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OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP
Established 1973
Volume HH, Number 23 November 14, 2013
October GM Continues Coke COORDINATOR’S CORNER Boycott And Members Vote ‘No’ Member Arrested for On Gazette Policy Changes Shoplifting as We Head Toward a Second Consecutive Year of Record-Breaking Theft By Joe Holtz, was to encourage members General Coordinator to report anything that ost of us were not mem- appeared to possibly be Mbers back in the day of stealing and make the prac- bold anti-theft campaigns tice of stealing look more and the much ridiculed and obvious to anyone around. barely ever used high chair The larger longer-term pur- that was built to get a better pose was to protect the low view of possible checkout prices that are created by area theft (members just said both the work requirement no). Most of us were not and the level of self-manage- members when every regular ment that we gain from the checkout lane had a zone squad system. If stealing painted on the floor where no goes unchecked and flourish- box of food should touch. The es, then prices will have to be idea of the “no food zone” raised again and again in was to force the contents of order to pay for our collective all boxes of shopped-for food expense of operating our col-
ILLUSTRATION BY DEBORHA TINT to be emptied onto the lectively owned cooperative. checkout rather than stolen. If we keep raising prices to By Frank Haberle rent finances, staff hiring and asking whether the Coop What’s this talk about boxes? pay for food stolen by mem- n a well-attended Park Slope work slot labor shortages. The should be selling food from Back in the day, there were no bers, then we undermine one Food Coop General Meeting Coop’s Revolving Loan Com- Japan that may be contami- shopping carts provided, so of the pillars that support the on October 29, members mittee and the GMO Labeling nated after the tsunami and members filled boxes and Coop in remaining viable into voted for the continuation of Committee also reported on Fukushima plant meltdown. slid them along the floor, the future. the Coop’s longstanding boy- their recent activities. Zoey, a public health profes- everywhere. The immediate Our gross margin is erod- cott of Coca-Cola products sional, pointed out that purpose of all these efforts CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 and re-elected an Agenda Open Forum: without scientific proof to Committee member. Follow- A Discussion About back this claim up, it would The November 19 ing a lively debate, they voted Food Safety not make sense to boycott “no” on a proposal to make The Open Forum began Japanese products. She sug- General Meeting Is Canceled changes to the Gazette’s word- with Zoey Laskaris, member gested that the Japanese The General Meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop is typically count policy and to require of the Coop Board of Direc- government, like the U.S. held on the last Tuesday of each month. The November General General Meeting approval tors, responding to a food government, is very con- Meeting, however, has been canceled. prior to editorial policy safety concern raised in a cerned with making sure The next General Meeting will be held one week earlier than changes in the Gazette. Mem- previous GM. In the prior people don’t eat contami- usual, on Tuesday, December 17, due to the Christmas holiday, bers also explored concerns meeting, a member had nated fish. Japan has set a at a location to be determined. For more information about about food safety. General raised concerns about the wide section of ocean the GM and about Coop governance, please see the center of Coordinators reported on cur- safety of food from Japan, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 this issue. IN THIS ISSUE Thu, Dec 5 • Food Class: Eastern Mediterranean Tapas 7:30 p.m. Puzzle ...... 3 Coop Fri, Dec 6 • Film Night: Local Produce Season Ending ...... 4 Bordering On Treason 7:00 p.m. Scenic Hudson: Supporting New York’s Sustainable Food Shed. . . 5 Tree Care Squad’s Fall Planting ...... 6 Event Tue, Dec 10 • Safe Food Committee Film Night: Exciting Workslot Opportunities ...... 9 Highlights Food Beware 7:00 p.m. Coop Calendar, Governance Information, Mission Statement . . 9 Thu, Jan 2 • Food Class 7:30 p.m. Calendar of Events ...... 10 Letters to the Editor ...... 12 Look for additional information about these and other events in this issue. Classifieds, Community Calendar ...... 14 Welcome, Thank You...... 16 13-11-14-pp1-16_Layout 1 11/13/13 2:34 PM Page 2
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equipment that will save October GM money further down the line, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 as well as new flooring in the around the plant as off-lim- meeting room. its to fishing. “If you don’t General Coordinator Jess trust this information you Robinson reported on the should make your own deci- increased number of job sions,” Zoey said, “but I openings, notifying the don’t think we should boy- members that the Coop is cott Japanese products.” still seeking applications for A member asked what a Bookkeeping Coordinator products, specifically, we sell and a Receiving Coordinator that are from Japan. General (the job listings are in this Coordinator Joe Holtz listed Gazette). Updating the GM on some Eden products, San-J member work slots, she Soy Sauce, plus a few types of added that there is a labor pasta, umeboshi paste and shortage for receiving some seaweed products. One squads, especially in the member added, “…and a early mornings and Saturday couple of really good beers.” evenings. She asked mem- In reference to a follow-up bers doing make-up or FTOP question concerning high lev- shifts to consider working els of arsenic