Richmond Food Not Bombs Spoke Cards- $2

Love Richmond Food Not Bombs? Ride a bike? Oh, hey, now there are sweet Food Not Bombs spoke cards. How freaking convenient. And they are lime green (duh).

2 dollars please! (one to cover the cost of copying and laminating, one for Food Not Bombs!).

If you want one of these hot, trendy bike accessories contact Mo.

And if you don’t come to Food Not Bombs, well we would love it if you did, and either way spoke cards would be a cool way to help us advertise!

Sundays at 12 we start cooking.
Sundays at 4 we are in Monroe Park serving food- you can come help serve or eat.
Sundays at 5 we are cleaning up.
If you work somewhere that has extra food see if you can snag it for Food Not Bombs.
If you have a band you could do a benefit show for us.
If you go lots of places you could flier for us.
If you want to help gimme a call at 804 300 0023 or email foodnotbombsrichmond@gmail

.com

 

Richmond October Really Really Free Market

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Richmond, Virginia Monthly Really
Really Free Market

The October Really Really Free Market
will be on Saturday October 25th from noon until 6. 

The Really Really Free Market happens
the last Saturday of every month in Monroe Park, at the corner of
Main and Laurel. 

The Really Really Free Market started
in Richmond in April, with events April, June, July, August, and
September. Originally held in Holly Street Park in Oregon Hill, the
event now occurs monthly in Monroe Park so as to be more visible and
more accessible. Some months Richmond Food Not Bombs has come with
free food. There have been workshops led by community members and
musical performances as well. Community members have brought games to
play with each other at the market. Vegan cookies have also been
known to make an appearance. 

We are bombarded with messages every
day that the sheer amount of things that we own is equal to the
amount of success that we have had in our lives, instead of placing
value on the people that we meet and the experiences that we have.

The RVA Really Really free markets (based on Really Really
Free Markets [www.reallyreallyfree.org]) provide people with a chance
to share the excess that they possess, to prevent the landfills from
filling with stuff that will never decompose and is nowhere near the
end of its usefulness, and to offer the community a chance to come
together for a day of free fun in the sun! (or rain!)

So the
last Saturday of every month, bring your music, your skills, your
stuff, your food, and your friends and family, and help us prove that
there is enough stuff in the world for everybody!

Meeting Community Needs with Community
Surplus.

A really really free market is an alternative to the
capitalist version of a 'free market' where in fact, nothing is free.
The really really free market is a place where people can come bring
things they no longer need or use and give them away. The really
really free market is a place where people can come get the things
they need for free, without having to participate in the corporate,
killer market. Really really free market builds community instead of
destroying it.

Any stores, restaurants, or
organizations are welcome to bring their surplus items or food to
share with the community.

The Really Really Free Market is not
about bartering, selling, or discounting. All items are 110% free. No
one has to bring something to get something. Everyone can take what
they would like regardless of their contribution.

People can
come to share things besides the physical. Anyone interested in
sharing their skills or knowledge through a workshop should let us
know or just show up and teach others. Anyone interested in
performing, music or reading poetry or whatever, should contact us or
just show up.

So dig through your closets, take the extra from
your work, ask your parents and friends and neighbors to come to
bring stuff and come to get stuff. Bring clothes, furniture, food,
tapes, cds, office supplies, kitchen stuff, knick knacks, paddy
whacks, etc.

The best way to make the event awesome is to
advertise, so make your own fliers, tell people, mark your
calenders.

Anything left at the end of the day will be taken
to Diversity Thrift.

The November Really Really Free Market
will be on Saturday Novemeber 29th.

The December Really Really Free Market
will be on Saturday December 27th.

If anyone is interested in
volunteering, helping to advertise, or finding out more information
you can do so through the internet, email, or phone.

www.myspace.com/rvafreemarket
email: connellyrn@vcu.edu

approachingapocalypse@riseup.net

call: 804 300 0023 (Mo Karn)

 

New Free Zines!!

Soooo, Approaching Apocalypse Zine Distro now features almost all FREE zines, and we have some new stuff because I haven’t updated in toolong.
If you don’t live somewhere I live, I can mail you free zines, it would be cool if you could throw down for postage though.
And donations will go to Richmond Food Not Bombs, so if you do have some bucks to throw down I’m sure RVA FNB would appreciate it.

Free Zines:
Animal Liberation Primer
Fire to the Prisons # 2
Trasher Zine # 3
Trasher ZIne # 4
The Juniper # 9
Urban Guide to Living More Sustainably
Said the Pot to the Kettle: Feminism for Anarchist Men
Peace is Patriotic and Thats the Problem
Politicians Love Gun Control
Various pieces of crimethinc propaganda

And I’m pretty sure there is more- I’m gonna go through my boxes and look- I know I have more about veganism and more about straightedge/sobriety and more about being against voting and elections

Please send me emails if you are interested in any of those titles, and/or a zine I sell or a crimethinc book i have too or just a topic you want to know more about.

