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Salon Mazal - an information distribution centre for social change

(You can read more about us on Wikipedia)

Salon Mazal is a unique center in Israel, spreading information and raising awareness of a wide variety of issues related to social change, including human rights, animal rights, the environment, globalization, social and economic oppression, consumerism, feminism and gender issues and many more.

Salon Mazal has a lending library, a shop and a space for meetings, lectures, workshops and film screenings. Salon Mazal is run by an open, non-hierarchical collective of volunteers.

Activities at Salon Mazal:

Library: Salon Mazal has a lending and reference library which includes thousands of books in a variety of subjects related to social change. The idea behind it is to enable people to read books without encouraging them to buy. This way, the library creates an alternative to the existing consumer culture.

Events: workshops, lectures, film screenings, group discussions and meetings on different subjects are held about three times a week. They are open to the public and are free of charge. For some, these events are the first encounter with new issues and ways of actions.

We sometimes hold events in English - check our Events page for details.

Publications: We print and publish materials on a variety of subjects, for example: a DIY guide, a guide on wise consumerism, a translated booklet on permaculture, translated anarchist texts, booklets on feminism for men and women and more.

Promoting the Fair Trade Project: Salon Mazal is one of the distribution points for fair trade products in Israel (coffee, cocoa and olive oil), which we sell at our shop. The market for these products is still very small in Israel, mainly due to lack of awareness. We also offer olive oil from Palestinian farmers in Tul-Karem, olive oil soaps from Palestinian farmers in Budrus. The products are imported by Green Action and their production avoids the exploitation of workers or environmental damage. In addition, we distribute flyers and booklets on fair trade and hold lectures on the subject.

Local products: Salon Mazal is one of the only places where self made products and self published books can be distributed. We encourage people to contact us and sell their products, including artwork, books, poetry books, homemade jams, deodorants, self made political t-shirts and other products made by individuals. In this way we encourage local, non-industrial production and support local independent producers.

A meeting point for activists: Salon Mazal provides a space for study, organization, meeting, planning and working on initiatives and projects for social change. We offer this space free of charge. Many groups have used the space over the years for their meetings, including: Anarchists Against the Wall, Indymedia - an Independent Media Group, One struggle, Woman for Woman, Kelaf (The Lesbian Feminist Community), A garden for Peace, The Coexistence Forum in the Negev, The Community Advocate, Shatil - Mixed Cities Project, The Center for Alternative Knowledge and The Committee against House Demolition, the Alternative youth summer camp, New Profile and many more.

Other Projects: We occasionally run other projects on various topics of interest, such as youth group meetings, Arabic lessons, DIY workshops, a reading group of anarchist texts and more.

Contact us by email: Mazal.salon@gmail.com

Our address: 50 Salame Street, Tel Aviv

Tel: +972-3- 6297734

These days Salon Mazal is facing serious financial difficulties that are likely to lead to its closure in the near future. The foundation that established Salon Mazal and supported it initially is no longer active, and so we make every effort to raise funds by other means. We have recently moved to a cheaper part of Tel Aviv, and we work hard to raise funds from various sources, and yet at the current state of things, these efforts can only save us till the end of the summer.

All donations are very gratefully appreciated.

Here are the ways to donate:

You can come to the center and donate in cash or a check. Our address is:

50 Salame Street, Tel-Aviv.

You can deposit money in the Salon’s bank account:

Bank Discount

Branch: 016 (Allenby branch)

Account number: 451509

Account name:

MERKAZ LEHAFATZAT MEIDA LESHINUY HEVRATI

(Please inform us by email: mazal.salon@gmail.com if you deposit money into the account, so we can track the fund raising).

You can send us a check in the mail.