Eugene (and Oregon) place to go for coops. And Anarchy.
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"In the 1970s, Eugene was packed with cooperative and community projects. It still has small natural food stores in many neighborhoods, some of the oldest student cooperatives in the country, and alternative schools have been part of the school district since 1971. The old Grower's Market, downtown near the Amtrak depot, is the only food cooperative in the U.S. with no employees. It is possible to see Eugene's trend-setting non-profit tendencies in much newer projects, such as the Tango Center and the Center for Appropriate Transport. In 2006, an initiative began to create a tenant-run development process for Downtown Eugene.

In the fall of 2003, neighbors noticed that "an unassuming two-acre remnant orchard tucked into the Friendly Area Neighborhood"[30] had been put up for sale by its owner, a resident of New York City.[31] Learning that a prospective buyer had plans to build several houses on the property, they formed a non-profit organization called Madison Meadow[32][33] in June 2004 in order to buy the property and "preserve it as undeveloped space in perpetuity."[32] In 2007 their effort was named Third Best Community Effort by the Eugene Weekly,[34] and by the end of 2008 they had raised enough money to purchase the property.[30]" Continues on to 'Anarchy' ..."then-mayor Jim Torrey described the city as "the anarchist capital of the United States."

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