in rice, Joe these shifts. responded that, while the gov- ernment is determining how Committee Reports to regulate the issue, we as Rachel Porter, Revolving Coop members need to make Loan Committee, explained personal decisions about pur- that her committee was set-up chasing rice. Joe recommend- to help new coop start-ups ed that members who are that are committed to operat- concerned should visit the ing on a full member-labor website of Lundberg Farms system like ours. The Coop (www.lundberg.com), one of contributed the first $20,000 our major rice providers, to start building a nonprofit where there might be more fund. The fund will be making up-to-date information on its first loans this year; the this issue. committee is anticipating making several loans of $5,000 There is a labor shortage or more to help new coops get for receiving squads, started. The Revolving Loan especially in the early Committee is responsible for developing and reviewing mornings and Saturday applications and managing
evenings. [General the funds. The Revolving Loan ILLUSTRATION BY DEBORHA TINT Coordinator Jess Robinson] Committee is seeking to build asked members doing the amount of funding avail- sought re-election to the meeting, David removed a Gazette’s editorial staff and make-up or FTOP shifts able and is seeking contribu- Agenda Committee. Mem- third proposal point—that writers. The statement rec- to consider working tions. Coop members can bers voted and approved her “irreconcilable disputes ommended a “no” vote on make tax-deductible contribu- re-election overwhelmingly. between writers and editors the proposal, expressing an these shifts. tions to this loan fund through Coop member Lewis will be arbitrated by seven understanding of the con- the Revolving Loan Commit- Friedman then rose to speak members randomly select- cerns raised in the proposal, tee’s page on the Coop web- for the continuation of the ed by the Disciplinary Hear- and offering alternative General Coordinator site, or by check. Coca-Cola boycott, provid- ing Committee to read, solutions. The 45 minutes of Reports Margaret Maugenest, ing a long list of the Coca- discuss, and vote on the meeting devoted to the General Coordinator Mike GMO Labeling Committee, Cola company’s policies on alleged violations of Gazette’s editorial policies Eakin provided a thorough reported on its activities. labor, economy and the approved policies.” featured a lengthy discus- update on the state of the Founded in 2000, the GMO environment in the United sion in which members, and Coop’s finances, presenting a Labeling Committee was States and internationally. The 45 minutes of the Gazette editors and writers, financial report for the first formed to help Coop mem- Members also solidly meeting devoted to the offered a wide range of opin- 36 weeks of this fiscal year, bers make informed deci- approved the continuation Gazette’s editorial policies ions and insights about the with numbers that were very sions by placing green labels of the boycott. Gazette: how content is man- comparative to the same on foods on the Coop shelves The next proposal, put featured a lengthy discussion aged, concerns about when period last year. Mike pointed containing no genetically forward by member David in which members, changes are made and how out that the numbers would modified organisms (GMOs). Barouh, concerned the and Gazette editors and they are communicated back be better if not for theft, a The Committee has identi- Gazette editorial policies. writers, offered a to member contributors, serious problem for the fied and labeled 450 prod- The proposal called for wide range of opinions and and why changes and word Coop, as illustrated by a ucts. Margaret added that 27 establishing that Linewait- insights about limits need to be imposed member who was arrested states have passed non-GMO ers’ Gazette editorial policies on articles. on-site the previous Friday. legislation, but that big food are valid only if they’ve the Gazette. In the end, the GM voted Mike added that members companies have invested been approved by the GM; “no” to the proposal as it who witness someone steal- $700 million in fighting this and for raising word counts Included in the handouts was presented. The at times ing in the Coop should not legislation. for articles submitted by for the meeting were Gazette heated debate also raised confront the person directly; members to 1,200 words for member articles by David the potential for a new, instead, they should notify a Meeting Agenda: articles with extensions (“The Linewaiters’ Gazette and future discussion for the staff member with specifics. The Agenda Committee, possible. Currently, mem- Coop Democracy,” from the GM: what are the reporting “We can then track it with our Coca-Cola and the ber contributions are limit- October 17 issue; and “The responsibilities of every camera system,” he said. Gazette ed to 750 words and feature Coop Versus the Linewaiters’ Coop committee, and Speaking to increased overall Inés Thiebaut, Agenda articles, written by Gazette Gazette: A Request for Dis- whether all committees expenses, Mike pointed to Committee, read a statement staff reporters for their covery,” from the July 11 must seek GM approval investments in energy-saving by Susan Sternberg, who work slots, are 1,200 words. issue) as well as a written before any policy changes refrigeration and cooling could not be at the GM but At the beginning of the statement prepared by the are made. ■
