The Really Really Free Market (RRFM) movement is a horizontally organized collective of individuals who form a temporary
The first known Really, Really Free Market took place at a Food Not Bombs meal in Christchurch, New Zealand, as a protest to a meeting on free trade.[when?
The first Really Really Free Market in the United States happened simultaneously in Miami, Florida, and Raleigh, North Carolina, during the anti-globalization protests against the
The movement has taken root in dozens of cities in the United States, with some holding one-time events, annual, bi-monthly, and even monthly markets. 2023 Really Really FREE Markets were held in Portland, OR, San Antonio, TX, Anaheim, CA, and elsewhere.
In 2023 the Really Really FREE Market is being hosted every 2nd Saturday at 621 E. 4th Street.[1][2][3]
Held in 2023 at alternating parks, either Travis Park or Pitman-Sullivan park on the last Saturday of the month.[4]
As recently as 2022, attendees enjoy the market on the last Saturday of every month at Gateway Discovery Park
Held on the last Sunday of the month at La Palma park. First active in 2008.[5]
The San Francisco Really Really Free Market was co-organized by local activist Kirsten Brydum until her death in 2008.[8] From around 2007 until 2010, it was hosted on the last Saturday of every month in Mission Dolores Park.[9][4] During 2007–2010 local organizers distributed "seed packets": CDs with a collection of digital flyers, announcements, pictures, and essays. This was part of the ongoing effort to encourage others to start their own RRFM.[10]
the SF RRFM was revived for a one-time market in May, 2022.[6]
Held on the last Saturday of the month at Bayview Park. First active in 2023.[7][11]
The RRFM has been known to sprout up in Bunbury, Australia as recently as 2022.[8][9]
It has also been hosted in Kingston in 2022, and is one is being held in Melbourne in 2023 at the Catalyst Social Centre.
The Singapore Really Really Free Market began around January 2009 and is still being hosted as of August, 2023.[10][11][12][13][14]
The first Russian Really Really Free Market was organized in Moscow in 2008. The original name of RRFM was changed to "Freemarket" or "Absolutely Free Fair". Since that time, the idea of RRFM has spread widely across the Russian Federation. Participants of the movement arrange regular meetings in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Ivanovo, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Belgorod, Kirov, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Vologda, Volgograd, Tolyatti, Volzhsky, Petrozavodsk.
Due to the often-harsh Russian climate the markets usually take place indoors, but summer meetings often occur in public parks, yards of apartment houses or city squares. In Ivanovo, for instance, the first free fair was held in Yesenin Square on 19 June 2011, but as winter set in, the RRFM meetings were moved to the reference room of the Regional Public library.
RRFMs in Russia are often accompanied by master classes in handiwork such as mehndi, hairdressing, and making stencils for textile printing; lectures on social and ecological problems; and the collection of secondary raw materials and charity fundraising to aid animal shelters.
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