, to be more deeply and thoroughly researched and explored by youth, instructors and community members, alike.

We want to build a place where people can gain access to what's going on in different parts of this community, what's gone on in forward-thinking communities throughout history, and what's going on in communities across the nation and around the globe today. The Infoshop will be just one small-yet-important aspect in the building of a place where the youth of this community, and especially of those from this less-privileged neighborhood, can work to become passionate, well-informed and well-connected individuals.

We need your help in doing this! If you all have any books or 'zines or any other materials that you're willing to donate, we'd love to give them a home.

We're looking for all types of literature, and are especially on the lookout for books on:

Women's studies
Queer and transgender studies
People of color/interracial studies
Issues of environmental racism & environmental justice
Alternative medicine

We will give due credit to you all for any contributions! In addition, you will have our eternal gratitude.

Take care,

The Flagstaff Infoshop Collective