Mondragon Bookstore
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The Mondragon Bookstore & Coffeehouse is a political bookstore and vegan cafe located in The Old Market Autonomous Zone at 91 Albert Street in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Mondragon's name comes from a Basque town of the same name, known for its extensive network of worker's cooperatives. Mondragon is organized as a worker's collective. There is no hierarchy, all workers make the same wage. It is based on the economic structure, Parecon developed by Robin Hahnel and Michael Albert.
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[edit] Bookstore
The books relate to anarchism, ecology, indigenous issues and resistance, Marxism, feminism, human and animal liberation, queer issues, sexuality, health, vegetarianism, economics, labour, media, activism and social change. Mondragon also carries zines, alternative children's books, political posters and t-shirts.
Mondragon is also a vegan cafe, coffee and catering company
[edit] Political events
Mondragon has also been a pivotal venue for social and political events since opening its doors in 1996. A partial list of activists and speakers who have given talks or participated on panels at Mondragon over the years includes:
[edit] anarchists
- Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
- Jaggi Singh
- L. Susan Brown
- Brian Dominick of The NewStandard
- Propagandhi's Chris Hannah
- Ann Hansen
- Norman Nawrocki of Rhythm Activism.
[edit] others
- Michael Albert
- Naomi Klein
- Ward Churchill
- Dacajewah "Splitting the Sky" Hill
- various members of the Industrial Workers of the World
- Native Youth Movement activists
- members of the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement
- No One is Illegal
- Zapatista and Palestine solidarity activists
- members of OCAP
- prison abolitionist Ruth Morris
- Christian Parenti
- Alexander Cockburn
[edit] History
- Mondragon was co-founded by Winnipeg activists Paul Burrows and Sandra Drosdowech, and opened its doors on July 15, 1996 with an initial collective of ten members [1] .
- Many of Mondragon's past collective members have gone on to help start other activist projects, or join existing ones, such as Winnipeg-based groups like Natural Cycle, G7 Welcoming Committee Records, Arbeiter Ring Publishing, Organic Planet Worker Co-op, Dada World Data (DWD), as well as AK Press and Seven Stories Press [2] .
