Brian MacKenzie Infoshop

The Brian MacKenzie Infoshop was a self-managed social center located at 1426 Ninth St., in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C.^[1]^[2] The volunteer-run anarchist co-operative ran the basement infoshop from May 2003 until December 2008. For the first four years, it was open every day to sell books and records.^[1] It also served as a community center, hangout, and meeting place for local radicals.^[3] Events included talks by Ward Churchill, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Nate Powell and Josh MacPhee.^[1]^[4]^[2]

The infoshop shared a building with offices for the Gray Panthers, Emmaus, the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington and a Catholic Worker bookshop.^[5] Its lease was co-signed by Ian MacKaye of Fugazi and it was named for an American University student active in the radical community who died of a heart seizure at a D.C. hardcore show at the Wilson Center in 1999.^[1]^[6] Participants in the local activist organization Positive Force were amongst the founders, and the co-ordinators were brothers Ryan and Wade Fletcher.^[6]^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Lowman, Stephen (December 8, 2008). "Anarchist Hangout Surrendering to Market Forces". The Washington Post. pp. B06. Retrieved 2009-02-28.
^ ^a ^b "July 6-11, 2004". Washington Post. 4 July 2004.
^ Fernandez, Manny (July 14, 2003). "Bookstore serves as outlet for D.C. leftists". Ithaca Journal.
^ Entertainment (31 October 2004). "Readings, lectures, workshops and more". Washington Post.
^ Reel, M. (22 February 2003). "Seniors, peaceniks, punks set to share turf in shaw; center targets groups' common ground". The Washington Post.
^ ^a ^b Paarlberg, Mike (30 April 2011). "Don't Get Nostalgic: Mark Andersen on the 30th Anniversary of the Wilson Center". Washington City Paper. Archived from the original on 2 October 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
^ Schweitzer, Ally. "Too Punk For TV: Positive Force Documentary To Premiere In D.C." Retrieved 25 January 2022.