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Theft Coop into a center of para- bally, or place your written On September 21, a General Coordinator received an e-mail CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 noid surveillance. However, report in any General Coordi- from a Membership Coordinator passing along a report from please do not believe you are nator mailbox in the Member- ing. Why do we care about the members of a squad that another member was possibly leaving totally outside the real world ship Office, or e-mail or snail gross margin? Because it is the with items that were not paid for… when in the Coop. Please take mail your report to any Gener- amount of money the Coop The member was in fact stealing and was doing it at the rate of some part of your conscious- al Coordinator at the Coop, or gets from selling food in order ness and direct it toward this drop your report in the mail to pay all expenses after pay- about five times per week. Rough calculation: $100+ per week problem. Please do not con- slot in the entrance lobby. ing our food suppliers. Those equals more than $5,000 per year. front an alleged thief. If you On a personal note, I have expenses include store sup- suspect someone is stealing, to say that my sadness around plies, heating, cooling, real here’s what you can do: arresting someone drowned estate taxes, personnel, insur- al Coordinator received an e- scenario turned out to be true. Get the facts. Note details out my anger for a time. But in ance, etc. Not that many years mail from a Membership Photographic evidence was such as date, time, description the end, the breach of our ago, the gross margin was con- Coordinator passing along a presented on September 19, of person, description of cloth- communal trust and the attack sistently close to 17%. Last report from members of a 2013, to the member upon ing and bags, carts, etc., against our cooperative insti- year it was 16.5% and this year squad that another member his/her reporting to do his/her observed location in the Coop. tution that is held so dearly by so far it is also around 16.5%. was possibly leaving with work at the Coop. The member Make a report. Submit the so many thousands is the At our current size a difference items that were not paid for. then resigned forever and will details to any employee ver- greater sadness for me. ■ in the gross margin of one per- This was a perfect way of alert- be considered a trespasser cent is $490,000 per year, so ing us about this incident. We should he/she ever come the difference between 17% do not want confrontations. back. Crossword Puzzle and 16.5 % costs the Coop We want to first confirm that What other types of theft $245,000. In my opinion that is theft happened. The members are we experiencing? The eat- 123456 789 10 11 12
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ILLUSTRATION BY ETHAN PETTIT ILLUSTRATION BY ETHAN love using his brains instead of his 24. Twins sharing a star on the Hollywood brawn? Walk of Fame 25. Young seal 26. Stanford of Stanford University annual theft. Yes there is and description. That’s what baked goods, nutrition bars, 27. NFL review technique 29. Where kronor are spent: Abbr. spoilage. Yes there is break- we needed to go back into his- bananas and other weighable 28. Parade times 30. “____ the season ...” 34. Range 31. Inventor Whitney age. Yes there are other mis- tory and look at footage. The items and the drinking of bev- 35. Will Smith hit about the crazy doings 32. Nutritionist’s fig. takes. But I do not see member was in fact stealing erages that members “forget” at a large telecommunications company? 33. Geom. shapes evidence of increases in those and was doing it at the rate of to pay for is an increasing 38. Russian auto 35. Cary Grant played a male one in 1949 39. 1988 NFL MVP 36. Dreamer areas. All these losses are about five times per week. problem. Should we assume 40. Olympic gold medalist sprinter 37. Put on called shrinkage. Theft is Rough calculation: $100+ per that the wrappers in the trash Szewinska 38. Dehydration remedies 42. Replies to an invitation 41. Tropical palms where this shrinkage increase week equals more than $5,000 and the half-filled bottles on 46. Lady Gaga hit about how Peyton 43. HomeStyle Relish maker is coming from. My old esti- per year. On Friday, October random shelves were paid for? Manning and Drew Brees fall in love while 44. Miranda rights readers mate, reported at past General 25, 2013, the member was To the individual member, an pitching a product together? 45. Financial page listings 52. Building site 47. Immature egg Meetings, was $700 dollars arrested at the Coop after item consumed while working 53. It may be bookmarked 48. “You Will ____ Tall Dark Stranger” stolen per day, or about being caught. or shopping may seem 54. More level (2010 Woody Allen film) $250,000 per year. My new esti- Another case of a member insignificant. Yet across the 55. Overhead light? 49. Pantry problem 56. Rightmost number on a grandfather 50. Bk. after Ezra mate is about $1,200 a day or stealing about five times per membership and throughout clock 51. ____ de menthe $450,000 a year. These are not week was uncovered in Sep- the hours our store is open, 57. Director’s cry ... or an apt title for this 55. Streaming video giant puzzle 58. Batty exaggerations designed to tember when the General this grazing produces a multi- 59. Orthodontist’s deg. dramatize. These are real Coordinators received a report plier effect and can substan- 60. Hgts. numbers that affect what we that a member appeared to be tially alter our margin, too. For 61. “The Tree of Life” director Terrence 62. Harden all own here together. A small taking groceries from the the good of the Coop, please 63. Poseidon’s domain number of members can do a shopping floor without paying do not eat or drink items that 64. Brings out lot of undermining damage. for them. Appearances can be are not paid for. Puzzle author: author: David David Levinson Levinson Wilk. For Wilk. answers, For answers, see page 15. see page 15. On September 21, a Gener- deceiving but the worst-case Please do not turn the
