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==Around the world== [[File:The 1 in 12 Club.jpg|thumb|The [[1 in 12 Club]].]] [[Self-managed social centres in Italy]], such as [[Forte Prenestino]] in Rome, often contain infoshops.<ref name="AltMedia53" /> [[Social centres in the United Kingdom]] often contain infoshops, such as for example the [[Cowley Club]] in Brighton and the [[1 in 12 Club]] in Bradford. There is also the 56a Infoshop in London.<ref name="Firth56">{{cite journal |last1=Firth |first1=Rhiannon |title=Critical cartography as anarchist pedagogy? Ideas for praxis inspired by the 56a infoshop map archive |journal=Interface: A Journal for and About Social Movements |date=2014 |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=156β184}}</ref> In the mid-2000s, as well as these spaces, there were infoshops in Leeds, Manchester, Norwich and Nottingham.<ref name="Lacey" /> In the 1990s, there were the following infoshops in North America: 223 Center (Portland, Oregon); 404 Willis (Detroit); A-Space (Philadelphia); Arise! Bookstore & Resource Center (Minneapolis); Autonomous Zone (Chicago); Beehive Infoshop (Washington DC); Blackout Books (New York City); Crescent Wrench Infoshop (New Orleans); Croatan (Baltimore); Emma Center (Minneapolis); Epicenter (San Francisco); Long Haul (Berkeley); [[Lucy Parsons Center]] (Cambridge); [[Mayday Books]] (Minneapolis); Who's Emma (Toronto); [[Wooden Shoe Books and Records|Wooden Shoe Books]] (Philadelphia).<ref name="Munson" /><ref name="Dodge">{{cite news |last1=Dodge |first1=Chris |title=Street Libraries: Infoshops and Alternative Reading Rooms |url=http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/7423/infoshop.html |access-date=25 July 2019 |work=Utne Reader |date=1998 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027155038/http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/7423/infoshop.html |archive-date=2009-10-27}}</ref> Elsewhere in the world, projects include [[Jura Books]] in Australia, [[Salon Mazal]] in Israel and [[Freedom Shop]] in New Zealand. Related projects include [[anarchist archives]], bunkos in Japan and community libraries.<ref name="Dodge" />
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