About DeCleyre
DeCleyre is a collective of community minded souls. DeCleyre serves as a hub for grassroots activism in Memphis and the surrounding area. We grow food here. We provide space for community meetings. The communal room  is large enough to accomodate meetings of 10-20 people. We hope to offer a summer program and will engage in around the year educational projects such as community theater and monthly workshops. We have one of the most progressive collection of books in Memphis (and we lend them out). This barely scratches the surface. To really expirence DeCleyre come on by.

History of DeCleyre
DeCleyre is a living organism and is constantly evolving in order to fit the needs of the community. DeCleyre was founded as a vegetarian/anarchist collective house in 1998. Many community initiaves have been birthed here including the Bike Coop and the Media Coop.

Who is Voltarine Declerye
From 1890 thru 1910, Voltairine de Cleyre was one of the most popular and renown anarchists in the United States. She was a prolific writer and lecturer on such issues as religion, secularist freethought, marriage, women's sexuality during the Victorian age, the role of crime and punishment in society, prison abolition, anarchist thought and it's relationship to American traditions, anti-capitalism and class struggle, and suffrage and women's liberation.
She was one of the most eloquent and consistent critics of unbridled political power, the subjugation of the individual, the dehumanization of labor, and the debasement of culture; and with her vision of a decentralized libertarian society, based on voluntary cooperation and mutual aid, she has left a legacy to inspire new generations of idealists and reformers.