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By Gayle Forman

You probably don’t know this, but thebananas you eat—with your cereal,in your smoothie, straight from the

freezer, just plain as your mid-afternoonsnack—most likely, every single one of them,are a single type of banana: the Cavendish. Ifyou eat a yellow banana you bought from theCoop, or from your corner store, you are eat-ing a Cavendish. And Americans eat a lot ofCavendishes: On average, we consumearound 28 pounds of bananas per person peryear. Coop members buy about 275 cases ofCavendish bananas a week.

You probably don’t know this either: acentury ago, the dominant banana (and, his-torians and biologists argue, better-tastingone) was the Gros Michel. According to DanKoppel, author of the exhaustive book

Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed theWorld, by 1900 Americans were eating fifteenmillion bunches of Gros Michels every year;by 1910, the number was forty million. But inthe 1920s, something started to happen tothe Gros Michels, a mysterious fruit blight,known as Panama Disease (the first strain ofit, called Race 1) started infecting the GrosMichels. Over the next thirty years, a hun-dred thousand acres of Gros Michels werewiped out. For a while, there really were nobananas. You know that song, “Yes! We HaveNo Bananas”? That’s why they had nobananas!

When the Gros Michel was essentiallywiped out, all was not lost, because fruit pro-ducers—by then Chiquita had become a majorplayer in South and Central America, thanks to

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IN THIS ISSUEIs Fair Trade Unfair? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3GCs’ Board Endorsements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Safe Food Committee Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Board of Director Candidate Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Coop Calendar, Workslot Needs

Governance Information, Mission Statement . . . . . . . . . . . 11Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Classified Ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

By Thomas Matthews

We l ive in a world ofempires, networks

of communication, capital,culture and coercion, thatwork through and beyondthe traditional power struc-tures of tribe, sect andnation. So believe MarcLafia and Johanna Schiller,filmmakers who are workingon a documentary to traceand explore the reach andramifications of our contem-porary empires.

And, they report, theCoop has served them asboth an incubator and aninspiration in their work.Now they are hoping Coopmembers will become par-ticipants in their project.

“The stakes are high,”Lafia says, sipping a glass ofwine at Brookvin on SeventhAvenue. The film’s director,he has bright eyes, gray hair,a scruffy beard, and talksenthusiastically with hishands. He’s curious, exuber-ant, thinking fast and speak-ing faster.

“The fi lm consists ofhandsomely lit interviews indepth,” Lafia explains. “Likea jazz score we come in withdifferent voices at differentangles, r icocheting andextending a line of thought,one speaker giving a variedview and angle, then anoth-er, then another, all of it per-formative of the network, apolyphony of voices [and]highly constructed mon-tages,” set to a diverse rangeof music.

“The aesthetic is a highlystructured one,” he adds.“Careful and formal, not theusual cut cut cut, music,music, music, tell people upfront what you are going tosay, say it again and thenagain. It is an aesthetic ofform that interrogates theform by asking what are thequestions and how are weasking them and how dothings take shape.”

He pauses for breath,then plunges ahead. “Howdo we have agency in our

Building EmpiresTwo Filmmakers Take InspirationFrom the Coop, and Seek Its Help

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the banana—had anothervariety in their back pocket,explains Randy Ploetz, a pro-fessor of plant pathology atthe Tropical Research & Edu-cation Center at the Universi-ty of Florida.

The understudy whowould become the star wasthe Cavendish, a near per-fect banana. It had a niceshape, a firm texture, a goodflavor. It travelled andripened well and the color ofits skin corresponded to itsripeness. Most important,the Cavendish was resistantto the early strains of Pana-ma Disease.

No more. Now, PanamaDisease is back, in a newstrain, known as TropicalRace 4. TR4 has shown itselfto be particularly stubborn,resistant to known fungi-cides and poses a potential-ly devastating threat to theCavendish. According toPloetz, TR4 has the capacityto affect 80 percent of theworld’s bananas. It hasalready devastated bananascrops in Australia andSoutheast Asia. So far, TR4has not spread to South andCentral America—whichproduce the vast majority ofbanana exports—or toAfrica—where bananas are astaple food. But scientists,farmers, and Coop coordina-tors alike are all keeping aneye on the disease’s march.

“About ten years ago Ifirst learned that Cavendishbananas would be extinct inten years,” says Coop Gener-al Coordinator and producebuyer Allen Zimmerman.“That didn’t happen. But itisn’t a wild speculation thatsays that this variety will beextinct. The banana thatpreceded it became extinctitself.”

Ploetz is less positive that

the Cavendish will go theway of the Gros Michel, buthe’s not that hopeful. Rightnow, quarantine laws are theonly thing that are keepingthe TR4 out of South andCentral America and Africa.But how long will those holdout? “Based on the way wemove around, people arealways moving stuff theyshouldn’t move,” he says.But there are sti l l manysteps between infection andextinction. “How rapidly is itgoing to move? How rapidlywould it expand? Howquickly would it be beforewe realize we have this prob-lem?” he asks. All of thoseissues could impact howquickly and effectively TR4spreads.

But if the TR4 does infectthe crops in South Centraland South America andAfrica the way it has in Aus-tralia, the consequenceswould be huge. For Ameri-can consumers, it wouldmean the disappearance ofyellow bananas as we knowthem. Cavendish bananasare a monoculture. There areother varieties of bananasgrown—including plantains,and red bananas, which theCoop sells—but theCavendish is king, whichmakes it particularly suscep-tible to disease. If it goes,the export market, for now,collapses. Unlike apples,which have unlimited vari-etals (scientists can graft dif-ferent apples together tomake ever new kinds) andother plants which can adaptto guard against new threats,bananas like the Cavendish“can’t evolve,” says Zimmer-man. “They don’t reproducefrom seeds. They only repro-duce from clones of originalbananas. Scientists trying tobreed a new Cavendish hadto go through millions ofbananas to detect a micro-scopic seed.”

The impacton the exportm a r k e t — a n don our eatinghabits—would beextraordinary. Butthat is nothing com-pared to what a worldwideblight on the Cavendishwould do to local,indigenous food sup-plies. More thantwice as manyCavendish bananasare eaten locally asexported. “For us,bananas are a fruit,a snack, somethingon ice cream orcereal,” says Zim-merman. “For thevast majority inAfrica, it’s a massive staple,especially when you includeplantains in the equation.”

When the Gros Michelswere obliterated, scientistsalready had the Cavendishstanding by. Today, there isno backup breed in the eventthat TR4 does make its wayinto South America or Africa.What there is, however, isgenetic modification: modify-ing the genetic makeup of theCavendish to make it resis-tant to Panama Disease. TheCavendish “has this oneAchilles’ heel,” says Ploetz,

r e f e r r i n gto its suscep-

tibility to Pana-ma Disease. GM

could eliminate that.For Zimmerman, who is

against genetically modifiedcrops (the Coop does carryGM foods), the issue doesbecome less black and whitewhen you are taking intoaccount the possibility offood shortages. Already,Uganda has introduced agenetically modified bananato stave off a different dis-ease known as banana Xan-thomonas wilt that wasinfecting 30 percent of Ugan-da’s banana crops.

The problem, says Zim-merman, is that perhapsmodifying the Cavendish tosave the breed does savelives and stave off a foodshortage. He fears that thiswill be the move that willmake GM palatable, and willblow the doors wide openfor agribusiness.

“Right now, there aremajor races going on,” Zim-merman says. “One is to findsome cross of bananas thatpreserves the desirable fea-tures of the Cavendish butdevelops some resistance toits diseases. The other is arace to see who can geneti-cally modify bananas to givethem protection to thebananas and preserve thosequalities.”

At the Coop, Zimmermanis hoping for a third option:

getting Coop members tothink outside the yellowbox. Though Cavendish rep-resent the vast majority ofbananas you can buy, theyare by no means the onlybananas out there, or eventhe only banana for sale. TheCoop sells plantains, ofcourse, though those mustbe cooked, as well as a redbanana. Zimmerman saysthe red variety, which has areddish purplish skin and ismost ripe when it darkens, issweeter, denser and moremoist than a yellow banana,but Coop members so farremain reluctant to try it.During a recent week, theCoop sold 305 cases of yel-low bananas—and twocases of reds.

Of course, necessitytends to dictate thesethings. And depending onhow things go with TR4, itmay well be that eventually,red is the new yellow. ■

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It seems like just a mat-ter of time beforeeverything we think

we know gets proven to bethe exact opposite of what wethought. Medicine that wassupposed to help us ends uphurting us; what we thoughtwas financial restraint endsup exposing us to witheringrisk; and those chocolates Isteadfastly said no to couldhave prevented a heartattack. So it came with asense of inevitability to learnthat America’s largest fairtrade certification organiza-tion had become embroiledin a controversy over how fair,exactly, its fair trade really is.

As the largest fair trade cer-tification organization inAmerica, Fair Trade USA dolesout the familiar black andwhite labels that show up onnumerous Coop products,from coffee to chocolate tobananas. Their well-styledwebsite describes fair tradecertification as allowing“shoppers to quickly identifyproducts that were producedin an ethical manner,” a wayfor consumers to “reducepoverty through their everydayshopping.” So far, so good. Theorganization defines princi-ples that include fair price, fairlabor conditions and commu-nity development. The contro-versy around Fair Trade USAcenters on a recent decision toexpand the scope of its certifi-

cation to encompass not justsmall farms and farm collec-tives but plantation-styleagribusiness establishmentsas well, a decision that hasbrought a storm of protestfrom other parts of the fairtrade movement.

The problem stems fromthe very success of the fairtrade movement. Starbucks,Dunkin Donuts and Walmarthave all loudly proclaimedtheir commitment to pur-chasing fair trade products,and if you’re Starbucks youcan change the tides of sup-ply and demand simply bydeciding to purchase a higherpercentage of what a Star-bucks corporate press releas-es calls “ethical coffee.” Moredemand means that tradi-tional farm collectives can’talways produce enough cof-fee or chocolate or bananasto meet the demand—or atleast, to meet the demand ata price that Starbucks andWalmart are willing to pay.Enter the plantation owners,who immediately grasped thebenefit of being able to sellinto this expanding market;and if it means they need toprove their fair treatment ofthe farm laborers who toil forthem, they’ll make certainthey can prove it.

Fair Trade USA says its deci-sion to accommodate planta-tion farms is simply a way toincrease the size of the market

beyond the small farms andcollectives that have been thetraditional suppliers for theseproducts. But some of thosesmall farmers are fighting backagainst what they see as a tac-tic designed to reduce theirinfluence in a growing market.“The decision of Fair TradeUSA to include plantations inthe system is a serious threatto the organizations,” saysSantiago Paz López, a repre-sentative for a fair trade orga-nization in Peru as quoted in arecent newspaper article. “Thesmall producers cannot com-pete with the plantations andlarge companies that havetaken control of the marketand of the decisions beingmade by Fair Trade USA.”

It isn’t only the small farmgroups who are protesting;on January 1, Fair Trade USAformally severed its ties with Fairtrade International(FLO), a global association ofmore than two dozen organi-zations working with fairtrade producers. Stating that“while Fair Trade USA andFLO share the same mission,we have differing perspec-tives and strategies on howto reach our goals,” FairTrade USA claims that theirmove will provide “the free-dom to innovate and evolvethe Fair Trade model withbetter results for all.” Thisinnovation will include,states Fair Trade USA, anexpansion of certificationservices to what they deli-cately refer to as “coffeeestates,” large plantationsthat can help meet the globaldemand for fair trade prod-ucts at a price that won’tscare off casual shoppers atStarbucks and Walmart.

At the Coop, the Fair TradeUSA label shows up on numer-ous products; however, thereare other competing certifica-tion labels. It’s certainly possi-ble for ethically mindedmembers to pick gingerlythrough the fair trade politicalthicket and come up with asatisfying number of chocolatebars. But occasionally we’llcarry a product that onlycomes with Fair Trade USAlabels; then you may have amoral dilemma on your hands.

Is Fair Trade USA under-cutting the traditional smallfarm cooperatives, using thepower of its well-recognizedlabel to strengthen the same

plantation system that origi-nally led to the fair trademovement, or are they thevictims of their own successin enticing consumers to pur-

chase fair trade labeledfoods? As with so much elsein life, the answers aren’tsimple and mostly depend onwhether you’re growing thecoffee, selling it or drinking it.As for me, I’ve given up coffeealtogether; while Starbucks,FLO, and Fair Trade USA bat-tle for the political highground, I’m switching to soymilk. And please don’t tell meit’s bad for my health; I knowthat already. ■

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culture? We live in an age ofglobalization, and the end ofthe nation state. Our filmtakes the position that nosingle actor dominates theglobal stage, and looks atour networked condition.Where is the self? What isthe social? How can we bethe larger people that wewant to be, instead of thefearful people we are con-strained to be?”

Birth of EmpiresLafia, 55, has been fasci-

nated by the intersection ofart, consciousness andpower since adolescence,joking, “I’m a child of the1970s.” Born in Philadelphia,he moved to Los Angeles at17, where a stint at UCLA inthe film school led to a busi-ness venture in Silicon Val-ley, where he rode thedot-com wave, then wipedout. “I was the last guy at thecompany,” he recalls, “vacu-uming the floor.”

In 2002, the Museum ofModern Art hired him as aconsultant, and he reluc-tantly left San Francisco forBrooklyn, where he hadfriends. He began makingfilms, built a life, bought ahouse and, in 2005, joinedthe Coop. “I moved to ParkSlope for PS 321 and theCoop,” he says.

In 2010, his wife, IrenaRogovsky, was working ashift at express checkout,and fell into conversationwith another checkout work-er, Johanna Schiller.

“The Coop is how Marcand I got together,” Schillerrecalls.

Schiller, 42, the film’s pro-ducer, is slim, with fine fea-tures and neatly trimmedblonde hair. She and herhusband, Issa Clubb, aShopping Squad Leader atthe Coop, also live in ParkSlope. At Brookvin, Schiller

first deferred to Lafia, but asthe conversation pro-gressed, she became moreanimated, and after a whilethey were challenging eachother’s ideas and finishingeach other’s sentences.

“I had been working as aDVD producer for the Criteri-on Collection for 12 years,”Schiller says. “But I had twosmall children, and the DVDworld was not what it usedto be. I needed a change,and I had a goal to producea feature-length documen-tary film. Irena said her hus-band had a documentary inmind, and was looking for aproducer. And so our part-nership was born.”

Schiller was born in Lef-ferts Gardens, but her par-ents moved to the suburbswhen she was small. Afterdegrees at Oberlin and Rut-gers, she moved back toBrooklyn in 1996, and soonfound work at Criterion,where she worked on filmsby Ingmar Bergman, JeanRenoir, Roberto Rosselliniand others.

“I checked out the Coopin 1996, but didn’t join,” sherecalls. “I took a tour andthought, ‘there are way toomany rules.’ I finally becamea member in 2005. Now Icouldn’t live without it. Iguess it just took somematurity before I realizedhow valuable it is.”

The Coop as EmpireLafia and Schiller owe

their partnership to theCoop. But more profoundly,they see the Coop as amodel for an ethical empire,an example of a networkthat can work for good, andnot just for profit.

“The Coop is a network,”says Lafia. “It brings peopletogether around certain val-ues—food, community, com-mitment. The Coop movesthe subject from ‘I’ to ‘we.’That’s a very important thing.When I ask for something in

the store, I don’t ask, Do youhave it? I ask, Do we have it?The Coop is an idea that isnot only utopian, it works. It’sa model that we can use inthe bigger networks thatdetermine our lives.”

“The drawback is thatmembership is empowering,but also cumbersome,” saysSchiller. “It gets stereotypedas anarchy or fascism.”

“That’s an even largerissue,” Lafia replies. “Peoplewant to defer, because it’seasier, but then when thingsdon’t go their way, they getupset.”

“I have hope,” countersSchiller. “The Coop fosters asense of community. It ’sfragile, but it’s real. I believethe Coop model can beextended into the world ofempires.”

An Empire ofCooperation

Schiller and Lafia havebeen working on Empires fornearly two years now. Theyhave interviewed a widerange of intellectuals andartists around the world.Now they are plunging intothe final editing. The prob-lem is money.

“It’s a new venture for bothof us,” admits Schiller. “Nei-ther of us has made a full-length documentary beforeand we’ve done it in a boot-strap fashion, without anyoutside funding. Anyway,there’s very little support forindependent projects likeours through foundations orcorporations.”

Now they have turned toKickstarter, the Web site thathelps creators fund their pro-jects through crowd-sourcingon the Internet. And theyhope that Coop members willembrace the project, as a cre-ative venture and as anextension of the values thatthe Coop embodies.

“It’s a way to raise money,but it also fits in with ourideas about participationand empowerment,” Schillersays. “We want the film tofunction like the Coop—encouraging people tobecome engaged. We wantto involve people. Theirinput can become part ofour vision.”

“The project of the filmamplifies and extends theideals and processes of theCoop,” adds Lafia. “ I f wecould draw on the kind ofenergy that went into theBDS debate, for example,our f i lm would be richer.Every donor becomes part ofthe project and part of thesocial network of the projec-t’s community.”

“Our film intends to ana-lyze the networks ofempires, but we also want toencourage people to buildtheir own networks,” Schillersays. “It’s about individualconsciousness, the deci-sions to make small changesfor the better.”

“I’m a strong proponentof local initiatives,” agreesLafia. “That’s why I love theCoop. Our film is devoted to

the ways in which we cangive ourselves the agency tocreate a world that embod-ies our own values.”

Their goal is to raise$20,000 for Empires throughKickstarter; the deadlinedate for donations is June 7.More information about canbe found on Kickstarter, atw w w . k i c k s t a r t e r . c o m / projects/1407330738/empires-the-film?ref=live. ■



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C O O R D I N A T O R ’ S C O R N E R

GCs’ Board Endorsements: The Now and the WHYWelcome to 11,000 New MembersBy Joe Holtz, General Coordinator

• Coop opens in February but is not yet a corporation.• Weekly meetings begin, eventually becoming the monthly “General Meeting.”

• At a food coop conference in Vermont, we learn that operating the Coop without incorporating is risky and exposes members toliability issues.• “How to become a corporation” research begins.

• The Coop incorporates under NYS Cooperative Corporations Law and thus must have an “all-powerful” Board of Directors.• With our attorney, the Coop figures out a way to continue having meaningful General Meetings. In regard to Board meetings,the bylaws state, “The membership shall be given notice of each such meeting prior to such meeting. The directors shall informthose members who shall be present of the nature of the business to come before the directors and receive the advice of themembers on such matters. The portion of the Board of Directors meeting that is devoted to receiving the advice of the membersshall be known as the General Meeting… The members who gather to give advice to the directors may choose to vote in order toexpress their support or opposition for any of the issues that have come before the meeting.”

• In June, referendum proposal to buy 784 Union Street (where the checkouts now are) was defeated.

• More than two years later, 784 Union St. is still for sale. At the October General Meeting, the Board of Directors does not followadvice of members (55 yes to 26 no) to form a committee to study the feasibility of acquiring 784 Union St., voting three to twoagainst the proposal. The Board’s decision appeared not to be based on a perceived legal or financial threat to the Coop.• Member outrage in response to Board’s October vote explodes. Members successfully galvanize to schedule a special “meeting ofthe membership” scheduled for January 1997 in order to reverse the decision of the Board that blocked the study.

• At a January special meeting, members voted overwhelmingly to establish the study committee and establish that if a referen-dum is held on the issue of buying 784 Union Street, the members in favor would need to outnumber those opposed by a ratio ofthree to two (60%).• In the aftermath, large numbers of members ask the General Coordinators to endorse Board of Director candidates to helpmembers identify candidates that would most likely use their judgment in the best interests of the Coop.• In the spring, the General Coordinators endorse board candidates for the first time.

• Candidates endorsed by the GCs win election each year.

• The number of members in the mid- to late-1990s was in the mid-5,000s. The Coop could not have accommodated manymore members due to lack of space. The General Coordinators take this opportunity to welcome the 11,000 members whosemembership was made possible by the January 1997 special meeting that started the deliberative process resulting in thepurchase of 784 Union St., the 2001 renovation and the subsequent influx of new members. These positive events, and theprudent decisions of the decade that followed, could not have happened without a governance process that includes rea-sonable advice from members followed by our Board of Directors using their good judgment on behalf of the Coop. Helpwrite the next chapter. ■

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This is the 16th consecutive year that the General Coordinators have endorsed candidates. This year we are endorsingMonique Bowen, Eunju Lee and Audrey Miller Komaroff. In two recent issues of the Linewaiters’ Gazette (1/12/2012 and

4/19/2012) a member requested that the General Coordinators stop endorsing candidates for the Coop’s Board of Direc-tors. What follows is a chronological list of some landmarks of the Coop’s history of governance that sheds light on whythe General Coordinators endorse candidates for the Board.

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Definition:A cooperative is an autonomous associa-

tion of persons united voluntarily to meettheir common economic, social, and culturalneeds and aspirations through a jointlyowned and democratically controlled enter-prise.

Values:Cooperatives are based on the values of

self-help, self-responsibility, democracy,equality, equity, and solidarity. In the tradi-tion of their founders, cooperative membersbelieve in the ethical values of honesty,openness, social responsibility and caringfor others.

Principles:The cooperative principles are guidelines

by which cooperatives put their values intopractice.

First Principle: Voluntary and Open Membership

Cooperatives are voluntary organizations,open to all persons able to use their servicesand willing to accept the responsibility ofmembership, without gender, social, racial,political or religious discrimination.

Second Principle: Democratic Member Control

Cooperatives are democratic organiza-tions controlled by their members, whoactively participate in setting their policiesand making decisions. Men and women serv-ing as elected representatives are account-able to the membership. In primarycooperatives members have equal votingrights (one member, one vote) and coopera-tives at other levels are organized in a demo-cratic manner.

Third Principle: Member Economic Participation

Members contribute equitably to, anddemocratically control, the capital of thecooperative. At least part of that capital is

usually common property of the cooperative.They usually receive limited compensation,if any, on capital subscribed as a condition ofmembership. Members allocate surplusesfor any or all of the following purposes:developing the cooperative, possibly by set-ting up reserves, part of which at least wouldbe indivisible, benefiting members in pro-portion to their transactions with the coop-erative, and supporting other activities asapproved by the membership.

Fourth Principle: Autonomy and Independence

Cooperatives are autonomous, self-helporganizations controlled by their members.If they enter into agreements with otherorganizations, including governments, orraise capital from external sources, they doso on terms that ensure democratic controlby their members and maintain their cooper-ative autonomy.

Fifth Principle: Education, Training and Information

Cooperatives provide education andtraining for their members, elected represen-tatives, managers, and employees so theycan contribute to the development of theircooperatives. They inform the general pub-lic—particularly young people and opinionleaders—about the nature of benefits ofcooperation.

Sixth Principle: Cooperation Among Cooperatives

Cooperatives serve their members mosteffectively and strengthen the cooperativemovement by working together throughlocal, national, regional and internationalstructures.

Seventh Principle: Concern for the Community

While focusing on member needs, coop-eratives work for the sustainable develop-ment of their communities through policiesaccepted by their members.

The International Cooperative Alliance Statement of Cooperative Identity

(The Statement of Cooperative Identity has its origins in a published set of “practices” of theRochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers in 1844 and later became known as the Rochdale Principles.

It was eventually renamedand has been periodically updated by the International Cooperative Alliance.)

To receive workslot credit for attending themonthly General Meeting, members must sign up in

advance in one of the following three ways:

◆ On the Coop’s website(www.foodcoop.com)

◆ Add your name to the sign-up sheet in the ground-floor elevator lobby

◆ Call the Membership Office


Crossword Puzzle

Puzzle author: David Levinson Wilk. For answers, see page .

Across 1. Apt. coolers4. Filly: horse: ____: sheep11. Something to land14. Poker game memento, maybe15. Retton who was the first woman toappear on the front of a Wheaties box16. Ruckus17. “Visit Stockholm, where you’ll onlyhave...!”19. ____ Tin Tin20. Longshoreman, e.g.21. Dangerous toy23. Cabinet dept. with a lightning bolt onits seal24. “Visit Italy, a place where you arealways...!”29. Tony-nominated “Pippin” actress30. “Visit Cuba, where everyone is...!”34. Nick at ____37. Like some openings38. Author Ferber and others39. Color lightly40. “Visit Nairobi,...!”45. Lack of harmony47. “Visit Prague, you’ve got to...!”49. Ole Miss rival53. Model glider material54. Esau’s twin55. Architectural addition56. “Visit Bulgaria, because...!”62. Stephen of “Michael Collins”63. Ruby of song64. Sch. whose yearbook is the Gumbo65. Griddle sound66. Decorative bands67. Tierra ____ Fuego

Down 1. Bridal path2. Lee of NBC News3. Upholstery material4. Part of EMT: Abbr.5. Glob of gum

6. Miscalculate7. Drano component8. ____ carte9. Pop’s partner10. Table clearer11. Infant’s babbling speech that starts tomix in real words12. Intense dislike13. “____ nuit”18. Architect Mies van ____ Rohe22. Chastain who flashed her sports bra atthe 1999 Women’s World Cup final24. Lobster ____ Diavolo25. Yank’s foe26. “Bambi” aunt27. Shocking swimmer28. Carson Daly hosted it on MTV29. Neither Rep. nor Dem.30. Elev.31. John-John’s stepfather32. Martha’s 1960s backup group33. Tomfoolery35. ____ chi36. Ballpark fig.38. Deg. held by Jill Biden40. China’s Chiang ____-shek41. Outer: Prefix42. Cpl. or sgt.43. “____ don’t say!”44. Works at a museum46. Cascade Range peak47. Many truckers48. Big name in retail jewelry49. Sack50. “It’ll be ____ day in hell...”51. Maine’s state animal52. Reality TV judge whose last namemeans “servant of God” in Arabic54. Delights57. Sharer’s word58. Not masc.59. Cuba or Aruba: Abbr.60. Summer drink61. Rested

Puzzle author: David Levinson Wilk. For answers, see page 20.

