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Anchor Zine Archive in the Roberts Street Social Centre celebrates five prolific years

This article is kindly cross-posted from the Halifax Media Co-op. Check out the original, including full photo set. HALIFAX - The Roberts Street Social Centre is here for you. It's true. The little red shingled house near the corner of Roberts and James has quietly been there for anyone with something to say the long way for five years now. There's a big old tree right in front dripping rain, that over the years has nearly rotted through the front stoop; but, walking in, you either know or trust you won't go through, because someone who cares is on it somehow. You have come to the hard-working, paper-filled, organized and pieced-together, meticulously catalogued to the extent that is overall sensible, tiny and big, maybe sometimes too warm and too cold, Anchor Zine Archive. The Archive is a non-profit organization run by its members — a place of daring inclusion and acceptance. If you are not here for hate, and more than kind of dig old-timey graphic communication, well, you are welcome. And while you're here, sign up for some satisfying chores, what the hell.

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