User:Гармонический Мир/Alternative information centre

The alternative information centres were a feature of the anarcho-pacifist attempt at social engineering from the bottom up which took place from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s and which was referred to as the alternative society. One of these centres was in West London and was called BIT, a name which is a pun on the computer term for the smallest possible unit of information and 'Beta IT' as it was started by activists allied to "International Times". Another centre was in east London and was called simply East. The one in Manchester was called M.A.G.I.C. (Manchester Alternative General Information Centre) and there was also one in Glastonbury, Somerset.

The centres were promoted through the underground press alongside of the drugs information centre at Release. The clip seen in the image above is the Community Services listing from International Times of September 1971 and shows listed the following alternative information centres:

Amsterdam: Release
Brighton: Bit by Bit
Bristol: Buzz
Cardiff: Rib
Cornwall: Ohm
Devon: Ark/Dwarves
Glasgow: Gap
Hull: Outsider Projects
Lancaster: Shop
Leeds: Lip
Lincoln: Oasis
Liverpool: Open Projects
London: Advise, Agitprop, BIT, Nightline, Release
Manchester: Magic
Preston: (no name listed, only a phone number)
Portsmouth: Community Advice
Rochdale: Axis
Stoke-on-Trent: Cleveland Wrecking Yard
Uxbridge: Unit One