food cooperative

Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet
by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider
Published 14 Aug 2017

The collective and cooperative workplaces emerging from the late-1960s counterculture followed the same neoliberal logic. These alternative institutions were an escape route—a way for those with the requisite privilege to construct bubbles of autonomy, outside the alienating corporate workplace and market. The most prolific and enduring cooperatives of the era were the various food cooperatives that sprung up across the country, quite literally built on the idea of aligning consumer choices with new values. It isn’t that cooperative consumer purchasing can never result in powerful or inclusive collective institutions—Japan’s Seikatsu Cooperative, built largely by women and an influential force in food policy, shows otherwise.

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But where Seikatsu is premised around rejecting “choice” as illusory in favor of a limited set of sustainably farmed staples, the food co-ops of the 1960s (or at least the ones that were viable financially) promoted a mode of opposition to the status quo mediated by consumer choice. Taking stock of this wave of cooperatives in 1979, David Moberg wrote, “Many alternative institutions were rendered relatively harmless as another market choice.” Much as the counterculture technologists unwittingly prepared the way for the corporate Internet, the food cooperative movement largely fueled the commodification of natural and organic food as an upscale market segment, not the development of a just and sustainable food system. The budding movement for platform cooperatives should avoid recapitulating this trajectory. One place to look for guidance can and should be the current wave of cooperative development, which looks very different from its 1960s and ’70s counterpart, especially when it comes to worker cooperative development.

The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism
by Arun Sundararajan
Published 12 May 2016

If you can connect the people who have the assets to people who are willing to pay to rent them, you reduce waste and end up with a more efficient system.19 Internet-enabled marketplaces are one kind of “community” through which the connection Surowecki refers to can be made. But, of course, there are other kinds. In keeping the scope and arguments of the book focused, I have left out a wide variety of sharing activities that are also gaining popularity: among them, food cooperatives, car-sharing cooperatives, time banks, bike-sharing initiatives, co-housing, and co-working. I don’t mean to suggest through this omission that these activities aren’t important or desirable. However, they don’t fall as naturally under my umbrella of crowd-based capitalism. But let’s return now to the examples I have discussed in this chapter.

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Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy
by Nathan Schneider
Published 10 Sep 2018

There may be networked cooperators around you already. The car-sharing nonprofit in my town, for instance, benefits from the software that the Canadian cooperative Modo developed to help its members schedule their reservations. Modo was founded back in 1997. And also well before there was any talk of platform co-ops, in 2008, the High Plains Food Cooperative began making grocery deliveries to Colorado’s Front Range from farms as far away as Kansas, coordinating its long-distance orders online. But these pose little threat to the giants. I can keep my calendars, contacts, and email with May First, but a lot of a day’s work for me still involves feeding data into Facebook Groups, Google Docs, and Slack channels, all for the sake of collaborating.

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The Oil Age Is Over: What to Expect as the World Runs Out of Cheap Oil, 2005-2050
by Matt Savinar
Published 2 Jan 2004

Consider investing in items such as solar-powered lanterns, battery chargers, radios, hot water heaters, laptop chargers, bicycle-powered generators, etc. 9. Consider converting your vehicle to biodiesel. This will provide you with more flexibility as gas prices become prohibitively expensive. 10. Consider taking an organic farming class or joining a local food cooperative. You need to start learning about soil and non-oil-powered agriculture. 11. Begin learning basic emergency medical procedures. 105 The Oil Age is Over 12. Investigate alternative forms of health care such as bioenergetic healing, self-hypnosis, etc. Pharmaceutical-based health care will soon become too expensive for anybody but the super-wealthy. 13.

