Grocery Activism : University of Minnesota Press : 9781517900731 : 1517900735 : 07 Apr 2020 : A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today Our notions of food co-ops generally don&;t include images of baseball bat&;wielding activists in the aisles. But in May 1975, this was the scene as a Marxist group known as the Co-op Organization took over the People&;s Warehouse, a distribution center for more than a dozen small cooperative grocery stores in the Minneapolis area. The activist group&;s goal: to curtail the sale of organic food. The People&;s Warehouse quickly became one of the principal fronts in the political and social battle that Craig Upright explores in Grocery Activism. The story of the fraught relationship of new-wave cooperative grocery stores to the organic food industry, this book is an instructive case study in the history of activists intervening in capitalist markets to promote social change. Focusing