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Volume NN, Number 21 October 24, 2019 Dining Options— From Mild to Wild By Rene Brinkley s Park Slope Food Coop Amembers, we have all vol- unteered to food shop off the grid. We have said no to big- box supermarkets and hello to a food shopping community that supports local farmers, has high-quality meat and produce, a variety of food and non-food items, and afford- able prices. Similar to some members, I joined the Coop because of the large variety of produce at below-farm- ers-market prices. But after the excitement of buying famil- iar foods wore off, I ventured down the Coop aisle looking for something new. My search started in the produce aisle. I tried things

like Ugli fruit (cute is over- ILLUSTRATION BY VALERIE TRUCCHIA rated) and stinging nettles (which really can sting you PSFC Members React to if not handled properly). Then I worked my way down the bulk aisle, trying ancient New Retirement Rules grains—including bulgur, By Hayley Gorenberg stop working. Several are per- kasha, and millet. I also sam- he recent GM decision to plexed and even “MIFFED—in pled strange-sounding beans Tease PSFC retirement rules capital letters!” over what they like mung, which I absolutely may siphon off a surprising perceive as an abrupt change.

loved. Over my Coop shop- PHOTO BY CAROLINE MARDOK number of reliable and experi- After the August GM wid- ping years, I embraced a new Fred Hua cooking a special dinner for the Gastronauts in enced workers from key shifts, ened retirement options, the food mantra: buy it and try it. his restaurant called “In the Back of Zekes Bar.” though others may decide to occasional retirement here or I searched for recipes online stay on despite their option to CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 and sometimes asked other offers a number of non-tra- Restaurant, combined his love Coop shoppers for sugges- ditional dining options that of books with his passion for Next General Meeting on October 29 tions. The PSFC helped pique range from mild to wild. food and created the Table of The General Meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop is held on my food curiosity. But where Contents (TOC) dinner series. the last Tuesday of each month. The October General Meet- would that journey lead once Book to Table Each multi-course meal is ing will be on Tuesday, October 29, at 7:00 p.m. at John Jay I stepped outside the Coop For those looking for inspired by scenes from a clas- Educational Campus, 227 Seventh Ave., between Fourth doors? Just as New York something more than a farm- sic book. For example, for the and Fifth Sts. City offers many alternative to-table meal, there is a first dinner event in 2012, the The agenda is in this Gazette, on www.foodcoop.com and food-shopping options— book-to-table reading series meal was inspired by Ernest available as a flier in the entryway of the Coop. For more including farmers markets, curated by a Brooklyn chef. Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. information about the GM and about Coop governance, food coops, and CSAs—it also The chef, Evan Hanczor of Egg CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 please see the center of this issue.

Sat, Oct 26 • Pumpkin Decorating 2:00 p.m. IN THIS ISSUE Fri, Nov 1 • Film Night: Frozen River 7:00 p.m. The Great Re-shelving Project ...... 2 Safe Food Committee Report ...... 6 Coop Tue, Nov 5 • Plow-to-Plate Movie Series: Coordinators’ Corner ...... 7 Los Lecheros 7:00 p.m. Welcome, Governance Information, Mission Statement . . . 9 Event Calendar of Events ...... 10 Wed, Nov 6 • Learn About Cheese at the Coop 7:00 p.m. Letters to the Editor ...... 12 Labor Committee Report ...... 13 Highlights Thu, Nov 7 • Food Class: Napa Kimchi 101 7:30 p.m. Hearing Officers Committee Report, Community Calendar . . 14 Look for additional information about these and other events in this issue. Classifieds ...... 15 Exciting Workslot Opportunities ...... 16

Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com 2 October 24, 2019 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY The Great Re-shelving Project By Leila Darabi the aisles of the Coop span f you’ve been to the Coop in what was once three sep- Ithe past few weeks, you may arate buildings. The area have noticed an uptick in peo- where shoppers exit the pro- ple paging over the intercom duce aisle (780 Union Street) and traipsing around the store requires crossing over to the looking for common items— center building (782 Union garlic, mushrooms, sparkling Street) and navigating a small water. You’re not imagining area packed with essential things. Your favorite items may grocery items before pass- have moved. ing under the arches to com- Don’t worry, it’s all part of a plete their shop in the third master plan to reduce bottle- building (784 Union Street) necks around the store. where most dry goods can be

found, not to mention meat ILLUSTRATION BY CATY BARTHOLOMEW The Universal Shopping and poultry. Route impossible to push a cart In Search of Mangoes here from the other side of Most grocery shoppers— Your favorite items may down the bulk aisle, now sits You may recall that the front aisle one. and especially seasoned Coop in a prime spot on the front endcap between aisle one and While the tropical fruit members—enter a store with a have moved. Don’t worry, endcap of aisle two. In other two used to hold tropical fruit, shelves are tilted forward to strategy, and tend to follow the it’s all part of a master words, as you enter the store including papayas and man- enhance the display of their same route. plan to reduce bottlenecks and roll past the eggs, it’s on goes. These displaced items contents, Astrinsky worries “If you think about entry into around the store. the left as you enter the pro- ended up around the corner, that tropical fruit placement almost any supermarket, you duce aisle. above the large bins of onions remains under the radar. go to produce first,” explains “Now that it’s being stocked, and above the bins of garlic “People haven’t quite General Coordinator Elinoar Navigating this section of we’re selling more seltzer,” and shallots that shoppers understood that yet. I think we Astrinsky. “Your whole meal is the store can be treacherous, Astrinsky confirms. may have noticed also moved need to do some tweaking with based on the fresh things. And even on a weekday. Aisle two it’s the other things, the dry always seems to be packed. goods, that you’re adding to “There’s always a U-boat the things that are appealing in bulk to be stocked. Seltzer to you. And the freshest things used to be here, but it never are the produce.” sold well. There was never a We tend to shop around the time when we could just stock MOVED ITEMS periphery of a grocery store, it easily,” Astrinsky says. dipping into the center aisles One major change in for specialty items. This is where to find popular items Applesauce & Pumpkin Purée 6A also no accident. Supermar- involved finding a better kets, including the Coop, must place to put the seltzer. And stock frozen and refrigerated so the puzzle began. Baking (Chocolate, Flavorings, etc.) 2B (across from bulk) items where there is access to electricity—in other words Coop Tetris Canned Fruits 6A along the walls. Moving the LaCroix meant finding shelf space elsewhere, Coconut Water 2A The Aisle Two Problem and moving the items on that While the produce aisle shelf, and so on and so forth. may be the star of the show— Groceries buyer Gillian Chi, Dried Chilies and Mushrooms 6B (hanging) and by far the busiest section beverage buyer Ross Gibson, of the Coop—most members and coffee buyer Cody Dodo, Glassware, Ball Jars 5A then round the corner, pass teamed up to make it happen. the cheeses, and swing left All in all, they did a lot of Juice 2A (across from bread) into aisle two. measuring and some tricky “That’s really what our mem- math to add and move shelves bership does, they’re shop- to fit new products. Mangoes & Papayas Produce (above potatoes) ping the periphery plus bulk,” So, where did things end Astrinsky says. “There’s always up? A handy “Moved Items” Packaged Flour, Sugar, Baking Mixes 2B (across from bulk) this kind of chockablock kind chart posted around the Coop of thing that happens.” serves as a key. The seltzer (across from bulk) Part of the problem is that used to sit unshelved Packaged Grains, Hemp & Chia Seeds 2B architectural. As many know, on a U-boat, making it Salad Dressing 3A Seltzer & Mineral Water Endcap (across from spices) Soda & Iced Teas 2B (across from coffee) SodaStream Canisters 2A (bottom shelf) Smoothie Pouches 6A Water Bottles 3A Water Filters 2A PHOTO BY WILLIAM FARRINGTON Afiri Farrington with water containers now found in aisle 3A.

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MEMBER SUBMISSION Film Showing and Art Installation Tracks History of Housing Discrimination in Park Slope By Erik Lewis ave you heard of the Park HSlope Riot of 1973? Did you know that city planning survey forms of the 1930s identified “Negro Infiltration”

PHOTO BY WILLIAM FARRINGTON as a “Detrimental Influence” Receiving workers Lora Clarke and Kristin Baganz for many Brooklyn neighbor- restocking sparkling water in the new location between hoods? Were you aware that aisle 2A and 1B. in the 1980s some landlords harassed and intimidated ten- the mangoes [location],” she “We sell a lot more seltzer ants by hiring off-duty police says, implying that these fruits than we do baking items,” says officers to serve eviction need to be displayed better. Astrinsky. “This will change for notices to clear buildings in “You know the front endcap is the holidays, but for now, we can Park Slope for development?

