Storefront Revolution: Food Co-ops and the Counterculture

In the 1960s, the cooperative networks of food stores, restaurants, bakeries, bookstores, and housing alternatives were part counterculture, part social experiment, part economic utopia, and part revolutionary political statement. The co—ops gave activists a place where they could both express themselves and accomplish at least some small—scale changes. By the mid—1970s, dozens of food co—ops and other consumer— and work—owned enterprises were operating throughout the Twin Cities, and an al...