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Friday, October 12, 2007

Capitalist Underground

posted by on October 12 at 17:13 PM

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I wandered into the Punk Rock Flea Market a three weeks ago and was delighted by what I saw. In the Belltown basement that once held the depressing “Downunder” nightclub, some 40-odd vendors had arrayed themselves, selling absolutely everything from clothes to food to bootleg CD’s to hand-made cat toys. I picked up a bunch of zines, a cool pair of barely-used shoes, a catnip duck and a bronze statue of Ganesh. Score!

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Corey Scherrer, one of the organizers (and the photographer behind these pics) said that more than 500 people paid a buck to get in and shop. The dollars went back to the low income housing developer who own the space and who were handing out literature about homelessness and housing as folks entered. Later in the evening 3 punk bands played, and beer flowed freely. Combining cheap goods, punk music, lefty politics and beer is clearly a winning strategy. The organizers have promised future flea markets on a typically anarchistic time frame. “We’ll do it every so often until they tear the place down.” The next Punk Rock Flea Market is scheduled for December 1.

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