• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “let’s open a community-run vegan art cafe to promote understanding between diverse social groups”.

    It wasn’t a vegan art cafe, but the town I grew up in opened a community-run “Peace and Justice Center” that was a direct evolution from the protest camp that was set up at the start of the 1992 Iraq war. It lasted about 2 months because they had no idea what a peace and justice center was supposed to do. They did let several homeless people sleep there in violation of zoning regulations, though.