Retail Trade

Building a Community Co-op Grocery

Ethan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:21:14 -0400

People in a small North Dakota town are working to buy their local grocery store and turn it into a community-owned cooperative.

The People's Grocery: Developing a Worker-Owned Community Grocery Store

Ethan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:58:16 -0500

People's Grocery is making speedy progress from a mobile organic food service cooperative towards developing a worker-owned cooperative grocery store in West Oakland in which local food and sustainable agriculture will be prioritized in a community health model centered on nutrition education for low-income residents of the community. At the same time, the cooperative is taking their business development goal beyond the single cooperative grocery store to a broader community development initiative focused on establishing a commercial and health service complex.

Anarchist Collective Around the Corner

Ethan — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:54:55 -0500

The Lucy Parsons Center in Boston is a nonprofit, collectively-run radical bookstore and community meeting space. By Pat Tarantino.