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{{Short description|Anarchist bookshop in San Francisco}}
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'''Bound Together Bookstore Collective''' is an [[anarchist]] [[bookstore]] located at 1369 [[Haight Street]] in the [[Haight-Ashbury]] neighborhood of [[San Francisco]].<ref name=dianafan/>
| name = Bound Together
| image = Bound Together - shopfront sign in 2017.jpg
| caption = The storefront, 2017
| type = Anarchist collective
| purpose = Anarchist bookstore
| founded = 1976
| headquarters = 1369 [[Haight Street]]
| location_city = [[San Francisco]]
| location_country = United States
| coords = {{Coord|37.7702|-122.4447|display=inline,title}}
| region_served = San Francisco Bay Area
| website = {{URL|https://boundtogether.org}}
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[[File:Bound Together - bookshelves in 2011.jpg|thumb|Inside the bookstore, 2011]]


'''Bound Together''' is an [[anarchist]] [[bookstore]] and visitor attraction on [[Haight Street]] in the [[Haight-Ashbury]] neighborhood of [[San Francisco]]. Its [[Lonely Planet]] review in 2016, commenting on its multiple activities, states that it "makes us tools of the state look like slackers".<ref name=lonely>{{cite web|title=Books in The Haight & Hayes Valley: Bound Together Anarchist Book Collective |url=https://www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/san-francisco/shopping/bound-together-anarchist-book-collective/a/poi-sho/383811/1329645 |publisher=[[Lonely Planet]] |quote=Since 1976 this volunteer-run, nonprofit anarchist bookstore has kept free thinkers supplied with organic permaculture manuals, prison literature and radical comics, while coordinating the annual spring Anarchist Book Fair and restoring its 'Anarchists of the Americas' storefront mural – makes us tools of the state look like slackers. |access-date=November 30, 2016}}</ref> The bookstore carries new and used books as well as local authors.{{r|lithub}}
It was founded in 1976 and operated at the corner of Hayes St. and Ashbury St. from then until 1983. One of the early members was Joey Cain.<ref name=dianafan>{{cite web|url=http://hoodline.com/2015/02/bound-together-a-look-inside-haight-street-s-anarchist-bookstore |title=Bound Together: A Look Inside Haight Street's Anarchist Bookstore |author=Diana Fan |date=February 5, 2015 |accessdate=November 30, 2016 }}</ref> It was named "Bound Together Bookstore" during the 1976-83 period, then took on the formal name "Bound Together: An Anarchist Collective Bookstore".<ref name=found>{{cite web |title=Bound Together: An Anarchist Collective Bookstore |author=Primary Source (pen-name) |accessdate=November 30, 2016 |url=http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Bound_Together:_An_Anarchist_Collective_Bookstore |publisher=Found}}</ref>


The bookstore is run by a volunteer collective that includes "lifers" who have held shifts there for decades.<ref name=lithub>{{Cite web |last1=Murphy |first1=Dwyer |title=In Search of the Radical Bookstores of Old San {{sic|Fra|nciso|nolink=y}}|work=[[Literary Hub]] |date=2016-11-18 |url=https://lithub.com/in-search-of-the-radical-bookstores-of-old-san-franciso/ |language=en-US |access-date=2020-10-06 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Bound Together coordinated the first [[Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair]] in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Marech |first1=Rona |title=San Francisco: Authority a four-letter word at this book fair / Anarchists find common ground at S.F. get-together |work=[[SFGate]] |date=2005-03-27 |url=https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/SAN-FRANCISCO-Authority-a-four-letter-word-at-2720043.php |language=en-US |access-date=2020-10-06 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> It sends books to jails through the Prisoners' Literature Project.{{r|lithub}} A mural outside the bookshop, originally painted in the 1990s by Susan Greene and periodically updated, is titled ''Anarchists of the Americas'' and depicts [[American anarchists]] including [[Voltairine de Cleyre]], [[Emma Goldman]], and [[Sacco and Vanzetti]],{{r|lithub}} as well as a member's cats.<ref name=Weekly>{{Cite web |last1=Curiel |first1=Jonathan |title=Know Your Street Art: Bound Together |work=[[SF Weekly]] |date=2018-03-08 |url=https://www.sfweekly.com/culture/know-your-street-art-bound-together/ |access-date=2020-10-06 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Members of the collective may if they choose put out a chalked sign with a slogan when they are working in the store, and the interior is papered with old posters.<ref name=Weekly/>
Members of the collective started the '''Prisoners Literature Project''' which has sent books to imprisoned persons for more than 30 years, as of 2016.<ref name=dianafan/><ref name=prisonlit>{{cite web|url=http://www.prisonlit.org/ |title=Prisoners Literature Project}}</ref>