What Is That? How Do I Use It?

Ask Me QuestionsAbout Coop Foods

Friday, June 1, 8 to 10:45 a.m.Monday, June 4, 12 to 2:45 p.m.Monday, June 11, 12 to 2:45 p.m.

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on the shopping floor.

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By Adam Rabiner

After several years ofreviewing films about the

food production system forthis paper, I thought therewas little left for me to learnfrom documentaries of thistype. Yet FED UP!, a moviethat focuses on geneticallymodified foods and isbrought to us by WholesomeGoodness Productions,served up (often amusingly,using old, archival footage)some information that wasnew to me—unappetizingmorsels that are not so easyto digest.

For example, the film chal-lenges an idea that I hadregarded as indisputable—that modern industrial farm-ing is more efficient thantraditional small farms. Itmay be true that Concentrat-ed (or Confined) AnimalFeeding Operations (CAFOs)raise animals more cheaplyand that farmers have dra-matically increased yields forcorn, soy and other commod-ity products. However, sus-tainable and organic farmersactually enjoy much higherrevenues per acre than theirindustrial counterparts.While a big commodities pro-ducer can earn $20 per acre, asmall, sustainable farm canbring in several thousand.The comparatively paltry

earnings-per-acre of the largefarms explain why they are sobig and require governmentsubsidies.

Through interviews withfarmers, scientists, govern-ment officials and activists,FED UP! explores in greatdetail the potential harm ofgenetically modified crops tohuman health, the collateraldamage to bees and butter-flies, the contamination of tra-ditional crops, and lamentsthe splintered and weak regu-latory oversight by the EPA,USDA, and FDA which doesnot require GMO labeling anddisclosure.

About 70% of food con-tains genetically modifiedingredients and is not labeled.That we know anything at allabout the content of the foodsold at the Coop is thanks tothe painstaking work of theGMO Shelf Labeling Com-mittee whose members lit-erally called hundreds of

manufacturers. Unfortunate-ly, this situation is not aboutto change any time soon.Many of the industry regula-tors are former employees ofmajor agribusiness, biotech-nology and chemical compa-nies and vice-versa (a factdisturbingly illustrated inthe film by a revolving door).

FED UP! leaves you pon-dering the paradox of plenty.The Green Revolution,meant to feed the world, lefta planet hungrier than ever.The film makes a strong casethat the answer to thisdilemma is not to bioengi-neer more seeds, but toencourage more people tobecome farmers who will beable to feed themselves.Now that idea tastes goodand is easier to stomach. ■

Watch FED UP! On Tuesday,June 12, 7 p.m. Park Slope FoodCoop, 782 Union St., 2nd floor.Refreshments will be served.



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FED UP!FREE

Non members Welcome

Saturday, June 162–6 p.m.

Bike parts and accessories swap for the Coop community and the public.

Presented by the PSFC Shop & Cycle Committee.

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Monique BowenDear Fellow Members: With thesupport of the General Coordi-nators, I write to ask for yoursupport of my candidacy for anopen seat on the PSFC’s Boardof Directors.

My family has been Coopmembers since 2003, and ourrelationship to the Coop hasbeen an important aspect of our

lives in Brooklyn. Even my children consider thatmonthly trip to childcare for their father’s shift to betheir work slot, too! I have had many jobs at the Coop

but mostly identify as a recovering cashier who cur-rently enjoys office work, but I am also trained as achildcare worker, an attendance recorder, and as amember of the Hearing Officers Committee.

I think I make a sensible choice for the Board ofDirectors as I am 1) a reasonable person who listenswell, 2) able to acknowledge the will of the member-ship without first prefacing my own opinions andperspectives, and 3) clear about the role of a Directorat the Coop as voting to approve what the member-ship has decided as opposed to what my own wishesmight be. Generally speaking, I have attended a num-ber of General Meetings over the years and appreci-ate that those gathered tend to abide by this sameworking model. That being said I also understand

that Board members must be able to discern whenthe advice of the membership might endanger thefiscal or legal health of cooperative and thus must beable to make decisions accordingly.

In my life outside of the Coop, I have worked fortwenty years at nonprofit and educational institu-tions in NYC and CT, have earned post-graduatedegrees in psychology, and have a great deal of expe-rience working one-on-one and in groups to solveproblems, to mediate conflicts, and to counsel oth-ers as they make important life and professionaldecisions. I take a calm, thoughtful, commonsenseapproach to most things and try to collaborate withothers whenever possible. Thank you and I hope tohave your support. ■

Candidates for Board of Directors of the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc.Three spots on the Board are open. Two of the openings are three-year terms. The third spot is a one-year term. To vote you may use a proxy or attend theFood Coop Annual Meeting on June 26, 2012. Every member will receive a proxy package in the mail in late May. You will have the opportunity to meet the

candidates at the Annual Meeting. Candidate Statements (unedited and presented in alphabetical order):

Audrey Miller KomaroffI’m Audrey Miller Komaroff, Icurrently sit on the Board ofDirectors. I 've been a Coopmember since 1975, and I'vehappily seen the Coop growfrom 400 members to its pre-sent size of over 16,000.

I 've always gone where Ifelt the Coop needed me. I

was the first cashier trainer. I was one of thetwelve people who excavated and started the"Garden of Union." When the Coop expanded Fri-day shopping hours, I became a squad leader onthe first 8:00 a.m. shift.

I have been a positive and cooperative memberthrough all our changes in the last 37 years. TheGeneral Meetings opened my eyes to our policymaking procedures, and I've enjoyed them. TheCoop is a very unique and successful venture thatI love being a part of. Having served on the board

for many years, I would like to continue for anoth-er three years.

I value the General Meetings and the expertiseof the General, Receiving and Office Coordina-tors. I wholeheartedly believe in the cooperativespirit where each person gives of themselves forthe benefit of the whole. The core beliefs of theCoop have made it strong and prosperous. I'msure these shared ideals will serve it well in thefuture. My candidacy is endorsed by the GeneralCoordinators. ■

Eunju LeeI joined the Park Slope FoodCoop soon after moving to ParkSlope in 1994. It was also theyear I became pregnant with myfirst child and, as every ParkSlope mother knows, the Coopis synonymous with healthychild. But, the Coop is morethan a place that provides“Good Food at Low Prices.” For

18 years, I have had the privilege and delight of mem-bership in a like-minded community. And just as myson has grown to a mature 17 year-old, my relation-ship with the Coop has deepened and matured. Thisis why I am seeking a position as a member of theCoop's Board of Directors.

Initially, I was an FTOP worker, doing shifts inshopping, receiving, childcare and the office. In 2000,I joined the staff of the Coop as a Membership Coor-dinator. I worked in this position for seven years. Fiveyears ago, I left to pursue other passions and am cur-

rently working as a hospice social worker. My currentwork shift is to haul and process compost from theCoop to the Red Hook Farm. Because of my long andvaried relationship with the Coop, I feel I have abreadth and depth of knowledge about the Coop, itsmission and values, staff and membership. As aMembership Coordinator, I had many opportunitiesto hear both praises and profanities about the Coopfrom the membership. Serving on the Board willagain give me access to the voices of the member-ship and allow me to respond accordingly. This iswhy I am seeking a position as a member of theCoop's Board of Directors.

The Coop has changed dramatically since 1994. Irecall the dust and havoc of construction as weexpanded. As the square footage of the shoppingfloor grew, so has the membership. Despite thesechanges, the core of the Coop remains a communityof people who believe in the values of working for ourfood, in looking forward seven generations whenmaking consumption choices, and in building inclu-sive local communities. I am proud to be a part ofthese wider values. I have reaped the benefits of the

Coop and believe it is now time for me to give back.This is why I am seeking a position as a member ofthe Coop's Board of Directors.

As a member of the Board, my main function willbe to listen to the membership and to ensure theCoop's vitality in a manner that is consistent withits founding values. Unlike other boards, our Boardof Directors is not and should not be an insulatedbody of stakeholders. Rather, the Board functionsto gather the diverse voices of our members, tothoughtfully weigh differences, to seek cooperationand respectful dissent, and to articulate positionswith circumspection and reason. As a social worker,I am often required to suspend my opinions inorder to really hear the other person. I have learnedhow to be comfortable in conflict and the impor-tance of a measured response. I hold a Master'sdegree in social work and another in organizationaldevelopment—assets I would bring to my role as aboard member.

My candidacy has been endorsed by the GeneralCoordinators of the Coop and I welcome that sup-port. I would be honored to have yours. ■

Timothy PlattWhy I am running for reelectionto the Coop Board. I have beena member of the Park SlopeFood Coop for 18 years and overthe course of that time I havecome to see this, our sharedcommunity as very special andvery important in my life. I wasfirst introduced to the Coop bymy wife when we first met. She

introduced me to her favorite people and to herfavorite places. The Food Coop was one of those spe-cial places that she brought me to as she did her ownfood shopping here. I joined too and have beenactively involved ever since.

I have worked in a wide range of jobs at theCoop, and both as a member of regular work shifts

and as FTOP, and I continue to do so. I currentlywork receiving shifts for my wife, am on the GMChair Committee, and since this past Novemberand its special election I have served on the Boardtoo. I look for ways to be involved and where I canmake a positive difference.

That much primarily says something about theWhat of my being a Food Coop member and a mem-ber of its Board. But my purpose in writing this letterto the Gazette is to say something as to Why I am onthe Board and why I would seek reelection to it. Thatis definitely not for work slot credit as I go to everyGM anyway, and I am already receiving work credit formy Chair Committee participation there. There areno double credits for both Chair Committee andBoard participation. I do this because this gives megreater opportunity to be actively involved in theCoop as a positive, supportive voice.

I bring that same approach and that same sense of

responsibility to my work shifts in receiving, and tomy committee participation and I have alwaysbrought this to the Food Coop when in any way work-ing with other members.

I have served the Food Coop and its members inother ways in the past, to share some more of myhistory here. I, for example, joined and becamedeputy chair of the committee that updated andcodified the rules for the General Meetings, andwith one goal—to insure that those meetings areas representative of member thought and opinionas possible and to give every member as much of avoice in the Coop and its running as they wish toshare. That is how I participate in the Coop at ourstore. It is how I participate in our Coop GeneralMeetings, and both as a Coop member and as amember of the Chair Committee and that is how Ifunction as a Board member. If reelected I will


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The Role of the BoardFrom our inception in 1973 to the present, the

monthly General Meeting has been the deci-

sion-making body of the Coop. Since the

Coop incorporated in 1977, we have been

legally required to have a board of Directors.

The Bylaws of the Park Slope Food Coop state:

“The portion of the Board of Directors meeting

that is devoted to receiving the advice of the

members shall be known as the General Meet-

ing.... The members who gather to give advice to

the directors may choose to vote in order to

express their support or opposition for any of the

issues that have come before the meeting.”

The Board of Directors conducts a vote at

the end of every General Meeting on whether

to accept the advice of the members as

expressed in their vote(s) during the GM.

The Election ProcessEach year the Coop must, by law, hold an

Annual Meeting. This is the only meeting

where proxies can be used. Those members

who cannot attend the Annual Meeting may

be represented, if they wish, by a proxy.

If you submit a proxy but come to the

Annual Meeting in person, your proxy will be

returned to you when you register.

Members who have a current member-

ship as of Saturday, June 16, 2012, are eli-

gible to vote in the election of Directors

at the Annual Meeting either in person or

by proxy.

Proxy packets are mailed to members in

late-May. If you do not receive a packet, pick

one up at the entrance desk or outside the

Membership Office. ■

Jesse T. RosenfeldMy name is Jesse Rosenfeldand I am running for theBoard.

A member since 2004, Ihave worked as cashier, 2ndfloor guest registrat ion,cheese and olive bagger, FTOPstock boy, and babysitter forthe PSFC. Plus a graphicsartist for the Lefferts Food

Coop (work still pending approval). My outsideprofession is in the IT industry where I am a con-sultant for the City of New York, and help socialworkers and directors operate a paperless officesystem.

I am also secretary for PSFC, I won in a land-slide as I was the only one to volunteer my ser-vices.

My attendance record is up to date and I am afrequent attendant to GMs without needing themas a make up. I attend because I love the Coop andwant it to run as efficiently as possible.

I repeat, I love it here. The Coop is an importantpart of my life, even more so since I live only three

blocks away. I spend a lot of time here, just as ashopper alone. I like being part of an organizationthat is a standard-bearer for food and environ-mental justice.

I have demonstrably worked for our cooperativespirit where everyone gives their efforts towardsthe benefit of shared success. We’re strong andprosperous, and I want to see that continue.

