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Guadalupe
Austin TX 78705
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Wheatsville's
been a vital part of Central Texas for over 35
years.
In 1975, a ZZ Top concert was held as a benefit for the
UT Student Association. After the concert, a few co-opers
appealed to the student government senate and secured some
of the concert proceeds for the Austin Co-op Project. ACP
made about $5,000 available for Wheatsville's start-up, and
other funds came from College Houses and Frank Cook.
Wheatsville co-opers rented the basement at 29th and Lamar,
bought as much equipment as they could afford, and stocked
the shelves. On March 16, 1976, Wheatsville opened its
doors. Back then, we were run by "turnups," co-opers who
"turned up" to work. They built and stocked the shelves,
unloaded the trucks, did construction work, and cleaned the
floors.
Since then, Wheatsville has grown into the most successful
food co-op in Texas. We have nearly $14 million in annual
sales, and over 10000 members. And still we remember our
roots. Wheatsville is dedicated to the principles of
cooperation, and remains committed to our founding ideals of
community control, social action, and environmental
responsibility.
Here are
just some of the organizations we support:
(Click
here for more community organization
listings.)
 Sunshine
Community Gardens
www.sunshinecommunitygardens.org
With
over 200 gardeners, Sunshine Gardens is one of the largest
community gardens in the nation. Come by! 4814 Sunshine
Drive, Austin, Texas. Sunshine Drive is just north of the
intersection of Lamar and 45th Street.
 The
Sustainable Food Center/
Austin Community Gardens
www.sustainablefoodcenter.org/
Sustainable Food Center
works to create a food secure community by improving access
to local, healthy and affordable food for children and
adults in Central Texas. Our community and youth gardens,
Farmer's Market Initiative, and cooking and nutrition
education classes benefit an estimated 20,000 Central Texans
annually.
The
ACLU of Texas
Texas
Chapter www.aclutx.org
National
Organization
www.aclu.org
Supports special
projects to target specific civil liberties
issues.
Police
Accountability-- Investigates racial profiling, police
spying on protesters, illegal searches, accountability for
police misconduct , and narcotics task forces that arrest
the lowest level drug offenders using tactics that encourage
corruption and false accusation.
Cyber-Liberties-- Electronic ballot boxes provide no
paper trail, and thus cannot be accountably audited when
 computers
get the information wrong, whether through human error or
intentional voter fraud.
Banned Books Project --The goal is to raise awareness
about the level of challenges and bans in Texas public
school libraries and to encourage school officials to use
professional librarian standards when confronted with a
challenge.
Prison & Jail Accountability Project-- Monitors
prison and jail conditions and fights to open the prison
system to public scrutiny, with the ultimate goal of
replacing judicial oversight with effective citizen
oversight.
Texas
Public Interest Research Group 
An austin-based consumer and environmental advocacy
group,TexPIRG's mission is to deliver persistent,
result-oriented public interest activism that protects our
environment, encourages a fair, sustainable economy, and
fosters responsive, democratic government.
Austin
Herb Society
www.austinherbsociety.org
The Austin Herb Society
(AHS) is a member supported nonprofit organization in
Austin, Texas providing education regarding the benefits of
cultivating and using herbs to promote better health and
well-being, encouraging the growth and use of herbs for many
beneficial purposes, and providing charitable and volunteer
support to community gardens, libraries and/or other
community projects.
TOFGA
www.tofga.org
Texas Organic Farmers
and Gardeners Association is a publicly supported,
non-profit association whose members include commercial
plant growers, ranchers, farmers, retailers, wholesalers,
processors, distributors, consumers, and anyone desiring to
support the organic industry in Texas. Their primary mission
is to promote organic agriculture as a sustainable systems
approach in the production of food and fiber - a system that
protects human and animal health, and preserves the
environment.
 United
Plant Savers
unitedplantsavers.org
United Plant Savers'
mission is to protect native medicinal plants of the United
States and Canada and their native habitat while ensuring an
abundant renewable supply of medicinal plants for
generations to come.
