Our History

You can read a about the ongoing history of Treasure City here, which will include a basic time-line of events, how we started the project and the mistakes we made, in case you are interested in creating something similar.

- Press Quotes about Treasure City

- Listings

- Some of our Inspiration

These are links to some groups, movements. books and events that have inspired us in forming Treasure City Thrift and other grassroots, collective projects in Austin, TX.

Affinity Group Organizing
AK Press
Anarchist Soccer
Anti-Globalization Movement
Austin Spokes Council
Battle of Seattle (1999 WTO Protests)
Black Panther's Free Breakfast for Children Program
Black Panther Party
Brown Berets
The Cooperative Movement
Common Ground Relief
Cream City Collective
Consensus decision-making
Crimethinc
Deacons for Defense
East Bay Depot
Educators for Change
Firebrand Community Center (TN)
Free Stores/Shops
Globalize Liberation, the book
Haymarket Affair & Mayday
Horizontalism, the book
WW2 Italian Partisan Movement
KPWR Community Radio, Austin
Liberty Hall (OR)
Mondragon Cooperative Movement, Spain
Monkeywrench Books, Austin
Network of Bay Area Worker Coops
NYMAA (New York Metro Alliance of Anarchists) Organizational Structure
Olympia Free School (WA)
Invitation Document for the Portland Alliance of Worker Collectives
Radical Encuentro Camp, Texas
Really Really Free Market
Really Really Free Market on wikipedia
Rhizome Collective, Austin
San Francisco Diggers
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) / The Weather Underground
Spanish Anarchists
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Maquis
US Federation of Worker Owned Coops
Women's Action to Gain Economic Security
We Build the Road as We Travel, the book
Wikia: a wiki set up to change politics
Worker Coperatives
Yellow Bike Project, Austin
Young Lords
Zapatistas & Zapatismo
Zapatistas' Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle