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Author: Patrick McGuire

Cash register at Harvest Collective, 1999 | Image courtesy of the author

Organizing in the Bad Old Days: The Harvest Collective drive, 1998-1999

  • February 21, 2019
  • Patrick McGuire

Patrick McGuire recounts an organizing drive at a grocery coop in Winnipeg in the late 1990s, before the IWW developed its Organizer Training program. I went to a Propagandhi concert in 1993 and decided to become a vegan. After becoming a vegan, I needed to

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