Wooden Shoe Books and Records

Wooden Shoe Books and Records Non-profit, all-volunteer, anarchist bookstore. http://www.woodenshoebooks.com/home.html
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The Wooden Shoe is an all-volunteer collectively-run Infoshop located in Philadelphia, PA that seeks to embody the principles of anarchism and other movements for social justice. We strive to provide our local community with radical and non-traditional sources of written, digital, and spoken information. We wish to be an empowering resource for activism, organizing, art, self-education, dialogue, community-building, and the anti-capitalist struggle.

Come craft with Wooden Shoe volunteers! Bring your fiber arts, your pencils, your paints! Just no glitter please :) Ma...
06/14/2026

Come craft with Wooden Shoe volunteers! Bring your fiber arts, your pencils, your paints! Just no glitter please :)

Masks required and provided. Downstairs!

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: White background with a blue square with crayons and orang triangle with scissors. The Top says, “COMMUNITY CRAFT NIGHT at” followed by the Wooden Shoe logo (orange circle with a person standing on a shoe shaped boat with a black flag, atop a cresting wave).

Bottom left corner says, “”WEDNESDAY , JUNE 17TH 6-7:30PM. Bring your craft and hang out with shoe volunters. Masked. Downstairs @ 704 South St

The Wooden Shoe is ADA accessible excepting the restroom and meetings marked “”downstairs””. All events are masked (provided). Parking is available metered on the street with the two closest paid parking garages at 1457 South St and 545 S 11th St. Public transit bus lines 45 & 47 stop within short walking distance. Please let us know if you have any other accessibility requirements and we will do our best to accommodate.

All events are free, no RSVP required.

704 South St
Philadelphia

06/14/2026

In 2025, the Palestinian Olive Harvest was repeatedly attacked by both illegal Israeli settlers and the Israeli military.  The International Solidarity Movement is a Palestinian-led Movement that supports the resistance to apartheid and ethnic cleansing.  I was an international activist with ISM for two months, and in this presentation I will describe what I saw both across the West Bank during the olive harvest and afterward, during daily life in Masafer Yatta.

En 2025, la cosecha de aceitunas palestina fue atacada reiteradamente, tanto por colonos israelíes como por el ejército israelí. El Movimiento de Solidaridad Internacional es un movimiento liderado por palestinos que apoya la resistencia contra el apartheid y la limpieza étnica.

En esta presentación por un activista internacional con el ISM durante dos meses y, estará describido lo que vio durante la cosecha de aceitunas y después, durante la vida cotidiana en Masafer Yatta.

ID: a black and white photo of a van on a scrub brush background. Lime green letters across the top say “Report-back from Palestine” yellow letters below that say “A description of the 2025 Olive Harvest and conditions in the West Bank from an ISM activist”. Red letters at the bottom read “Thursday 14, 6:00pm Wooden Shoe Books”. In the bottom right corner red letters with a yellow highlight background reads 704 South St, masks required and provided”. Next to those letters to the left is a logo of nesting squares, from the outside in black green white and red. The logo says International Solidarity Movement.

June 11 is International Day of Solidarity with Long-term Anarchist Prisoners. On that day, gross proceeds will be donat...
06/11/2026

June 11 is International Day of Solidarity with Long-term Anarchist Prisoners.

On that day, gross proceeds will be donated to the funds specified by June 11th that go directly to their support.

To find out more about them and what you can do to help, please visit the June 11th website.

We keep us safe! Come to de-escalation training.Image Description: White flyer with black text at the top saying, “De-es...
06/09/2026

We keep us safe! Come to de-escalation training.

Image Description: White flyer with black text at the top saying, “De-escalation Training”. In the center is an illustration of hands holding a poster. The poster, in red text, says, “Red Rabbits X Wooden Shoe Friday June 12th 7-9PM.” Underneath the illustration text reads, “Masks required and provided.”