I will stay in touch with membership issues inthe following manner: I’ll be attending every GManyway as secretary, I will read the Gazette, I willstay in touch with General Coordinators, andboard members, plus of course, stay in touch withthe floor membership by listening to fellow mem-bers and their concerns. I hope that I would havetime during my shopping hours to stop and talk topeople who have such concerns. I also intend tobe familiar with our monthly financial statements.

I’ve demonstrated additional concern for theCoop by joining the anti-hydrofracking movementwhich opposes upstate gas drilling and is proventoxic to water supplies and agriculture that sup-port the businesses from whom we buy our goods,not to mention our own drinking water right herein Brooklyn downstream from the drilling. Theissue is not black and white, but it directly affects

each and every one of us as a Coop member. Having worked officially so far with mostly

products, I felt a pull this time to involve myselfmore with people.

The previous Secretary was a member of theBoard and I would like to follow in that Coop tra-dition, to ensure that there will be a Board mem-ber and the Secretary at every GM.

I see the need for Board members to be alert tothe legal and fiduciary responsibilities of theCoop, and to make these clear to Coordinatorsand the general membership.

I see the Board’s role as one of oversight andfinancial responsibility rather than one of advocacy.

When the Board of Directors vote, I will alwaysbase my decision to the best of my ability on crite-ria that are no different from any other boardmember.

Will a proposal ratified by the General Meetingput the financial and legal health of the Coop atrisk?

Does the proposal violate the spirit and letterof the Coop’s own by-laws or NYS articles of incor-poration, and our own mission statement?

Thank you for taking a few minutes and I lookforward to your vote. ■

Albert SolomonIn my letters I've been askingfor a shout-out: Do U think Ishould run for the Board ofDirectors this year or not? I'msure that most of my loyalsupporters would say Yes, butst i l l I 'd soooo appreciatehearing f rom you—see myEMail and phone below.

Yes, i t 's been seventeenyears and many letters rejected by the Gazettesince I first started protesting about our deeplydisturbing "government" and I'm certainly tired ofit but still I go on . . . How do you feel about theCo-Op (note my own personal spelling)? Do youthink a change in government could do anythingto help us? If U do, vote for me. If U don't, vote forme anyway as I'm a nice guy. I'll be putting a videostatement up on Youtube shortly—just search for"solomonbod" and you should find it. Use thequotation marks. Also if U wanna see a quite love-ly piano recital, search for "Tschudy" and look for"Richard Tschudy plays Scriabin." And search for"victory in court Juanita" to see a 4 min video ofwhich I'm proud. I'm not approved by the Manage-ment and I'm quite proud of that!

Not that the Management are a bunch ofscoundrels but they've been supporting a delu-

sion that has been doing a lot of damage to ourself-respect as people who expect to participate indecisions of our beloved Co-Op. They think that atown-meeting form of government is appropriateto a large, anonymous, urban, decentralized orga-nization like ours. MMmmmm, yes it is a recog-nized form of government but if it's so good whyisn't it used in cities, states, and nations? Why dowe have the City Council when we can all go to ameeting at Madison Square Garden (or the Mead-owlands—or both!) once a month for three hoursand make all our decisions? Nice idea, huh? Andit’s SSSssoooo attractive to anarchists becos, ofcourse, there are no representatives. We representourselves, right? Isn’t that wonderful—what couldbe wrong with that?

Well I don't mean to burst your bubble but I'veeven spoken to anarchists who don't think muchof this. You see, anarchism isn't just a simple ideathat boils down to no representatives, it's reallyquite well-developed. Look at Occupy WallStreet—we see that one aspect of anarchism isthat groups be leaderless. Is our hierarchy of areacoordinators and general coordinators and the$10,000-plus coordinator (Mr. Holtz) leaderless?No. Are all or most of our members knowledge-able and concerned and take an active part in ouraffairs? No. Do we have different people in differ-ent leadership posts at different times? No, in factwe have a near-hereditary corps of top managers,

and that's why I called this piece "Divine Right ofQueens and Kings."

Is there a great number of small groups wheremembers can talk together at length and in depthand have spokespeople attend the general meet-ings with their concerns in mind? Nope. We have asingle meeting once a month at 7 p.m. on a Tues-day for three hours only where a very limited num-ber of people can speak who are chosen by theChair. That seems OK, right?

Well I'm not recommending pure anarcho-syn-dicalism but I do hope you'll notice somethingthat has some of the same features. It's called rep-resentative democracy! Not perfect but a lot bet-ter than what we've got. I think people would feela lot better about the Co-Op if they could electsomeone who shared their views, their politics,their race, their religion, their veganism, theirkashruth or—whatever they wanted to express asmembers. And to whom they could talk and aboutwhose votes they would know. Our meetings areanonymous—even though people go to them.How do we do that? It's magic, folks!

You want to know what I would do as a director.I would be a busy bee! I would do everything tooppose the current Deceptarchy and urge repre-sentation.

Luv u.Serving you as always, I remain—albert ■

continue to do so as well.I will add that I come to this with extensive out-

side board experience. I have served five years asPresident of the board at the housing cooperative

that my wife and I live at, as well as serving inother board positions. My goal as an officer andboard member there has also always been aboutgiving every member a voice and an opportunity toparticipate.

I ask you for your vote. But perhaps more

importantly I ask that you feel free to walk upand speak with me as I do want to hear aboutthe issues that concern you and I do want toknow and understand your perspective andexperience as a fellow member of this, our ParkSlope Food Coop. ■

Timothy Platt, C O N T I N U E D

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COOP HOURS

Office Hours:Monday through Thursday

8:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.Friday & Saturday

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Shopping Hours:

Monday–Friday8:00 a.m. to 10:00* p.m.

Saturday6:00 a.m. to 10:00* p.m.

Sunday6:00 a.m. to 7:30* p.m.

*Shoppers must be on a checkout line 15 minutes after closing time.

Childcare Hours:Monday through Sunday

8:00 a.m. to 8:45 p.m.Telephone:

718-622-0560Web address:

www.foodcoop.com

This Issue Prepared By:

Coordinating Editors: Stephanie GoldenErik Lewis

Editors (development): Dan JacobsonCarey Meyers

Reporters: Gayle FormanTom MatthewsDanielle Uchitelle

Art Director (development): Michelle Ishay

Illustrators: Paul Buckley

Photographers: Ingsu LiuAnn Rosen

Traffic Manager: Barbara Knight

Thumbnails: Saeri Yoo Park

Preproduction: Helena Boskovic

Photoshop: Bill Kontzias

Art Director (production): Lynn Cole-Walker

Desktop Publishing: Mike WaltersMatthew LandfieldMidori Nakamura

Editor (production): Michal Hershkovitz

Puzzle Master: David Levinson Wilk

Final Proofreader: Nancy Rosenberg

Index: Len Neufeld

Advertising: Peter Benton

The Linewaiters’ Gazette is published biweekly by the Park SlopeFood Coop, Inc., 782 Union Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215.

Opinions expressed here may be solely the views of the writer. TheGazette will not knowingly publish articles that are racist, sexist, or oth-erwise discriminatory.

The Gazette welcomes Coop-related articles, and letters from members.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINESAll submissions must include author’s name and phone number andconform to the following guidelines. Editors will reject letters andarticles that are illegible or too long. Submission deadlines appearin the Coop Calendar opposite.

Letters: Maximum 500 words. All letters will be printed if theyconform to the guidelines above. The Anonymity and Fairnesspolicies appear on the letters page in most issues.

Voluntary Articles: Maximum 750 words. Editors will reject articlesthat are essentially just advertisements for member businesses andservices.

Committee Reports: Maximum 1,000 words.

Editor-Writer Guidelines: Except for letters to the editor, whichare published without editing but are subject to the Gazette letterspolicy regarding length, anonymity, respect, and fairness, allsubmissions to the Linewaiters' Gazette will be reviewed and ifnecessary edited by the editor. In their review, editors are guidedby the Gazette's Fairness and Anonymity policies as well as stan-dard editorial practices of grammatical review, separation of factfrom opinion, attribution of factual statements, and rudimentaryfact checking. Writers are responsible for the factual content oftheir stories. Editors must make a reasonable effort to contactand communicate with writers regarding any proposed editorialchanges. Writers must make a reasonable effort to respond toand be available to editors to confer about their articles. If thereis no response after a reasonable effort to contact the writer, aneditor, at her or his discretion, may make editorial changes to asubmission without conferring with the writer.

Submissions on Paper: Typed or very legibly handwritten andplaced in the wallpocket labeled "Editor" on the second floor at thebase of the ramp.

Digital Submissions: We welcome digital submissions. Dropdisks in the wallpocket described above. The email address forsubmissions is [email protected]. Receipt of yoursubmissions will be acknowledged on the deadline day.

Classified & Display Ads: Ads may only be placed by and on behalfof Coop members. Classified ads are prepaid at $15 per insertion,business card ads at $30. (Ads in the “Merchandise–Non-commercial”category are free.) All ads must be written on a submission form(available in a wallpocket on the first floor near the elevator). Classi-fied ads may be up to 315 characters and spaces. Display ads mustbe camera-ready and business card size (2"x3.5").

Printed by: Tri-Star Offset, Maspeth, NY.

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Third ThursdayJune 21

7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.Last Sunday

June 2410:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.

On the sidewalk in front of the receivingarea at the Coop.

What plastics do we accept?Until further notice:

• #1 and #6 type non-bottle shaped contain-ers, transparent only, labels ok

• Plastic film and bubble wrap, transparentonly, no colored or opaque, no labels

• #5 plastic cups, tubs, and specificallymarked caps and lids, very clean and dry(discard any with paper labels, or cut off)

•NOTE: We are no longer accepting #2 or #4 type plastics.

PLASTIC MUST BE COMPLETELY CLEAN & DRY

We close up promptly. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to the

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S Plastics RecyclingSaturday and Sunday, mornings Join in the Coop's effort to be a better environ-mental citizen. Work outside in front of theCoop with other members of the RecyclingSquad accepting returned plastic containers,making sure they are clean and meet theRecycling Squad criteria. Stack and pack plasticfor recycling. Must be reliable and willing towork outdoors in all kinds of weather.

Office Set-upMonday, Tuesday or Thursday, 6 to 8:30 a.m.Need an early riser with lots of energy to doa variety of physical tasks including: settingup tables and chairs, buying food and sup-plies, labeling and putting away food and

supplies, recycling, washing dishes andmaking coffee. Sound like your dream cometrue? This job might be for you. Pleasespeak to Adriana in the Membership Officefor more information.

Plastics Recycling BalerSaturday, 1 to 3:45 p.m.Baler will work as a member of theEnvironmen-tal Issues Plastic RecyclingCommittee. Work includes operating thebaler machine in the receiving area. NOOPEN-TOED FOOTWEAR SHOULD BE WORNWHILE WORKING IN THIS AREA. Workermust be able work with Receiving Staff tocoordinate the use of the baler and sharedwork space and must be able to follow

detailed safety instructions. Some strengthand lifting required. Training will take placeon first scheduled shift. You will need to con-tact Cynthia Pennycooke, MembershipCoordinator, via phone Mon-Fri 8 a.m.-12:30p.m. in the Membership Office, or e-mail [email protected] prior tobeing assigned to this shift.

Vitamin WorkerFriday and Saturday, 6 to 8:45 p.m.On this special shift, you will be working withthe Receiving Coordinator to check-in vitaminorders, organize vitamin area in the basementand on the shopping floor. You will label prod-ucts and shelves, and related tasks. If interest-ed contact the Membership Office.

Attend a GMand Receive Work Credit

Since the Coop’s inception in 1973, the GeneralMeeting has been our decision-making body. At theGeneral Meeting (GM) members gather to makedecisions and set Coop policy. The General-Meeting-for-workslot-credit program was created to increaseparticipation in the Coop’s decision-making process.

Following is an outline of the program. For full details, seethe instruction sheets by the sign-up board.

• Advance Sign-up required:To receive workslot credit for attending the monthly

General Meeting, members must sign up in advance inone of the following three ways: on the Coop's website(www. foodcoop.com); add your name to the sign-upsheet in the ground-floor elevator lobby; or call the Mem-bership Office. You may sign up all month long, except forthe day of the meeting when you have until 5 p.m. to signup. On the day of the meeting, the paper sign-up sheet iskept in the Membership Office. Some restrictions to thisprogram do apply. Please see below for details.

• Two GM attendance credits per year:Each member may take advantage of the GM-for-

workslot-credit program two times per calendar year.

• Certain Squads not eligible:Eligible: Shopping, Receiving/ Stocking, Food

Processing, Office, Maintenance, Inventory, Construction,and FTOP committees. (Some Committees are omittedbecause covering absent members is too difficult.)

• Attend the entire GM:In order to earn workslot credit you must be present

for the entire meeting.

• Signing in at the Meeting: 1. After the meeting the Chair will provide the

Workslot Credit Attendance Sheet.2.Please also sign in the attendance book that is

passed around during the meeting.

