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[[File:Give away shop utrecht inside.jpg|right|thumb|Inside [[Utrecht]] Giveaway shop. The banner reads "The earth has enough for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed".]] |
[[File:Give away shop utrecht inside.jpg|right|thumb|Inside [[Utrecht]] Giveaway shop. The banner reads "The earth has enough for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed".]] |
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"[[Give-away shops]]", "freeshops" or "free stores" are stores where all goods are free. They are similar to [[charity shop]]s, with mostly second-hand items{{snd}}only everything is available at no cost. Whether it is a [[book]], a piece of [[furniture]], a garment or a [[household]] item, it is all freely given away, although some operate a one-in, one-out–type policy (swap shops). The free store is a form of constructive [[direct action]] that provides a shopping alternative to a [[monetary]] framework, allowing people to exchange goods and services outside a money-based economy. The anarchist [[1960s counterculture|1960s countercultural]] group [[Diggers (theatre)|The Diggers]]<ref>{{cite book |author1=John Campbell McMillian |author2=Paul Buhle |title=The new left revisited |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U_Ohks41z2IC&pg=PA112 |access-date=28 December 2011 |year=2003 |publisher=Temple University Press |isbn=978-1566399760 |pages=112–}}</ref> opened [[free stores]] which gave away their stock, provided free food, distributed free drugs, gave away money, organized free music concerts, and performed works of political art.<ref name="Lytle2005">{{cite book|last=Lytle|first=Mark Hamilton|title=America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5w3iBwAAQBAJ|year=2005|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0190291846|pages=213, 215}}</ref> The Diggers took their name from the original [[Diggers|English Diggers]] led by [[Gerrard Winstanley]]<ref name="Digger Archives">{{cite web |url=http://www.diggers.org/overview.htm |title=Overview: who were (are) the Diggers? |access-date=2007-06-17 |work=The Digger Archives}}</ref> and sought to create a mini-society free of money and [[capitalism]].<ref name="American Experience doc">{{cite video |people=[[Gail Dolgin]]; Vicente Franco |date=2007 |title=American Experience: The Summer of Love |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/index.html |publisher=PBS |access-date=2007-04-23 |
"[[Give-away shops]]", "freeshops" or "free stores" are stores where all goods are free. They are similar to [[charity shop]]s, with mostly second-hand items{{snd}}only everything is available at no cost. Whether it is a [[book]], a piece of [[furniture]], a garment or a [[household]] item, it is all freely given away, although some operate a one-in, one-out–type policy (swap shops). The free store is a form of constructive [[direct action]] that provides a shopping alternative to a [[monetary]] framework, allowing people to exchange goods and services outside a money-based economy. The anarchist [[1960s counterculture|1960s countercultural]] group [[Diggers (theatre)|The Diggers]]<ref>{{cite book |author1=John Campbell McMillian |author2=Paul Buhle |title=The new left revisited |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U_Ohks41z2IC&pg=PA112 |access-date=28 December 2011 |year=2003 |publisher=Temple University Press |isbn=978-1566399760 |pages=112–}}</ref> opened [[free stores]] which gave away their stock, provided free food, distributed free drugs, gave away money, organized free music concerts, and performed works of political art.<ref name="Lytle2005">{{cite book|last=Lytle|first=Mark Hamilton|title=America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5w3iBwAAQBAJ|year=2005|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0190291846|pages=213, 215}}</ref> The Diggers took their name from the original [[Diggers|English Diggers]] led by [[Gerrard Winstanley]]<ref name="Digger Archives">{{cite web |url=http://www.diggers.org/overview.htm |title=Overview: who were (are) the Diggers? |access-date=2007-06-17 |work=The Digger Archives}}</ref> and sought to create a mini-society free of money and [[capitalism]].<ref name="American Experience doc">{{cite video |people=[[Gail Dolgin]]; Vicente Franco |date=2007 |title=American Experience: The Summer of Love |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/love/index.html |publisher=PBS |access-date=2007-04-23}}</ref> |
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=== Burning Man === |
=== Burning Man === |