Mastodawn

Levka Aug 18, 2025

#LibertarianSocialism

The worker self-owned, worker self-managed, workplace is the #anarchist ideal.

#RainbowGrocery in #SanFrancisco is one of them.

https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/rainbow-grocery-50th/

What went down at Rainbow Grocery’s 50th anniversary block party

Mission Local captured the vibrant moments from Rainbow Grocery’s 50th anniversary block party.

Mission Local

Larry-bob Aug 17, 2025

Today is the #RainbowGrocery 50th Anniversary block party in #SanFrancisco
https://rainbow.coop/event/50th-anniversary-block-party/

Levka Aug 6, 2025

#RainbowGrocery #CooperativeEconomics #LibertarianSocialism

"Rainbow Grocery is a worker-owned cooperative, meaning its employees collectively own and democratically manage the business. Each worker-owner has an equal vote in major decisions, reflecting the co-op’s founding values of equality and shared responsibility.

Though modest in scale, the stores were backed by a bold idea: That food could be distributed ethically and labor could be organized without hierarchy. The concept attracted idealists, activists and those united by shared spiritual values.

'That part of the Mission wasn’t the greatest,' co-op worker/owner Pat Seguin told Mission Local in an interview about Rainbow’s 40th anniversary. 'A lot of people couldn’t afford clean, healthy food, nutritious food.'

While other food conspiracies fractured under the weight of ideological divisions and internal conflict, Rainbow endured.

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Beyond being a grocery store, Rainbow is a radical experiment in workplace democracy.

Everyone who works at Rainbow is an owner. After nine months on the job, new hires pay a $10 fee to become voting members of the cooperative. There is no CEO. Wages are equal, regardless of job title. Departments self-govern and hire their own."

https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/rainbow-grocery-50th-anniversary/

Rainbow Grocery, S.F.’s iconic worker-owned co-op, turns 50

Mission stalwart Rainbow Grocery is turning the big 5-0 — and celebrating this month with a public block party.

Mission Local

Brent Sleeper Feb 19, 2025

A man approached me while I was shopping at #SanFrancisco’s #RainbowGrocery and said, “I’m an author. I've been investigating the #JFK assassination." He then handed me this sheet of paper and said, "Thank you.”