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🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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0:00.0 | So that's the main thing is that like a lot of is about this, the food issue, but a big thing that was revealed in the movie and that if you look into it as well, they were also really, and this is also harkens to debates of today, is that they were very critical of the sort of leaderless, like, horizontal decision-making structure. |
0:22.6 | And they wanted to instill something closer to, like, Democratic Centralism, basically, |
0:27.6 | and to have it be more hierarchical. |
0:30.6 | And the producer, Eric Essie, the executive producer of the movie, who's sort of the guy who's the creator of it, who's probably done the most research on it. |
0:40.3 | He was saying that because of that, because of how serious they were about actually systematizing things, |
0:48.3 | they actually made them get their act together, and that's why they were able to actually catch on with a |
0:55.2 | lot of the rank and file and people who worked in the stores so the we should say that the CEO forms |
1:01.1 | and then they are ascendant for a bit like they are like actually taking control and they form an |
1:08.2 | alliance with a guy named moe bur, which is sort of what you were |
1:11.0 | talking about that they open the Bryant Central Co-op in South Minneapolis. |
1:16.5 | This is actually in the neighborhood where George Floyd was killed in South Minneapolis, |
1:20.7 | the historically Black Air South Minneapolis. |
1:23.6 | And Mo Burton is a former Black Panther and he makes an alliance with the CEO, the CEO helps him open this co-op. |
1:30.7 | And so he's sort of their, like, you know, their main authentic link to the working class, you could say, or to, you know, oppress people in Minneapolis. |
1:41.9 | Right. So they are trying to build solidarity with the broader community |
1:46.0 | and establish a footing in the rank and file of this co-op movement, but their means are not |
1:52.0 | entirely democratic. They are accused eventually of going too far. What are some of those tactics that they end up using and sort of |
2:03.9 | imposing on the... So they basically try to make their big move at the meeting at the people's |
2:12.0 | warehouse. So there's a warehouse in Minneapolis that's like the distribution center for all |
2:16.7 | of these other co-ops that I mentioned |
2:19.2 | that like all the food goes there and then it's distributed out and so they're like you know if we can |
2:24.7 | take control of that we can we can take control of the whole thing the whole network and |
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