a prime spot.” stock it earlier in the morning And how residents fought PHOTOS BY ERIK LEWIS and then again replenish it. But back against gentrification in Unifying Noncontiguous it’s not at the same intensity.” the early 1980s by organizing, and with a pro- Items test march down Seventh Avenue? Every time the team moved Previous Upgrades These and many other facts about the one item, two questions The recent reorganization shameful history of housing discrimina- arose: What to move out of the builds on several successful tion, rampant unchecked development, and way and what to shelve in the upgrades over the past year grassroots protest are on display at an inter- space created. The tropical or so. The first thing shoppers active historical timeline installation called fruit, displaced by the seltzer, may have noticed was the “UnDesign The Redline.” It’s currently on in turn displaced the canned expansion of the coffee area, exhibit at the Art Mobile at Thomas Greene fruits, fruit squeeze pouches, another reason one might Park, Third Ave. between Degraw and Doug- and salad dressing that once have trouble making it through lass Sts., in nearby Gowanus, from October sat above the onions in aisle aisle two. 3 through October 30. one. To keep things simple, Astrinsky says this upgrade In addition, on Saturday, October 26, to the team moved these items included building new shelves, mark the last week of the exhibit, the Fifth From top: Anti-Gentrification March in Park to aisles already holding sim- providing larger bins of the Avenue Committee (FAC)—a sponsor of the Slope, 1983; tour guide explains UnDesign ilar products. most popular beans, and buy- art installation— will screen my documen- Installation. The salad dressings can ing a second coffee grinder. tary film, Where Can I Live—A Story of Gen- now be found under the oil “That was also anoth- trification. I made this documentary in 1983 institutionalization of “redlining” in the and vinegar. The fruit squeeze er choking point, people with a grant from New York State Council on 1930s, with the creation of the Federal pouches, once segregated by waiting for the grinder,” she the Arts and the Sisters of Good Shepherd, Housing Authority, is graphically laid out adult and baby pouches, now recalls. “Part of [the upgrade] among others. It was broadcast on WNET/ in a road-map-style exhibit featuring origi- reside together in aisle six A, was to allow better flow, but Channel Thirteen and is still in distribution nal source documents, color-coded maps of alongside the canned fruit it’s definitely increased our through Cinema Guild. Housing in New York “desirable and undesirable” neighborhoods, and applesauce. [coffee] sales.” City, and its injustices, has always been an photographs, newspaper headlines, and Meanwhile, the team To make room for the coffee interest of mine. Unfortunately, the film is as quotes from leading figures. moved the packaged flour, aisle upgrade, the team moved relevant now as it was in 1983. The screening The Fifth Avenue Committee, the exhibit sugar, and pancake mix into bulk spices to its own shelf is at 12:30 p.m. at FAC’s headquarters, 621 sponsor, is a non-profit community organiz- the space once occupied by between eggs and produce, an Degraw St. ing and development organization founded the seltzer. By doing this, pack- area previously reserved for ad Where Can I Live tells the story of neigh- in 1978. It largely focuses on affordable hous- aged flours and sugar are now hoc stashing of stuff to get it borhood activists who organized to stem the ing development. It renovated its first build- directly across from the bulk out of the way. While Astrinsky tide of gentrification that began transform- ing for low-income tenants at 104 St. Marks bins of similar items. says the staff “lament the loss” ing Park Slope from a mixed, working-class Place in 1980 using “sweat equity,” where Then they shifted the juice of that flexible space, the shift neighborhood with many single-room occu- prospective tenants physically participated down to fill the spot where has meant that people are pancy boarding houses to a middle- and in the renovation of their future homes. the packaged flour had been, not bending over to examine upper-class enclave. The film explores both FAC also helped in the creation of the so that juice is just around baggies of spices in the same the nitty-gritty organizing techniques of res- documentary by identifying stories and sub- the corner from the seltzer space that others are grind- idents and the economics and philosophy of jects for filming. Today FAC participates in a and beer in a general bever- ing coffee and still others are gentrification itself, employing wide-ranging wide array of low-income housing programs age area. scooping bulk items. interviews with developers, city planners, and initiatives, including facilitation and “Frankly, Coop members As part of that move, bulk and organizers. organizing tenants’ associations, initiat- don’t drink as much juice as teas can now be found with the “UnDesign the Redline” is an interactive ing low-income development projects, and they used to. Our [juice] num- packaged tea. exhibit created by Designing the WE, who managing low-income houses. On Saturday, bers are dwindling. There was are, according to their website, “a design October 26, both the tour and showing are the coconut water explosion, Embracing Change studio...that facilitates collaborative pro- free of charge: it’s still very popular,” she According to Astrinsky, cesses to redefine how big picture sys- 11 a.m.—“UnDesign the Redline” Exhib- notes. However, sugar con- the new placement of items temic challenges are approached.” (www. it Tour—Art Mobile, Thomas Greene Park, sciousness has killed juice is catching on. Anecdotal- designingthewe.com). Redlining refers to Third Ave., between Degraw and Douglass sales, leaving less of a need to ly, she and the team have the racist, discriminatory real estate and Sts. A guided tour with Q&A of the exhibit. stock huge quantities. noticed better flow of traffic banking practices of drawing a “red line” 12:30 p.m.—Showing of Where Can I Having the packaged through the produce aisle around minority neighborhoods targeted for Live—A Story of Gentrification—Fifth Ave. Com- flour, a less highly trafficked and aisle two. exploitation by denying them services and mittee, 621 Degraw St. As the filmmaker, I item, across from the heavily “People are slowly getting it. loans or charging minority persons within will be present for Q&A. Light refreshments trafficked bulk bins has cre- It’s going to take a few cycles of the designated neighborhoods higher inter- and food will be served. ated much better flow down people working and shopping est rates than their white counterparts. For more information, call FAC at: 718- aisle two. and working and shopping.” n How the federal government began the 237-2017. n

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Dining Options their homes to share a meal. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Now professional chefs are jumping in on the trend. The menu included stuffed trout, chicken in newspaper, Just as New York City and a soft-boiled egg. In 2014 Hanczor hosted a To Kill A Mock- offers many alternative ingbird-themed dinner, which food-shopping options— included crackling bread, salt including farmers pork and beans, and country markets, food coops, and ham. Earlier this year, the TOC CSAs—it also offers a number dinner event was based on of non-traditional dining the recently published fantasy novel, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, options that by Marlon James. The dinner range from mild to wild…. menu included ugali porridge and sorghum bread. Jose DeJesus is one such The TOC literary feasts are chef. He is professionally held once a year. Hanczor and trained, has cooked in several his team also host a monthly restaurants across New York edible reading series featur- City, and was featured in sea- ing author readings paired son 18 of Hell’s Kitchen. DeJesus with small bites. On the TOC launched his home-cooking website, he states the mission business last year in the Bronx.

of TOC as using “…food as an “One of the main reasons I’m PHOTO BY CAROLINE MARDOK unconventional but revelato- doing dinners out of home is Woman stirring pan at the Gastronauts Afghan dinner. ry entry point for experienc- because I want to use food to ing books, music, art, and change other people’s lives, they arrive. I got a peek at Lamb Brain Anyone? culture.” All events are held at either through ingredients the seven-course menu for For those looking to take a Egg restaurant. they may not know of or ingre- a recent dinner, and it fea- walk on the culinary wild side, I dients they may be scared tured crab cake with harissa have just the group for you: It’s Dine with a Chef to eat because they had bad and cauliflower, trout with called the Gastronauts and it’s If a more intimate dining memories as a child,” he stat- tomato and white beans, for the brave eater. I thought I experience is what you are ed. DeJesus continued, “I want and a dessert called choco- was brave five years ago when seeking, how about dinner at to help change people’s per- late excuses. DeJesus rotates I signed up for their food scav- home with a chef? What began ception of food the way food the menu every two to three enger hunt. The event took as an underground word-of- helped me change my percep- weeks, and dinners sell out place in Flushing, Queens, mouth dining movement less tion of life in general.” quickly. While running the and it wasn’t long before I was than ten years ago is now just His food concept is called home-cooking business full faced with eating lamb brains,

an app away. Sites like Eat The Chef’s Crib. It’s an exclu- time can be stressful, DeJesus chicken heart and other things COURTESY OF THE GASTRONAUTS With allow you to pick chef- sive meal experience for says the rewards are worth it: that people in this part of the Curtis Caleo, founder of the led experiences like a Balkan eight people curated by “It’s exciting to create some- world don’t usually eat. But I Gastronauts. feast in a brownstone, a Vene- DeJesus. He describes the thing unique and real that ate the lamb brains—it was zuelan meal in Brooklyn, or an weekly dinner events as an people can take with them,” creamy and spicy and other- food,” he says. “People have Iranian kebab extravaganza. “evening-long celebration of he explained. “People come wise hard to describe. I ate the become more adventurous Sometimes referred to as peer- food.” The location is kept to the dinner and leave with chicken heart—it was chewy. and curious. Foodies consid- to-peer dining, some amateur secret until the day before an unforgettable memory of And I ate whatever else we had er eating some things a kind home chefs have made a busi- the event, and diners find a dining experience they just to as part of the game. I came of badge of honor (Have you ness of inviting strangers into out what’s on the menu when had at my house.” to win—and food fear was not ever had...) and exploring the going to stop me; and, yes, my city culinarily is fun.” team won! So, what kind of food are Ben Pauker and Curtis Gastronaut members eating? Calleo, two friends who were Basically everything! The club tired of baked chicken, grilled has had several head-to-tail steak, and green salad, start- dinners where every part of ed the Gastronauts food club the animal is eaten over the in 2006. They wanted to leave course of the meal. Calleo October 17 – November 6, 2019 the culinary mainstream recalled, ‘We’ve had whole behind and find more adven- lamb, goat, pig, nutria, and turous eats. Pauker and Cal- more.” (Alexa—what’s nutria?) Aries: Lay low like a beet. As the pumpkin grabs the limelight Libra: Like cranberries, you add a unique flavor to parties. leo both grew up overseas and The dinner I attended earlier so too the Sun has you in shadow. Operate in stealth to generate Don’t be so quick to bring a plus-one. Shine solo. were exposed to a much wider this year featured adventurous wealth. variety of food. They also knew items, including ox tongue and Scorpio: Scorpio season arrives on October 22 and your that in New York City you can tripe, pig tongue with a spicy Taurus: The Sun enters your love sector on October 22 and like mysterious persona becomes more accessible but no less sexy. find just about anything if you aioli, pork brains with Sichuan a juicy blackberry suddenly your heart comes to life. Offer up a seductive bowl of dates to your dates. try hard enough. peppers, and pig kidney. Other So, the pair created a food unique dishes featured at past Gemini: Plant yourself in one spot to work like a decorative Sagittarius: Figs pair well with most fruits, and you with all club that would seek out dinners include worms, ants, gourd, Gemini. You can spiff up old projects while Mercury moves communities, thanks to Mars, this month. toward retrograde. exotic foods in the city to bat snails, goat eyes, and bear. eat. Six people showed up to While I have tasted worms, Capricorn: You’re an unusual spicy variety, right now, Cancer: Perfect host, you! You can serve up plain old broccoli their first meeting at a Malay- some of these other items Capricorn. Like chicory you won’t go unnoticed. (still in season) with hummus, and no one will care. It’s all about sian restaurant, but now 70+ absolutely terrify me. It turns

your personality and flair. people attend the dinners, out I’m just not as brave as I Aquarius: Parsnips are in season, and it’s time to get back to which usually have a waiting would like to think I am—at your roots. The Sun in your career sector says get serious about Leo: Like a New England pumpkin you’re a classic people can list. The club now includes least not yet. n your life’s purpose. rely on thanks to your ruler, the Sun’s transit of home and family. approximately 2,500, mem- bers with chapters in Los For more information on these Virgo: While jack-o-lanterns consider adding some drama to Pisces: Bake a lot of pumpkin pies this month, Pisces. With Angeles and San Francisco. clubs and upcoming events visit: your home or office décor. Your environment needs to be more Mars in adverse Libra it’s best to take the simplest route to Calleo says the club’s growth https://www.eggrestaurant.com/; stimulating. success. is a result of several factors: https://trillcooker.com/; http:// “No one caters to this kind of www.gastronauts.net.

