Other Avenues Are Possible: Legacy of the People's Food System of the San Francisco Bay Area - Softcover

Sacharoff, Shanta Nimbark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1629632325 ISBN 13: 9781629632322

Verlag: PM Press, 2016

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"Shanta's passion and commitment is woven through the pages of her writing." --Praba Lyer, India Currents

"In this book, Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff inspires us all by recounting how cooperation created other avenues for workers and consumers by developing a food system that not only promoted healthy food but wove within it practices that respect workers and the environment." --E. Kim Coontz, executive director, California Center for Cooperative Development

"Anyone who cares about progressive social change should ponder the history of the Bay Area food co-op movement of the 1970s." --John Curl, author, For All the People

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Other Avenues Are Possible offers a vivid account of the dramatic rise and fall of the San Francisco People's Food System of the 1970s. Weaving new interviews, historical research, and the author’s personal story as a longstanding co-op member, the book captures the excitement of a growing radical social movement along with the struggles, heartbreaking defeats, and eventual resurgence of today's thriving network of Bay Area cooperatives, the greatest concentration of co-ops anywhere in the country. Integral to the early natural foods movement, with a radical vision of Food for People, Not for Profit,” the People’s Food System challenged agribusiness and supermarkets, and quickly grew into a powerful local network with nationwide influence before flaming out, often in dramatic fashion. Other Avenues Are Possible documents how food co-ops sprouted from grassroots organizations with a growing political awareness of global environmental dilapidation and unequal distribution of healthy foods to proactively serve their local communities. The book explores both the surviving businesses and a new network of support organizations that is currently expanding.

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• Verlag: PM Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1629632325
• ISBN 13: 9781629632322
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200