Grocery ActivismA 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 dont include images of baseball batwielding 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 Peoples Warehouse, a distribution center for more than a dozen small cooperative grocery stores in the Minneapolis area. The activist