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Retirement Some reacted strongly upon on Saturdays, she has grown learning of the rule change. “very attached to people on the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 PLASTIC PACKAGING RECYCLING An October 10th Gazette let- squad, friends I don’t see often there became a steady trickle ter opened: “Say what?? We outside Coop time.” Orzeck Saturday, October 26, 1:45-4 p.m. of several per day, including decide to change the retire- said, “I just found out with squad leaders, a Gazette design- ment requirements after one the new retirement policy I’m Wednesday, November 13, 3:45-6 p.m. er, and cashiers. According to meeting’s discussion?” Susan able to retire any minute. I was Coop Membership Coordina- Yohn, who wrote the letter, thinking of continuing to work, For Coop members only tor Annette Laskaris, “It’s been went on, “I imagine that I’m mostly because I like the peo- Please be prepared to show your Coop membership card. way more than it used to be.” not alone in planning ‘retire- ple, and I look forward to hav- Furthermore, many hold inde- ment’ from the Coop in the ing that monthly touch-base.” Plastic bags/wrap/packaging from most products pendent jobs that will require same way many plan retire- Cashiering is imbued with special training for new peo- ment from work, with thought- a certain gravity, from Orzeck’s sold at the Coop—food and non-food. ple “in key positions,” she said. fulness and a knowledge of point of view. She recalled Thin plastic film wrap—from notecards, tea boxes, “We’re scrambling to find new the rules.” Yohn continued, picking up the shift because pre-packaged cheese, household items, pet food, juice packs, etc. squad leaders.” “To have it be done in such a the Coop needed people who Before the rule change, capricious manner without could take on the responsibil- Plastic roll bags distributed by the Coop—please use roll retirement required a mini- opportunity for thoughtful dis- ity. “There was a certain kind bags only as necessary, reduce usage whenever possible, and mum of 20 years of work, but cussion and input is unfair and of status attached to it at the re-use any bags you do take before recycling. now there’s a staggered time- uncooperative.” time. Even now people say, Plastic food storage zip lock bags (any size), plastic cling table, with people aged 70 Having read the letter, ‘I could never do that!’ They wrap, and small bulk bags. allowed to retire after only 10 Katherine Korolenko, 77, didn’t want to handle the years. General Coordinator exclaimed, “I am wholeheart- money,” she said. Ann Herpel reported to the edly in agreement with what Her close-knit co-cashiers NO food residue, rinse as needed. Only soft plastic from Coop purchases. GM prior to the change that this woman is saying!” Koro- have shared everything from 7% of the Coop’s members lenko described herself as holiday recipes and antler were retired. The number of “suddenly eligible for retire- headgear to dating advice, members newly eligible to ment,” after having strategized checking in during each shift. For all community retire is opaque; the PSFC to reach her 20-year total, It made that whole Saturday, membership database doesn’t required before the recent early-morning experience members: contain age information in vote. She worked and accu- super fun and pleasant.” Pre-sort and separate according to the categories below. searchable form. (A Coop staff mulated 13 FTOP credits to Ruth Mandel, 69, and her member confirmed that this is advance her retirement. “Then husband, Alan Chevat, 70, are Toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes deliberate, based on privacy I read in the Linewaiters’ [Gazette] both newly eligible to retire, and Energy bar wrappers and granola bar wrappers concerns.) “All of a sudden we that I can immediately retire! they have reservations about could have a thousand people So, had I not planned, rear- the rule change. Mandel works Brita water filters and related items (other brands who turned 70, and we don’t ranging my daily routine, just in the Membership Office. also accepted) have that information,” Las- plodding along, I would have “I think that they overdid Cereal and cracker bags/box liners karis said. “It is a problem.” suddenly been eligible.” Jok- it with the new regulations. I ingly she added, “Anyone want think they should have spent Donations in any amount are welcomed to help Several are perplexed and to buy 13 FTOP credits no lon- more time talking to people,” offset the cost to the Coop of this collection. ger useful to me at this point? said Mandel. “I’m sure there even “MIFFED—in capital I am absolutely MIFFED!” she are going to be people in my Interested in joining the squads that run the Wednesday/Saturday collection? Contact Jacquelyn Scaduto in the Membership Office. letters!” over what they said (specifically requesting age group who are going to say, perceive as an abrupt change. capital letters). ‘Great! I don’t want to work!’ For more information about Terracycle, visit terracycle.com “This was capricious. This It felt a little unfair to people Questions about items we accept should be e-mailed to [email protected] Several surprised members was ill thought-through,” who put in their 30 years that have wavered on the cusp of opined Korolenko (her word- suddenly we don’t have to put the newly presented option, choice echoing Yohn’s). “It’s in nearly that much time.” she said. “First they’re like, ‘I difficult for rules to change “Why work if you don’t have don’t want to retire yet!’ But overnight.” Korolenko uses to?” postulated Chevat, a then they do want to retire. It’s her accounting experience in Shopping Squad Leader who like, ‘Okay, I don’t have to do her Data Entry shift, where she enjoys programming a blues this anymore.’” She continued, described her work as “quick, and rockabilly soundtrack “We tell them, ‘You can come accurate and efficient.” She’s during his shift. “Last shift I back and work on the same mulling what to do. “I don’t trained one cashier and two shift and help out.’ Some do know at this point whether to checkout people. I don’t know that, but they don’t have to be continue. In the cooperative if there are many others who back. They don’t have to do a spirit, I won’t drop [my shift] could do that.” He continued, TheThe folksfolks fromfrom VermontVermont whowho havehave soldsold ChristmasChristmas trees makeup if they retire; they can overnight.” “I like my squad. I’ve been with nexttrees to next the to Coop the forCoop decades for decades were nowere longer no able to rent do what they want.” Jan Orzeck, 67, joined in them for 13 years.” fromlonger the able school to rent this from year. the school this year. Retirement discussions 1998 and was closing in on 20 Chevat happily retired after TheirTheir new new location location is byis bythe the church church on Sixth on Sixth Avenue have come a long way since years total by November 2020. 34 years working for New York the topic was first discussed She estimated that her three State. “But this is different,” betweenAvenue between Sterling Sterling Pl. and Pl. Parkand Park Pl. Pl. at a 2007 GM. At the time, the children “started eating twice he said. “It’s a nonprofit. You Gazette reported General Coor- as many fruits and vegetables” provide mentoring. You get to We will miss having such great neighbors and dinator Joe Holtz suggesting after she joined. “They made know people. That’s the whole wish them well in their new location. that rather than establish- fun of me,” she said, mimick- point. It’s a coop!” ing a retirement policy, the ing: “‘Oh, Mom, buy this! It’s Mandel shared, “We’re mull- Coop continue a practice of organic!’ I was far from a fanat- ing it over, but for now we’re Alexandre Barbier, 68, works the office. I enjoy the office, the people. “not asking anyone over 75 ic about it. But whatever, it was going to keep working. Why in the Membership Office and The staff are great. There’s something years old for proof of disabil- funny.” Four years later, she are we getting this privilege revels in his specially cultivat- about the Food Coop that’s a way ity, in effect allowing them to took a break from the Coop, so soon? We haven’t paid our ed skill to interpolate member- of thinking, a way of dealing with ‘retire’ from their workslot.” and her children reacted vocif- dues.” She elaborated, “It feels ship numbers based on one’s people—all those good words: com- One member spoke against erously: “They were like, ‘Mom like there’s a bit of a brain drain. year of joining. munity, comity, natural friendship, the no-questions-asked you have to go back to the You have people who have Though he knows he can purpose. It’s a perfect way to run a approach, saying she did not Coop!’ because the food was been there a long time; they retire, Barbier is still going business without being capitalistic or feel she should be forced to so much better. So I did rejoin.” know their job, and they have strong. He spoke fondly about profit oriented. When you go to Key claim she was disabled when But now the Coop has a dif- institutional memory. I think it his work slot, then about the Food, you just go to buy something she wasn’t in order to be free ferent place in her life. After was a bit of a mistake. I don’t Coop itself: and leave. But when I’m at the Food from doing a workslot. years as a cashier at 7 a.m. know if they can walk it back.” It’s sort of a posh job, if you will, Coop it’s kind of family. n