Paint Your Town Red
by Matthew Brown
Published 14 Jun 2021

The organisation supports new and established co-ops through loan finance, training workshops, practical support, and national gatherings. http://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/ (US) Fifty By Fifty — an initiative of The Democracy Collaborative aiming to catalyze a movement with the knowledge, resources, and skills to grow the number of employee-owners in the U.S. from 10 million to 50 million by 2050. https://www.fiftybyfifty.org/research/employee-ownership-resource-center/ Guides to planning, setting up and running a food cooperative: • https://www.sustainweb.org/foodcoopstoolkit/ • https://platform6.coop/resources • https://www.students.coop/resources/how-to-start-a-food-co-op/ • https://www.noncorporate.org Credit Unions / Community Banking World Council of Credit Unions. http://woccu.org/ Co-operative Bank — ethical banking, loans to cooperatives. www.co-operativebank.co.uk Info on credit unions, community banking and mutuals: • https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/loans/credit-unions/ • https://www.thersa.org/globalassets/bridges-campaign/invest-in-communites/rsa-road-to-resilience-community-banking.pdf • https://www.lowimpact.org/mutual-credit-a-lifeline-for-small-businesses/ Find, join or start a credit union: • https://www.findyourcreditunion.co.uk/ • https://ldn.coop/start-a-co-op/start-a-credit-union/ • https://www.mycreditunion.gov/about-credit-unions/find-join-start Emerging regional community banks: • https://www.avonmutual.org • https://southwestmutual.co.uk/ • https://nwmutual.co.uk/ • https://www.alex-bird.com/banc-cambria/ Housing Confederation of Cooperative Housing — the UK organisation for housing cooperatives, tenant-controlled housing organisations and regional federations of housing co-ops.

The Forgotten Man
by Amity Shlaes
Published 25 Jun 2007

Within a few years the director King Vidor would make a film that offered a similar vision, calling it Our Daily Bread. The message in Our Daily Bread was not only that the land could provide, but also that moving to the country improved the character of corrupt urbanites. In Chicago, Paul Douglas would shortly draw on his Russian experience with food cooperatives to create a system for saving money in his own community: a food co-op. Groups in Hyde Park, the neighborhood around the university, began to purchase food in bulk in order to cut back on prices. But they were so short on cash that even this efficiency did not help them. Douglas advised them to start a co-op retail store for members, or shut down.

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Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home
by Julia Watkins
Published 6 Apr 2020

Rest assured, a simple collection of five to ten herbs is plenty, especially since a smaller collection will allow you to really get to know each herb, including its many uses and versatility. If you garden, you can grow most herbs in your backyard. Some can be wild-foraged, others purchased locally at food cooperatives or natural grocery stores. If you have access to a farmers’ market, you may be able to buy them fresh or dried from local growers. Otherwise, I recommend procuring dried herbs from a trusted online company that supports fair trade and sustainable practices (see Ethics and Sustainability). If you choose to forage herbs, you’ll want to do it safely and sustainably.

How to Be Black
by Baratunde Thurston
Published 31 Jan 2012

By the time I came along, eighty-one years after my great-grandfather had moved to DC, my mother no longer smoked, had mostly given up physically disciplining her children, and would increasingly become committed to an often-annoying health-food diet. I recall her many experiments in healthy eating with some pain. We often shopped at a health-food cooperative, purchasing items like rice cakes; Grape-Nuts cereal, which was essentially gravel; and skim milk, which is like a watered-down version of the milk you know and love. I’ll never forget waiting at the checkout counter of the Takoma Co-op and seeing “carob-covered” doughnuts, which should have been called “infuriatingly not-chocolate” doughnuts.

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
by Oliver Burkeman
Published 9 Aug 2021

I’ve felt it as a member of a community choir, when the sharp and flat tones of amateur voices combine into a perfection that few of the singers involved could attain on their own. (The extraordinary psychological benefits of choral singing, one 2005 study drily concluded, are not reduced “when the vocal instrument is of mediocre quality.”) For that matter, I’ve felt it in settings that are even more mundane—working my monthly shift at the food cooperative, for example, slinging boxes of carrots and broccoli onto the conveyor belt, in time with other workers I barely know but with whom, for a few hours, I share a bond that feels deeper than the one I have with some of my real friends. For a while, it’s as if we’re participating in the communal rhythms of a monastery, in which the synchronized hours of prayer and labor impart coherence and a sense of shared purpose to the day.

Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
by Brett L. Markham
Published 14 Apr 2010

Fruits grown with minimal or no pesticide usage are expensive at the store, and growing your own will put even more money in the bank with minimal effort. Grow Market Crops Especially if you adopt organic growing methods, you can get top-wholesale-dollar for crops delivered to restaurants, organic food cooperatives, and so forth. If your property allows it, you can also set up a farm stand and sell homegrown produce at top retail dollar. According to John Jeavon’s 1986 research described in The Complete 21-Bed Biointensive Mini-Farm, a mini-farmer in the United States could expect to earn $2,079 in income from the space required to feed one person in addition to actually feeding the person.

