This gallery contains 6 photos.
Here are a few of the latest pics from Bentleigh,a suburb of Melbourne, where we contnue to have interesting conversations about the gift economy with the locals.
You get all types coming to the free shop, for those who don’t know what a free shop is, its a place hwhere you can get things fro free, things that would otherwise be destined for landfill or charity as a business style operations. So she arrives an wants the football, the ones we had just pumped up. so we gave here the choice of the small kids one , the rubber coated one and the leather one.
She had to have the ‘far dinkum’ leather one. Well not exactly ‘fair dinkum’ it didn’t have Sherrin written on it but i digress.
But it simply had to be the leather one.
hrmm
Ever hear of looking a gift horse in the mouth?
Then she talks about how wonderful Tony Abbot is.
We love political discussions at the free shop.
The brief exchange was this:
Volunteer: Don’t you think Tony Abbott will replace the carbon tax with an emissions trading scheme that will be just as expansive?
Liberal party cunt: Oh no.
Volunteer: You know global warming is not real.
Liberal party cunt: Yes it is! You’re an idiot!
Stunned free shop volunteer walks away from this ungrateful rude cunt.
Later on she was heard saying there’s my CEO… Basically just to big note her self.
So there you go, a typical Liberal party voter:
Perfectly happy to demand the best for free, offering nothing in return, and then insults the people who she benefits from, big notes herself, and thinks this is totally acceptable behavior.
She never even thought to ask about making any kind of donation.
If you are the liberal party voter from the story, don’t ever come back to the free shop, you are the worse person who has ever arrived.
Jul 12
This gallery contains 6 photos.
Here are a few of the latest pics from Bentleigh,a suburb of Melbourne, where we contnue to have interesting conversations about the gift economy with the locals.
Another Bentleigh free shop in progres now. get down and get your free stuff. Have a chat about economics, politics or society in general if you like. As always, no obligation. The beginning of freedom is free stuff and freedom to choose what you want to do.
We had a really happy Elvis fan arrive and found a great Elvis CD in the free shop stock. He totally understood what we were doing, and why were were doing it.
He said “wait here I’m going to get you some stuff, I’ll be back in 10 minutes”.
Sure enough he returned with a huge box of new clothes, and stuck around to chat for quite a while.
Bentleigh free shop is getting some real support from the community which is great.
So to say thank you to our Elvis fan, we thought we’d add a strangely appropriate Elvis song. Watching this video is also free.
In a world where our monetary and political systems makes no sense, Elvis at the free shop somehow makes sense.
Short weekly newsclip about activist events in Melbourne. Started about weeks ago, check out the others on the channel.
We decided to use the main rotunda this week , as the one near the street was very windy when we arrived. It was a little harder to get people to come and have a look as it’s set back from the street a bit, but we still managed to have some interesting conversations and distribute free stuff to loving homes. The cops turned up but were surprisingly friendly. As we were loading up the car at 5pm, two ladies who work in the adjacent Medicare office grabbed the kidie car seat for a friend! It always feels good to go home with less stuff than we arrived with.
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