• Being Absent from the GM:It is possible to cancel without penalty. We do ask that

you remove your name if you know cannot attend. Pleasedo not call the Membership Office with GM cancellations.

Park Slope Food CoopMission Statement

The Park Slope Food Coop is a mem-ber-owned and operated food store—analternative to commercial profit-orientedbusiness. As members, we contribute ourlabor: working together builds trustthrough cooperation and teamwork andenables us to keep prices as low as possi-ble within the context of our values andprinciples. Only members may shop, andwe share responsibilities and benefitsequally. We strive to be a responsible andethical employer and neighbor. We are abuying agent for our members and not aselling agent for any industry. We are a partof and support the cooperative movement.We offer a diversity of products with anemphasis on organic, minimally pro-cessed and healthful foods. We seek toavoid products that depend on theexploitation of others. We support non-toxic, sustainable agriculture. We respectthe environment. We strive to reduce theimpact of our lifestyles on the world weshare with other species and future genera-tions. We prefer to buy from local, earth-friendly producers. We recycle. We try tolead by example, educating ourselves andothers about health and nutrition, coopera-tion and the environment. We are com-mitted to diversity and equality. Weoppose discrimination in any form. Westrive to make the Coop welcoming andaccessible to all and to respect the opin-ions, needs and concerns of every member.



C O O P CA L E N D A RNew Member Orientations

Attending an Orientation is the first step toward

Coop membership. Pre-registration is required for

all of the three weekly New Member Orientations.

To pre-register, visit foodcoop.com or contact the

Membership Office. Visit in person or call 718-622-

0560 during office hours.

Have questions about Orientation? Please visit

www.foodcoop.com and look at the “Join the Coop”

page for answers to frequently asked questions.

The Coop on the Internetwww.foodcoop.com

The Coop on Cable TVInside the Park Slope Food CoopFRIDAYS 2:30 p.m. with a replay at 10:30 p.m.

Channels: 56 (TimeWarner), 69 (CableVision).

General Meeting InfoTUE, JUNE 26GENERAL & ANNUAL MEETING: 7:00 p.m.

TUE, JUNE 5AGENDA SUBMISSIONS: 8:00 p.m.

Submissions will be considered for the July 31

General Meeting.

Gazette Deadlines

LETTERS & VOLUNTARY ARTICLES:June 14 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, June 4

June 28 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, June 18

CLASSIFIED ADS DEADLINE:June 14 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, June 6

June 28 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, June 20

Our Governing Structure From our inception in 1973 to the present, the openmonthly General Meetings, to which all members areinvited, have been at the center of the Coop’s decision-making process. Since the Coop incorporated in 1977, wehave been legally required to have a Board of Directors.The Coop continued the tradition of General Meetings byrequiring the Board to have open meetings and to receivethe advice of the members at General Meetings. TheBoard of Directors, which is required to act legally andresponsibly, has approved almost every General Meetingdecision at the end of every General Meeting. Boardmembers are elected at the Annual Meeting in June.Copies of the Coop’s bylaws are available on the CoopWeb site, foodcoop.com, at the Coop Community Cornerand at every General Meeting.

Next Meeting: Tuesday, June 26, 7:00 p.m.The General Meeting is held on the last Tuesday of eachmonth.

Location The Temple House of Congregation Beth Elohim(Garfield Temple), 274 Garfield Place.

How to Place an Item on the AgendaIf you have something you’d like discussed at a GeneralMeeting, please complete a submission form for theAgenda Committee. Forms are available on the Coop Website, foodcoop.com, in the rack near the Coop CommunityCorner bulletin board and at General Meetings. Instructionsand helpful information on how to submit an item appearon the submission form. The Agenda Committee meets onthe first Tuesday of each month to plan the agenda for theGM held on the last Tuesday of the month. If you have aquestion, please call Ann Herpel at the Coop.

Meeting FormatWarm Up (7:00 p.m.) • Meet the Coordinators • Enjoy some Coop snacks • Submit Open Forum items • Explore meeting literatureOpen Forum (7:15 p.m.) Open Forum is a time formembers to bring brief items to the General Meeting. Ifan item is more than brief, it can be submitted to theAgenda Committee as an item for a future GM.Reports (7:30 p.m.) • Financial Report • Coordinators’Report • Committee ReportsAgenda (8:00 p.m.) The agenda is posted on theCoop Web site, foodcoop.com, the Coop CommunityCorner and may also appear elsewhere in this issue.Wrap Up (9:30-9:45) (unless there is a vote to extendthe meeting) • Board of Directors’ vote • Meeting evalua-tion • Announcements, etc.

A l l A b o u t t h eG e n e r a l M e e t i n g

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Film Night:My PerestroikaMy Perestroika follows five ordinary Russians living in extra-ordinary times—from their sheltered Soviet childhood, tothe collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years,to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-SovietRussia. Together, these childhood classmates paint a com-plex picture of the dreams and disillusionment of those

raised behind the Iron Curtain. Robin Hessman received her graduate degree in filmdirecting from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow.She received an Academy Award® in 1994—with co-director James Longley—fortheir student film, Portrait of Boy with Dog. In the U.S., Robin co-produced thePeabody-award–winning documentary Tupperware! and later founded Red SquareProductions. She was Filmmaker in Residence at WGBH in Boston, where she devel-oped My Perestroika, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, played inMOMA’s New Directors/New Films series and received numerous awards. Robin is anAssociate of Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian Studies and a TermMember of the Council on Foreign Relations. To book a Film Night, contact Faye Lederman, [email protected].

Caregiving 101The U.S. Census showed the largest population increase was for senior citizens.Almost 288,000 live in Brooklyn. About 70% of 65+ will need long-term care atsome point in their lives. An estimated 1 million NYC residents are caregivers toadult friends and family. This session will explain answers to the pressing questions,what is long-term care, who pays for it and where is it? Key information on ways toplan ahead to protect autonomy and authority and reduce the heavy emotional bur-den decision-making can be on loved ones will also be included. Long-time Coopmember Mary Blanchett, MSA, is a licensed nursing home administrator who workedin long-term care for 27 years.

Third Annual Band NiteCome support fresh talent at the Food Coop's Third Annual Band Nite at

Bar Four, 444 Seventh Ave., corner of 15th St., 718-832-9800,www.bar4brooklyn.com. With performances by: The Raytones, MayaSolovey, 13th Floor Klezmer Band, Mappa Mundi. Doors open at 8:00

p.m. Admission is FREE. For more info, check out the FUN Committeeblog: psfcfun.wordpress.com.

Band Nite takes place at Bar Four, 444 Seventh Ave., corner of 15th St.

Agenda Committee MeetingThe Committee reviews pending agenda items and creates theagenda for this month’s General Meeting. Drop by and talk withcommittee members face-to-face between 8 and 8:15 p.m.Before submitting an item, read “How to Develop an Agenda

Item for the General Meeting” and fill out the General Meeting Agenda Item SubmissionForm, both available from the Membership Office or at foodcoop.com. The next GeneralMeeting will be held on Tuesday, July 31, 7 p.m., at Congregation Beth Elohim SocialHall (Garfield Temple), 274 Garfield Place at Eighth Avenue.

Food Class: Can It!Home Canning BasicsHome canning is a great way to preserve an abundant har-vest, or simply put up some of the more seasonal gems toeat during the winter months. Canning is easy to do safely,as long as you follow some simple rules. For more than four

years Michaela Hayes has been working with Just Food as a community trainer,facilitating workshops on home canning. As a professional chef, she developed thepickling position while at Gramercy Tavern. You can see Michaela’s “One For theSeason” food-preservation column quarterly in Sweet Paul magazine. Based inBrooklyn, Michaela teaches pickling, canning, and fermentation through her compa-ny, Crock & Jar, which sells products at specialty markets. Menu includes: pickledradishes; canned tomatoes; blueberry jam.Materials fee: $4. Food classes are coordinated by Coop member Susan Baldassano.

Handling Social PressuresOn Teens & ’Tweens

Share stories and hear perspectives that can help you manage the many social pres-sures on pre-teens and teens. Sharon C. Peters, MA, is the director of Parents HelpingParents and a step, birth, and adoptive parent. In her work she meets with individualfamilies and leads workshops at her Park Slope office and for schools and communityorganizations throughout New York. She is a grateful long-time Coop member.

Having Trouble Getting Pregnant?

Learn how to: resolve mystery infertility; eliminate toxins that impair fertility; make IVFand IUI work the first time; cook meals that help you get pregnant; identify the foodsand supplements that boost your fertility. Clear blocked tubes. Normalize your cycle.Dissolve fibroids and cysts. Do fertility acupressure at home. Prevent miscarriage. Boostmen’s sperm count and quality. Pre-registration suggested: to register call (646) 483-4571 or e-mail [email protected]. Rebecca Curtis M.A., M.F.A., HHC,AADP, is a certified holistic nutritionist and the founder of Green Gem Holistic Health.Mary Hart, M.S., L.Ac., is a nationally board-certified acupuncturist and the founder ofHealing Heart Acupuncture.

Funeral Planning As a Spiritual Exercise

Learn about the latest funeral service trends and get a better inkling of how beautiful a rea-sonably-priced funeral or memorial service can be. We will discuss new ways to memorializethe deceased, the merits of green burial, home vigils, cremation pros and cons. You'll leavethis workshop with a stack of helpful memos and papers, funeral planning information, cur-rent prices, thoughts on advance directives, medical durable power of attorney, and a bettergrip on how you want to be remembered. Coop member Amy Cunningham is a graduate ofthe American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service.

Better Movement With Ortho-Bionomy®

Come learn about this osteopathically based bodywork that is extremely gentle, yeteffective. You will learn how a focus on client comfort and moving away from pain givesthe body an opportunity to self-correct without any force. This subtle modality canreduce pain, correct structural imbalances, aid in recovering from injuries and create abetter relationship with the body’s structure. Coop member Brenda Varrasso has been aNew York State–licensed massage therapist and student of Ortho-Bionomy® for fiveyears. She is currently an Associate-level Ortho-Bionomy® practitioner.

jun 1fri 7 pm

jun 2sat 11 am

jun 2sat 8 pm

jun 5tue 8 pm

jun 7thu 7:30 pm

Susan Baldassano, Coordinator

jun 8fri 7 pm

jun 9sat 3 pm

jun 9sat 7 pm

jun 10sun 12 pm

For more information on these and other events, visit the Coop’s website: foodcoop.comAll events take place at the Park Slope Food Coop unless otherwise noted. Nonmembers are welcome to attend workshops.

Views expressed by the presenter do not necessarily represent the Park Slope Food Coop.

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Safe Food Committee Film Night:Fed Up!Seventy percent of the food we eat contains genetically modi-fied ingredients. Millions are spent arguing that technology isour only hope for feeding the world. Farmers are disappearingas people go hungry. Toxic chemicals continue to poison us.Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and featuring

interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, Fed Up! presentsan entertaining, informative and compelling overview of our current food productionsystem from the Green to the Biotech Revolution. Fed Up! explores the effects of pesti-cides, the resistance of biotechnology companies to food labeling and the linksbetween government officials and major biotechnology and chemical companies.

Effective Tools for RapidPersonal Transformation

Want to move on—away from old emotional baggage to new, joyous ways of living? If youare open to transforming your old patterns of fear, worry and anxiety and leave room for joy,happiness and fun, it can be done. And it’s easy and fun! The body is like a magnet, andwhen these experiences are in cellular memory, the body attracts the same experiences.Doctors and other professionals have used these techniques for daily stresses, eating disor-ders, robbery, rape and emotions such as anger, anxiety, fear and others. These remem-brances can destroy the quality of life if not cleared. This unique, life-changing technologywill be demonstrated. Coop member Marija Santo-Sarnyai is a Geotran practitioner.

Bike Part Swap SocialBike parts and accessories swap for the Coop community andthe public. Presented by the PSFC Shop & Cycle Committee.Event takes place at Lowlands Bar (543 Third Ave. @ 14th St.)

What the Tooth Fairy Never Knew!

This workshop on nutritional, homeopathic, preventive dentistry is geared for those whowant to take responsibility for improving or maintaining their dental health; and, tolearn about the connection between dental problems and systemic diseases. You will betaught how to analyze oftentimes undiagnosed etiologies of dental diseases, TM jointproblems, headaches and loosening teeth. Dental controversies like mercury fillings,root canals and placing nickel on your children’s teeth will be included in this sympo-sium. Dr. Stephen R. Goldberg DDS, is a Nationally Certified Clinical Nutritionist(CCN), Acupuncturist and Oral Myofunctional (Swallowing) Therapist.

Bowenwork: Gentle Touch,Powerful Results

Bowenwork® is a unique, holistic bodywork that stimulates the body’s own healingresponse. Gentle moves across muscle and connective tissue send signals to the body torelax and move toward balance. There will be a demonstration. Bowenwork® relieves pain,relaxes body and relieves stress, enhances immune system, improves blood circulation,improves joint mobility, improves nutrient absorption, promotes detoxification, increaseslymph drainage, and is safe for all ages and conditions. Moraima Suarez is a Coop mem-ber, certified Holoenergetic® Healing Practitioner, certified Bowenwork Therapist, Reiki

Practitioner, and Quick Pulse® Practitioner. She has studied and practiced the healingarts for more than 20 years and has her healing practice in the Park Slope vicinity.

