A co-op at the University of Maryland has expanded its mission beyond providing healthy food, and is enlisting volunteers to join the fight against capitalism, racism, and heteronormativity.
The Maryland Food Co-op, an independent, worker-owned business that has operated out of the University of Maryland's Stamp Student Union since 1976, recently displayed signs—photos of which were provided to Campus Reform—advertising for volunteers by appealing to those with an intrinsic hostility to free markets.
“The Co-op wants you … to assist us in ending the CAPITALIST, WHITE SUPREMACIST, HETEROPATRIARCHY (and be well-fed and caffeinated for finals),” one face of the sandwich board sign states, while on the reverse side bears the slogan “Down with corporate greed/Up with worker-owned co-ops.”
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