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SAFE FOOD COMMITTEE REPORT Plow-to-Plate Movie Series Presents: Los Lecheros By Adam Rabiner, why it took him so long? from kindergarten, held in with drawings of milk cartons Safe Food Committee Wisconsin is the number- a Catholic Church, paints and the words “Got Milk? he 2017 documentary Los one cheese and number-two an alternative narrative to Not without immigrants.” TLecheros (dairy farmers), milk producer in the United Trump’s depiction of Mexi- A local teen activist also co-produced by Wisconsin Cen- States. Its dairy industry is val- can immigrants as criminals, denounced the bill, saying, ter for Investigative Journalism ued at $43 billion a year. Many rapists, terrorists, and drug “That’s not liberty, for me— (www.wisconsinwatch.org) dairy farmers faced the same smugglers. Tearfully, Luisa that’s oppression.” and Wisconsin Public Radio, economic and social changes explains that, “We are just But the bill’s co-sponsor, fittingly opens with a morn- as did John and made similar people who want to work in Republican Bob Gannon from ing political talk show where choices. It is not uncommon peace… We need the work, West Bend, in Washington a caller, “Joe in Madison,” for farms to have 20, 25, or 30 but the farmers need us just County, WI, defends the leg- responds to the comment people working on them— as much.” islation. He argues that the that Trump became the first all undocumented. Farms She is terrified that the business model of the milk Republican presidential can- with immigrant employees authorities are going to raid industry is broken. It needs didate to win Wisconsin since produce 79% of the U.S. milk the farm, take her kids away, more automation, or to pay 1984. “Well, I voted for Trump,” supply. While there is an H-2A and deport members of the employees more, or the dair- he says. “I cannot understand Visa program that allows farm- family. According to the ies should move closer to why any American would have ers to legally employ workers film, in the first year of the urban centers where people rule. That documentary is in a problem with telling people for seasonal labor, there is no Trump administration, U.S. aren’t working. He reasons post-production and due to that came into this country year-round visa program. Immigration and Customs that in order to get into this be released in 2020. illegally that they can’t do that Guillermo Ramos Bravo is Enforcement (ICE) arrests of country, you need to do it John Rosenow provides a and if you’re gonna do it you John’s 40 year-old farm manag- people with criminal records through a system of checks less fanciful picture than that gotta leave. I just don’t get it.” er. He’s worked on the farm for increased by 250%. According and balances and that it’s a of Representative Gannon. If The first alternative per- 17 years and has seen farms to media reports, there has bad thing that people are hid- his labor force disappeared, spective is that of a middle- grow and prosper with illegal also been a national spike in ing and acting like they are his next option would be to aged dairy farmer named labor. One he observed went immigrants (undocumented, not here. He wants everything find a market for his cows and John Rosenow, owner of from 275 to 1,500 cows. He or not) who didn’t have crim- to be above board and out in sell them. “I would not be able Rosenholm Farm in Buffalo says that lots of people accuse inal records being swept up, the open. to farm any more. It would County, founded in 1857 by migrants of stealing jobs from or directly targeted, in ICE It’s odd to hear a politician just about kill me, but I have his great-great-grandfather. Americans, but he has never arrests. In the film, Luisa is touting job-killing automa- no choice,” says Rosenow. John employs 10 immigrants seen a person born here come scared for her kids and wor- tion, advocating raising prices “I know of no other source of and 10 locals and says that and say to his boss, “You know ried about the spread of laws for consumers, or suggesting labor. The local people would when he was growing up, what, I’m looking for a job… like those in Arizona that moving dairy farms nearer lose their jobs, too.” A 2015 everyone working on a farm I want to milk cows.” allow police and others to to the cities. Indeed, politics dairy industry study predict- was the son or daughter of a On Knoepke Farm in Pepi stop people and ask about is the focus of a new feature ed that without an immigrant farmer. However, now that is County, Wisconsin we meet their legal status. documentary from Los Lech- workforce, 15% of dairy farms the last thing most children Miguel Hernandez, an assis- Indeed, in Madison, the eros’ production company, would close nationwide, want to do. In the 1990s, John’s tant herdsman, his wife Luisa state capital, the state leg- Twelve Letter Films, about retail milk prices would rise farm was expanding and he was Tepole, and their two young, islature is considering an the failing democracy in Wis- 90%, and over 200,000 people putting in 95 hours per week. American-born (and therefore “anti-sanctuary-city” anti- consin, which is struggling would lose jobs. Out of desperation, and reluc- U.S.-citizen) children, Liam immigrant bill, AB 190. At a to emerge from years of ger- In the end, the pressure on tantly, he turned to immigrants and Thomas. The graduation people’s hearing, “Stop AB rymandered maps, restrictive Luisa is just too much. Her for labor and now asks himself ceremony of their children 190” posters lined the walls voter ID laws, and one-party husband Miguel voluntarily returns to Mexico by car with four friends from neighbor- ing farms. She and her kids fly there a week later. Self- deportation isn’t just a polit- ical laugh line. Special Ordering Los Lecheros may not change the minds of Trump support- ers like Joe from Madison. But Temporarily Suspended it does make real and visceral the more abstract headlines �� and news stories. The movie focuses on dairy farmers, but We will not be taking it could be any slice of the immigrant workforce. Wis- special orders consin dairy farmers are over- whelmingly Republican. It 11/11/19 through 2/3/20 remains to be seen if they will (special orders resume 2/4/20) remain that way. n See upcoming events, past reviews Vitamins/Supplements special orders and a comprehensive list of films are suspended indefinitely and will not shown at www.plowtoplatefilms.com resume on 2/4/20 which can now also be reached via a link on the Park Slope Food Coop’s No special orders on fresh baked goods home page at www.foodcoop.com. Orders for bulk or produce by the case Los Lecheros will be presented must be placed directly with on Tuesday, November 5, 7 p.m., a bulk or produce buyer at the Park Slope Food Coop, 782 Union St., 2nd floor. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

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COORDINATORS’ CORNER No Union Decisions About Us, Without Us! By Karen Mancuso, Gillian about it. But when several of Receiving Coordinator Jen- Chi, Ellen Weinstat, Dawn us immediately began ask- nifer Brown, because that’s D’Arcy, Annette Laskaris, Craig ing questions, these same exactly what happened to Roberts, Carline Aurelus, Brian co-workers refused to answer her. Of course, some staff Robinson, Jana Cunningham, anything. signed union cards because Kevin O’Sullivan, Yuri Weber, We quickly learned the they legitimately want to join Terry Meyers, Jennifer Brown, true nature of the N.A. would a union. But some have also John Horsman, Charles Parham, include several clauses that changed their minds after Gerald Barker, Ithran Einhorn, many of us found objection- greater exposure to the unsa- Kathy Hieatt, Jonathan Miller, able. One staff member decid- vory tactics of the RWDSU. Mary Gerety, Valerie Ratron-Neal, ed to circulate a petition to Several staff asked the union Kathleen Keske, Jason Weiner, all staff, asking the GCs not for their signed cards back. Matt Hoagland, Alex Walsh, Mike to sign anything without con- To date, these have not been Voytko, Jacquelyn Scaduto sulting all staff. The exact lan- returned. Should these cards f you’ve been following the guage of the petition was “We, be counted as a vote for the Iunion conversation at the the undersigned PSFC coordi- union? We believe they should Coop, you might be confused nators, call upon the General not. Still, members are blindly about where the staff stands Coordinators to refrain from asking GCs to sign a neutrali- on joining a union—and we negotiating or signing a neu- ty agreement that would take our careers to running this Let’s Vote! wouldn’t blame you. The trality agreement without first away our right to vote. cooperative grocery store, After more than a year of “PSFC Organizing Committee” approaching the entire staff and we continue to work full- pressure to join this union, we (“Organizing Committee”) has body and getting our input.” False Statements time at the Coop because it are ready to vote. We respect- worked tirelessly to mobilize This petition was signed by 35 If you’re one of the mem- is an incredible employer. We fully ask the organizing group membership for a campaign coordinators. bers who signed a petition to beg you—members who are to file a petition with the we believe to be heavy on As a result, the GCs invit- ask the General Coordinators vilifying the Coop “manage- NLRB for a democratic union rhetoric and political ideolo- ed the entire staff to meet to sign the neutrality agree- ment” and pretending it’s on election. If the majority of gy, but weak on facts. with the RWDSU represen- ment you might have also our behalf—please rethink staff vote to join the RWDSU, This group has consist- tatives and hear the details signed up to receive emails this tactic. then we will join. If not, we will ently portrayed “management” of the N.A. It was at this from the organizers. We want To say that “Coop Values move on from here and keep (General Coordinators— meeting that we were final- you to know that some of are Union Values” is a huge working on ways to improve “GCs”) in the most negative ly given the draft agreement. the emails you receive from over-simplification. We—Area our Coop from within. n light possible, blaming them Staff members immediately this group contain lies. Here Coordinators, members and for opposing the union voiced many objections to is one lie, quoted from an General Coordinators—stand effort. In fact, 43 staff mem- the stipulation—too many, in email sent out after The New up for Coop values every day, bers signed a letter in the fact, to list them all here. The York Times published an arti- from the decisions we make May 23 Gazette to explain most egregious stipulation is cle about the Coop on Sep- about what food to buy and something that bears repeat- explained here: tember 20, 2019: sell, to the excellent wage and ing now: “The strongest and benefits offered to paid staff, loudest opposition to union- The Arbitrator…or an- “The [New York Times] to the intense effort we put izing has come from fellow other person mutually agreed story repeats misinforma- into getting 17,000 people to staff members, not the Gen- to by Coop and Union, will tion about a majority of staff work together to run a store eral Coordinators.” conduct a review of authori- being against unionization. cooperatively. We don’t need Those of us who do not want zation cards submitted by the They’re referring to a decep- to join the RWDSU to prove to join the Retail, Wholesale Union in support of its claim tive Linewaiters letter about our commitment to progres- and Department Store Union to represent a majority of the organizing that management sive politics, and in fact we (RWDSU) want the member- Area Coordinators in the pushed, in a climate of retal- believe that this particular ship to know the truth about requested unit. If that review iation and intimidation. This union’s tactics are unethical what has transpired and why establishes that a majority of is what an anti-union attack and undemocratic. we oppose the Neutrality the Area Coordinators in the on staff looks like.” Agreement. requested unit has designated STATEMENT ON THE the Union as their exclusive A deceptive Linewaiters COOPERATIVE IDENTITY What the Neutrality collective bargaining repre- letter that “management” Agreement Really Means sentative or joined the Union, pushed? This is just not true. DEFINITION Members have recently the Coop will recognize the Said letter, which you can read A cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united stood outside of the Coop and Union as the representative in the May 23, 2019 edition of voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural General Meetings admonish- of those Area Coordinators. the Gazette, was written by a needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically ing members to sign a peti- group of Area Coordinators controlled enterprise. tion “demanding the Coop’s In other words, the deci- with absolutely no input from General Managers sign a for- sion to unionize will be made the General Coordinators and VALUES Cooperatives are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, mal neutrality agreement.” NOT by democratic vote without their knowledge. It democracy, equality, equity and solidarity. In the tradition of their And the Organizing Commit- but by a tally of union cards was then signed by 43 staff founders, co-operative members believe in the ethical values of tee wrote a Gazette article to signed by staff. What’s wrong members. If you haven’t read honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others. “underscore the need for a with that, you wonder? Some that letter, please do. neutral, fair environment for signed under false pretens- Recently, a staff person PRINCIPLES staff dialogue.” es, having been advised they was approached by one of The cooperative principles are guidelines by which cooperatives put This is ironic, because could “get more informa- the members who was fly- their values into practice. The International Cooperative Alliance when the first request for tion about the union” if they ering outside the Coop and adopted the revised Statement on the Cooperative Identity in 1995. a labor Neutrality Agree- just signed a card. One staff asked to “support the staff They are as follows: 1. Voluntary and Open Membership ment (N.A.) was made by member was even told by a by signing the petition.” To 2. Democratic Member Control a small group of staff to union-organizing coworker those members petitioning 3. Member Economic Participation GCs on March 29, 2019, that the General Coordina- outside the Coop, we ask you 4. Autonomy and Independence it was done without staff tors were planning to get rid to understand that you do 5. Education, Training and Information dialogue. An email was sent of her, and if she did not sign not speak for all of us, and 6. Cooperation Among Cooperatives to all staff after the fact, by the a card she could lose her job. constantly referring to “the 7. Concern for Community Organizing Committee, invit- We know this is hard to staff” makes it sound like you Reference: ica.coop ing us to speak with them believe, but it’s true. Just ask do. We’ve chosen to devote

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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.

