A Really Really Free Market (RRFM) is a community gathering where participants bring and give away absolutely free andy usuable items, skills, ideas, talents, friendship, excitement, discussion, games, and many other things that we as a community can come together and share. A RRFM is a 100% free and non-commercial event, creating a gift economy [...]
This Saturday (February 4th) Books on Wheel will be at the Wingnut providing free books and bicycle repair. In 2011 Books on Wheels distributed over 7,000 books to Richmond organizations. That’s a lot of books.
The Wingnuts are hosting a more grown up version of a community meal & movie, and January’s edition features Die Hard–which is one of my favorite movies of all time. We are starting a community meal/movie showing/hang out session that will happen on Monday nights, once a month.At 7pm we will start a movie, which [...]
This Saturday (March 5th) at 4pm the Wingnut is hosting a knitting event! Knitters of all experience levels — even complete novices — are welcome.
Earlier this week the Richmond Police Department sued Mo Karn to retrieve documents she had previously received via a FOIA request. The RTD reports: The city of Richmond is ending its legal quest to recover police documents turned over to an anarchist group, which posted them on its website. Police Chief Bryan T. Norwood said [...]
Last September the police released several procedure and training manuals to Mo Karn (member/spokesperson for The Wingnut) in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. Then, the RPD decided releasing those documents was a mistake and requested them back. The RTD has that story: “In the present circumstances, the dissemination of these documents in [...]
