Report from DAAA Collective Really Free Market

November 26th marks for many Americans the biggest shopping and spending day of the year. In Modesto with rents rising, lack of decent good jobs, and continued corporate development and urban sprawl, there is probably no better day to come together as working people to celebrate cooperative, and anti-authoritarian systems as opposed to those based around coersion and private property.

Gathering large amounts of clothing that was collected from supportive school students and teachers, and also collecting clothes that were being thrown away at our local Cancer Society thrift store, we were able to gather large amounts of jackets, kids clothes, suits, and pants. We also had on us large amounts of Trader Joes shopping carts, packaged food items, and toys. Setting up on a busy intersection on Modesto's West Side where crime and drug use are major problems, we first errected our 6 foot banner reading, "Really Free Market: Revolution for the Poor - Coal for the Rich".

We received many honks, and various clusters of shoppers and bike riders started to stop by. We also received spontainous donations and trades from drives. One man was on his way to the Good Will Store, when we saw us, and decided to give us his truck load of toys for the RFM. Large families of children got to walk away with various giant playsets and race car tracks. Another couple stopped by and donated many blankets and backpacks, which were later given to a couple that had just moved into a house but didn't have any blankets. We ended up trading a large amount of our Trader Joe shopping carts for a whole bag of diapers, which will go towards families at Food Not Bombs Modesto.

All in all, an autonomous zone, allthough short, was sustained beneath the trees in a corporate shopping mall, not only through the work of an anarchist collective, but mostly with the help of a community that directly saw the benefit in sharing over competetion, and solidarity over class division. The DAAA Collective was also able to hand out outreach flyers, and talked to various people about Food Not Bombs, Copwatch, and various other community based projects.

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