If you have anything you want me to distro let me know!

 

Cuddle Puddles and Hot Pants Issue # 2

For 3 dollars you can get yourself a brand spanking new copy of issue # 2 of Cuddle Puddles and Hot Pants, the anarchist zine. Included- Civil Rights history of Richmond Virginia, Coal issues and my friend cornbread’s stories about coal and Kentucky , how I feel about elections and some sweet banner drops, recipes for vegan goodies, smash the state crush the cage conference recount, how to release your own album, on working out, on straight edge in the anarchist scene, on body odor, on freeegan, glue traps story…. Just a whole bunch of stuff and some neato pictures my friends drew.
So yea, all money goes to Richmond, Virginia Food Not Bombs.
If you mail me 3 dollars I’ll mail you back a copy.
Email goes to: approachingapocalypse@riseup.net

Snail Mail goes to:
Approaching Apocalypse
Box 864 Hampshire College
893 West St.
Amherst, MA 01002

 

What you get when you order from Approaching Apocalypse

When you order a couple zines from Approaching Apocalypse Zine Distro, you get more than some anonymous zines in the mail. Almost always you get a personalized letter (we love letters, be our pen pal), and  there are also various zines, pamphlets, stickers, and fliers that you get for free, because we are way more about the movement than we are about the money (which all goes to RVA Food Not Bombs anyway).  To create another world, a better world, we need to build more love and more connections. At Approaching Apocalypse, we do some of  that through the mail.

We are also total open to doing zine swaps and exchanges, because we want to become more of a part of the zine community, and the whole reason we have a distro is because we love zines, so chances are we want to read yours!

 

Submissions!

If you have a zine that is radical, anarchist, political, vegan, straightedge, about prisoner support, written by a prisoner, about bikes, about animal liberation, about earth liberation, about feminism, about queer issues, about social justice and dealing with oppression etc. PLEASE submit to Approaching Apocalypse. We are really looking to expand our inventory. We can even make the copies ourself, as long as you get one hard copy to us in the mail. Mail all submissions to:

 

Coming Soon: New Cuddle Puddles and Hot Pants

The second issue of Cuddle Puddles and Hot Pants is set to be coming out by mid February. Place your orders now! email approachingapocalypse@riseup.net. This issue will have more recipes, some civil rights history of Richmond virginia,  more about straightedge and anarchism, ideas about personal hygeine and why BO rocks, information and stories  about the banks that finance coal companies and some protests against them and mountain top removal practices, guest interviews, a guest column on how to produce your own record AND MUCH MORE!!!!

 

Brainscan Issues 21 and A Practical Body Modification

NEW!!! Zines from ALex Wrekk

We have 2 new zines from Alex Wrekk, author of Stolen Sharpie Revolution and Brainscan zine.

Issue 21 of Brainscan Irreconcilable Differences, documenting Alex’s ending of a manipulative and destructive relationship of 6 years. 22 half size double sided pages. Good reading for anyone who has found them losing themselves in a relationship or who have suffered emotional manipulation. 3 dollars.approachingapocalypse-016.jpg

A Practical Body Modification- 16 quarter size double sided pages documenting Alex’s experiences with IUD birth control. Provides facts and personal experiences about getting an IUD. Must read for anyone considering that form of birth control or interested in women’s reproductive issues. 2 dollars. approachingapocalypse-015.jpg

 

Nontoxic house cleaning zine!

Raleigh Briggs’ quarter size 14 page zine with recipes for non toxic house cleaning is available for 1 dollar. I know punks pride themseleves on NOT cleaning, but seriously if you are going to clean, try these mixtures instead of the ones that kill you and the environment. The information is given in a simple and straight forward manner, making non toxic house cleaning seem doable instead of tricky or ridiculous. Yay sustainability!  approachingapocalypse-033.jpg

 

On Edge Zine

On Edge Zine

On Edge Issue 3 Fall 2006- 36 page half size zine on Mental Health by Tracey Mitchell from Canada. This is largely submission based zine including art, photos, poetry, personal stories and the oppression that people labeled with mental illnesses face- Tracey has an article on the history of sexual sterilization and mental illness in Canada that reveals a lot about the way society deals with mental illness. Deals with issues of how our culture causes mental illness- this issue features a Derrick Jensen piece. 3 dollars approachingapocalypse-022.jpg

On Edge Issue 4 Spring 2007- 36 page half zine on Mental Health by Tracey Mitchell from Canada. This issue includes an interview with Kate Bornstein, as well as the usual poems, personal stories, art, articles on the politics of mental health and Part 2 of Tracey’s article on the history of sexual sterilization and mental illness in canada. 3 dollars. approachingapocalypse-023.jpg