The Anarchist is an anti-capitalist, anti-colonial cafe, shop, and radical community space on the stolen and occupied territory of many indigenous nations and peoples. As trendy, and very occassionally meaningful, as land acknowledgments are, I believe that the task of listing all those whose land this rightfully is is frought with problems. What matters most, in my opinion, is to explicitly acknowledge that this land is under the violent and unjust occupation of a colonial state and its settler society, and to commit to tangibly supporting the end of that occupation, abolition of that state and society, and return of the land to those from whom it was stolen.

 The Anarchist is a one person business, founded by a broke barista, hoping to grow into a worker owned and operated co-op. It came about by chance, with no concrete plan for the quintessential radical business, ideologically pure and beyond criticism. As such, it makes absolutely no claim to being any of those things. It's a messy, organic experiment in what a small business can become while trying to be informed by anarchist ideas. I fundamentally count on the questions, suggestions, criticisms, and collaboration of the community, especially future worker-owners, to turn the place into more than any one person could imagine.