Renée Perry was a pioneering member of Cooperative Community Grains or CC Grains in the 1970s. It was one part of the larger Seattle Workers’ Brigade.
0:25 Renée’s Career & Life, Working backwards to CC Grains
California Documentaries Project:
14:45 Origin of CC Grains & Seattle History
23:15 “The activity is a rebuke against prioritizing financial investment over personal action/Counter-culturally Specific/The world could be made new”:
How political ideas developed/Are different from current framings
26:32 “Safe place to be imperfect”:
What Work at the Collective was Like—Alaska Orders, Women of Color, Lesbians, and Points of Tension at CC Grains
46:01 “Not a part of the Zeitgeist/Jettisoning our Values/Distrust in Our Own Expertise”:
Could CC Grains exist now?
52:02: Favorite Memories at CC Grains
Seattle was a huge part of the creation of the modern food movement, but so much of that has been lost to history.
Renée Perry was a pioneering member of Cooperative Community Grains or CC Grains in the 1970s. It was one part of the larger Seattle Workers’ Brigade.
CC Grains was an all-womyn’s food distributor warehouse distributing organic and natural foods to co-ops, buying clubs and natural foods stores ranging from Alaska to Montana, centered in Seattle, WA.
It was part of the Alternative Economic System, and was a crucial link in developing the organic food industry.
The Seattle Worker’s Brigade, “A worker collective, that was worker self-managed and women-owned" was "explicitly anti-corporate, alternative, their motto was “Food for People, Not for Profit.”
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📷 Cover Photo: CC Grains group photo. Renée is in the front row, far left.