How Much Is Enough?: Money and the Good Life
by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky
Published 18 Jun 2012

The UK self-sufficiency ratio (which approximates how much of our own food we could produce) is the lowest it has ever been, just below 60 percent; in the 1970s it was consistently between 70 and 80 percent.45 Chain stores have expanded steadily at the expense of local shops, now accounting for over 97 percent of the food retail market.46 In most British main streets, Keynes’s “shops that are really shops” are thinly scattered amidst the “branches of the multiplication table.” Some relief from the monotony is provided by farmers’ markets, organic food cooperatives and the like. But these are just middle-class baubles, the modern equivalent of French courtiers playing at milkmaids. Expensive and precious, they make no dent on the overall trend, which continues relentlessly in the other direction. Chart 14. Marriage and Divorce in the UK Source: ONS Friendship.

What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption Is Changing the Way We Live
by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers
Published 2 Jan 2010

What will become the “Google of exchange”? What will become the American Express of social currencies? In the space of a little more than a decade, we have seen the evolution of traditional banks to social lending marketplaces to completely new forms of peer-to-peer virtual currencies such as VEN. In the food sector, retail food cooperatives have surged in popularity, community-supported agriculture programs have more than tripled, and now through SharedEarth and Landshare, we are seeing people share their own gardens. Even in a specific sector such as car sharing, there has been rapid progress in how we are cooperating. Companies such as Zipcar and Streetcar, where there is a trusted intermediary to orchestrate the sharing of cars we don’t own, have been thriving.

Critical Failures III (Caverns and Creatures Book 3)
by Bevan, Robert
Published 12 Aug 2014

“Are you okay, miss? Did this man hurt you?” Katherine felt a familiar sensation inside her. Something like rage, but more focused. She opened her eyes wide at the stranger. “Lower your weapon right now!” she growled. “As you command, Master.” He bent down and placed the gun on the ground. “And the food,” Cooper whispered to Katherine. “And the food!” The man placed the Taco Bell bag next to the gun. “Do you have a checking account?” “Yes ma’am.” “How much money do you have in there?” “Bout two grand.” “I want you to go home right now and make out a check to the United Negro College Fund for two thousand dollars.

The New Economics: A Bigger Picture
by David Boyle and Andrew Simms
Published 14 Jun 2009

They include the network of cooperatives in Mondragon in Spain, which successfully began substituting their imports with food and products made locally by local people, using local resources after the Second World War, and guided by their local Roman Catholic priest. There are a whole range of innovative local banks, local currencies, food cooperatives and networks that are putting similar ideas into practice. The new economics is still feeling its way towards many of the answers, but it asks challenging questions of the status quo – the ruling elites with their creaking economic ideas – and those questions imply something about where the answers might lie.

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
by Adam Grant
Published 2 Feb 2016

“The 99 Percent”: Srdja Popovic, Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015). insiders and outsiders have distinct ideas about who represents a coalition: Blake E. Ashforth and Peter H. Reingen, “Functions of Dysfunction: Managing the Dynamics of an Organizational Duality in a Natural Food Cooperative,” Administrative Science Quarterly 59 (2014): 474–516. “Keep your friends close”: Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather: Part II, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount Pictures, 1974. Psychologists call them ambivalent relationships: Michelle K. Duffy, Daniel C. Ganster, and Milan Pagon, “Social Undermining in the Workplace,” Academy of Management Journal 45 (2002): 331–51; see also Huiwen Lian, D.

USA's Best Trips
by Sara Benson
Published 23 May 2010

Wipe the crumbs from your mouth, then hop on I-94 south for 30 miles to Hwy 27 south. It meets up with Hwy 14/61 and becomes Main St in Viroqua, an earthy little town that has one of the country’s densest populations of organic farmers, including many Amish. Munch on their wares, and maybe even meet the growers themselves, at the Viroqua Food Cooperative. The surrounding countryside is also a trout-fishing haven, with more than 60 creeks to cast a line, and dotted with distinctive round barns. Stay on Hwy 14 southeast through Richland Center, Frank Lloyd Wright’s birthplace, and into Spring Green. Taliesin, Wright’s home for most of his life and the site of his architectural school, lies 3 miles south via Hwy 23.

