The Co-Op Wars

In the 1970s, a shadowy revolutionary group tried to seize the movement of food co-ops. More

In the 1970s, young people in Minnesota radicalized by the Vietnam War created a unique alternative economy featuring dozens of food cooperatives, but a shadowy revolutionary group used conflicts over class and race to try to seize the movement. The ensuing clash pitted friends and comrades in a sometimes violent conflict over the future of the counterculture.

AIR DATE 10/4/21