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An anarchist community bookstore had the best response to getting robbed

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An anarchist community bookstore had the best response to getting robbedFirestorm Bookstore Co-op is a collectively-owned radical bookstore and community event space in Asheville, North Carolina that describes itself as an essentially anti-capitalist business, in as much as they can be.
And on May 7, someone smashed their through their window and robbed the cash register.
“Hopefully they also took a good book, because they definitely didn’t leave with a lot of money,” they said on Facebook.
“Y’all, the anarchist bookstore is not sitting on piles of cash.
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