Mondragon Bookstore
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The Mondragon Bookstore is a political bookstore and vegan cafe located in The Old Market Autonomous Zone in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mondragon's name comes from a Basque town of the same name, known for its extensive network of worker's cooperatives. Mondragon is organized as a worker's collective. There is no hierarchy, all workers make the same wage. It is based on the economic structure, Parecon developed by Robin Hahnel and Michael Albert.
[edit] Bookstore
The books relate to anarchism, ecology, indigenous issues and resistance, Marxism, feminism, human and animal liberation, queer issues, sexuality, health, vegetarianism, economics, labour, media, activism and social change. Mondragon also carries zines, alternative children's books, political posters and t-shirts.
Mondragon is also a vegan cafe, coffee and catering company
[edit] Political events
Mondragon has also been a pivotal venue for social and political events since opening its doors in 1996. A partial list of activists and speakers who have given talks or participated on panels at Mondragon over the years includes: anarchists such as Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Jaggi Singh, L. Susan Brown, Brian Dominick of The NewStandard, Propagandhi's Chris Hannah, Ann Hansen, and Norman Nawrocki of Rhythm Activism. Other notable guest speakers at Mondragon have included Michael Albert, Naomi Klein, Ward Churchill, Dacajewah "Splitting the Sky" Hill, and assorted members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Native Youth Movement activists, members of the Brazilian MST, No One is Illegal, Zapatista and Palestine solidarity activists, members of OCAP, prison abolitionist Ruth Morris, Christian Parenti, Alexander Cockburn, and many others.
