Announcing The Birth of the COOP Organization
A class struggle has been brewing in the co ops ever since the first year of North Country Co op, when the middle class leadership of the hippie movement won near total control. People with working class experience and others who were serious about desiring social change began to feel isolated from the masses --- and that their work was being exploited to perpetuate a set of bourgeois-escapist attitudes.
This struggle has been building up behind the scenes for the last two years. Now it has taken a qualitative leap and burst out into open confrontation.
