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“reveal activists’ largely forgotten strategy of establishing their own independent businesses to advance the work of their movements and to counter corporate power in the 1960s and 1970s. Contrary to popular opinion, Americans involved with social movements and counterculture did not reject business altogether, even as they sorted through its contradictions. In fact, they exercised more control of their businesses’ commercial possibilities than scholars have previously recognized.”
― Joshua Clark Davis, From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs