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Verbivore was Louisville's first infoshop. Modeled on revolutionary leftist shops all over the world, Verbivore sought to bring Louisville's revolutionary organizations and people a centralized place to meet up to find out about happenings around town and the rest of the word. Carrying newsletters, pamphlets, a few audio selections, magazines (such as [http://www.anarchymag.org/ Anarchy] or [http://www.zmag.org Z]), and many books from [http://ww.akpress.org/ AKPress] and many other publishers/distros.
[[Image:Verbivore_ad.jpg|frame|right|A Verbivore ad]] Verbivore was Louisville's first infoshop, founded in 1997. The store sought to bring progressive and radical political and cultural ideas to Louisville to coincide with a growing youth activist moment. The store carried zines, newsletters, pamphlets, audio selections, magazines and many books. The shop closed in 1999.  


Sadly, maybe word never got around, maybe people were prejudiced against those that ran the shop, maybe it had a bad location (in an alley off of Bonnycastle Ave. in the highlands), maybe none of those factors, or maybe all of them... But forwhatever reason, the store didn't last longer than a year, and closed in 1997. 
'''Volunteers that occasionally watched the store:'''
 
*[[Jamie Miller]] - owner
Volunteers/workers/whatever you want to call them that occasionally watched the store:
*[[Liz Palmer]] - owner
*[[Jamie Miller]]
*[[Liz Palmer]]
*[[Maryam Mirriahi]]
*[[Maryam Mirriahi]]
*[[Mike Harpring]]
*[[Mike Harpring]]
*[[Corey Lyons]]
*[[Corey Lyons]]
*[[Bryan Volz]]
*[[Bryan Volz]]

Latest revision as of 21:13, 29 March 2014

A Verbivore ad

Verbivore was Louisville's first infoshop, founded in 1997. The store sought to bring progressive and radical political and cultural ideas to Louisville to coincide with a growing youth activist moment. The store carried zines, newsletters, pamphlets, audio selections, magazines and many books. The shop closed in 1999.

Volunteers that occasionally watched the store: