Boxcar Books was a

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infoshop Infoshops are places in which people can access anarchist or autonomist ideas. They are often stand-alone projects, or can form part of a larger radical bookshop, archive, self-managed social centre or community centre. Typically, infoshops offer ...

, and

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in Bloomington,

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. Collectively run by volunteers, Boxcar Books was "one of the highest-volume

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sellers" in the United States. According to its website, the store existed to "promote reading, self-education, social equality, and social welfare through increased accessibility to literature and workshops." Boxcar Books was for a time also the home of th
Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project
a non-profit organization that distributes books and reading materials to prisoners. By the end of 2017, Boxcar Books had closed their operations.

History

Boxcar Books and Community Center was founded by Oliver Haimson and Matthew Turissini in 2001. The bookstore included a wide selection of new and used nonfiction books with a particular focus on

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and "

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" lifestyles. In 2008, the bookstore moved to a location closer to

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Events

In addition to poetry readings and community events, Boxcar Books regularly used to host the Writers Guild of Bloomington "Prose Reading & Open Mic" on the first Sunday of the month and the "Bloomington Writer Project" every Tuesday afternoon. The bookstore held an annual fundraising event for itself and the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Project called the "Rock n' Roll Prom."

Target of hate groups

Boxcar Books was the target of protests by a

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hate group called the

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.Mettler, Katie.
White supremacists protest bookstore
",

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, Retrieved 27 November 2013

References

External links

Boxcar Books
- official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Boxcar Books Infoshops Organizations established in 2001 Feminist bookstores Independent bookstores of the United States Feminist organizations in the United States Bloomington, Indiana

History

Events

Target of hate groups

See also

References

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