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TitleI have free secretarial skills ...

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PublisherFree City Collective

PlaceSan Francisco

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Date 11/26/1968

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CatalogFC-NEWS-006a

CollectionSOLA-o

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The inserted portrait heads, suggestive of an older, even medieval civic world, reinforce the sheet’s sense that the Free City is not merely a contemporary improvisation but a recovery of older communal forms.

Abstract

This Free News sheet presents the Free City as a lived network of mutual aid rather than a slogan or abstraction. Offers of free labor, housing help, lessons, repair work, childcare, and domestic exchange sit alongside political provocation, astrological timekeeping, and calls for free schools, free streets, and free theater. The effect is to collapse classifieds, manifesto, and street poetry into a single form, where everyday need becomes the ground of social transformation. Its closing line states the principle plainly: “Media is mutual aid in the Free City. You are the city.”

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January 26, 1968
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Free News
I have FREE secretarial skills like typing, dictaphone, office machines, and the loving application of energy & good will to sad emptiness of office spaces. I'd like to work free for a day in your office. Rose Lee Solow. 664-8774

SUPERVISOR OF PUBLIC HOUSING ENEAS KANEWILL RAISE THE RENT ON PUBLIC HOUSING TEN DOLLARS A MONTH SOON. HIS EXCUSE IS THE COST OF BROKEN WINDOWS. FREE HOUSING DOESN'T HAVE BROKEN WINDOWS. PEOPLE DON'T BREAK THEIR NEIGHBORS WINDOWS; THEY BREAK THE WINDOWS OF PUBLIC HOUSING W/ ITS MONOLITHIC LANDLORD, WHERE THE RENT MIGHT GO UP $10 ANY MINUTE.

SOME PEOPLE IN PUBLIC HOUSING PROJECTS ARE REFUSING TO PAY ANY RENT AT ALL. REFUSING TO PAY ANY RENT AT ALL. ANY RENT AT ALL. THEY ARE GOING TO RESIST BEING MOVED. THEY HAVE ARRIVED IN THE FREE CITY. SUPERVISOR ENEAS KANE'S HOME PHONE NUMBER IS 221-1714.

Marvin will give sitar lessons to anyone who's serious about it. FREE Drop by 22 Belvedere.

THE MOON IS IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF SAGITARIUS UNTIL 2PM WHEN IT ENTERS CAPRICORN.

FREE stove & oven. 528 Schrader [sid]. Call in the early evening.

IF TEACHERS JOIN THE PRESSMEN ON STRIKE, WILL FREE SCHOOLS ERUPT IN THE STREETS?

Free renaissance tinker. I fix household things: broken toasters etc etc etc sweet etc. Toward a free & perfect world. Jon Glazer. 221-3215

Andy, age 3, & his father Bert need living space. Would enjoy other kids company. Can contribute to expenses. 421-6394

MAYOR ALIOTO IS IN WASHINGTON SEEKING ADVICE ON THE FREE CITY EARTHQUAKE. HE WILL RETURN IN TIME TO READ THE COMICS ON THE RADIO, SUNDAY.

Lee, of 22 Belvedere St. will teach crocheting and/or candlemaking in return for knitting wool.

FREE STREETS. FREE THEATER IN THE STREETS. FREE THEATER EVERYWHERE.

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