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Sorting Out the Squash delicata squash, but are Local Produce Season Ending: Coop Produce Buyer Julie more football shaped, with Gabriel talked to us about the green stripes, small ribs, Produce Now Coming from Afar varieties of squash you’ll find and scalloped ridges. They in the large pineapple cartons have a sweet flavor, and a By Ed Levy of mango called the Keitt. from the leaking Fukushima on the floor under the greens thin skin, which makes them ew York State has had its “It’s one of the best of the plant in Japan entering our as you make your way toward easy to work with. Like Nfirst hard frost of the sea- year,” Allen said. Buyers food supply. Allen said he the back of the produce aisle. acorn squash, they’re best son. And that, Produce Buyer should note three things: the believes there is no scientific Our word “squash” derives eaten within eight weeks of and General Coordinator Keitt remains green—don’t basis for avoiding produce from the Narragansett Indian harvest. Allen Zimmerman said, wait for it to turn yellow, its from California. An October askutasquash. Similar words • Black futsu, a beautiful- for squash exist in related lan- looking, rare squash we get guages of the Algonquian fam- from Finger Lake Organics, ily. Squash is nutritious and is round, with a flattened keeps well. It’s also used in top, heavy ribbing, and gold- many vegan recipes to make en flesh with the taste of pizza and ravioli. Look for hazelnut. these varieties in the store: • Autumn crown, derived • Delicata has longitudi- from a variety called crown nal dark green stripes on a prince, looks like a cheese yellow- or cream-colored pumpkin only smaller. The background and sweet, flesh is bright orange, and orange-yellow flesh. This has the aroma of melon squash is not as rich in beta- when cut. carotene as other winter • Basic Butternut has yel- squashes, but is a good source low skin, fleshy orange pulp of dietary fiber and potassium. and a sweet, nutty taste simi- • Kabocha has a thick, lar to a pumpkin’s. Most of
ILLUSTRATIONS BY LYNN BERNSTEIN striated, forest-green skin. the squash the Coop sells is Only the fiberless flesh, butternut. It’s a good source changed everything. Things flesh is stringless, and it’s 21 op-ed in The New York Times which tastes like sweet pota- of fiber, potassium, vitamins that grow on vines—summer pricey, costing more than $3 by David Ropeik (“Fear vs. to or pumpkin, is eaten. C, A, and E, magnesium, and squash, cucumbers, toma- per pound. Radiation: The Mismatch”) • Honeynut, a new locally manganese. Like most toes, peppers—all die in a Nonorganic papaya from corroborates this view, saying grown variety developed by squash, it can be roasted in frost, unless they are harvest- Hawaii is on the market, but that “the radiation from Cornell University, is grown the oven, pureed to use in a ed beforehand. There has is genetically modified and Fukushima has been relative- at Blue Heron Farm in New soup, or diced or cubed and already been snow in the Fin- often irradiated, and as a ly harmless,” and that “ioniz- York and the Lancaster Fami- used in stews and casseroles. ger Lakes. In Milton, NY, Hep- result the Coop does not ing radiation—the type ly Farm Coop in Pennsylva- Basic butternut squash worth Farms, a major Coop carry it. created by a nuclear reac- nia. The honeynut looks like a prep is as follows: remove supplier, had 30° tempera- tion—is not nearly the pow- miniature butternut and is the skin, stalk and seeds. tures by Halloween. The Epic Minipumpkin Fail erful carcinogen or genetic sweeter than most acorn The seeds are edible, either amount of produce we get This season, we usually mutagen that we thought it squash, with succulent flesh. raw or roasted, and the skin from local harvests will drop sell the fist-sized minipump- was.” However, anti-nuclear • A corn, eponymously is also edible when roasted. off dramatically. Local fruits kin called Jack-be-Little, the activist and pediatrician named, has a thick green Cut the squash in half of the vine will soon be kind often used for fall table Helen Caldicott claims that skin, making it hard to cut lengthwise and brush with replaced by peppers, cucum- decorations. But they are the nuclear industry has pur- but easy to store, with dis- olive oil. Place the cut side bers, tomatoes etc. from Cali- scarce this year. Hepworth posefully minimized the tinctive longitudinal ridges down on a baking sheet and fornia, Mexico and beyond. Farms had no Jack-be-Littles threat emanating from and sweet-tasting, yellow- bake for ¾ of an hour. Most farmers of course har- at all due to crop failures, Fukushima. Since radiation orange flesh. All squash the Coop sells vest their fragile crops before a which have also affected exposure is cumulative, each • Jester squash look like is organic. ■ frost kills them off. That is why many local farmers. Grind- dose, whether from a dental the cucumber season ended stone Farm in Pulaski, New X-ray or a full-body scan at well before the end of October. York, also had a minipump- the airport, adds to the risk, And a week after that, the kin failure. Another supplier she points out. The real dan- summer squash season was of the Jack-be-Little, Grant ger to health, she says, gone, followed by pepper and Family Farm in Colorado comes from radioactive ele- eggplant. Tomatoes, too, were went bankrupt and is produc- ments that enter the body, harvested, well before a frost ing nothing at all. Crop fail- migrate to specific organs, could kill them, though unlike ures due to midsummer heat and continuously irradiate cucumbers and eggplant, our also explains why we couldn’t over many years. suppliers will have enough get great spinach at all last locally grown tomatoes to last summer, Allen