An Anti-Oppression Workgroup was founded in 2001 after Rainbow Grocery Cooperative's worker/owners voted overwhelmingly to institute anti-oppression trainings at our cooperative.
This workgroup's mission is to promote education and provide trainings at Rainbow that will further the following goals:

• Identify formal and informal systems of oppression and privilege.
• Confront issues of oppression and privilege at Rainbow and in the larger society
• Encourage respectful communication across difference which facilitates both hearing and being heard.
• Build solidarity and learn how to be good allies.
• Empower Rainbow workers to create change in ourselves, our store and our communities.