Wooden Shoe is having an anarchist book club! We meet every two weeks (for now) on Monday nights. DM to sign up for th...
06/05/2026

Wooden Shoe is having an anarchist book club! We meet every two weeks (for now) on Monday nights. DM to sign up for the Discord!

Image Description: green background with off-white lettering and a dotted line curved corners border. The first words of the post are in an oval with filled in circles on either side and read Wooden Shoe Virtual Book Club On then two lines, the first very bold reading Anarchist the next very thin reading Theory. A black square with white letters says 8:30pm every other Monday on the right and a white square with green letters on the left says 1st Read with a picture of the front of the book club book below. The book has a black cover with white letters with a list down the front reading abolish the police, abolish prisons, abolish the state abolish identity, abolish family, abolish racial capitalism, abolish settler colonialism, abolish society. The title of the book is in read letters and reads Surviving the Future. The smaller red letters are the subtitle and read Abolitionist Q***r Strategies. The editors are listed below and the bottom of the book reads Edited by Shuli Branson, Raven Hudson, and Bry Reed and then the next line reads Foreword by Mimi Thi Nguyen. The centter right of the post has 4 dates listed in off white letters: 6/15: “Betraying Institutions” & “Land & Water”; 6/28: “COVID-19 and Q***rness” & “Interlude”; 7/13: “Abolish Cities” & “Reportbacks”; 7/27: “Q***r Archives” & “Making Q***rness”. The last words at the bottom of the post are small and bolded in all caps and read DM for discord and Jitsi links. 20% off book @ the Shoe

Longtime Philadelphia Activist and Organizer Musa Bey has released a new book, Intersections of Class and Race. Come by ...
06/04/2026

Longtime Philadelphia Activist and Organizer Musa Bey has released a new book, Intersections of Class and Race. Come by to meet Musa and learn more about the book and how to build a multinational working class movement.


Musa Bey, activista y organizador en Filadelfia, ha publicado un nuevo libro: *Intersections of Class and Race*. Vengan a conocer a Musa y aprender más sobre el libro sobre cómo construir un movimiento obrero multinacional.

ID: the flyer has a background of a black and white photo of a group of Black people looking into the camera, mostly smiling. In the upper right corner is the black red and white Wooden Shoe logo. In the upper left corner is a gold rectangle with black lettering saying “Roundtable discussion For Philadelphia Activist Musa Bey’s new book Intersections of Class and Race”. In the middle of the background image are two smaller photos. One of an orange and yellow wavy design with “Intersections of Class and Race” in white letters over the face of a woman, and one color photo of Musa Bey with a bullhorn and sweatshirt with words on it. In the lower left corner is another golden rectangle with black words in all caps which reads “Saturday June 6th 5PM - 8PM at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South Street Jitsi link https://bit.ly/4xf1f12i Mask up!”

We’re sorry but the KNOW YOUR RIGHTS event for tonight is canceled. Sorry for any inconvenience. IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Neon...
06/03/2026

We’re sorry but the KNOW YOUR RIGHTS event for tonight is canceled. Sorry for any inconvenience.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Neon green background with white border. In the upper left corner, in large black text, it says: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. Next to that is the National Lawyer Guild’s logo (A white circle with “National Lawyer’s Guild” written around the interior edge, featuring the scales of justice in the middle, the base of which is an L. On the left side of the L is an N, on the right side, a G. A bright green sash covers the upper left side, and it says in white: PHILLY). Below is a text blurb covering the information shared in the past. Below that it says: FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH (3/4, 4/1, 5/6, 6/3) 6-7:30PM @ THE WOODEN SHOE, 704 South St, Philadelphia, PA 19147 Overlayed diagonally across the image in bold black lettering with a white background is “Cancelled for this month!”

Longtime Philadelphia Activist and Organizer Musa Bey has released a new book, Intersections of Class and Race. Come by ...
06/03/2026

Longtime Philadelphia Activist and Organizer Musa Bey has released a new book, Intersections of Class and Race. Come by to meet Musa and learn more about the book and how to build a multinational working class movement.


