Bøger af Jan DeGrass

In 1941 Anna Borisovna Leonova's life in Leningrad is shattered: her mother is accused of treason and her father hastily evacuates her from the city before the German enemy surrounds it. With the help of a cheeky boy, a handsome truck driver and her own persistence, she returns overthe ice road of Lake Ladoga to search for her mother in the besieged city that has no heat, no light, no food, little water and where citizens aredying of starvation.Luckily, she has a plan...

In The Co-op Revolution: Vancouver's Search for Food Alternatives, author and journalist DeGrass writes about her journey as a founding member of the Collective Resource and Services Workers' Co-op. Bounding to life during the heady, activist, grant-funded years of 1974-1980, the CRS Co-op became one of the most successful co-ops in BC and was committed to co-operation and worker ownership. While the decade of the seventies is remembered for its new wave of co-ops--usually organized by a "free-flowing" collection of women and men in their twenties--CRS was unique in its success. Among its many accolades, it created the Tunnel Canary cannery, the Queenright Co-operative Beekeepers, Vancouver's popular Uprising Breads Bakery and a food wholesaler, which later became Horizon Distributors. The economic, political and social skyline of Vancouver was changing. For some, the co-op movement was about crushing capitalism; for others it was simply about buying cheap, wholesome food from people they trusted, and living in communal camaraderie. No matter the pursuit, co-operation was the answer.