About the Crossroads Infoshop & Radical Bookstore
The Crossroads Infoshop & Radical Bookstore is a worker-owned and volunteer-run nonprofit located in Kansas City, Missouri's "East Side." We are a bookstore featuring progressive, radical, and anarchist books, magazines, and other materials. We have a large selection of fiction books. We carry both new and used books on a variety of topics. We are also an infoshop, so we provide information about the community, radical politics, current events, and resources available in the city. We have a lending and browsing library. Finally, we also serve as a community center and activist organizing center. Please feel free to contact us about hosting meetings or events.
Our history
The seed that grew into the current infoshop and bookstore project was planted in 2002-2003 by a group of Kansas City residents who came together to form a project they called the "RECC Center." Much organizing was put into that project, but it never opened at an actual location. The people involved in this proto-infoshop and community center went on to form the Crossroads Infoshop project.
Our current location at the front of 3109 Troost is actually our third location over the past four years. Our first incarnation was at 19th and Locust, next door to the late MoMo Gallery in the Crossroads District. The infoshop first opened in July 2004 and closed at the end of June 2005. We were homeless for a year before re-opening in a small room at 3109 Troost in July 2006. We moved into our new space at 3109 Troost in April 2007. The remodeling project on our new space has been happening all summer. On September 15, 2007 the project will host a grand re-opening party.