In January 2026, the owner of the Minneapolis café Modern Times announced that the café would suspend all prices and operate exclusively on donations, as a means of ceasing to supporting a community under siege and ceasing to pay sales tax to the government that was carrying out Operation Metro Surge.

We examine the successes and shortfalls of this experiment in building alternative economic power and counteracting informal forms of racial segregation.

https://crimethinc.com/postmoderntimes