This week’s Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Sherose Badruddin. A local volunteer and the driving force behind the “Buy Nothing Project” in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, Badruddin is a person who consistently works to make our community better.

Specifically, Sherose is a volunteer at the “Carrboro Really Really Free Market” which operates at the Carrboro Town Commons. The best way to explain the market is in their own words:

Well, this is not your typical market because there will be no purchasing, selling or exchanging. People will be coming and going, bringing, giving and taking, in this ultimate exercise in recycling. Bring, or don’t bring, all the things you do not use or need. Take, or don’t take, all the things you find useful or are needed. This is a fabulous display of anarchist economics.

WHAT TO EXPECT:
~musicians (feel free to bring your own instruments and voice to join the folks we asked to play)
~free haircuts (by folks who can do wonders)
~bike repair (and teach-ins on how to fix your bike when it breaks later…)
~craft tables
~spoken word poetry (bring your personal work or work by your favorite writers
~winter coat drive
~anti-oppression talks
~updates on
~free literature (whether its academic or radical or both)