Say
No To GMOs!
www.saynotogmos.org
 Provides
information, activities and resources to encourage
grassroots action that will insure consumer choice and a
genetically viable future. Say No To GMOs! supports
mandatory labeling, long-term independent safety testing,
more stringent regulation and full corporate liability for
damages resulting from the irresponsible introduction of
GMOs to the environment and food supply.
SayNoToGMOs.org
- Get started!
from April
Macaraeg on
Vimeo.
Farm
and Ranch Freedom Alliance
Independent
farmers and ranchers need a voice. For too long, our elected
officials have listened to the huge industrial-agriculture
companies, and made the laws and regulations to benefit
them. Independent farmers and ranchers were forgotten or,
worse, targeted for ever-more burdensome
regulations.
The Farm and
Ranch Freedom Alliance (FARFA) is dedicated to representing
non-corporate agriculture and animal owners, from
homesteaders to horse owners to full-time ranchers. FARFA
work also serves those who are local foods consumers, people
who care about protecting our traditional way of life, and
other like-minded individuals.
FARFA advocates
for farmers, ranchers, and homesteaders through public
education and lobbying to assure their independence in the
production and marketing of their food, and to prevent the
imposition of unnecessary regulatory burdens that are not in
the public interest. FARFA also advocates for consumers
access to information and resources to obtain healthy foods
of their choice. FARFA promotes connections between rural
and urban communities to support diversified, local
agricultural systems
 University
Federal Credit Union
www.ufcu.org
With over $400 million
in assets, University Federal Credit Union is Austin's
largest locally owned financial institution.
 Austin
Unique
www.austinunique.com
Austin Unique is a small
business directory comprised exclusively of Austin owned and
operated businesses. Conceived as a community-building
exercise, Austin Unique encourages Austin residents to
support their friends, neighbors, and city by shopping and
spending locally whenever possible. Goods, services, food
and entertainment can all be found at austinunique.com
 REI
www.rei.com
REI (Recreational
Equipment Incorporated) began in 1938 when Seattle
mountaineer Lloyd Anderson created the co-op to provide
high-quality climbing and camping gear at reasonable prices.
Sixty years later, REI is still a cooperative and is still
going strong.
KAZI
88.7 FM
Austin
Community
Radio
Austin's black
community radio station. All DJs are volunteers and present
a wide array of programming including Reggae, Jazz, R&B,
Blues, Hip-Hop, Gospel, Soul, News, Talk, and Public
Affairs. City Council meetings are broadcast on KAZI on
Thursday afternoons and evenings. Pacifica Radio's Democracy
Now! is broadcast Mon-Fri from noon to 1pm. Wheatsville's
Dianah Birdsong hosts reggae every other Sunday from
2-5pm.
KUT
www.kut.org
Austin's public radio
station: the award winning KUT informs and entertains.
Dedicated to serving the Texas community, KUT provides great
music and challenging dialogue on local issues.
 KLRU
www.klru.org
Austin's award winning
public television station dedicated to providing excellent
programming that educates and entertains, informs and
inspires, and which is free and accessible to everyone!
Co-op
America
www.coopamerica.org
Co-op America's mission
is to harness economic power -- the strength of consumers,
businesses and the marketplace -- to create a socially just
and environmentally sustainable society.
The
Organic Consumers Association
 www.organicconsumers.org
The Organic Consumers
Association (OCA) promotes food safety, organic farming and
sustainable agricultural practices in the U.S. and
internationally, and provides consumers with factual
information they can use to make informed food choices. To
join the Organic Consumers Association in your local area,
or to make a donation, please call(218)
726-1443.
The Natural
Epicurean Academy of Culinary Arts
 www.naturalepicurean.com
A cooking school devoted
to all natural, vegan cooking, offering a training program
as well as recreational cooking classes. guest lectures by
some of the country's leading health consultants, and
informative seminars for people interested in an alternative
approach to food, nutrition, health, and healing.
(Click
here for many more community organizations we
support.)
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