added. Local Turmeric, until early November. “Things can disappear in a End of the Corn As the northern hemi- blink because of the weath- “We’re getting two remark- sphere gets chillier, the Mexi- er,” Allen noted, “sometimes able items tomorrow,” Allen can mango season also ends too rapidly to enact the back- said, “local ginger and local and papayas from that coun- up plan. Usually, the backup turmeric, items I didn’t know try will get scarce and eventu- plan is California, and it takes till recently could be grown ally disappear until next time for the produce to get locally.” They come from Old season. The Coop will then here.” After a three- or four- Friends Farm in Massachu- start to get these fruits from day journey, and a day at the setts. There is also a harvest the southern hemisphere, supplier’s warehouse, Cali- of local ginger in New Jersey. which is now experiencing fornia fruits and veggies are The Coop probably won’t springtime, in particular, never quite as fresh as locally see corn again until next year, mangos from Brazil. But just grown ones. unless it can buy some before we turn to South organic corn from Florida. We America for these fruits, Allen Radiation in California are not buying corn unless explained, we take advantage Produce? the grower can testify person- of a micro growing season in Speaking of California, we ally that it is GMO-free and California for a little-known asked Allen whether he is has been treated only with and underappreciated variety concerned about radiation organic or limited pesticides.
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Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY November 14, 2013 5 Scenic Hudson: Supporting New York’s Sustainable Food Shed Today and Tomorrow By Alison Rose Levy perspective. This entails to be used for growing are ore and more people quantifying and identifying protected to assure ongoing Mwant access to fresh lands that are critical to availability for food agricul- local food. But meeting that future food security and ture. need requires a nearby food availability of fresh local A working farm family source. Demonstrated pub- food. cannot give away interest in lic interest for local food in “We all want to make sure its largest asset without rec- New York City far exceeds that 15 and 30 years from ompense. Over the years, the current supply, accord- now, after tens of millions of Scenic Hudson has complet- ing to a 2010 Food Works dollars have been spent on ed transactions with more report commissioned by City the infrastructure, that peo- than 75 farms, resulting in Council Speaker Christine ple don’t look up to discover more than $35 million going
Quinn. that the land where they into the hands of local farm- ILLUSTRATION BY ROD MORRISON One main advantage of hoped the food was going to ers. This allows the farmers local sourcing is reducing come from has now been to reinvest in their farm’s centration in the Hudson them to sell the develop- the miles (and the energy converted to other uses,” capacity and equipment as Valley region of farms serv- ment rights to their farms. expense) entailed when food says Rosenberg. Although well as in their family’s ing the New York green mar- With a team of special- must travel from afar to not all food can be sourced future. A conservation ease- kets. That region supplies ists, legal experts and land reach the table or the school within a 150-mile radius of ment with a farm family 90% of the green market planners in place at Scenic, lunchroom. First of all, cre- the city, New York City can nearing retirement can often foods. With the help of the “the machinery exists to ating a sustainable regional assure access for school result in the farm’s purchase Doris Duke Foundation, last make it happen. We’ve seen food system means assuring year Scenic Hudson con- a number of success stories, that agricultural lands with- ducted an objective analysis and we’d like to do more,” in a nearby radius of metro- using geographic informa- says Rosenberg. politan areas are preserved “We all want to make sure that 15 and 30 years from now, tion-systems technology Support for Scenic’s land- as farmlands. after tens of millions of dollars have been spent on the that looked at 11 counties in trust program comes from Steve Rosenberg, the infrastructure, that people don’t look up to discover that the targeted region. Based both public and private executive director of the on soil characteristics and sources. Up until 2008, New Scenic Hudson Land Trust, a the land where they hoped the food was going to come from farm size, the analysis York State’s Environmental Hudson River Valley–based has now been converted to other uses.” sought to identify and prior- Protection Fund provided land-trust organization, —Steve Rosenberg, itize important lands within funding but has not issued a likens this effort to “trying to Executive Director, the 150-mile zone to call for proposals since the put Humpty Dumpty back Scenic Hudson Land Trust approach the conservation 2008 economic downturn. together again.” task strategically. Rosenberg Land-trust groups are look- “Before the interstate offers more detailed infor- ing for a new RFP (Request highway system and large- mation about this unique for Proposals) soon. At the scale agriculture existed, plan in an article he wrote federal level, the Farm Bill before food was being children, public-health insti- by a new (or young) farmer for the Coordinator’s Corner has a conservation title that trucked all over the country tutions, and food security by since the easement reduces in the October 17, 2013 edi- funds a Farm and Ranch- or flown all over the world, keeping the lands where that the property costs. tion of the Linewaiters’ Gazette. lands Protection Program in cities, towns and villages, food is