CHICAGO-AREA FOOD CO-OPS TO SPONSOR SCREENING
SEE THE CO-OP WARS IN DULUTH!
Gratitude for Willie Murphy, Minnesota Music Legend
JOIN US FOR A FREE Q&A AT THE MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL!
THE CO-OP WARS TO PREMIERE AT THE MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL!
Approaching 2021 with Gratitude, Trepidation and Hope
As 2021 dawns, we are filled with hope and trepidation for our country. As a dangerous administration ends, a COVID-19 vaccine is rolled out, and ongoing efforts at racial justice gain traction, we can see real hope that brighter days are in our future. But the lies and hate mongering that led to the recent insurrection at our nation’s capital will have long-lasting effects that are difficult to contemplate.
A New Title and Exciting Collaborators, Including Peter Coyote!
To Boycott or Not?
Food Co-ops have a history of supporting product boycotts as a way to encourage social justice in the food system. But as they grow, co-ops can become more hesitant to endanger relationships with major suppliers and remove popular products. PCC Natural Markets, the largest natural food cooperative in the US, has been facing picketers for several months after refusing to honor the boycott of Driscoll’s berries...
Minneapolis Helps the Co-op Economy Grow
Twin Cities Co-ops Again Consider Merger
Three Twin Cities food co-ops are considering merging into one, evoking memories of the last big proposed co-op consolidation in town. In 1993, five co-ops (The Wedge, Seward, Mississippi Market, Lakewinds, and River Market) considered a merger that would have created a single co-op with 4000 members (huge at the time)...
CO-OP WARRIORS SEEK RECONCILIATION AND UNDERSTANDING
Cooperative Ice Pops for All!
“From the beginning, co-ops have been about social change"
Generation Food Truck
Our Life Support
Affordable Food vs. Living Wages
Bringing Youth Into Leadership from the Local to the International
Making Radical Roots, we’ve focused on the vibrant youth culture that created the natural food co-ops in the 1970s, but also wanted to know how youth are involved in co-ops today. Luckily, we know Emily Lippold Cheney, who has dedicated herself to engaging young people in cooperatives from the very local level to the biggest international stages.
Standing Tall for Co-ops
One name we kept hearing and reading while doing research for Radical Roots was Kris Olsen. Kris was a dedicated co-op activist who popped up all over our story: befriending Moe Burton while helping out the Bryant-Central Co-op, being physically thrown out of Seward Co-op by the CO (they needed a bunch of guys - Kris was very tall!)...
