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Kokua Market, once known as Kokua Country Foods, is a food cooperative that has lived in Honolulu's university area since 1971 — it's 50 years old this year.
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On today's Aloha Friday Conversation, we're exploring the influence of the Peter Moon Band in the '70s and '80s. And we're looking at how another idea from that era, business cooperatives, can meet our 21st century needs.
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In the 1970s and '80s, there were land struggles, assertions of indigenous rights, and attempts to figure out alternative ways of doing things. Cooperatives were one answer — business ownership, supply and demand, could be shared by forming agricultural cooperatives, electric cooperatives, retail or housing cooperatives, even credit unions.