People's Grocery Mural ( CC-A Photo by HiMY SYeD )
People's Grocery Entrance ( Photo by HiMY SYeD )
The People's Grocery is a non-profit (not a grocery store) responding to the lack of adequate healthy affordable nutrition options in the food desert also known as West Oakland.
It is located at 909 7th St (between Market St & Filbert St)
Murals
Community Rejuvenation Project was commissioned by People's Grocery to paint a series of portraits of local heroes beginning with Mother Wright, Huey Newton, Harriet Tubman, and Martin Luther King Jr.
For the complete story visit: http://bit.ly/wK4zjS
photo CC BY-NC 2.0 by Daniela Kantorova
photo CC BY-NC 2.0 by Daniela Kantorova
Related Links
- Farmer's Markets
- Youtube Video about People's Grocery - by Students from St. Mary's College, May 24, 2012
- People’s Grocery finally opening a grocery store in West Oakland - Inside Scoop SF, October 19, 2012
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For Oakland food desert: A people’s grocery store - Berkeley Side, December 18, 2012
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The People’s Grocery: Bringing Healthy Food to Low-Income Neighborhoods - The EcoTipping Point Project
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Nikki Henderson of West Oakland’s People’s Grocery - The Faster Times, February 4, 2011
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A grocery store for the people planned for West Oakland food desert - By Twilight Greenaway, Grist
- yelp reviews page
