Repair
Cafe Pasadena
Repair
Cafe & Really
Really Free Market
Saturday, March 26 —
10:00 a.m. to 1:00
p.m.
Pasadena Senior
Center
85 E. Holly St.,
Pasadena
The Right
to Repair
Repair Cafe was visited
by three interviewers
last month: Pasadena
Now, an independent
journalist and a USC
grad student of Urban
Sustainability. The
movement to repair
things is all around us
and grabbing attention.
This week we heard more
conversation about
growing support for the
concept called “The
Right to Repair.”
Manufacturers who change
screw heads for
electronics to make them
impenetrable without the
proper secret tool–which
they will not provide–or
who refuse to share
owners' troubleshooting
manuals, are being
questioned on their
motives. Could it be
planned
obsolescence? We
have a relationship with
a San Luis organization
online called
iFixit.
They are offering such
elusive tools and
manuals for all to
share. This freely
sharing attitude is the
basis of our work too.
The Repair Cafe
Foundation in the
Netherlands, our mother
organization, sent a
survey to us this week
investigating these
questions, looking for
solutions that may
involve changes in
public policy, consumer
protection, and
protection of repair
people. The responses we
and other Repair Cafes
have submitted will be
analyzed and shared by
The
Center for Sustainable
Design at the
University for the
Creative Arts in
the UK.
We salute you, the folks
who generously share
your repair skills, who
are changing culture,
slowly but surely for
the better...Better for
people, better for the
planet.
Next Repair Cafe
Pasadena is:
3/26 at the Pasadena
Senior Center, 10-1. 85
E Holly St, Pasadena.
Repairs will be accepted
10-noon. The Really,
Really Free Market will
have a sale:
100%
off everything!
Bring something, take
something.
— Therese Brummel
Repair
Café Pasadena