Food Drive to Benefit CHIPS Soup Kitchen

CHIPS Soup Kitchen, located at 4th Avenue and Sackett Street, is the recipient ofmuch of our edible but unsaleable perishable food. They also need donations ofnonperishable foods. This food will go to CHIPS to help them feed people in theneighborhood who are in need of a nutritious meal. Consider contributing nonperish-able foods and commercially packaged foods; canned fish; canned fruits and veg-etables; pasta sauce; pasta; pre-packaged rice; pre-packaged beans; canned beans;canned soups; Parmalat milk; dry milk; peanut butter; cooking oil; or boxed raisins.Give donations to the collection table outside the Coop.

Reduce Sugar CravingsWhen we eat too much sugar, our digestive organs become overburdened and functionpoorly. Acupuncture treatment can reduce our desire for sweets and help us makehealthier food choices. Learn more about acupuncture for changing our dietary habits.This workshop will include a demonstration of the “reduce sugar cravings treatment.”Presented by Ann Reibel-Coyne, a licensed acupuncturist and PSFC member.

PSFC JUNE Annual andGeneral MeetingThe Annual Meeting begins at 7:00 p.m. followed by the GM.Meeting location: Congregation Beth Elohim Social Hall(Garfield Temple), 274 Garfield Pl. at Eighth Ave.

Annual Meeting AgendaItem #1: The audited financial report for the year ended January 29, 2012.Report & Vote: Following a presentation by our outside auditor, Cornick, Garber &Sandler, LLP, members will have the opportunity to pose questions to the auditors.Members will then vote whether to accept the audited statement.

Item #2: Board of Directors ElectionElection: Three spots on the Board are open. Two of the openings are three-year terms.The third spot is a one-year term.

Item #3: Ratifying ByLaws AmendmentProposal: To ratify the following amendment to the Bylaws of the Park Slope Food Coopas originally passed at the September 2011 GM: “Election of officers shall be held atthe June meeting of the directors from among those candidates nominated from thefloor at such meeting. In the case of an officer position becoming vacant, there shall bean election held at the next directors’ meeting to fill the vacancy for the unexpired por-tion of the term.” —submitted by the General CoordinatorsComment: Bylaws amendments made between Annual Meetings go into immediateeffect. They must then be ratified by the following Annual Meeting to become perma-nent changes to the Bylaws.

General Meeting AgendaItem #1: Renewing the Services of the AuditorProposal: “To retain the services of Cornick, Garber & Sandler, LLP, to perform an auditof the Coop for the fiscal year ending February 3, 2013.”

—submitted by the General Coordinators

Item #2: Election of OfficersElection: Following the election of members to the Board of Directors at the AnnualMeeting, the General Meeting must elect officers of the corporation—President, VicePresident, Secretary and Treasurer. The President and Vice-President shall be, at thetime of election, members of the Board of Directors. The positions of Secretary andTreasurer can be elected from the membership at large.

jun 12tue 7 pm

jun 16sat 12 pm

jun 16sat 2 pm

jun 16sat 3 pm

jun 23sat 3 pm

jun 23-24sat-sun 9 am–7 pm

jun 26tue 7 pm

jun 26tue 7 pm

Introduction to Infant Massage

Safe Food Committee Film Night

Blood Drive

Are You New to Medicare?

Researching Your Neighborhood

New Animal Welfare Committee: Animal Welfare Issues at the Coop

jul 8

jul 10

jul 13-14

jul 15

jul 22

jul 22&24

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HONORED, AGAIN

TO THE EDITOR:I have the dubious honor that the

Letter to the Editor in the previousissue from Mel Spain was the thirdtime I’ve been skewered in the Gazette.Even though I was never given theopportunity to respond in the sameissue in which criticism appeared (aviolation of the Gazette’s Fairnessguideline, I believe), I’m gratified.Clearly I’m doing something right.

Mr. Spain’s comments might havebeen far more effective, however, if hehad read my letter and responded towhat it actually said. While heaccused me of trying to suppress freespeech and criticism of Israel while atthe same time giving praise to Israel,in fact what I advocated was that allletters dealing with the Palestinian-Israel situation stop. I wrote, “Like allcountries, Israel certainly can be criti-cized. I and countless others don’tagree with all its policies. Neither doall Israelis.” (By the way, if you want tohear some really contentious—butinformed—criticism and attacks, readabout what goes on in sessions of theIsraeli parliament.)

As for the overblown claim thatthe mythical ogre “The Israel Lobby”suppresses criticism of Israel, realitydoes not support it. Extremist anti-Israel views are expressed all toofreely in the media, on the Internet,and in nearly every university cam-pus around the world. In view of thiswell-documented rise of virulentanti-Semitism in Europe and else-where, the fabled all-powerful “IsraelLobby “ is surely astonishingly inef-fectual. In these times the realcourage might well be not to viewIsrael as evil incarnate.

I have no problems with criticismof Israel (or of me, for that matter)provided that it’s done fairly—thatis, based on facts. But when somepro-BDS letters are simply opprobri-um and fabrication aimed at discred-iting Israel with no concern for truthor context, a line is crossed from fairto foul.

Ruth Bolletino

BAGS AND JUICES

TO THE EDITOR:Two issues I would like to raise.Regarding the issue of bags for

bulk produce. The alternatives sug-gested seem unwieldy (e.g., opaquemuslin bags) and may not work foritems like rice, for example. Howabout biodegradable, corn-based“plastic” bags? These will rot nicelyonce discarded. Biobagusa.com hasrolls of produce bags, for example, asdoes Brenmarco. Forgive me if thishas already been discussed but itsounds like a reasonable alternativeand the prices are comparable, Iunderstand.

Second: What happened to thejuices??? First it was the Apple/Rasp-

berry. Now, there’s no more Blueberry,Apricot, Peach—all gone. WHY?These are great, delicious and health-ful products! It is really depressingand sad and incomprehensible to me.Please bring them back!

I hope these are useful suggestions!George M. Carter

ANOTHER ATTACK ONFREE SPEECH IN THEGAZETTE

TO THE EDITOR:The letter of Sylvia Lowenthal

(Gazette 5/17/12) continues the attackon the freedom of Coop members tocommunicate their ideas in theGazette’s letters columns. In the May3rd Gazette, Ruth Bolletino wrote thatthe newsletter should not accept anyfurther letters regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Now Ms.Lowenthal says the same thing, cit-ing as support for their position theaction of the LGBT Community Cen-ter in excluding any groups involvedin the issue from using its space. It ishard to see any relevance of LGBT’sexercise of its real property rights tothe suppression of ideas in the pressoperated by the Gazette.

Both Ms. Bolletino and Ms.Lowenthal were signatories to theseries of repetitive letters to the Edi-tor over a period of months oppos-ing the referendum of the Israeliboycott. (May I refer to the group as“the PSFC Israeli Lobby”?) They nowappear to be part of a movement tomuzzle those who wish to expresstheir views on the conflict. Ratherthan ignore the letters criticizingIsrael and not reading them, as allare free to do, they want to stopthem from being printed.

Curiously, another regular signatoryto the series of group letters opposingthe referendum was ConstantineKaniklidas. He saw fit to send a letterto the Editor published in the same5/17 issue in which Ms. Lowenthal’sletter appears, continuing his attackon the boycott Israel movement. Wethus have Ms. Bolletino and Lowen-thal advocating that there be no dis-cussion of the Israel-Palestinianconflict in the Gazette while Mr. Kanikl-idas disagrees, since he wants to con-tinue the pro Israel argument. Itwould appear the PSFC Israeli Lobbytalks rather inconsistently about free-dom of the press in the Gazette, whenit comes to Israel.

Mel Spain

LEFT, RIGHTThe liberal’s open-minded

And always ready to spout,But at times the gap’s too wideAnd his brains go tumbling out

The conservative hails the past,That’s what his favorite sport is; His playing, though’s, infectedBy lingering rigor mortis.

Leon Freilich

“PREDICTABLE CONSE-QUENCES ARE A GOODMEASURE OF INTENT” – Noam Chomsky

TO THE EDITOR:We ask the Department Of Educa-

tion (DOE) to change their plans toassign to the small office building atthe residential intersection of ParkPlace and Underhill Avenue up to 200high school students suspended fromtheir regular placements.

The following letter from the ParkPlace Underhill Avenue Block Associ-ation went to District 13 Superinten-dent Barbara Freeman on April 22nd:

“While that building is suitable forand has served for years as offices, webelieve that neither the structure northe environment can properly meetthe needs of young people as aschool. Placing students in that build-ing could cause unnecessary painfulfriction with the community.”

We met with Superintendent Free-man on May 7th. She told us detailshanded to her by the Office of Portfo-lio of the DOE, and then we touredthe building. With no kitchen norcafeteria, no auditorium, nor librarynor gym, with inadequate bathroomfacilities and small, ill lit and poorlyventilated instructional spaces, it isobvious that the site cannot serve as aschool.

Mark Morales of the Daily News gotour message wrong when he wrotethe piece published on Friday, May11th, “Prospect scares residents”. Fearmongering is easy. Those responsibleare the decision makers for setting upa situation whose negative results wealready know. We had students in thatbuilding last year. They burst out in

the afternoon. Security personnelordered them to immediately leavethe area.

Behind the building is the Under-hill Avenue Playground, wellequipped for small children. Thestoops of historic brownstonesascend to dwellings of the affluent.Imagine being confined all day andthen exposed to those privileges!Remember teenagers? I do. I taught atProspect Heights High School for 21years. Not kids and not adults. Theirfeelings are easily hurt, and they knowthat their future depends on school-ing. They get angry at being neglect-ed. Those responsible for provokingthose reactions are the Mayor andother decision makers, for setting upa situation whose negative results wealready know – friction and conflictwith residents and then possibly withauthorities.

The DOE is legally and morallyresponsible to see that young people’seducational needs are met. Theydeserve to have an attractive andappropriate school, not being set up toget into conflicts for which they thencontinue to be blamed and punished.All of us need their talent and energy.The gift of education from one genera-tion to the next holds a society togeth-er. In our opposition to this plan wedefend their rights, our tranquility andthe future of our community.

The context of school suspensionsis documented in a report published in2011 by the NY Civil Liberties Unionand the Student Safety Coalitioncalled EDUCATION INTERRUPTED.www.nyclu.org/files/publications/Sus-pension_Report_FINAL_noSpreads.pdf

Susan Metz



We welcome letters from members. Submissiondeadlines appear in the Coop Calendar. All let-ters will be printed if they conform to the pub-lished guidelines. We will not knowingly publisharticles which are racist, sexist or otherwise dis-criminatory

The maximum length for letters is 500words. Letters must include your name andphone number and be typed or very legiblyhandwritten. Editors will reject letters that areillegible or too long.

You may submit on paper, typed or very legi-bly handwritten, or via email to [email protected] or on disk.

AnonymityUnattributed letters will not be published

unless the Gazette knows the identity of thewriter, and therefore must be signed when sub-mitted (giving phone number). Such letters willbe published only where a reason is given to theeditor as to why public identification of thewriter would impose an unfair burden of embar-rassment or difficulty. Such letters must relateto Coop issues and avoid any non-constructive,non-cooperative language.

FairnessIn order to provide fair, comprehensive, fac-

tual coverage:1. The Gazette will not publish hearsay—that

is, allegations not based on the author's first-hand observation.

2. Nor will we publish accusations that arenot specific or are not substantiated by factualassertions.

3. Copies of submissions that make substan-tive accusations against specific individuals willbe given to those persons to enable them towrite a response, and both submissions andresponse will be published simultaneously. Thismeans that the original submission may notappear until the issue after the one for which itwas submitted.

The above applies to both articles and letters.The only exceptions will be articles by Gazettereporters which will be required to include theresponse within the article itself.

RespectLetters must not be personally derogatory or

insulting, even when strongly criticizing an indi-vidual member's actions. Letter writers mustrefer to other people with respect, refrain fromcalling someone by a nickname that the personnever uses himself or herself, and refrain fromcomparing other people to odious figures likeHitler or Idi Amin.

LETTERS POLICY

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THE MONTH OF “MAY” INTHE PALESTINE-ISRAELCONFLICT

COOP MEMBERS:

Middle of MayDuring the middle of May, Israel

celebrates an event that they call theWar of Independence. The same occa-sion is observed by Palestinians, whocall it Al-Nakba, or the Catastrophe ofl948.

Al-NakbaBy the armistice of l949, 800,000 or

two-thirds of the Palestinians wereeither displaced internally, killed orforcefully expelled from the 600 Pales-tinian villages destroyed for the cre-ation of Israel. Professor Naseer Aruricomments: “The fact that Israel was‘born in sin’ of the dispossession ofanother people has never been seri-ously discussed in public … despitean abundance of irrefutable facts fromIsrael’s own “revisionist historians.”