produced intact. Once in place, Scenic Rosenberg hopes that other administered by the USDA’s much food was supplied by Hudson (or another conser- regions adopt this model of Natural Resource Conserva- farms in nearby regions. Conserving Farmlands vation organization) moni- analysis and conservation. tion Service. Yet up until From the 1950s onward, the For Future Food tors and enforces the now, despite a strong histo- food system became more Agriculture easement in perpetuity. If Building Collaboration ry of conservation efforts in fragmented. The traditional Scenic Hudson, along with the farm is sold to a farmer In addition to its conser- the Adirondacks and way of supplying food to the land-trust community, with a lesser commitment to vation work, Scenic Hudson Catskills, private philan- people came undone. Focus- works with regional farm fam- conservation, serving as the has played an important thropy has not stepped up ing on preserving the avail- ilies to conserve farmland in “institutional memory,” the educational role. “When we to food shed land conserva- able land in a regional food perpetuity. Scenic and similar land-trust organization first got started there was tion. Neither has the New shed offers a framework for organizations acquire a “con- works with the new owners not a wealth of understand- York City government, piecing that back together.” servation easement,” also to assure that conservation ing in the community, although its investment in called the “development restrictions are adhered to. among farm families and protecting the upstate New Optimizing Food rights” to a property, limiting A conserved property can other conservation groups York City watershed sets a Infrastructures the owner’s current and future be bought, sold, leased, or public-policy makers,” precedent. There are many facets to a rights to subdivide and devel- mortgaged or passed down Rosenberg notes. “With the growing demand food system infrastructure op. The property can be used via inheritance with the But there has been a for fresh local food, now is for a major metropolitan for agriculture and related restrictions in place, much record of success and a the time for new charitable area like New York. The city purposes, but can never be like private-zoning ordi- deepening of relationships. investment in the conserva- is no different than other drilled, used for extraction nances. The property “Conservation groups and tion of the food shed,” says regions, which invest in activities or converted into remains privately owned, farmers have a lot in com- Rosenberg. Scenic Hudson infrastructures like food pro- housing developments or and on the tax rolls. mon,” says Rosenberg. Many would like to explore ways to cessing, packaging, trans- other commercial activities. farm families want to protect collaborate and maximize the portation, wholesaling and The specific lease terms pro- The Foodshed the farms that they have investment of all parties who distribution, via initiatives tect each property’s agricul- Conservation Plan invested so much in. Due to have a stake. Ideally funds like revitalizing the whole- tural soils and most valuable Scenic Hudson’s mission good word-of-mouth and a from federal, state, counties, sale markets at Hunt’s Point. natural resources, such as area is the Hudson River val- history of positive results cities and towns, along with But what is different in New wetlands, streams or farm- ley between New York City from conservation transac- private philanthropy, could York is Scenic Hudson. lands or other areas from and Albany. Rosenberg tions, the farmers’ level of work hand-in-hand to accom- Thanks to Scenic Hudson, commercial activity. The lease points out that parts of Con- receptivity has grown. plish a lot more and a lot New York is the only major defines where farm struc- necticut, Long Island, New Rosenberg cites a group of sooner. metro area with sustainable tures, residences and pro- Jersey and Pennsylvania also 13 farm families who peti- “A modest expense can food-shed planning from a cessing equipment can be supply food to New York. tioned their town board to make a real difference,” says strategic land-conservation situated. The farm locations But there is a greater con- be more proactive in helping Rosenberg. ■
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6 November 14, 2013 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY TREE CARE SQUAD BUY YOUR The Tree Care Squad’s TURKEY EARLY!!! First Fall Planting Workday By Talia Willner, Squad Leader SMALLER SIZES GO QUICKLY. FRESH turkeys available beginning n October 21, the Tree Care Squad’s crew of 20 workers th Ogot busy with fall planting in the Coop block’s 10 tree Thursday, November 21 beds. The crew laid 16 bags of compost, donated by the NO RESERVING OF BIRDS. Gowanus Conservancy, and planted 400 daffodil bulbs, donated by the Daffodil Project, and an assortment of peren- “FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.” * nials donated by the Garden of Union. We’re looking forward to next spring, when we’ll all be able to enjoy the lovely Bell & Evans (Pennsylvania): results of this afternoon of hard work. ■ 8 to 20 lbs., $2.82 lb. THURS 11/21
Plainville Farms Pasture-raised (New York) 12 to 20 lbs., $2.89 lb. FRI 11/22
Stonewood Farm Pasture-raised (Vermont): 12 to 20 lbs., $3.93 lb. MON 11/25
McDonald Farm Heritage Breed (American Bronze) (New York) 12-26 lbs., $4.66 lb. MON 11/25
Koch Certified Organic (Pennsylvania): 8 to 24 lbs., $4.36 lb. FRI 11/22
FROZEN Wise Kosher Certified Organic (Pennsylvania): 10-22 lbs., $5.57 lb. TUES 11/19
PHOTOS BY TALIA WILLNER TALIA BY PHOTOS All the above are delivered FRESH, except for Wise Kosher. Claudia and Elisabeth divide periwinkle and liriope. All are free-range, locally raised, hormone & antibiotic free.