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ALL ABOUT THE COOP CALENDAR GENERAL MEETING New Member Orientations General Meeting Info Our Governing Structure From our inception in 1973 to the present, the open Attending an Orientation is the first step toward TUE, OCTOBER 29 monthly General Meetings have been at the center of Coop membership. Pre-registration is required for GENERAL MEETING: 7:00 p.m. all of the three weekly New Member Orientations. the Coop’s decision-making process. Since the Coop To pre-register, visit foodcoop.com. incorporated in 1977, we have been legally required to Have questions about Orientation? Please TUE, NOVEMBER 5 have a Board of Directors. The Coop continued the tradi- visit www.foodcoop.com and look at the “Join AGENDA SUBMISSIONS: 7:30 p.m. tion of General Meetings by requiring the Board to have the Coop” page for answers to frequently asked Submissions will be considered for the December 3 questions. General Meeting. open meetings and to receive the advice of the members The Coop on the Internet at General Meetings. The Board of Directors, which is www.foodcoop.com Gazette Deadlines required to act legally and responsibly, has approved LETTERS & VOLUNTARY ARTICLES: almost every General Meeting decision at the end of The Coop on Cable TV Nov 7 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, Oct 28 every General Meeting. Board members are elected at the Inside the Park Slope Food Coop Nov 21 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, Nov 11 Annual Meeting in June. Copies of the Coop’s bylaws are The fourth FRIDAY of the month at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Channels: 56 (Time-Warner), 69 available on foodcoop.com and at every General Meeting. (CableVision), 84 (RCN), 44 (Verizon), and live CLASSIFIED ADS DEADLINE: streaming on the Web: www.bricartsmedia.org/ Nov 7 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, Oct 30 Next Meeting: Tuesday, community-media/bcat-tv-network. Nov 21 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, Nov 13 October 29, 7:00 p.m. The General Meeting is held on the last Tuesday of each Attend a GM Park Slope Food Coop month. and Receive Work Credit Mission Statement Location John Jay Educational Campus, 227 Seventh Ave., The Park Slope Food Coop is a mem- Since the Coop’s inception in 1973, the General between Fourth and Fifth Sts. ber-owned and operated food store—an Meeting has been our decision-making body. At alternative to commercial profit-oriented the General Meeting (GM) members gather to business. As members, we contribute our How to Place an Item make decisions and set Coop policy. The General- labor: working together builds trust through cooperation and teamwork and enables us to on the Agenda Meeting-for-workslot-credit program was created keep prices as low as possible within the con- If you have something you’d like discussed at a to increase participation in the Coop’s decision- text of our values and principles. Only mem- General Meeting, please complete a submission form making process. bers may shop, and we share responsibilities for the Agenda Committee. Forms are available in and benefits equally. We strive to be a respon- the rack near the Coop Community Corner bulletin Following is an outline of the program. sible and ethical employer and neighbor. We board, on foodcoop.com, and at General Meetings. • Advance Sign-up required: are a buying agent for our members and not a selling agent for any industry. We are a part of Instructions and helpful information on how to sub- To be eligible for workslot credit, you must sign- and support the cooperative movement. mit an item appear on the submission form. The up at foodcoop.com. A computer dedicated to We offer a diversity of products with an Agenda Committee meets on the first Tuesday of each sign-ups is located in the elevator lobby. You may emphasis on organic, minimally processed month to plan the agenda for the GM held on the last sign up for the meeting all month long, until 5 p.m. and healthful foods. We seek to avoid prod- Tuesday of the month. If you have a question, please ucts that depend on the exploitation of others. call Ann Herpel at the Coop. of the day of the meeting. We support non-toxic, sustainable agriculture. Some restrictions to this program do apply. We respect the environment. We strive to Meeting Format Please see below for details. reduce the impact of our lifestyles on the world we share with other species and future Warm Up (7:00 p.m.) • Submit Open Forum items • Two GM attendance credits per year: generations. We prefer to buy from local, • Explore meeting literature Each member may take advantage of the earth-friendly producers. We recycle. We try Open Forum (7:15 p.m.) Open Forum is a time for to lead by example, educating ourselves and GM-for-workslot-credit program two times per members to bring brief items to the General Meeting. others about health and nutrition, coopera- calendar year. tion and the environment. If an item is more than brief, it can be submitted to the Agenda Committee as an item for a future GM. • Attend the entire GM: We are committed to diversity and equal- ity. We oppose discrimination in any form. • Financial Report • Coordinators’ In order to earn workslot credit you must be Reports (7:30 p.m.) We strive to make the Coop welcoming and Report • Committee Reports present for the entire meeting. accessible to all and to respect the opinions, The agenda is posted on needs and concerns of every member. We Agenda (8:00 p.m.) • Signing in at the Meeting: seek to maximize participation at every level, foodcoop.com and may also appear elsewhere in this issue. After the meeting, the Workslot Credit from policy making to running the store. Wrap Up (9:30-9:45) • Meeting evaluation • Board of Attendance Sheets will be available to sign in. We welcome all who respect these values. Directors vote • Announcements, etc.

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or in the short-term to reduce plastic packaging and plastic used or consumed oct 26 by members. If possible, the General Coordinators will implement immediate sat 2 pm Pumpkin Decorating actions, and report to the GM and membership. The GCs will also report monthly to the GM and in the Gazette on an ongoing basis. C CH EE EE es h Glue, p glitter, and pumpkins! Bring your own pumpkin or pur- The second step will be to form a staff-member committee to guide Coop Items will be taken up in the order given. Times in parentheses are suggestions. progress on reducing plastic and to continue to study and suggest ways in More information on each item may be availablechase at the entrance one table on site. Participants younger than 16 need to have at the meeting. We ask members to please read the materials avail- able between which the Coop and Coop members can reduce their plastic consumption. 7:00 7:15 p.m. an adult accompany them. The event is free and open to all. Meeting Location: Congregation Beth Elohim Social Hall (Garfield Temple) 274 Garfield Pl. at 8th Ave. The committee will be formed no later than mid-2020. The details of the E committee—its mission, composition, number of members, responsibilities, te nnl isiplin Coittee Eletion intes Election: The committee will present four members to be re- etc.—will be reported to the GM when the GCs present the results of the first elected.submitted by the Disciplinary Committee step in 12-16 weeks. —submitted by the General Coordinators te o o ietos Cnites esenttions intes Discussion: “Presentation by candidates for the Board of Directors V. Board of Directors Meeting followed by questions for the candidates”

te gen notionoct 29 VI. Wrap-Up. Includes member sign-in for workslot credit. For information on how to place an item on the Agenda, please seePSFC OCT General Meeting the center pages of the eate Gazette The Agenda Committeetue minutes 7 and pm the satatus of pending For information on how to place an item on the Agenda, please see the center agenda items are available in the office and at all GMs. Items will be taken up in the order given. Times in paren- pages of the Linewaiters’ Gazette. The Agenda Committee minutes and the theses are suggestions. More information on each item status of pending agenda items are available in the Coop office. may be available on the entrance table at the meeting. We ask members to please read the materials available between 7 and 7:15 p.m. Meeting location: John Jay Educational Campus, 227 Seventh Ave., between Film Night: Fourth and Fifth Sts. nov 1 I. Member Arrival and Meeting Warm-Up fri 7 pm Frozen River II. Open Forum Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 III. Coordinator and Committee Reports Sundance Film Festival, Frozen River is the story of IV. Meeting Agenda Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom who is Item 1: Annual Agenda Committee Election (15 minutes) lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling Election: Five current members of the Agenda Committee will be presented for when she meets a Mohawk girl who lives on a reser- re-election to two-year terms. —submitted by the Agenda Committee vation that straddles the U.S.-Canadian border. Item 2: Interim Dispute Resolution Committee Election (10 minutes) Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new Election: Two members will be presented for election to fill current openings doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two on the DRC. —submitted by the Dispute Resolution Committee begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Item 3: Changes to the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc. 401(K) Plan and Trust Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray’s Dodge Spirit. (15 minutes) Frozen River will be presented by the film’s composer Shahzad Ismaily who Proposal: Resolved, that in order to take advantage of the positive changes has recorded or performed with an incredibly diverse assemblage of musi- that will be provided by a new service provider for the Park Slope Food Coop, cians, including Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Jolie Holland, Inc. 401(K) Plan and Trust, when we change to the new provider, that the Laura Veirs, Bonnie Prince Billy, Faun Fables, Secret Chiefs 3, John Zorn, 401(K) plan change as follows: Elysian Fields, Shelley Hirsch, Niobe, Will Oldham, Nels Cline, Mike A) Applicants wanting to join the 401(K) plan will become eligible whenever Doughty (of Soul Coughing), Graham Haynes, David Krakauer, Billy Martin they reach 1,000 hours of service (rather than also having to wait until January (of Medeski Martin and Wood), Carla Kihlstedt’s Two Foot Yard, the Tin Hat 1 or July 1 to join); Trio, Raz Mesinai and Burnt Sugar. B) 401(K) plan participants can change the amount of their 401(K) plan To book a Film Night, contact Gabriel Rhodes, [email protected]. weekly contribution at any time rather than the current constraint of having to wait until either January 1 or July 1. —submitted by Lisa Moore and Joe Holtz, Trustees of the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc. 401(K) Plan and Trust Item 4: TerraCycle Squad: Budget Renewal April 2019 to end of March 2020 nov 2 (15 minutes) Medicare Made Clear Proposal: 1) $6,000 for this budget period (4/19 to 3/20). 2) If the year sat 11 am ending March 31, 2020, expenses are less than $6,000, the budget will Confused by Medicare? What does Medicare cover? How much does Medicare automatically be approved for the next year through March 31, 2021. The cost? When can I change my coverage? These are a few of the questions squad will attend the March 2020 meeting and make a Committee report to we will answer in this educational workshop. Join us to learn all about your attendees to announce the expenses for the year ending March 31, 2020, and Medicare choices. We’ll also share tools and resources to help you under- to announce the continuation of the program for an additional year. stand the coverage that may be right for you, including a free educational —submitted by TerraCycle Committee guide. Whether you’re just getting started with Medicare or simply looking to Item 5: Proposal on Plastic Reduction Program at the Park Slope Food Coop learn more, we’re here to help. Long-time Coop member Mary Blanchett is (35 minutes) a Financial Services Professional who helps Medicare recipients understand Proposal: The General Coordinators propose a two-step approach to study and their coverage and options. develop a program for plastic reduction at the Coop. The goal is to move the Coop towards a measurable reduction in plastic packaging and bags, used in Coop operations or/and consumed by members, in the most environmentally-, operationally-, and financially- sustainable manner. The first step will be for the Coop staff to leverage internal and external nov 2 Sweet Relief Workshop existing resources to help the Coop develop a plastics reduction program. sat 2 pm Examples of existing external resources are Climate Collaborative Project (as a NCG participant), engaging the PCC sustainability program and NCG plastic Declutter, clear, transform. Make room for yourself. Be inspired, productive reduction task force, and consulting with other coop partners to learn and and at peace in your home or workspace. Clear overwhelm and shame. Allow implement best practices. Our goal is to report back to the GM and the Coop your physical spaces to support you to thrive! Shira Sameroff’s work has at every GM in the next 12-16 weeks with the steps we can take immediately evolved over two decades years of experience with individuals, groups, and