Palestine 1948, Before the State of Israel

Dr. Hanan Ashrawi sheds light onPalestine up to 1948 that are worthnoting:

(1) Under the British mandate,Palestine was one of the importanteconomies.

(2) Dedication to education isdeeply rooted in the Palestinian cul-ture and remains so today. By 1914,there were 379 private schools inPalestine. In 1858, the first girls’school, Al Moscobiye opened in BeitJala. In 1869, the Quakers opened theFriends School which continues to beamong the most advanced educationinstitutions in Palestine.

(3) Between 1911-1948, there were161 newspapers, magazines and pub-lications. An important newspaper,“Falastin” was published in Jaffa byIssa al-Issa.

(4) Dozens of bookstores soldbooks written by Palestinian and for-eign authors. These included: “TheArab Women and the Palestine Prob-lem” by Matiel Moghannam, a femi-nist leader, and ‘The Arab Awakening”by George Antonious. They were pop-ular in Palestine, England and the US.

(5) There was a strong women’smovement in the 1920’s that lobbiedfor Palestinian self-determination atthe beginning of the British mandate.Women were prominent educators,journalists and writers.

(6) Palestinian creativity inspiredartists throughout the region. Com-posers like Yehya Al-Lababidi, andfamous Arab singers like Farid Al-Atrach, Um Kalthoum and MohamadAbdel Wahab performed regularly inHaifa, Jaffa and Jerusalem. Cinemasfrom Gaza to Akka showed the latestfilms.

(7) Major book collections werelost to their Palestinian owners.30,000 books were collected from

West Jerusalem. 50,000 books wereremoved from homes in Jaffa, Haifa,Tiberias and Nazareth. Khalil Sakakinilost his entire library. Today many ofthese books are found in the NationalLibrary of Israel marked ‘AP’ meaning“Abandoned Property.”

Israel’s AccountabilityIn the words of Dr. Ashrawi: “Al-

Nakba is the collective memory ofPalestinians, shap(ing) their identityas a people. It is an in escapable storyof loss, dispossession and a great his-toric injustice. Israel must come torecognize its historic accountability increating Al-Nakba for neither denialnor distortion can serve the cause ofpeace.”

References:Naseer Aruri, Chancellor Professor

(Emeritus) of Political Science at Uni-versity of Massachusetts Dartmouth:Counterpunch, 5/21/12, “The Meaningof the Nakba”

Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, PLO ExecutiveCommittee member, head of thePLO’s Department of Culture andInformation, Haaretz, 5/15/12, “Recog-nizing Nakba, Reaching Peace”

Mary BuchwaldBrooklyn For Peace

PSFCmembersforBDShttps://psfcbds.wordpress.com

The following letter ran in the May 17th issuewith some inadvertent omissions. We printthe corrected letter in full below. – The Editors

MORE FALSEAUTHORITIES: EAFORD(CERD/ICERD)

TO THE EDITOR:[All citations, shown in brackets

below, refer to same-numberedsources from the evidence-basedreport “False Gods: EAFORD(CERD/ICERD)”, at http://eaford.evi-dencewatch.com, part of my site on“The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict: TheEvidence” (http://me-evidence.evi-dencewatch.com)].

Joining already discredited NGOshiding under the halo of putative“human rights” organizations withoutrageous distortions of interna-tional law [22-25], EAFORD (Interna-tional Organization for Eliminationof All Forms of Racial Discrimina-tion, formerly, CERD and ICERD) isactually (including on their ownadmission) a Libya-founded anti-Israel extremist propaganda groupfocused on resurrecting the equa-tion of Zionism with racism andSouth African apartheid, establishedin 1976 at the International Sympo-sium on Zionism and Racism(Tripoli, Libya), with close ties to theformer Muammar Gaddafi regime, asnoted by Anne Bayefsky, distin-guished professor of internationalhuman rights law with the Interna-tional Law Association Committeeon Human Rights Law and Practice

[1,2,3]. EAFORD continues to pro-mulgate the “Zionism is Racism”slander of UN General AssemblyResolution 3379 despite its revoca-tion in 1991 [6,7,8]. Like many otherrejectionist anti-Israel groups,EAFORD—like BDS—was born andshaped out of the hateful and well-documented racism and virulentanti-Semitism of the first DurbanConference and NGO Forum in 2001[9,10,20,21].

This is the same EAFORD thatposted the outrageous Agenda Item7, “Israeli Illegal Trafficking in Organsof Dead and Kidnapped PalestinianVictims” that advances the blood libelthat “Israeli physicians remove organs

[from Palestinians] they think mar-ketable” [11]. This calumny was basedon an article by Donald Bostrom inthe Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet[12] who subsequently admitted toCNN [13] and The Jerusalem Post [14]that he had absolutely no proof of anyof the outrageous insinuations (note:Bostrom won Honest Reporting’s“2009 Dishonest Reporter Award”[15]). The charge was supposedlybased on allegations from the familyof Palestinian victim Bilal AhmedGhanem, but the family themselvesadmitted they never made suchclaims (they performed no autopsyand could not know) [16].



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The Linewaiters’ Gazette is revamping its organizational

structure and looking for qualified members to fill

the new work slots!The two new positions are:

Co-Coordinating Art Director(CAD) and Co-CoordinatingProduction Manager (CPM).

Both are supervisory positions on theproduction teams. In total, the Gazettewill be adding two CADs and four CPMs.

Responsibilities include:

• Supervise the members working in the Art Department or on the weekend Production Teams

• Screen applications for members wanting to jointhe Art Department or the Production teams

• Develop training tools

•Monitor and assess performance of team members

• Provide feedback to team members

• Have a working knowledge of Quark, InDesignand Photoshop (Co-Coordinating ProductionManager only)

• Improve and manage Gazette processes in order toproduce a quality newspaper

• The Co-Coordinating ProductionManager must be available to work onSaturday and Sunday, once everyeight weeks.

If you have any questions about the positions or thetime commitment, or are interested in applying,

please contact [email protected]. Include inyour e-mail your relevant experience and skills.

Applicants must be members in good standing andhave an excellent work history.

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Furthermore, experts have foundthe organ harvesting allegations tobe ludicrous and medically impossi-ble, since given the injuriesdescribed (including gunshot tochest and abdomen), the organswould not be usable for transplant(as noted by Dr, Andrea Meyerhoff[17], Associate Professor at theJohns Hopkins School of Medicine;and by Dr. Francis Delmonico [18],internationally renowned transplantspecialist at Harvard).

Yet despite the complete exposureof all these hateful fabrications anddespite the call from UN monitoringhuman rights NGO UN Watch [19]among others for the President of theUN Human Rights Council and theHigh Commissioner for Human Rightsto stop circulating the “anti-Semitic”libel, EAFORD (and UNHRC) has todate failed to respond and remove theslanderous accusations.

This is fitting: BDS supporters end-lessly repeating their falsehoods,“backed up” by equally false authorities.

In my next report, I expose anotherultra-extremist propaganda machine,Electronic Intifada.

Constantine KaniklidisScholars for Peace in the Middle East

(SPME)Progressive Voices for Peace in the Middle

East (PVPME)

THE FALSE AUTHORITYOF ELECTRONICINTIFADA

TO THE EDITOR:[All citations, shown in brackets

below, refer to same-numberedsources from the full evidence-basedreport “False Gods: Electronic Intifa-da)”, at www.ei.evidencewatch.com,part of my site on “The Israeli/Palestin-ian Conflict: The Evidence” (www.me-evidence.evidencewatch.com)].

In keeping with BDS supporters’tradition of false authorities we alsohave equally illicit citations to the“authority” of Electronic Intifada (EI),an extremist, rejectionist anti-Israelpropaganda machine.

Launched in February 2001 as aproject of the Middle East Culturaland Charitable Society (MECCS) [1],and founded by four activists affiliat-ed with the militant International Sol-idarity Movement (ISM) [2],Electronic Intifada receives fundingfrom ICCO [3], a Dutch inter-churchdevelopment organization receiving95% of its annual budget from theDutch government [4].

EI Executive Director andcofounder Ali Abunimah, a foundingsteering committee member of AlAwda, the Palestinian Right of Return

Coalition, rejects a two-state solutionin favor of a one-state illusion forwhich “coercion is necessary” [5],acknowledging that in a one-statesolution “we couldn’t rule out somedisastrous situation” for Jews [6]. Hehas repeatedly confirmed his viewthat a return for refugees would endIsrael’s existence as a Jewish state”[7], and so both Abunimah and Elec-tronic Intifada are ferociouslyopposed to the peace process [8-9].

Electronic Intifada labels PA Presi-dent Mahmud Abbas and Prime Min-ister Salam Fayyad as “collaborators”,and PA participation in peace talks as“collaboration” [8], reminding readersthat collaboration is punishable bydeath in the Territories. ElectronicIntifada extensively contributes to thehate-sponsored war to delegitimizeIsrael via articles that:

(1) compare Israelis to Nazis claim-ing that the Nazi Holocaust has “long[been] deployed by Zionists to silenceIsrael’s critics” [10-11],

(2) compare the Israeli press to theodious Nazi tabloid “Der Sturmer” [12],

(3) use apartheid rhetoric to accuseIsrael of ethnic cleansing [13] andgenocide [14,22], and

(4) in true yellow journalism spiritwe have regular “commentators” likeDaniel McGowan defending Holo-caust denial and revisionism [15].

and promotes a culture of anti-Israelviolence, blatantly inciting to activebloodshed and assault against Israelis,asking “Isn’t it the time for anotherPalestinian revolution in the form of athird intifada” [16], and justifying ter-rorism as a form of nationalist resis-tance [19-21,23,25]. Electronic Intifadacofounder, and frequent contributor toMondoweiss, Nigel Parry, justifiesPalestinian violence against Israeli set-tlers [19] while drawing an obscenemoral equivalency between Palestinianassaults against civilians (a manifestviolation of the Law of Armed Con-flict/LOAC), and Israeli counter-terror-ism initiatives [21], interlaced withextols to the “hope” of Hezbollah andHamas [23,25], while anothercofounder, Laurie King-Irani, odiouslycharges the “Israel Lobby” with viewingthe September 11th atrocity as a “gift”and a “real day of victory and glee” [24].

Electronic Intifada: an extremist,peace-rejectionist, pro-violence andterrorism-apologist anti-Israel hateand propaganda machine. It servesnot the cause of Peace, nor the causeof Palestinians, nor of equitable Jus-tice in the Middle East.

Constantine KaniklidisScholars for Peace in the Middle East

(SPME)Progressive Voices for Peace in the Middle

East (PVPME)

C O N T I N U E D F R O M P A G E 1 5

SUMMERTIME

If you plan on being away during one of your workslots, please make arrangements to have your shift covered.

One way to do it is to use the Shift Swap at www.foodcoop.com!If you plan on being away for eight weeks or more,

contact the Membership Office to take a leave of absence.Your co-workers will love you for it!

But don’t forget

...and the living is easy.

your coop shift!

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Classified advertising in the Linewaiters’ Gazette is available only to Coop members. Publication does not imply endorsement by the Coop.


To Submit Classified or Display Ads:

Ads may be placed on behalf of Coop members only. Clas-sified ads are prepaid at $15 per insertion, display ads at $30.(Classified ads in the “Merchandise–Non-commercial” cate-gory are free.) All ads must be written on a submission form.Classified ads may be up to 315 characters and spaces. Dis-play ads must be camera-ready and business card size (2" x3.5" horizontal).

Submission forms are available in a wallpocket near theelevator in the entrance lobby.

BED & BREAKFASTTHE HOUSE ON 3rd ST. B&B -

serving the Slope for over 20 yrs.

Parlor floor-thru apt. sleeps 5 in

comfort & privacy, queen bed,

bath, double living room, kitch-

enette, outdoor deck. Visit our web

site at houseon3st.com. Click our

FB link or call Jane at 718-788-

7171. Ask about bargains for last

minute bookings. Let us host you!

COMMERCIAL SPACE

PROFESSIONAL OFFICES avail-

able for Health Practitioners; e.g.

Nutritionist, Medical Doctor, Psy-

chotherapist, Massage Therapist,

Podiatrist, Dentist, Reiki, Shiatsu,

etc. Be part of an Holistic center in

SOHO. Doctor will introduce all

patients. Non-medical spaces also

available. For information, please

call 212-505-5055.

MERCHANDISE WANTED

SELL IRIS RECORDS your

CDs/LPs! Appointments day/night

at your home. We pay cash and do

the heavy lifting. Collections

appraised for estates/divorces.

Don’t throw away your stoop sale

leftovers! Iris will buy and

sell/donate LPs, CDs, DVDs,

books. Email Stephen at recordri-

[email protected] or call 609-468-

0885 for more info.

SERVICESTOP HAT MOVERS, INC., 145 Park

Place, Bklyn. Licensed and Insured

Moving Co. moves you stress-free.

