Food
Fed by the Mob
Sowing Seeds of Farm Co-op In Detroit
by John Gallagher for Common Dreams
The Mo' Green Town proposal by New York City activist Majora Carter just might hit the sweet spot in Detroit urban agriculture.
Carter visited Detroit recently to talk up her plan to create a worker-owned urban agriculture cooperative venture. By pooling the efforts of numerous small growers in Detroit, it would attempt to grow big enough to generate real profits and a return for investors. But it would be run by local community growers themselves.
Co-opted: The Fall Of The Natural Foods Cooperative And What We Can Do About It
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by Bob St.Peter
Mandela Foods Cooperative, opened June 6, West Oakland
West Oakland welcomes co-op's healthy foods
from Carolyn Said of the San Francisco Chronicle
Eight local residents are worker-owners who make all the store's business decisions and perform all its functions - including cashiering, stocking shelves, cleaning, taking inventory and ordering.
The Replication of Arizmendi Bakery: A Model of the Democratic Worker Cooperative Movement
By Joe Marraffino, Arizmendi Development and Support Cooperative
Since the mid-1990s a group of worker cooperative organizers in the San Francisco Bay Area has been developing a new model for cooperative development. Our organization, the Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives, is a network, incubator, and technical assistance provider that is owned, governed, and funded by the member workplaces it creates and serves. Our primary activity is to replicate and offer continuing support to new retail bakeries based on a proven cooperative business model.
Linking the Global and the Local: Seikatsu's Vision
By Yvonne Poirier
Editors' note: Yvon Poirier is an editor of the International Newsletter on Sustainable Local Development, from which this article is copied. The Japanese Seikatsu Club Consumers' Co-Operative Union was the subject of both the spring and summer issues of GEO (#s 12 and 13) in 1994. Seikatsu has grown since then to include 290,000 households. It is notable for its combination of worker and consumer co-ops, its insistence on high food quality, and for its direct involvement in local politics in the Tokyo area. Yvon comments that the current conservative government is doing all it can to undermine co-ops and other similar sectors.
The People's Grocery: Developing a Worker-Owned Community Grocery Store
Harmony Agricultural Cooperative Fights Exclusion In Brazil
What Will We Eat When the Oil Runs Out?