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DO Dane County Farmers’ Market All the cheeses, veggies, flowers and breads are made by the folks behind the 150 vendor tables. 608-455-1999; www.dcfm.org; Capitol Sq, Madison, WI; 6am-2pm late Apr-early Nov; Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery It’s one of Wisconsin’s biggest cheese-curd producers; get your squeaks at the co-op’s store. 715-273-4311; www.ellsworthcheesecurds.com; 232 N Wallace St, Ellsworth, WI; 8am-5pm Mon-Fri, to 2pm Sat Fromagination This amazing cheesemonger specializes in artisanal and farmstead hunks from local dairies. 608-255-2430; www.fromagination.com; 12 S Carroll St, Madison, WI; 9:30am-6pm Mon-Fri, 8am-4pm Sat Historic Cheesemaking Center Take a guided tour through the cheesy tools of yesteryear; the building also holds Green County’s visitors center. 608-325-4636; www.nationalhistoriccheesemakingcenter.org; 2108 6th Ave, Monroe, WI; suggested donation $2; 9am-4pm Apr-Oct Lakefront Brewery The microbrewery churns out groovy ales and lagers; the Friday fish fry is a must. 414-372-8800; www.lakefrontbrewery.com; 1872 N Commerce St, Milwaukee, WI; tours $6, fish fry $10; tours 3pm Mon-Sat, fish fry 4:30-9pm Fri; Milwaukee Public Market Wine and ethnic-food vendors fill the sprawling warehouse; big-name chefs do cooking demonstrations, too. 414-336-1111; www.milwaukeepublicmarket.org; 400 N Water St, Milwaukee, WI; 10am-8pm Mon-Fri, 8am-6pm Sat, 10am-6pm Sun National Mustard Museum The wacky sight holds shelf after shelf of the yellowy condiment and weird containers from around the globe. 800-438-6878; www.mustardmuseum.com; 7477 Hubbard Ave, Middleton, WI; admission free; 10am-5pm New Glarus Brewery Learn about Fat Squirrel and Road Slush on the self-guided tour, then swill them. 608-527-5850; www.newglarusbrewing.com, 2400 Hwy 69, New Glarus, WI; tours free, tastings $3.50; 10am-4pm Taliesin It’s the Frank Lloyd Wright mega-sight, with a wide range of guided tours. 608-588-7900; www.taliesinpreservation.org; Hwy 23, Spring Green, WI; tours $16-80; visitors center 9am-5:30pm May-Oct Viroqua Food Cooperative Green and proud of it, the co-op stocks local meats, cheeses and produce. 608-637-7511; www.viroquafood.coop, 609 N Main St, Viroqua, WI; 7am-9pm Mon-Sat, 9am-8pm Sun EAT & DRINK Baumgartner’s Cheese sandwiches and local brewskis rule the tables at this timeless Swiss tavern. 608-325-6157; www.baumgartnercheese.com; 1023 16th Ave, Monroe, WI; sandwiches $4-7; 8am-11pm Butterfly Club It’s a real-deal supper club with classic American fare and crooning entertainment. 608-362-8577; www.butterflyclub.us; 5246 E County Rd X, Beloit, WI; mains $15-24; 5-9:30pm Tue-Thu, 4:30-10pm Fri, 5-10pm Sat, noon-8pm Sun Kopp’s Kopp’s perennially wins Milwaukee’s best frozen custard award, and has a huge variety of rich flavors. 414-961-2006; www.kopps.com; 5373 N Port Washington Rd, Glendale, WI; 10:30am-11:30pm L’Etoile and Cafe Soleil Slow-Food institution L’Etoile serves dinner; Soleil slings daytime’s organic croissants and sandwiches. 608-251-0500; www.letoile-restaurant.com; 25 N Pinckney St, Madison, WI; café mains $8-10, restaurant mains $29-42; cafe 7:30am-1:30pm Mon-Thu, 7:30am-2:30pm Fri & Sat, restaurant varies Tue-Sat Matt’s Bar Bare-bone Matt’s birthed the Jucy Lucy.

