The Jack Pine Community Center is a collectively run, intergenerational free space committed to popular education, anti-oppression, and the fight for justice, liberation, and autonomy. We seek to foster self-expression, self-representation and radical activism by providing a family-friendly space for skill sharing, events, meetings and art.

El Centro Comunitario “Jack Pino” es un espacio gratis y libre, manejado de manera colectiva e intergeneracional. Estamos comprometidos a la educación popular, el ser en contra de la opresión, y la lucha por la justicia, la liberación y la autonomía. Proveyendo un espacio acogedor para toda la familia, para eventos, reuniones, el arte, y el compartir de diversos talentos y destrezas prácticas, queremos fomenter la autoexpresión, la autorepresentación y el activismo radical.

Submissions for the Jack Pine Community Center due April 20

We are putting together a zine about the history of the Jack Pine community center. We do not want to forget about our mistakes, because we should not be doomed to repeat them. We do not want to forget about our successes, because they should be celebrated.

Write about your experiences with or in the Jack Pine, compile anecdotes, draw a picture, scrounge up some photographs, anything...

Send it to info@thejackpine.org, or else email if you have a hard-copy of
your work.

The Jack Pine is Closing its Doors

The Jack Pine Community Center is closing the doors at the end of March. Opened in April 2006 to fill a need for a child-friendly and sober radical space, the Jack Pine set out to be a free space that was specifically anti-oppression. It has hosted meetings, events, skillshares and classes, foodshares, prisoner letter writing nights, Food Not Bombs, a library, and free internet... along with countless hours of ping-pong.

Lacking in sufficient energy to make the Jack Pine financially feasible as well as worthwhile, the Jack Pine collective has decided against renewing our lease, as the space is not sustainable. Just as the Jack Pine is named for a tree that ultimately must be destroyed by fire in order to survive, the time has come.

While it was a Herculean task in itself to keep the Jack Pine open for so long, what we can be proud of is what has filled the space, and what we have nurtured together since the beginning of this project. We would like to celebrate, mourn, and reminiscence over the Jack Pine with you, as well as examine the successes and failures of the project to learn from this experience.

We lie waiting for the next spark that will bring us closer to the world of our dreams, like a sapling rising from the burnt ground.


Come to the Jack Pine Closing Party
Saturday March 22nd
2 pm to 10 pm

If you are interested in being involved with the closing process, submitting to a Jack Pine zine, or helping out, get in touch.

Open Hours

The last official day of open hours at the Jack Pine will be FRIDAY, MARCH 21ST. Leading up to that point open hours will continue to be sporadic due to the lack of open hours volunteers and internet.

Unconventional Minnesota Regional Consulta

March 1st Day 1: @ The Belfry Community Center 3753 Bloomington Ave S, Minneapolis, MN

9:30AM-Introductions/networking
11:00AM-Solidarity March with Protest 2008 Permit gaining actions
1:15PM-RNC Presentation/Discussion/Update
2:30PM-DNC Presentation/Discussion/Update
3:45PM-Street Medic trainings
5:30PM-De-Arresting (@ The future pasture)
6:45PM-Lock Downs/Barricading
8:00PM-Dinner/Networking
9:00PM-RNC WC Fundraiser (Take all capitalists out/Bill Cosby Murder
Project/Sundowners/Thrashganistan/Birthday Pony)

March 2nd Day 2: @ The Jack Pine Community Center 2815 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN

8:00AM-Wake Up/Networking/Breakfast
8:30AM-Hactivism
10:00AM-"Now that this vast network of UA-MN anarchists exists, where do we go from here?" Regional Strategizing session
12:00PM-Legal/Cold Snap Legal Collective
1:30PM-Walking tour of the Xcel Center/Surrounding areas
3:00PM-5:30PM Bring your own workshop/Goodbyes/Get out your organizers time

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Need housing?
Please check in with us at the following address so we can provide enough sleeping spaces and hook everyone up with the necessities they need to plug into this consulta and have a great fucking time. (It also helps us prepare enough food for everyone): burnthroughfear@riseup.net

Know what your getting yourself into with the following addresses:
www.unconventionalaction.org
www.myspace.com/belfrycenter
www.thejackpine.org

Pom Poko - A film screening for Midwest Green Scare day

December 7
5pm
Free, $3-5 suggested donation

Faced with the destruction of their habitat due to the growth of Tokyo, a group of tanuki try to defend their homes. They decide to use their transforming talents to try to hold back the new development. Two of them, especially skilled at transforming, are sent to Shikoku to enlist the help of three sages. Meanwhile, the rest of them do their best to disrupt the construction site, at first causing accidents, and then actually haunting the site. However, the humans are very persistent, and soon the tanuki are forced to use more and more extreme measures to save their home.

Bring your kids!

No Borders Camp Reportback

November 25th
3:30pm


On November 7th, anarchists and anti-authoritarians from the United States and Mexico converged on the U.S.-Mexico border to demand freedom of movement for human beings and an end to the criminalization of migrants. For 5 days, camp participants held a temporary autonomous zone in the face of the U.S. Border Patrol, exchanging ideas, dreams and kisses in the low-intensity war zone separating north from south.

Come to a reportback from the No Borders Camp, presented by local camp participants and Elliott of the New York Metro Alliance of Anarchists (NYMAA) and the New York Anarchist People of Color network (APOC). Iconic photos, riveting stories, and a Q&A to follow.

Taco Dinner

November 30th
7:30pm
The Seward Cafe, 2129 E Franklin Ave, Minneapolis

Help raise money for the Jack Pine by eating vegan/vegatarian tacos and listening to good music!

With music by: