Cream city collectives
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The Cream City Collectives are a volunteer-run collective community space located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It hosts The Mathilde Anneke Infoshop, the Milwaukee Screenprinting Collective, the CCC Gallery [1], and other groups that share the space for meetings and events. It opened in October of 2006 at a storefront on 732 E. Clarke St. The infoshop is named after the German social activist Mathilde Anneke, one of the Forty-Eighters who founded the first feminist newspaper in the United States in Milwaukee. [2] It hosts a lending library which contains hundreds of books, primarily non-fiction titles on radical politics. There is also a small collections of new anarchist and anti-authoritarian books for sale. The space is also a frequent host to discussions, speakers, and other community events. The collective hosts a free school whose workshop topics as of April 2008 include introductory Spanish, writing, jazz history, bicycle maintenance, The psychological effects of racism and oppression among others.
In November of 2007, the space hosted the "RNC Welcoming Committee", a strategy session which explored tactical resistance to the Republican National Convention taking place in September, 2008.[3] [4]
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