For more information on these and other events, visit the Coop’s website: foodcoop.com All 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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organizations as a workshop facilitator, therapist, event planner, activist, board president, volunteer coordinator and more. She has been a member of nov 6 Learn About Cheese the beloved PSFC for as long. Shira’s many passions include trees, singing, wed 7 pm biking, travel, and Honey Mama’s chocolate. at the Coop Cheese education at the Coop continues with another tasting session led by Coop member and American Cheese Society Certified Cheese Professional, Elena Santogade. This month’s class will feature a selection of unique cheeses nov 3 Sick and Tired of Feeling from around the world and fun pairings you can try at home! sun 12 pm Sick and Tired? Wish you had more energy? Can’t seem to get through the day without that second (or third) cup? Hopeful that your stress level will drop but nov 7 Food Class: never seem to feel that way? Got all the energy you need for the upcoming thu 7:30 pm Napa Kimchi 101 holiday season? Nutrition Response Testing is a non-invasive system of analyzing the body to determine the underlying causes of ill or non-opti- Kimchi is a delicious condiment and powerful mum health. We can help identify nutritional deficiencies that contribute health-supportive food. In the last decade, science is to stress and fatigue and support your body with whole-food supplements, recognizing the importance of ferments for optimal dietary changes and lifestyle hacks that will put the pep back in your step! digestive health. This class is for beginning ferment Long-time Coop member Diane Paxton, MS, LAc, is an acupuncturist, colon enthusiasts. You will learn step-by-step instruction on how to make a classic therapist and Nutrition Response Testing Advanced Clinical Master. She napa cabbage kimchi. Traditional and vegan options will be discussed. Sung practices here in Park Slope. Uni Lee is a Korean-American who grew up with the honor of taste-testing large batches of kimchi. A culinary instructor, she has two decades experience in teaching and empowering people with her passionate knowledge of food and culture. She is one of the administrators of the monthly Park Slope Food Class series. Menu includes: Salting Cabbage; Traditional & Vegan Kimchi Filling; nov 5 Safe Food Committee Film Night: Steamed Tofu with Salted Cabbage Wrap. This class is gluten- and dairy-free, tue 7 pm with vegan options. Los Lecheros ASL interpreter available upon request, please contact the Membership Office. This month’s event takes place a week earlier than usual, Materials fee: $5. First come, first seated. To inquire about leading a Food Class, go due to limited space in our movie room. In 17 years of to bit.ly/CCCChef1. working at a dairy farm, manager Guillermo Ramos Bravo says he has never seen a person born in the U.S. ask his boss for a job. Third-generation farmer John Rosenow recalls a time when farms were typically worked entirely by family; nov 15 Swing Band now, it’s “about the last thing that you would do; it’s something that’s relegat- friFriday, 8 Oct pm19, 8:00 pm ed to the immigrants.” Los Lecheros explains that farms with immigrant Come out for a night of big-band employees produce 70 percent of the U.S. milk supply. Republican farmers swing-dance music, fun for sin- who voted for Trump are left hoping he didn’t mean what he said about deport- gles, couples or the whole family! ing undocumented immigrants, while their workers carry on in fear, or reluc- Friday evening music at the Good Coffeehouse, brewing a new beatJoin saxophonist Lisa Parrott and tantly return to Mexico. Wool & Grant. Two veteran singer/songwriters with a mutual passion for songs, stories, harmonies anddrummer Rob Garcia as they lead guitars. Bev Grant and Ina May Wool create a musi- cal alchemy of fire and feistiness, wisdom and wit, See upcoming events, past reviews and a comprehensive list of films shown at rocking clear- Park Slope local singer and eyed political a swingguitarist Mamie Minchband sounds of world-classsongs along jazz musicians. There will something like a well-fleshed- with a window www.plowtoplatefilms.com which can now also be reached via a link on the Park out 78-rpm record. She’s known on to their around town for her Piedmont- travels—on the style fingerpicking chops, her big road and around alsodeep be voice and herprofessional self-penned theswing heart. dance instructors giving a antique-sounding songs. She’s Slope Food Coop’s home page at www.foodcoop.com. played music all over the world and Brooklyn, with all kinds of excellent people, including groupDayna Kurtz, lesson the Roulette Sisters, of some basic steps. It’s going to be a Jimbo Mathis and CW Stoneking. great nightwww.ProspectConcerts.tumblr.com of music, dance, snacks and good vibes to benefit to Park Slope 53 Prospect Park West [at 2nd Street] • $10 • 8pm [doors open at 7:45] Performers are Park Slope Food Coop members and receive Coop workslot credit. Booking: Bev Grant, 718-788-3741 FoodPARK SLOPE FOOD COOPCoop. 782 Union St., Brooklyn, NY 11215 (btwn 6th & 7th Av.) • (718) 622-0560 Concert takes place at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect nov 5 Park West (at 2nd St.), $10, doors open at 7:45. Prospect Concerts is a tue 7:30 pm Agenda Committee Meeting monthly musical fundraising partnership of the Coop and the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture. The Committee reviews pending agenda items and cre- Bookings: Bev Grant, [email protected]. ates the agenda for future General Meetings. Members may submit in person their agenda item between 7:30 and 7:45 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 Submission Form, both avail- able from the Membership Office or at foodcoop.com. The Year-End General Meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 3, 7 p.m., at John Jay Educational Campus, 227 Seventh Ave., between Fourth and Fifth Sts.

still to come dec 3 Plow-to-Plate Film dec 3 PSFC YEAR-END General Meeting

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HOW TO CUT DOWN inches, which means each of these smaller, less wasteful movement at a welcome world is possible. ON THE AMOUNT side would be 117 square bags at a competitive cost. table, non-violent civil dis- I am writing to you because OF ROLL BAG inches. Just to make things Pas avec la langue dans la joue, obedience training, a heal- I believe in the power of com- easier, let’s round that off to Robert M. Berkman, ing center, sharing food, silk munity to stand up against PLASTIC 120 square inches each side. Recently retired from screening, singing circles, injustice. We have a chance IN 10 SECONDS.... That would result in a lot Coop work (despite Joe Holtz’s musical performances, citi- to turn the tides of climate of different combinations, strenuous objections) zen’s assemblies, and more. disaster, but we cannot do DEAR COOP PHRENS, including 12 x 10 inches, or 6 At Columbia, students ral- it individually, even living Our current roll bags are x 20 inches, or, my personal lied, demanding that the uni- mindfully. 19.5 x 12 inches, for a total favorite, 8 x 15 inches, which CIVIL versity divest from fossil fuels. At Extinction Rebellion of 234 square inches of plas- still has plenty of space to DISOBEDIENCE They sang: “The people gonna events, all are welcomed. We tic, x 2 (because these are safely to protect a large num- WITH EXTINCTION rise like the water, they’re plan community outreach to flat-laying bags) for a total of ber of locally sourced, shade REBELLION gonna shut this system down. grow this movement through 468 square inches of plastic. grown, minimally treated bag I hear the voice of my great non-violent means to awak- These bags are huuuuuuge! of Küchenmünsen apples. I MEMBERS, granddaughter saying climate en the governments and There are very few things at know it may be hard to buy What if you could stop the justice now!” corporate leaders to commit the Coop that require a bag these bags “prêt-à-porter,” extinction of life on this plan- At Times Square folks to doing everything in their of this size, except for an but since we’re this power- et? What if you could stand up stopped traffic with a boat power to shift the climate cri- overgrown palmetto berry. house of economic justice, I against injustice and oppres- and people surrounding it. sis. www.xrebellion.nyc. We could easily cut down on am certain there are compa- sion? What if you could help A group of protesters super- “Rebel for Life,” plastic use by half by using a nies that would happily pro- to create a loving and gener- glued themselves to the boat. Mahayana Landowne smaller bag, say 234 square duce a few hundred thousand ous world where all people I sat in the circle surrounding were valued and treated with the boat. We linked arms, and loving kindness? we got arrested. We put our REPLY TO YOHN You can. bodies on the line to raise LETTER ON COOP’S On October 7, I joined awareness of the magnitude RETIREMENT EXTINCTION REBELLION of the problem. POLICY (XR), a global non-violent In the holding cells we civil disobedience move- comforted each other, sang MODIFICATION ment. I arrived in Battery songs, bonded, waited, and MEMBERS,      Park for a funeral march. We dreamed of shifting the sys- In a letter, Susan Yohn          walked through the financial tem. I experienced so much objects to the most recent       district; there was a die-in in love, hope, and passion. modification of the Coop’s front of the New York Stock People came from all over retirement policy, because Exchange, to raise awareness the country and around the it somehow would interfere about the corporate inves- world. All over the globe with her own and others’ tors’ greed at the core of the affinity groups meet and retirement plans. She doesn’t climate crisis. create local actions. I met describe the change, which People are choosing to people from Boston, DC, extends the “sliding scale,” “Rebel for Life.” Maryland, Vermont, Upstate reducing the number of years To raise awareness and New York, and Brooklyn. of work required for those build community, this The week ended with working members between direct-action movement held a celebration with much ages 65 and 70. a five-day public festival. excitement about gaining While the Coop usually People spoke their fears and more members. doesn’t make such changes sorrows around the climate That’s where I turn to you without months of discus- crisis and connected with my Coop community: I have sion, no one, except pos- loving energy and support. been a member for over 20 sibly the coordinators who In Washington Square Park, years and feel this movement must ensure that all squads Thank you for your cooperation. hundreds learned about the aligns deeply with our values. have sufficient staff, is prej- Please check out Extinction udiced by this one, which Rebellion (www.xrebellion. compels no member to work nyc). If it speaks to you, and longer than they did before 3 GREAT reasons you want to do everything the change, especially since possible to halt the climate retirement is not compul- crisis, join us. Disruption sory. Many members (me to register for raises awareness, the system included) have chosen to is built on greed. Together we continue to work beyond our member services! can make a difference while “sell by” date. there is still time. Another Janet Gottlieb Receive TEXT or EMAIL alerts for 1 Intelligent Shift Notifications: upcoming shifts. PLEASE RETURN FOOD COOP BOX CUTTERS AND PENS TO THE View number of FTOP cycles 2 Easily available FTOP info: covered or banked and upcoming FOOD COOP, IF you HAVE THEM shifts scheduled! IN YOUR POCKETS OR AT HOME. Check your status before coming 3 Avoid surprises at the entrance desk: to the Coop. Ready to enroll: Go to foodcoop.com and click on “Member Services” in the upper right-hand corner to get started. THANKS FOR YOUR COOPERATION.

Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY October 24, 2019 13 September 9, 2019 LABOR COMMITTEE REPORT Coop Job Opening: The Fair Food Program— Receiving Coordinator Coming to the Produce Evenings/Weekends Description: Aisle Soon—Part 2 All Receiving Coordinators ensure the smooth functioning of the Coop. • Facilitate and supervise continual stocking of the store By Eric Frumin for details about GM dis- • Train working members how to stock and complete projects n the previous issue of the cussion, and the October 10 • Communicate with Squad Leaders and squads about priorities IGazette (October 10), we issue for more details about • Sustain knowledge about products and inventory reported on the November the program. • Answer members’ questions arrival of winter tomatoes At a time when people of • Respond to physical plant and refrigeration issues from Florida, under the label color, as well as immigrants, Evening/Weekend Receiving Coordinators are generalists who work with members to maintain and restock all aisles including produce. They also oversee late deliveries, inspect for dates/quality, and of the “Fair Food Program” are still the victims of repres- support the Receiving and Food Processing squads. (FFP). Coop members will sive legal and social regimes The ideal candidate will: now be able to keep buying in the U.S., the Fair Food • enjoy working with people and crowds many of our favorite toma- Program provides a concrete • be an excellent team player with strong communication skills toes, while simultaneously step to right some of those • have ability to teach, explain procedures, give feedback supporting one of the most wrongs. • be able to evaluate Coop needs, prioritize tasks and delegate work trailblazing efforts to protect The Labor Committee • be comfortable with computers (Macs preferred) farmworkers from abusive encourages Members to • experience working in a grocery store is a plus working conditions. learn more about the Fair Hours: 38 hours. 5 days per week including both Saturdays and Sundays. Several kinds of toma- Food Program: www.fair- Wages: $28.57/hour toes, under the labels Sun- foodprogram.org. Benefits: A generous package including but not limited to: 3 weeks vacation, 11 Health/Personal days, ripe (conventional) and Lady Members can also learn health insurance, and a pension plan. Moon (organic), will have about the Coalition of Requirements: special labels from the Fair Immokalee Workers, the Candidates must be current members of the Park Slope Food Coop for at least six months immediately Food Program. incredible group of workers prior to application. The October 10 issue who organized this “work- Applicants must be prepared to work during holidays, the Coop’s busiest times. inadvertently omitted copies er-driven social responsibil- Applicants must be able to: of the labels that the Coop ity” program for themselves • lift up to 50 pounds • reach, crouch, bend, stand, climb stairs and work for hours in walk-in coolers and freezers will likely be using. Here and their fellow workers: • work with and around common allergens including nuts and dust they are: https://ciw-online.org/. • work in noisy, hectic surroundings Stay tuned for more How to Apply: details about the FFP in We strongly encourage candidates to work one Saturday or Sunday afternoon Receiving shift. Please future Gazette issues. introduce yourself as an applicant to one of the Receiving Coordinators. For more information, Attach resume and cover letter as a single document at the link below: check out the Labor Com- http://bit.do/Receiving-0919 mittee’s: Website at https:// Applicants will receive acknowledgment of application via email. Do not call the Membership Office to psfclaborcommittee.word- check on the status of application. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until position is filled. press.com/; Twitter feed, @ If you applied to a previous Coop job offering, please re-submit your materials. PSFCLabor; or write to us at psfclaborcommittee@gmail. We are seeking an applicant pool that reflects the diversity of the Coop’s membership. com. n THE GAZETTE INDEXES If you are interested in the history of the Coop or in when and how particular subjects have been discussed in the Linewaiters’ Gazette... Send an e-mail to Len Neufeld, Gazette indexer, at lenneufeld@ verizon.net, to request PDF files of either or both of the following indexes: • An alphabetized list of the titles of all articles published in For the 35,000 workers the Gazette from 1995 to the present, with issue dates. in the Florida winter-to- • An alphabetized list of all subjects (including people’s names) mato fields, the program discussed in Gazette articles from 1995 to the present, with article assures that growers comply titles, issue dates, and page numbers (titles and subjects for ear- with some of the strictest lier years are being added). standards in the nation for Many of the Gazette issues referenced in these indexes are decent treatment of farm- available as PDFs on the Coop’s website. (Copies of these and workers. Those standards additional issues are also available at Brooklyn’s Central Library, protect them from hazard- located at Flatbush Ave. and Eastern Pkwy. on Grand Army Plaza.) ous working conditions, sexual harassment, poverty wages, wage theft, retalia- tion against undocumented workers, and more. In July, voters at the Gen- eral Meeting (GM) over- whelmingly approved the proposal from the Coop’s Labor Committee to use this label for all tomatoes pro- duced at FFP farms, inform- ing Members about this innovative program and the importance of supporting such protections. See the August 15 Gazette

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HEARING OFFICERS COMMITTEE REPORT Hearing Officers’ Report on October 5, 2019 Hearing By Jacob Heyman-Kantor and hearings be kept confiden- falsely representing to the allowed the individual to After reviewing the pre- members of the Hearing Officers tial, this report omits the Coop, through shift sign-in respond to this evidence of sentation of charges by the Committee names of all participants. sheets, that the member had additional violations. DRC, the accused member’s n October 5, 2019, a Prior to the hearing, the worked the full shift. At the conclusion of response, and witness state- Odisciplinary hearing Coop’s Dispute Resolution The DRC’s investigation its investigation, the DRC ments, panelists were invit- was held at the request of a Committee (DRC) investi- included reviewing Coop determined that the accused ed to ask clarifying questions member accused of theft of gated reports that the mem- records, physical evidence, member had committed of the participants. services and uncooperative ber had engaged in a pattern and witness statements, theft of services and unco- At the conclusion of the conduct. It was conducted in of violating Coop rules by as well as interviewing operative conduct. Given presentation of evidence, accordance with the Coop’s intentionally and repeated- the accused member and the repeated and intention- nine panelists were selected Disciplinary Procedures, as ly arriving extremely late for allowing that individual to al nature of the violations, at random to form a Decid- adopted and amended by shifts and/or taking extreme- respond to the allegations. the DRC asked the accused ing Group, which met in the General Meeting. Since ly long breaks during shifts, After the DRC interviewed member and that person’s closed session and voted to the procedures specify that and on these occasions the accused member, but household to resign from confirm or reject each of the before the DRC conclud- the Coop permanently. The charges. The members of the ed its investigation several accused member exercised Deciding Group agreed that months later, the DRC found the right to request a hear- the accused member had evidence that the accused ing before a Hearing Group violated the Coop rule pro- member had on two addi- panel of fifteen Coop mem- hibiting theft of services on tional occasions arrived bers in good standing select- 11 out of 12 different dates extremely late for shifts and ed at random, with three over a three-year period (for taken extremely long breaks members of the Coop’s most of the violations, the during shifts. The DRC again Hearing Officer Committee Deciding Group was unani- contacted the accused and (HOC) presiding. mous). The Deciding Group

The Hearing Office Committee is seeking new members. The Hearing Administration Committee committee conducts and presides over disciplinary hearings, ensures that hearings proceed in an efficient and unbiased manner and, after a is seeking new members randomly selected Deciding Group has decided whether an accused member violated a Coop rule, determines what disciplinary action should The HAC performs administrative functions necessary to arrange and be taken against the member. Applicants should be Coop members in facilitate disciplinary hearings, coordinating with the Coop’s good standing for at least two years and have good attendance records. Disciplinary Committee and the Hearing Officers Committee. Judicial, arbitration, or legal backgrounds a plus, but not required. Experience running meetings is desirable. Applicants should be detail-oriented, comfortable working by e-mail and telephone; Members of the committee meet and earn workslot credit on an they should be Coop members for at least one year and as-needed basis only, that is, when hearings are required. Therefore these have excellent attendance records. members must maintain regular Coop workslots in good standing or be FTOP members in good standing. Members of the HAC work on an as-needed basis, only when hearings are required, and earn FTOP credit. Therefore these members must The nature of the committee’s work requires that all members maintain maintain regular Coop shifts or be FTOP members in good standing. strict confidentiality with respect to all matters on which they work. The committee seeks an applicant pool that reflects the diversity of the The nature of this work requires that all members maintain Coop membership at large. strict confidentiality with respect to all matters on which they work. We are seeking an applicant pool that reflects Those interested, please telephone Marian Hertz of the Hearing Officer Committee the diversity of the Coop membership at large. at 212-440-2743. Those interested should e-mail the HAC at [email protected].