Musa Bey, activista y organizador en Filadelfia, ha publicado un nuevo libro: *Intersections of Class and Race*. Vengan a conocer a Musa y aprender más sobre el libro sobre cómo construir un movimiento obrero multinacional.

ID: the flyer has a background of a black and white photo of a group of Black people looking into the camera, mostly smiling. In the upper right corner is the black red and white Wooden Shoe logo. In the upper left corner is a gold rectangle with black lettering saying “Roundtable discussion For Philadelphia Activist Musa Bey’s new book Intersections of Class and Race”. In the middle of the background image are two smaller photos. One of an orange and yellow wavy design with “Intersections of Class and Race” in white letters over the face of a woman, and one color photo of Musa Bey with a bullhorn and sweatshirt with words on it. In the lower left corner is another golden rectangle with black words in all caps which reads “Saturday June 6th 5PM - 8PM at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South Street Jitsi link https://bit.ly/4xf1f12i Mask up!”

Description: June Events at the Wooden Shoe!Subject to change. For more info on each event, check our calendar on our we...
06/03/2026

Description: June Events at the Wooden Shoe!
Subject to change. For more info on each event, check our calendar on our website (link in bio) or the specific event posts as they come up. Reminder that all events are masks required and provided. We are ADA compliant on the main floor EXCEPT for the bathroom. There is an air purifier running at all times. Events subject to a capacity of around 45 people on the main floor.

ID: white background with a Pixelated wavy border fading from teal to green to orange to yellow. The events listed go from black text with a green vertical line beside the description to red with an orange vertical line. The top of the image has June in alternating capital and lowercase letters with the same teal to green to orange to yellow fade as the border. There is a green vertical line beside the word June and then in black text reads Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St Philly PA. In the upper right hand corner of the image is a black filled in circle with white letters which reads masks required in all capital letters. The list of events follows vertically below the June heading. It reads as follows: Monday, June 1 @ 8:30pm Anarchist Theory Book Club Planning Meeting. Wednesday, June 3 @ 6pm NLG Know Your Rights Training. Saturday, June 6 @ 5pm Intersections of Class and Race (vertical line) Book event & Discussion in bold letters. Friday. June 12 @ 7pm De-escalation Training with Red Rabbits. Saturday, June 13 @ 1 pm Philly Socialists Reading Group. Sunday, June 14 @ 6 pm Report-Back from Palestine. Wednesday, June 17 @ 6pm Community Craft Night. Friday, June 19 @ 6 pm Lockpick Night. Saturday, June 20 @ 2 pm Philly Tenants Union Eviction Training. Tuesday, June 23 @ 6 pm Land to the Tillers Playtest. Friday, June 26 @ 6 pm PARC First Aid for the People

SIDEWALK MUTINY AUTONOMOUS HUMANS OPPOSING AUTONOMOUS MACHINES!Now that dangerous, surveillance-camera-laden, job-steali...
06/01/2026

SIDEWALK MUTINY
AUTONOMOUS HUMANS OPPOSING AUTONOMOUS MACHINES!
Now that dangerous, surveillance-camera-laden, job-stealing robo-scabs are appearing on the sidewalks and streets of Philly, and it’s up to us to resist. Sidewalkmutiny.org offers some ideas for creative resistance, and a free, printable pamphlet to help to spread the word.

The cover image from the free pamphlet “Mutiny on The Sidewalk”, about resisting the spread of delivery robots. Available at sidewalkmutiny.org

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704 South Street
Philadelphia, PA
19147

Opening Hours

Monday 12pm - 10pm
Tuesday 12pm - 10pm
Wednesday 12pm - 10pm
Thursday 12pm - 10pm
Friday 12pm - 10pm
Saturday 12pm - 10pm
Sunday 12pm - 10pm

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(215) 413-0999

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