Archive for October, 2006

Library of Recent Documents

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Many people ask me for documents about various subjects related to food justice and People’s Grocery’s work. So I’m starting a library of documents that are related to food justice, food security, sustainable food systems, grocery stores and community health. This library is available to anyone who is conducting research or starting a project of […]

Worker Co-ops Take Over Wall Street

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Nearly 300 worker co-op members and their allies met in Manhattan last weekend. The occasion: the First Annual Meeting of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives and the Second National Conference on Workplace Democracy.
The conference attracted delegates from Argentina, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Canada and across the U.S. Attendees were of diverse ethnic backgrounds, and wore […]

Harvest Celebration a success

Monday, October 9th, 2006

On Saturday October 7 we had our Harvest Celebration at the Sunol Farm. About 70 people turned out for the event, including a crew of about 40 people from LA. We had lots of fun. People got to make scare crows and harvested tons of pumpkins, winter squash and melons. We had several games […]