A very few corporations make nearly every product we buy.......Behold:

[Cleita]

6. I'm not organizing anything like this myself. I'm too old and lack the energy, but

I'm throwing out the idea in case some of the Occupy Wall Street people might want to try this. It wouldn't make a dent at first, but I think it could become a movement that might catch on. If some younger people did put something like this together in my area, I would participate though. I also live in a semi-rural area. We do have farmers markets, but they are very commercial too. I would like to see people arrive with the extra produce they have grown at these swap meets as well and trade for goods they like. The key is not to exchange money. Once you do that, it becomes commercial. Sure, there are the things we still will have to buy at the stores like batteries, paper products, etc., but there is so much that we don't have to buy and can supply ourselves locally if we try.