Full line of boxes & packing mate-

rials avail. Free estimates 718-965-

0214. D.O.T. #T-12302. Reliable,

courteous, excellent references &

always on time. Credit cards

accepted. Member Better Busi-

ness Bureau.

EXPRESS MOVES. One flat price

for the entire move! No deceptive

hourly estimates! Careful, experi-

enced mover. Everything quilt

padded. No extra charge for

wardrobes and packing tape. Spe-

cialist in walkups. Thousands of

satisfied customers. Great Coop

references. 718-670-7071.

ATTORNEY—Personal Injury

Emphasis—33 years experience in

all aspects of injury law. Individual

attention provided for entire case.

Free phone or office consulta-

tions. Prompt, courteous commu-

nications. 22-year Park Slope Food

Coop member; Park Slope resi-

dent; downtown Brooklyn office.

Tom Guccione, 718-596-4184, also

at www.tguccionelaw.com.

MADISON AVENUE HAIR STYLIST

is right around the corner from the

food coop — so if you would like a

really good haircut at a decent

price, call Maggie at 718-783-2154.

I charge $60.00.

SERVICES AVAILABLE

PAINTING & WALLPAPERING- 25

yrs exp. doing the finest prep + fin-

ish work. One room or an entire

house. Free estimates + full insur-

ance coverage. Call Fred Becker @

718-853-0750.

CLASSIFIEDS


ADVERTISE ON THE WEBIf your ad would benefit from broader exposure, try theCoop's web page, www.foodcoop.com. The ads are FREE.

Park Slope Food Coop Video Squad

Workslots Available For FTOP credit

There are current workslot openings for: 1. Show Host (preferably a

talented chef or cook)2. Researcher/Storyboarder

3. Post Production: Editing andCompression

For more information, [email protected] and include

“PSFC Video Squad” in the subject line.

The Coop has a regular show on Brooklyn Cable Access Television and will soon be expanding topodcasting via the Internet. The shows featuresmembers and issues related to the Coop and thelarger Brooklyn community. Past shows includehealth, improv performance, live music, cooking

classes and ideas for living ecologically.

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NEED A WORK SHIFT?

[email protected] . 208 . 4778

Our store is now open! Come visit us at 18 Putnam Ave. At this time, PSFC members will receive FTOP credit in exchange for working with Greene Hill. To receive credit, you should be a PSFC member for at least one year and have an excellent attendance record. Join Greene Hill and you can shop at both stores!

CLASSIFIEDS (CONTINUED)

SERVICES-HEALTHHOLISTIC OPTOMETRY: Most eye

doctors treat patients sympto-

matically by prescribing ever-

increasing prescriptions. We try to

find the source of your vision

problem. Some of the symptoms

that can be treated include

headaches, eye fatigue, computer

discomfort, learning disabilities.

Convenient Park Slope location.

Dr. Jerry Wintrob, 718-789-2020.

holisticeyecare.com.

HOLISTIC DENTISTRY in Manhat-

tan (SOHO). Dr. Stephen R. Gold-

berg provides comprehensive

family dental care using non-mer-

cury fillings, crowns, dentures,

thorough cleanings, non-surgical

gum treatments with minimal X-

rays. For a free initial exam in a

nutrition-oriented practice and for

insurance information, please call

212-505-5055.

MD-SUPERVISED WGT LOSS pro-

gram to burn fat, save muscle, pre-

vent diabetes. Low dose allergen

therapy for inhalent, food & chem-

ical allergy. Bio-identical thyroid &

hormone replacement. Non-drug

treatment for depression, anxiety,

insomnia. Call Dr. Ordene @718-

258-7882. Insurance reimbursable,

Medicare accepted.

EMOTIONALLY EXHAUSTED AND

STRESSED BY CARING FOR YOUR

AGING PARENTS? Get the solu-

tions you need from a licensed

professional. Learn your options,

how to talk to healthcare profes-

sionals and how to plan ahead.

Individual and family sessions at

$100/hr. Call 718-809-0313 or e-

mail maryblanchettandassoci-

[email protected].

VACATION RENTALSHAVEN OFF THE HUDSON.

Friendly, historic 3-season wood-

ed community in Westchester

county. Co-op offers hiking, ten-

nis, pool, wifi cafe, social activi-

ties, organic garden. Beautiful

Hudson riverfront nearby. Studio,

1-BR cottages, $35k-$129k.

www.reynoldshills.org/bungalow-

shop. Tel: 347-307-4642 or mel-

[email protected]

NORTH FORK COTTAGE. Bright,

cozy 1 bedroom, bath, living room,

kitchen apartment on quiet coun-

try road in East Marion, close to

Sound and Bay beaches. A/C, W/D,

Kayak, bicycles. Pets upon

approval. June, $600/week; July,

$750/week; August, $900/week;

Sept/Oct, $600/week. Security, ref-

erences. Robin 917-499-6320.

C O N T I N U E D F R O M P A G E 1 7

VALET BIKE PARKING IS HERE ON SUNDAYS!

Every Sunday, April 1–November 18, from 3:30–8 p.m.,

Coop members can leave their bikes with our valet parking service, which is like

a coat check for bikes. Working members willcheck in and watch your bike for you.

Just drop off your bike, stroller, scooter orpersonal cart, do your shopping or your shift,

and hop back on. No locks, no worries, no theft. Service operates rain or shine.

Look for us in front of the yellow wall. (Note: no bike check-in after 7:30 p.m.)

Valet bicycle parking at the Coopis brought to you by the PSFC

Shop & Cycle Committee.

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If you are interested in the history of the Coop or in when and how particular subjects have been

discussed in the Gazette...

Send an e-mail to Len Neufeld, Gazette indexer, [email protected], to request PDF files of

either or both of the following indexes:

◆ An alphabetized list of the titles of all articles published in theGazette from 1995 to the present, with issue dates.

◆ An alphabetized list of all subjects (including people’s names) discussed in Gazette articles from 1995–99 and 2001 to the present,

with article titles, issue dates, and page numbers (subjects for the year 2000 are being added).

Many of the Gazette issues referenced in these indexes are available as PDFs on the Coop’s website.

Classified advertising in the Linewaiters’ Gazette is available only to Coop members. Publication does not imply endorsement by the Coop.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Community calendar listings are free. Please submit your event listing in 50 words or less [email protected]. Submission deadlines are the same as for classified ads.

Please refer to the Coop Calendar in the center of this issue. An asterisk (*) denotes a Coop member.

SAT, JUN 2 11 a.m. Saturday mornings,

Damo I Jin—a ‘tendon-changing’

form of Chi Kung (“life-force

energy practice”)—returns to

Prospect Park, weather permit-

ting. Newcomers are welcome to

join the class any week. For

more information, contact

[email protected] or

212-946-1537.

THU, JUN 7 8p.m. June 7th thru June 9th

Marie-Christine Giordano Dance

premieres In and Out Location:

Danspace Project, St. Mark’s

Church, 131 East 10th Street,

NYC 1003, www.mcgiordan-

odance.org Tickets: $18 and $12

for Dancers/ Students/Seniors

(866)-811-4111 or online

WED, JUN 13 7-9 p.m. The Power House

Arena, Book launch party: Peo-

ple’s Pops, 55 recipes for ice

pops, shave ice, and boozy pops

from Brooklyn’s coolest pop

shop By Nathalie Jordi, David

Carrell, & Joel Horowitz 37 Main

Street, Bklyn, NY 11201 For

information, call 718-666-3049

Please RSVP: rsvp@power-

HouseArena.com

THU, JUN 14 6-9 p.m. Rooftop Solar Electric

Workshop For Residential/

Coops/Condos/Commercial.Wh

y go solar now? Costs? Savings?

Can I? Bring your Con Ed bill,

get estimated. At Commons

Brooklyn, 388 Atlantic Avenue

(bet Hoyt and Bond) $35, dis-

counts online. Space limited.

Register: www.citysolaus/work-

shopschedule.php.Contact

347-254-0019, [email protected]

WED, JUN 20 7 p.m. Community Bookstore,

143 Seventh Ave. Is Starbucks

really green? Is Trader Joe’s real-

ly organic? Find out when Coop

member Fran Hawthorne dis-

cusses her newest book, “Ethical

Chic: The Inside Story of the

Companies We Think We Love”

(Beacon Press). Free (Auto-

graphed books are for sale).

DO YOU LIKE DESIGNING FLYERS? HOW ARE YOU AT

MARKETING? DO YOU LIKE SOCIAL NETWORKING?

ARE YOU A WEB DEVELOPER? CAN YOU WRITE PHP?

DO YOU KNOW HOW TO USE WORDPRESS? DO YOU LIKE

TABLING AT EVENTS? DO YOU LIKE RESEARCHING FOOD? DO YOU NEED FTOP CREDIT? DO YOU LIKE

COMMUNITY, EATING GOOD FOOD, AND FUN? COME

HANG OUT WITH THE BUSHWICK FOOD COOP

AND GET WORK CREDIT! A BUYING CLUB AND CSA ARE SATIATING US WHILE WE WORK TOWARDS MAKING THE DREAM OF HAVING OUR OWN STOREFRONT A REALITY. WE ARE REALLY INVESTED IN OUR COLLECTIVE GOAL OF BRINGING AFFORDABLE, LOCAL AND ORGANIC FOOD TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF BUSHWICK. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP, PLEASE EMAIL US AT [email protected].

LEFFERTS FARMFOOD COOPERATIVEWe are a newly-formed group made up of residents from Flatbush, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Crown Heights, working to develop a new medium-sized food cooperative in the area.

JOIN US: www.meetup.com/plgfoodcoop

WE NEED YOUR HELP!There’s no question Brooklyn needs more food cooperatives, but it’s not simple. Food co-ops are businesses and development projects created for and by the community.

JOIN OUR PLANNING GROUPIn order to make this happen, we need YOU! Why? Because as a member, you have experience with food co-ops. And as a worker/community member, you have experience we need—from organizational development, branding/messaging, finance/accounting, fundraising, to real estate development and community outreach. Even people you know or the groups you belong to are a valuable asset to the process!

GET INVOLVEDPSFC members will receive FTOP credit in exchange for their participation. Join our MeetUp group at www.meetup.com/plgfoodcoop or contact [email protected] for more information.

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THANK YOU!

Thank you to the following members for referring friends who joined the Coop in the last four weeks.

Elizabeth AbbsSandra AuFlavia BeneditoBarrett BentonEmily BoleviceMelani BolyaiLeonard BrillRene BrinkleyJulianne Carney

Gisele CastañoMaryanne ChaneyJana CunninghamPaula CurtzAlison DorfmanIris EdmistonMark EnglerFionaAmara Foster

Anna FrangosThomas GilliganAsya M. GorokhovskySabina HahnAllison HornsteinDavid JonesKaren JosephNicholas KleinIan Knauer

Patrick KnightJoanna KotzeNim Lee LewNick Lobel-WeissBryan MagersMandyNechama MarcusRobert MaukschAlaska McFadden

Nicholas MillerMyrahPoppy O’NeillDiane PaxtonPhillip PondMartha PooleKate RedburnCarolina Rubio-

MacWright

Jacquelyn ScadutoOfer SettyKia SisonDevorah SreterNina StatmanDerek SteeleMary SullivanSusiePriscilla Swan

Amy TaiTheressaTherese TripoliOded TzurDaniel Yuhas

WELCOME!

A warm welcome to these new Coop members who have joined us in the last two weeks. We’re glad you’ve decided to be a part of our community.

Danna AgmonWalter AndersonsDavid ArkemaJames BaptisteDerek BaronMatthew BelangerI-Hsuan ChenGilles ChevalierChristina CioccaMorell Cutler

Shymala DasonFanny DelsolRachel DorThomas EdingerPetra FarinhaDaniel FernandezMaud FrisenfeldtJonathan GarbergLucile GingembreCandice Gorman

Tim HaneyMichael HarariMichelle Weiss HarariDenise HollisJesse HollisCindy HowlettAntony HuchetteAssita HuchetteDaniel HymanAnthony Johnson

Louis KatzmanShai MaestroSolomon MandalouiMarc MannEliyohu MarcusDavid MoodyYianni NaslasFiona NoyesTravis NoyesLeticia Palomo-Lopez

Rui PereiraAlison PetersonJanet PotterDaniel RhodyDoris RichmondWilliam RobertsElayne RushHideshi SagawaJames SchafferDuann Scott

Fares ShahbainRebecca SimonTaigi SmithLuciana SolanoAmy StrettenAmanda TsengQuentin TuckerAlexandra TurshenJanet VitebskyBernhardt Vogelmann

Anna WebberDaniel WegerJoel WilhelmiNaomi WilliamsonSher WoutersKarin Zahavi


FREENon members Welcome

Saturday, June 28:00 p.m.

Come support fresh talent at the Food Coop’s Third Annual Band Nite

For more info and directions check out the FUN committee blog: psfcfun.wordpress.com

With performances by:

The RaytonesMaya Solovey

13th Floor Klezmer BandMappa Mundi


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