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Infoshop
An infoshop is a storefront or social center that serves as a node for the distribution of political information, typically in the form of books, zines, stickers and posters. Infoshops often serve as a meeting space and resource hub for local activist groups....
in downtown Montreal, Quebec. It serves as a free community lending library of books relevant to anarchism
Anarchism
Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations...
, and as a public archive of texts, flyers, videos, and other material produced by libertarian movements. It is a sister project of L'Insoumise
Insoumise bookstore
Montreal's anarchist bookstore, Librairie l'Insoumise, is located downtown on Saint Laurent Boulevard. It opened in November 2004, several months after the closing of the Alternative bookshop...
(French for "the Insubordinate"), a bookstore located on the ground floor of the same building. Originally located on rue Ontario near Papineau, DIRA moved in 2005 to its current location at 2035 boulevard St-Laurent, near Sherbrooke.
The goals of the project, as described by a press release from the group: