Monday, October 4, 2021

The Co-Op Wars - the new documentary on the Minneapolis Cooperative Food Farm "revolution"

 https://www.tpt.org/co-op-wars/?utm_source=Friends+of+Radical+Roots&utm_campaign=8054486d0b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_22_05_29_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c7195c06a4-8054486d0b-482337493

 I was happy to discover I knew several people in this documentary. Some people I know "of" more so - but others I had seen around a lot and others I had talked to.

 Watch the full documentary there.

Essentially a Maoist Cult tried to violently take over the co-ops - and succeeded to some extent at first. They thought selling sugar and junk food was more working class. haha.

The Maoist Cult dynamic continued on in Minneapolis - and the FBI even infiltrated the Maoist Cult around 2008 and afterwords....That's when I left the Minneapolis for good - 2009. My activist friends had gotten "pre-arrested" before the 2008 Republican National Convention... - from their cell phones being tracked.

So kind of funny that not much had changed since the 1960s!!

Meanwhile the cooperatives - with MORE in MInneapolis than any other city of the U.S. - did link up to many local farms as a new regional economy. And there is even a cooperative "lending" bank out of Minneapolis - that started out of the food cooperatives.

I think it's more of the connection to the farm land that is more important since cities are parasitical of ecology. The working class fetish is now ending due to abrupt global warming and the ecological crisis.


 



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