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Events

Saturday, August 2, 2008
Book Sale Blowout!!!
10% off

Saturday, August 2, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

Thursday, August 7, 2008, Open Mic Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7 - 9 PM
Come read your poetry, your stories, your songs, your statements, or just come get something off your chest! Food and Drink provided! Hosted by staffer Michelle W. Download Flyer

Saturday, August 9, 2008, People's Movie Night @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7:30 PM
Movie: Busted! The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters

Thursday, August 14, 2008, Special Event: Radical Sustainability for Autnomous Communities @ Wooden Shoe Books, 7 PM Download the Flyer
Speaker: Scott Kellogg, Co-founder of the Rhizome Collective

Download the Schedule for the
People's Movie Night: July & August 2008

See our Calendar page for many more upcoming events !!!
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Clearance Book Sale!!!

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We are a 501c3 non-proft organization and donations are tax deductible.

Visit the Store (directions)

Listen to the .mp3 from the April 10, 2008 Talk: "Anarchists and the Elections: The Love-Hate Relationship w/ Presidential Elections and Should Our Approach Be Any Different?" with Cindy Milstein and the WSB audience

Forty Years in the Struggle: The Memoirs of a Jewish Anarchist
By Chaim Leib Weinberg
Translated by Naomi Cohen
Edited and annotated by Robert P. Helms
Jointly published by: Wooden Shoe Books & Robert P. Helms
Philadelphia 2007

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Wooden Shoe Books & Records is a 501c3 non-profit organization and collectively-run anarchist bookstore. We carry thousands of book titles as well as music, pamphlets, 'zines, t-shirts, buttons, patches and more. We frequently table at political events and punk rock shows. We have continued to sponsor our own events and have brought in such speakers as Howard Zinn in October, 1998 and Gary Webb, author of Dark Alliance:The CIA, The Contras, and The Crack Cocaine Explosion, in June, 1999.

We officially opened in our current location on November 15,1997 and is less than a block away from South Street...Philly's busiest commercial area. The original Wooden Shoe Books and Records was located in the basement of 112 South 20th Street in Philadelphia for nearly 21 years. Established in December, 1976, the Wooden Shoe began as a council communist bookstore. Its name was derived from the early period of the Industrial Revolution, when French workers who were forced to spend agonizingly long hours at work took to jamming their wooden shoes, or sabots (which is the root of the word "sabotage"), in the gears of machines to stop production.

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Sunday - Thursday: 12 Noon to 10 PM

Friday & Saturday: 12 Noon to 11 PM

Wooden Shoe Books • 508 S. 5th Street • Philadelphia, PA 19147 • sabot@woodenshoebooks.com • (215) 413-0999