In the 1970s, young people in Minnesota radicalized by the Vietnam War created a unique alternative economy featuring dozens of food cooperatives, or coops as they're more commonly known now, but a shadowy revolutionary group used conflicts over class and race to try to seize the movement. The ensuing clash pitted friends and comrades in a sometimes violent conflict over the future of the counterculture known as the coop wars.

00:00:00 The CoOp Wars infighting, violence, and the evolution of the revolution
00:02:44 The hippy commune that started the coop movement in Minnesota
00:07:22 The West Bank's new food experiment: The People's Pantry
00:10:00 The creation of Minneapolis's first coop
00:12:08 The coop movement explodes in Minnesota
00:16:00 The mysterious figure who infiltrated the counterculture movement
00:19:00 Racial issues in the revolution and bourgeois guilt
00:22:51 Mobilizing the working class through coops and infiltrating the hippies
00:24:34 The C.O., Moe Burton, and the beginning of the coop wars
00:29:01 Seizing control of the People's Warehouse
00:36:55 The legal and social battle for the People's Warehouse
00:41:52 Threats, violence, and the coop wars
00:48:05 The end of the coop wars and the C.O.
00:51:18 38 years later...
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