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storefront orsocial centre that serves as a node for thedistribution ofpolitical information andresources for localactivists .
Etymologies
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An infoshop is a cross between a radical bookstore and a movement archive.
Silent Signals, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Since Caplan has thus far made no effort to address the arguments against capitalism made on infoshop. org, I think we can safely conclude he can't refute them and simply doesn't want to embarrass himself by mentioning the injustices of the capitalist system.
Silent Signals, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The infoshop faq you reference is described thus on the infoshop. org website:
Silent Signals, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Possibly the best refutation of the Argument from Silence is the fact that Anonymous2 clearly wants Bryan to break his silence with regard to the FAQ at infoshop. org!
Silent Signals, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Your frequent comment references to the same page from the infoshop website make you look like the same person.
Silent Signals, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Since Caplan has thus far made no effort to address the arguments against capitalism made on infoshop. org, I think we can safely conclude he can't refute them and simply doesn't want to embarrass himself by mentioning the injustices of the capitalist system.
Silent Signals, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Since apparently "crude name-calling", i.e. insinuating someone is too lazy to read a reference, is apparently off-limits, I'll more briefly state that Lauren's objections are empty since she seems to have missed the location of the faq in question: www. infoshop.org/faq.
Silent Signals, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The Long Haul infoshop in Berkeley, CA was raided just thursday.
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You need to spend more time on infoshop and indymedia.
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Instead of using a private address, which can be dangerous because of fascists and police repression, or apost office box which can be traced to a responsible individual, groups can have a mailbox at the infoshop.
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An infoshop is an anarchist bookstore and reading library that also usually serves as an activist meeting space. Ironically, one of the few nonanarchist usages of the term “infoshop” that I have encountered is the World Bank’s Washington, D.C. reading room.
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