My Story

The recent film “The Coop Wars” which played at the Minneapolis - Saint Paul International Film Festival and on Twin Cities Public Television stirred memories of a conflict almost 50 years old. But despite that distance in time, the documentary can’t resolve the contradictions that the coop movement exposed.

Abuse in the O

Written by Grace

Updated:  1/7/2022

All abuse in the O was the result of the O members ceding all power to the O leader The O was not a democratic centralist organization; there was no democracy.  Once power was ceded, the leader was able to abuse it.  The following is a listing of the various forms of abuse and exploitation.  It is not complete.  It raises the question, one that could be asked in any organization – how did any of this advance the O’s political agenda?

Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

This page aims to make amends for things that I, Berta Malles, did and said in the Coop Wars of 1975-1976.  The letter below shows that twenty-seven years ago I saw the importance of bringing completion to the unfinished business of all that intense struggle and conflict that we in the Coop Organization initiated.

Page has: 1. A link to "An Arranged Marriage in a Secret Revolutionary Organization, 1975-1992" , 2. "Context and Strategic Aim of the Coop Organization History Project"