KOCH turkeys will replace EBERLY this year (Eberly sources many of their birds from Koch). As a result, our organic price is EIGHTY-FIVE CENTS less per pound this year!
* service policy whereby the requests of customers or clients are attended to in the order that they arrived, without other biases or preferences.
Lola, Amanda and Rudie decide how many daffodil bulbs to allocate for each tree pit. Buy your holiday ingredients now: butter, nuts, canned pumpkin, canned stock, dried fruits, frozen pie shells, ultra-pasteurized heavy cream The fresh turkeys will begin to arrive the week prior to Thanksgiving week. All turkeys are dated to be fresh until Thanksgiving Day. If you buy early, you will have a greater selection in size and variety. Look for signs near the meat case in the next few weeks announcing the turkey delivery dates and prices. Joshua, Wally and Ron spread compost in preparation for planting.
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MEMBER SUBMISSION A Visit to the Soup Kitchen at CHIPS By Elvis Alves who worked as an accoun- food.” About 80% of here do we put tant, said her Episcopalian the food donated to “Wthese?” asked two faith informs the volunteer CHIPS comes from visitors, entering the soup work she now does at CHIPS, the Park Sloop Food kitchen run by the Christian “I am giving back what I was Coop. Help in Park Slope (CHIPS). blessed with.” “We serve 150 They come with two shop- The soup kitchen serves meals per day. That’s ping carts of pumpkins. It’s lunch at 11:30 a.m. each day. about 93,000 meals Halloween, 2013. “On the A group of volunteers pre- for the year,” says tables!” someone yells. pare the meal in the kitchen Denise Scaravella, “Only if they are organic,” beforehand. “Thursday is director of CHIPS. interjects Gilberto San- pasta with meat sauce day,” The people served toroso, a worker at CHIPS, says Raffaela Petroccione, by CHIPS readily tes- located on Fourth Avenue with a smile, and adds, “We tify to its benefits. and Sackett Street. The visi- also serve vegetables.” Anne Jamie Barber says the tors, Vinay Chowdhry and McBrearty is new to the soup kitchen provides William Miranda, are from group. She is also a member “a balanced meal.” the Park Slope Food Coop. of the Park Slope Food Trinity says eating at It’s 9:00 in the morning Coop. A retired school- CHIPS saves time and and CHIPS is buzzing with teacher, she sees volunteer- money. She explains, activities. Valerie Turer walks ing at CHIPS as “a way to “I have a young son to where I stand conversing donate time to a good and I also go to other with Mr. Santoroso and vol- cause.” Mike Steindam programs [social]. unteers information about works as a lawyer but takes Eating here allows me him. “Gilberto does every- time to cook once per month to take care of these thing here, from sharing at CHIPS. “No one com- affairs without worry-
food to washing dishes.” plains about the food,” Mr. ing about food.” Trini- ILLUSTRATION BY ETHAN PETTIT Dressed in a purple jacket (a Steindam says, “the people ty said she learned retirement gift), Ms. Turer, that come here like the about CHIPS while visiting another food pantry. Margari- “We do run out of things,” ta Alvarado likes to visit the says Ms. Scaravella. “Right soup kitchen on Wednesday now, we do not have sugar. Coop Job Opening: when white rice, beans, and The food that we provide is chicken are served. Ms. donated, so, we make use Alvarado said she would like of what we have.” Similarly, Bookkeeping Coordinator to see “hamburgers, cheese she sees tomorrow’s volun- Description: burgers, and French fries” on teers making use of the The Coop is hiring a Bookkeeping Coordinator to help in the oversight and coordination of our bookkeeping the weekly menu but admits, donated pumpkins, “we will activities. Involvement may include many areas of bookkeeping including: reconciliations (bank accounts, “those are not as healthy as definitely use them. Proba- debit/ebt, individual GL accounts), accounts payable, cash received bookkeeping, processing of member the food that the soup bly bake or make soup with investment refunds/product refunds, and more. All staff positions also coordinate and oversee member labor. ■ The bookkeeping department is small and though each staff member may focus on a particular area of kitchen regularly serves.” them.” bookkeeping, this new position requires a willingness to learn all areas and back up other bookkeeping staff as needed. Requirements: Interested in Engaging Coop Work? A degree in Accounting is preferred. Experience using enterprise-level accounting software is essential (our current package is Acumatica), as is the capability to coordinate and test