COMMUNITY CALENDAR Community calendar listings are free. Please submit your event listing in 50 words or less to [email protected]. Submission deadlines are the same as for classified ads. Please refer to the Coop Calendar in the center of this issue.

Coop International Trade Edu- SUN, OCT 27 cation Squad and Irondale FRI, NOV 1 4 p.m. BPL Chamber Players at Ensemble Theater Project invite 7:30 p.m. Brooklyn Contra Dance. the Brooklyn Central Library, you and one companion to a If Swing and Square dancing met Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Center for “music-stand reading” of Sweat, in a bar, you’d get Contra. Live Contemporary Culture. Free the Pulitzer Prize–winning play music, bringing a partner is not admission. by Brooklyn’s own Lynn Not- necessary. A great way to meet tage about the effects of NAFTA new people! First and third Fri- on unionized workers. Irondale days @ Camp Friendship, 339 MON, OCT 28 Center, 85 S. Oxford St., Fort Eighth St. Brooklyn. $15 General 7:15 p.m. doors, 7:45 p.m. per- Greene. Bring your Coop card. / $12 Student / Volunteer – Dance formance. The Park Slope Food Contributions accepted. Free. www.brooklyncontra.org.

Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY October 24, 2019 15 was then dismissed from the proceeding. To Submit Classified or Display Ads: The DRC members made a ARE YOU A formal recommendation that BROOKLYN-BASED Ads may be placed on behalf of Coop members only. Clas- the Hearing Officers vote to sified ads are prepaid at $15 per insertion, display ads at expel the accused member. FILMMAKER? $30. (Classified ads in the “Merchandise–Non-commercial” The accused member was category are free.) All ads must be written on a submission given a chance to respond. Would you like to form. Classified ads may be up to 315 characters and spaces. After meeting in closed Display ads must be camera-ready and business card size (2” session, the Hearing Offi- screen your work x 3.5” horizontal). cers returned to announce at the Coop? Submission forms are available in a wallpocket near the their decision that the elevator in the entrance lobby. member and their house- hold were expelled. n Then submit your film for possible inclusion in the Coop’s Friday Film Night Screening Series. CLASSIFIEDS If you’re a Coop member you’ll receive one FTOP SERVICES credit for screening and offering a Q+A with your AVAILABLE film. If you’re not a member, it’s still a chance to EXPRESS MOVES. One flat price spread the word about your work and build your fan for the entire move! No deceptive base by screening for a local audience. hourly estimates! Careful, expe- rienced mover. Everything quilt We accept documentary and fiction, both features padded. No extra charge for ward- and shorts (we program shorts as a group). robes and packing tape. Specialist in walkups. Thousands of satisfied PleasePlease e-mail e-mail Faye LedermanGabrielfor Rhodes details at customers. Great Coop references. [email protected] or mail your DVD to: 718-670-7071. for details at [email protected]. Lederman, 2000 Linwood Ave, #9E MADISON AVENUE HAIRCUTTER Fort Lee, NJ 07024 is right around the corner from the Food Coop, so if you would like a really good haircut at a decent price, please call Maggie at 718-783-2154. I charge $60. I work from Wednes- days thru Sundays 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

VACATION RENTALS Rent a charming one-bedroom apartment in Paris from longtime Coop members. On the top floor with an elevator and quintessential views of Paris rooftops in a lovely residential neighborhood. Wi-fi, cable TV, DW, W/D, free calls to U.S. Photos/description: homeexchange. com/en/homes/view/425686. email: [email protected].

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N EXCITING WORKSLOT OPPORTUNITIES N Dairy Inventory and sinks, mopping floors, and re-supplying the Office Post-Orientation Monday, 6–8:45 a.m. bathrooms. The Coop only uses all-natural prod- Wednesday, This is the perfect job for someone who pre- ucts for its maintenance tasks. This job is perfect 11:15 a.m.–2 p.m. for members who like to clean and will be consci- fers to work alone and on a single project for Work with a small, dedicated team to facilitate entious about doing a thorough job. Please report the majority of your shift. Necessary skills: good new members joining the Coop after orientation. to the Membership Office on your first shift. handwriting, ability to count by 6, 12 and 24, reli- Attention to detail a plus. Must have excellent ability and very good attention to detail. Under attendance and Membership Office experience. the supervision of the Coop’s dairy buyers, you Soup Prep Contact Jana Cunningham in the Membership Friday, 7-9:45 a.m. will take an accurate inventory of unsold product Office at 718-622-0560 to sign up for this shift. in the walk-in coolers on shopping floor and in Do you have a strong social conscience? Do you the basement (we provide appropriate warm out- hate waste? You can help the Coop rescue slight- Store Equipment Cleaning erwear). Please ask for Eddie upon arrival. ly damaged food and turn it into ingredients for Wednesday, Friday, 6-8 a.m. nutritious meals. You will be sorting and packing Receiving Produce food by category (vegetables, fruit, eggs, milk, This job involves meticulous deep cleaning of Monday–Friday, 5–7:30 a.m. etc.). The job involves some lifting and you’ll the store’s checkout equipment and furniture. Start your day early with a workout and a sense of probably spend a few minutes in the walk-in Workers are required to read and follow detailed accomplishment! Work side-by-side with our paid coolers. On some days, you and a partner will be instructions for cleaning the scales, printers, and staff receiving daily fresh produce deliveries. If asked to take a U-boat of food to CHiPS, the soup monitors as well as cleaning the furniture and you are willing to get your hands a little dirty, lift kitchen down hill on Fourth Ave. organizing checkout worker’s tools and supplies. and stack boxes, and work in our basement cool- Must arrive on time at 6 a.m. Please report to the ers, then you’ll fit right in. We promise your ener- Environmental Issues Membership Office on your first work shift. gy will be put to good use. Boxes usually weigh between 2–30 lbs., but can weigh up to 50 lbs. Committee - Terracycle - Receiving Produce Plastic Recycling Saturday, Sunday, 5:45-8:15 a.m. Maintenance Wednesday, 3:30–6:30 p.m. Start your day with a workout and a sense of Sunday, 9–11p.m. Three hours per shift, one shift per month; shift accomplishment! Work side-by-side with our paid This shift includes a variety of cleaning tasks that meets on the second Wednesday of the month. staff to maintain the produce aisle on our busiest focus on deep cleaning the refrigerated cases. Must be prepared to work outdoors in front of the shopping days of the week. You will be stocking, The work includes removing products from partic- Coop, winter months included. Tasks include set- consolidating, organizing, and cleaning in the ular cases, scrubbing, hosing down shelves, and ting up the Terracycle table and bringing supplies produce aisle. In addition, you will be working restocking the cases. Other tasks may include down to your work area; staffing the Terracycle in our cold basement coolers and moving carts cleaning, sweeping, mopping areas of the shop- table throughout the shift; helping to educate of produce through the very busy produce aisle. ping floor and basement. Gloves and cleaning recyclers about the Terracycle program; making Boxes weigh between 2-30 lbs., but can weigh supplies are provided. Because the shift is only sure only acceptable recyclables are donated; up to 50 lbs. If you enjoy working at a fast pace, two hours arriving on time is essential. packing the Terracycle shipping box/boxes and tak- being busy, are able to pay close attention to ing them to the UPS store. More details provided detail and you are willing to get your hands a Office Set-Up once you sign-up. This squad communicates via little dirty (and a little wet) then you’ll fit right in. Monday, Wednesday, We promise your energy will be put to good use. 5:45–8:15 a.m. e-mail so please make sure the Membership Office has your correct e-mail address on file. Please, only sign up for this shift if you can LIFT. Need an early riser with lots of energy to do a vari- ety of physical tasks, includ- ing setting up tables and EXPERIENCED REPORTERS chairs, buying food and supplies, labeling and put- ting away food and sup- Please Apply plies, recycling, washing Workslot Description dishes and making coffee, We have four distinct Linewaiters’ drying, folding and distrib- Gazette teams—each producing an uting laundry. Six-month issue every eight weeks. You will commitment is required. develop and produce an article about Please speak to Mary Gerety the Coop in cooperation with your or Jana Cunningham in the team’s editor every eight weeks. Membership Office for more For More Information information. If you would like to speak to an editor or another reporter to Are you a writer? learn more about the job, please contact Annette Laskaris in Bathroom the Membership Office or e-mail her at annetteATpsfcDOTcoop.

Cleaning Do you want FTOP credit? To Apply Monday, Wednesday, Please send a letter of application and two writing samples at Thursday, least 800 words long (one sample must be a reported interview, 12–2 p.m. Wordsprouts, the Food Coop’s not a Q&A) to annetteATpsfcDOTcoop. Your letter should This job involves cleaning the reading series, is looking for you, state your qualifications, your Coop history, relevant experience Coop’s six bathrooms: two on and why you would like to report for the Coop. Your application the shopping floor, one in the for its monthly events in the will be acknowledged and forwarded to the coordinating editor, basement, and three on the second-floor meeting room. Alison Rose Levy. second floor. Using a check- Seeking Diversity on the Gazette Staff list of tasks, the squad of two The Gazette is looking for qualified reporters. We are interested in members will coordinate the Please contact the organizers at using this opportunity to diversify our staff. We believe that we can work by dividing up various enrich the quality of the Gazette and serve the membership better cleaning tasks that include, [email protected]. with a reporting and editing staff that more closely resembles the but are not limited to, scrub- mix of Coop members. bing floor tile, cleaning toilets

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