It was founded as "Bound Together Bookstore" in 1976 in a former drugstore at the corner of Hayes and Ashbury Streets by a collective that included Richard Tetenbaum and Joey Cain.<ref name=dianafan>{{cite web|url=http://hoodline.com/2015/02/bound-together-a-look-inside-haight-street-s-anarchist-bookstore |title=Bound Together: A Look Inside Haight Street's Anarchist Bookstore |first=Diana |last=Fan |date=February 5, 2015 |access-date=November 30, 2016 |work=Hoodline}}</ref><ref name=Found>{{cite web |url=https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Bound_Together:_An_Anarchist_Collective_Bookstore |title=Bound Together: An Anarchist Collective Bookstore |website=Found SF |access-date=October 29, 2020 }}</ref> In 1983 it moved to Haight Street and was renamed "Bound Together: An Anarchist Collective Bookstore".<ref name=Found/> Like other small businesses in San Francisco, the collective has been affected by rising costs: their rent increased twelvefold between 1983 and 2004.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Edge |first1=Brian |title=924 Gilman: The Story So Far |date=2004 |isbn=978-0-9755680-0-2 |publisher=[[Maximum Rocknroll]] |page=324 }}</ref> Bound Together is among the independent bookstores included on the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''{{'s}} [[49-Mile Scenic Route]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Peter |last=Hartlaub |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/culture/article/A-49-Mile-Scenic-Drive-teardown-Neighborhoods-in-14836303.php |title=A 49 Mile Scenic Drive teardown: Neighborhoods in and golf courses out on new route |newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |date=November 15, 2019 |access-date=October 29, 2020 }}</ref>
It hosts the annual '''Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair'''.<ref name=wordpress>{{cite web|url=https://boundtogetherbooks.wordpress.com/ |title=Bound Together Anarchist Collective Bookstore | publisher=Bound Together Bookstore Collective |accessdate=November 30, 2016}}</ref>


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==External links==
==External links==
*[https://boundtogetherbooks.wordpress.com/ Bound Together Anarchist Collective Bookstore], wordpress site
* {{Commons category-inline|Bound Together Anarchist Collective Bookstore}}
* {{official website|https://boundtogether.org}}
*[https://www.facebook.com/BoundTogetherBooks/ Bound Together Books], Facebook site


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Latest revision as of 00:25, 11 November 2023

Bound Together
Founded1976
TypeAnarchist collective
PurposeAnarchist bookstore
Headquarters1369 Haight Street
Location
Coordinates37°46′13″N 122°26′41″W / 37.7702°N 122.4447°W / 37.7702; -122.4447
Region served
San Francisco Bay Area
Websiteboundtogether.org
Inside the bookstore, 2011

Bound Together is an anarchist bookstore and visitor attraction on Haight Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Its Lonely Planet review in 2016, commenting on its multiple activities, states that it "makes us tools of the state look like slackers".[1] The bookstore carries new and used books as well as local authors.[2]

The bookstore is run by a volunteer collective that includes "lifers" who have held shifts there for decades.[2] Bound Together coordinated the first Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair in 1995.[3] It sends books to jails through the Prisoners' Literature Project.[2] A mural outside the bookshop, originally painted in the 1990s by Susan Greene and periodically updated, is titled Anarchists of the Americas and depicts American anarchists including Voltairine de Cleyre, Emma Goldman, and Sacco and Vanzetti,[2] as well as a member's cats.[4] Members of the collective may if they choose put out a chalked sign with a slogan when they are working in the store, and the interior is papered with old posters.[4]

It was founded as "Bound Together Bookstore" in 1976 in a former drugstore at the corner of Hayes and Ashbury Streets by a collective that included Richard Tetenbaum and Joey Cain.[5][6] In 1983 it moved to Haight Street and was renamed "Bound Together: An Anarchist Collective Bookstore".[6] Like other small businesses in San Francisco, the collective has been affected by rising costs: their rent increased twelvefold between 1983 and 2004.[7] Bound Together is among the independent bookstores included on the San Francisco Chronicle's 49-Mile Scenic Route.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Books in The Haight & Hayes Valley: Bound Together Anarchist Book Collective". Lonely Planet. Retrieved November 30, 2016. Since 1976 this volunteer-run, nonprofit anarchist bookstore has kept free thinkers supplied with organic permaculture manuals, prison literature and radical comics, while coordinating the annual spring Anarchist Book Fair and restoring its 'Anarchists of the Americas' storefront mural – makes us tools of the state look like slackers.
  2. ^ a b c d Murphy, Dwyer (November 18, 2016). "In Search of the Radical Bookstores of Old San Franciso [sic]". Literary Hub. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  3. ^ Marech, Rona (March 27, 2005). "San Francisco: Authority a four-letter word at this book fair / Anarchists find common ground at S.F. get-together". SFGate. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  4. ^ a b Curiel, Jonathan (March 8, 2018). "Know Your Street Art: Bound Together". SF Weekly. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  5. ^ Fan, Diana (February 5, 2015). "Bound Together: A Look Inside Haight Street's Anarchist Bookstore". Hoodline. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
  6. ^ a b "Bound Together: An Anarchist Collective Bookstore". Found SF. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
  7. ^ Edge, Brian (2004). 924 Gilman: The Story So Far. Maximum Rocknroll. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-9755680-0-2.
  8. ^ Hartlaub, Peter (November 15, 2019). "A 49 Mile Scenic Drive teardown: Neighborhoods in and golf courses out on new route". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
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