Grocery store prices have gotten OUT OF HAND! Nowadays, a normal week of shopping can easily run past $100, and it's hard not to feel stuck paying whatever the big chains decide to charge. But what if it didn’t have to be this way? So we went looking for alternatives and found it already happening in Los Angeles. We shopped at Co-opportunity Market, a member-owned grocery co-op in Santa Monica, checked out the Nourish LA food rescue program, and stopped by CropSwap LA’s microfarm stand, an amazing organization turning unused space into neighborhood farms.
This is the first episode in our series on the Solidarity Economy, a way of organizing our economic systems so the benefits stay with the people doing the work. The point is to show that the alternatives to our current system ALREADY EXIST! We just need more people to know about and invest in them so they can be built up into a real replacement.