The new village green: living light, living local, living large
by Stephen Morris
Published 1 Sep 2007

Ask questions when purchasing food to find out where it’s grown and how it’s transported. Shift your focus to local sustainability.  Move towards seasonal eating to enhance our local farming community and also individual health.  Participate in local community supported agriculture, farmers’ markets, and food cooperatives. Take advantage of the bounty we have in this area and support the financial balance in our community.  Eat less processed food. Not only will this increase your overall health, but less natural resources will be used.  Buy less plastic-wrapped produce.  Support the small family farmers. Encourage the rebirth of food variety and farming knowledge that we are losing at a rapid rate.  Stop before eating the apple from Australia and consider the global impact.

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
by Dina Nayeri
Published 14 Sep 2020

They choose olive oil or sunflower oil, the one they prefer. They don’t have to hurry away with a basket and barter half the items away. I work in the store and observe. The space is clean and whimsically decorated, cheese graters as light fixtures, small plants here and there, vegetables piled in neat rows. It looks like a section of a food cooperative in Brixton. An iPad is the sole point of sale. Volunteers fetch diapers and extra bags from the open storeroom behind the produce. No one worries about theft. Outside a long hallway features art by the camp residents, including a haunting sketch of a laden boat at nighttime, refugees on open water.

Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
by Tim Mohr
Published 10 Sep 2018

If you wanted to create a new society, your goals couldn’t end at the front door. Many of the buildings built playgrounds or opened day cares. The squatted blocks on Mainzer and Kreutziger offered communal meals for elderly neighborhood residents. This new way of life had to work from birth to retirement. There were food cooperatives, bicycle repair facilities, carpentry workshops. And nearly every building housed a bar or “info-café.” Bars and cafés in the squats brought in money, of course, though not much, and the profits were set aside to pay for meals and supplies. More important, the bars and cafés were places to socialize and party together with the wider community.

Discover Great Britain
by Lonely Planet
Published 22 Aug 2012

It’s a sad end for a Victorian marvel upon which the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel once performed. Brighton Pier CHRISTER FREDRIKSSON / LONELY PLANET IMAGES © Eating Infinity Foods Cafe Vegetarian £ (50 Gardner St; mains £3-7; 10.30am-5pm Mon-Sat, noon-4pm Sun) The sister establishment of Infinity Foods wholefoods shop, a health-food cooperative and Brighton institution, serves a wide variety of vegetarian and organic food, with many vegan and wheat- or gluten-free options including tofu burgers, mezze plates and falafel. Food for Friends Restaurant ££ (www.foodforfriends.com; 17-18 Prince Albert St; mains £9-13; lunch & dinner) This airy, glass-sided restaurant attracts the attention of passers-by as much as it does the loyalty of its customers with an ever-inventive choice of vegetarian and vegan food.

Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
by Tim Jackson
Published 8 Dec 2016

It is ultimately services rather than stuff that matters to us, whether this is in nutrition or housing or transport or health care, or education, or leisure. Almost all of our needs can be cast in terms of services.7 Perhaps surprisingly, the seeds for such a transformation already exist, often in local, community-based initiatives or in social enterprise: community energy projects, local farmers’ markets, slow food cooperatives, sports clubs, libraries, community health and fitness centres, local repair and maintenance services, craft workshops, writing centres, outdoor pursuits, music and drama, yoga, martial arts, meditation, gardening, the restoration of parks and open spaces.8 In formal terms, many of these activities tend not to feature too highly on the conventional radar.

City on the Verge
by Mark Pendergrast
Published 5 May 2017

* Her father, Robert Porter, a friendly man who smoked two packs of Camels a day and enjoyed fatty foods, had a massive heart attack at forty-eight but lived another sixteen years. With the coming of the interstate highway and the demolition of Terminal Station in 1972, he could no longer work for the railroad and made a living as a part-time barber and furniture mover. * By 2016, FCS operated six similar Atlanta food cooperatives. * I spent a memorable night on Prospect Avenue, a quiet dead-end street in Ormewood Park. Just up the street, quite by chance, I wandered into the monthly meeting of the Robert Burns Club, the oldest social gathering in Atlanta, at the stone Burns Cottage, a replica of the poet’s birthplace, built in 1911.

