Mill City Co-op

Two Ways to Peace: Draft Resistance and Co-ops

Two Ways to Peace: Draft Resistance and Co-ops

Many of the people who started the first natural food co-ops had cut their teeth in, or at least been inspired by, two other movements: the Civil Rights movement and the movement against the Vietnam War. Dave Gutknecht, longtime editor of Cooperative Grocer, was instrumental in the Twin Cities Draft Information Center, which was founded in 1967 and destroyed by a bomb blast soon after...