Das Camp-ital–Kids overthrow bosses on 'Capitalism Day'

Workers at a munitions factory in Almosnino walked out last Wednesday, joining an anti-war protest nearby. The combined strikers and protesters later stormed the factory after a scuffle with police who were trying to arrest a crowd that was blocking a truck from leaving the factory. Workers immediately held a meeting inside their occupied factory and unanimously voted to suspend production of weapons and switch to the production of solar panels. Later that day, the people of Almosnino, reeling from economic woes and unable to pay for food, convinced the chief of police to cede power and allow a population without money to eat for free. This was the culmination of a daylong social experiment, practiced once a year by Shomria summer camp. Shomria, located outside the small town of Liberty, New York and open to children aged eight to 15, is run by Hashomer Hatzair, a Socialist Zionist youth movement in Israel, the U.S. and Canada. Once per summer, the camp runs a 'Yom Capitalism' (Hebrew for 'Capitalism Day') in which the entire camp simulates a town with a free market economy. The remarkably realistic exercise comes complete with a bank, government offices and printed money in a make-believe town named Almosnino.