The End of Work
by Jeremy Rifkin
Published 28 Dec 1994

Meanwhile, the outplacement firm of Challenger, Gray and Christmas reported that in the first quarter of 1994, layoffs from big corporations were running 13 percent over 1993, with industry analysts predicting even steeper cuts in payrolls in the coming months and years. 4 The loss of well-paying jobs is not unique to the American economy. In Germany, Siemens, the electronics and engineering giant, has flattened its corporate management structure, cut costs by 20 to 30 percent in just three years, and eliminated more than 16,000 employees around the world. In Sweden, the $7.9 billion Stockholmbased food cooperative, ICA, re-engineered its operations, installing a state-of-the-art computer inventory system. The new laborsaving technology allowed the food company to shut down a third of its warehouses and distribution centers, cutting its overall costs in half. In the process, ICA was able to eliminate more than 5,000 employees, or 30 percent of its wholesale workforce, in just three years, while revenues grew by more than 15 percent.

Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community
by Diana Leafe Christian
Published 14 Jun 2007

When I come downstairs, Jared is already packing his panniers for his three-mile bike ride to work at the county health department. He is a nurse who works with specialneeds children and he’s starting a small computer ergonomics business on the side. With a big hug and kiss, I send him on his way. I sip a cup of coffee (Fair Trade, of course) made from freshly ground beans from our local natural foods cooperative, and toast some delicious whole-grain bread from a local bakery. The jam I’ve made myself, from wild blackberries on our land. My friend Rachael and I plan to meet at 7:30 for a short bike ride before our work days start.We live in adjacent cohousing communities. Rachael’s is called “SONG,” our nickname for the second neighborhood group.

Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
by Mark Pendergrast
Published 2 Jan 2000

“We aim to create a process,” wrote cofounder Jonathan Rosenthal in 1986, “that allows people to reconnect with the people who grow much of the food and with the ecology from which it comes.” With help from investors, Equal Exchange got off the ground, providing “fair trade” Cafe Nica, their Nicaraguan coffee, primarily to food cooperatives. Their goals were to pay a guaranteed minimum price, buy directly from democratically run cooperatives of smallholders, help with credit, and encourage ecological farming practices. In Canada, Bridgehead, founded in 1984, also sold Sandinista coffee. Around this time, two Dutchmen working in Latin America independently concluded that a better market mechanism was needed for fair trade coffee.

Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction
by Alec Nevala-Lee
Published 22 Oct 2018

She was fiercely protective of her son and his younger sister, Manya, who would later be known as Marcia. When he was two, Asimov nearly died of pneumonia—according to his mother, sixteen local children came down with it, and he was the only one who survived. His father was content to run a food cooperative in their village, and they might have stayed there forever if it hadn’t been for an unexpected opportunity. Anna’s half brother had emigrated to Brooklyn, and when the news came of the Russian Revolution, he wrote to say that he would vouch for them if they immigrated to the United States. They decided to accept, reasoning that one could become rich in America—which didn’t make it any less of a risk.

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956
by Anne Applebaum
Published 30 Oct 2012

During a turbulent discussion about falling listenership at East German radio, a high-ranking communist argued that “it is necessary in every detail, in every program, in every department to discuss the line of the party and to use it in daily work.”18 This was precisely what was done across society: from 1948 onward, the theories of Marxism-Leninism would be explained, expounded, and discussed in kindergartens, schools, and universities; on the radio and in the newspapers; through elaborate mass campaigns, parades, and public events. Every public holiday became an occasion for teaching, and every organization, from the Konsum food cooperative in Germany to the Chopin Society in Poland, became a vehicle for the distribution of communist propaganda. The public in communist countries took part in campaigns for “peace,” they collected money in aid of communist North Korea, they marched in parades to celebrate communist holidays.19 From the outside—and to some on the inside as well—High Stalinism looked like a political system whose attempt to achieve total control might well succeed.

State of Emergency: The Way We Were
by Dominic Sandbrook
Published 29 Sep 2010

The mood of their inhabitants was a ‘sullen and passive indifference’: in the ill-stocked, threadbare shops, he watched women queuing with ‘dirty aprons and draggled dresses’ poking out from beneath their coats, their children dressed in outsize Fair Isle sweaters and cracked plastic jackets, ‘the uniform of jumble sales and charity’.48 This picture, of course, was far from universal. Even in the early 1980s, when the estates seemed to have reached rock bottom, there were pockets of success, from grass-roots youth associations, day-care centres, summer festivals and food cooperatives to surveys showing that some estates were genuinely happy, welcoming places. On one Hammersmith estate in the late 1970s, for example, kinship and community had not disappeared; indeed, 77 per cent of tenants had relatives living nearby and 62 per cent felt they could rely on their neighbours in the event of an emergency.

Frommer's Hawaii 2009
by Jeanette Foster
Published 2 Jan 2008

OA H U, T H E G AT H E R I N G P L AC E Health-Food Stores In the university district, Down to Earth, 2525 S. King St., Moiliili (& 808/ 947-7678), sells organic vegetables and vegetarian bulk foods, with good prices, a strong selection of supplements and herbs, and a vegetarian juiceand-sandwich bar. But my favorite is nearby Kokua Market, 2643 S. King St. (& 808/941-1922), a health-food cooperative and Honolulu’s best source for organic vegetables. It also has an excellent variety of cheeses; pastas and bulk grains; sandwiches, salads, and prepared foods; organic wines; and an expanded vitamin section. Tiny but powerful, with a loyal clientele, House of Health, 1541 S. Beretania St. (& 808/955-6168), has competitive prices and a wide selection of health-food supplements.

Eastern USA
by Lonely Planet

Historic markers tell part of the story, which finished at the Battle of Bad Ax when Native American men, women and children were massacred trying to flee across the Mississippi. At Genoa, Hwy 56 leads inland for 20 miles to the trout-fishing mecca of Viroqua (www.viroquatourism.com), a pretty little town surrounded by organic farms and distinctive round barns. Pop into Viroqua Food Cooperative (www.viroquafood.coop; 609 Main St; 7am-9pm Mon-Sat, 9am-8pm Sun) to meet farmers and munch their wares. Back riverside and 18 miles upstream, La Crosse (www.explorelacrosse.com) has a historic center nestling restaurants and pubs. Grandad Bluff offers grand views of the river. It’s east of town along Main St (which becomes Bliss Rd); follow Bliss Rd up the hill and then turn right on Grandad Bluff Rd.

God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
by Gerald Posner
Published 3 Feb 2015

Those church-owned banks even offered a few limited loans to the faithful.29 And in keeping with his encyclical trumpeting workers’ rights, Leo opened the first of what would become a national network of social and economic cooperatives to help Italy’s poorest workers. There were soon Catholic-sponsored peasant leagues, workers’ unions, and food cooperatives.30 Those tentative steps toward embracing modern financial practices made Leo stand out from the regressive isolation of his predecessor. But in the final years of his Papacy, Leo reversed course and became increasingly intolerant, destroying whatever goodwill he had earned. Over a dark eighteen-month stretch he reaffirmed Syllabus, spoke out against the separation of church and state, condemned freedom of the press and religious tolerance, and reiterated the medieval philosophy of Thomas Aquinas that only those who accepted Catholicism could be productive.31 He rebuffed all appeals to reverse the Papal ban on Catholics serving in government.32 Leo even questioned whether there was any intrinsic value in democracy.

USA Travel Guide
by Lonely, Planet

Historic markers tell part of the story, which finished at the Battle of Bad Ax when Native American men, women and children were massacred trying to flee across the Mississippi. At Genoa, Hwy 56 leads inland for 20 miles to the trout-fishing mecca of Viroqua (www.viroquatourism.com) , a pretty little town surrounded by organic farms and distinctive round barns. Pop into Viroqua Food Cooperative (www.viroquafood.coop; 609 Main St; 7am-9pm Mon-Sat, 9am-8pm Sun) to meet farmers and munch their wares. Back riverside and 18 miles upstream, La Crosse (www.explorelacrosse.com) has a historic center nestling restaurants and pubs. Grandad Bluff offers grand views of the river. It’s east of town along Main St (which becomes Bliss Rd); follow Bliss Rd up the hill and then turn right on Grandad Bluff Rd.