accounting software releases/ Disciplinary Committee Seeks NEW Members rollouts, with transfer of knowledge and instruction to other staff as needed. Advanced knowledge and experience using Office suite programs, specifically Excel (macros, pivot tables, etc.), is highly desirable. Skills needed: Currently we have We look for applicants who maintain high standards of accuracy, and display initiative, common sense, Communication members from the and a troubleshooting/questioning mentality. Excellent organizational and social/communication skills Problem solving following fields: are required. Conflict resolution Social work, education, Hours: Approximately 35 hours distributed evenly over 5 days. The initial schedule will be Dealing with difficult law, dispute resolution, Monday through Friday during a training period, transitioning to a Tuesday through situations and people holistic medicine, design, Saturday permanent schedule. At times, schedule flexibility (and additional hours) will Investigation and journalism be necessary when covering work for other bookkeeping staff. Writing Wages: $25.80/hour. Research Benefits: • Paid Holidays: July 4th, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day Our work includes • Paid Health and Personal Time: 11 days per year • Applying Coop’s rules and regulations • Paid Vacation: three weeks per year increasing in the 4th, 8th & 11th years • Discussing policy issues related to the DC’s work • Health Insurance* • Investigating allegations of uncooperative behavior by members and engaging in problem solving • Dental and Vision Plan* • Daily email contact with DC members to discuss cases • Pension Plan* • Participating in mediation, disciplinary hearings, and other conflict • Life Insurance* resolution methods • 401(k) Plan • TransitChek Program Requirements: • Flexible Spending Account In order to be considered for this position, any candidate must: *Benefits with no payroll deduction. • be a member for at least a year • have good attendance record Prerequisite: • possess the abilty to work on a team Must be a current member of the Park Slope Food Coop for at least six months immediately prior to • communicate clearly application. • have good writing skills • have computer proficiency (excel, word, emails) is essential How to Apply: • attend an evening meeting every six weeks Provide your resumé along with a cover letter explaining your relevant qualifications, skills and We work on average 6 hours per month, more than the required work shift experience. Materials will only be accepted via e-mail to: [email protected]. Please hours. You will be credited and your hours banked for future use. put "Bookkeeping Coordinator" in the subject field. Applicants will receive an e-mail acknowledging receipt of their materials. Please do not call the Membership Office to check on the status of your We recognize the importance of various points of view when considering application. Applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis until the position cases brought to us. WE ARE SEEKING A CANDIDATE POOL THAT REFLECTS has been filled. If you applied to a previous Coop job offering, please re-submit your materials. THE DIVERSITY OF THE COOP’S MEMBERSHIP. Join us to make the Coop the best place it can be for everyone. We are seeking an applicant pool that reflects the diversity of the Coop's membership. Contact: Jeff: 718-636-3880 or [email protected]
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COOP HOURS Friday, December 20, 8:00 p.m. Office Hours: Monday through Thursday 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Friday & Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Shopping Hours: Monday–Friday 8:00 a.m. to 10:00* p.m. Saturday 6:00 a.m. to 10:00* p.m. Sunday 6:00 a.m. to 7:30* p.m. *Shoppers must be on a checkout line 15 minutes after closing time. Childcare Hours: Monday through Sunday 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 p.m. Come join Barry Bryson, bandleader and Telephone: trumpeter of the Swing Street Orchestra, 718-622-0560 and fabulous Coop jazz musicians for a Web address: night of big-band swing-dance music. www.foodcoop.com Marje Wagner Barry Bryson—Trumpet/Leader Emily Asher—Trombone Lisa Parrott—Alto Sax Jenny Hill—Tenor Sax Cynthia Hilts—Piano Alexis Cuadrado—Bass Rob Garcia—Drums There will also be The Linewaiters’ Gazette is published biweekly by the Park Slope Tom Beckham—Vibraphone Food Coop, Inc., 782 Union Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215. free dance lessons Dave Phelps—Guitar with professional Opinions expressed here may be solely the views of the writer. The Marje Wagner—Vocal Gazette will not knowingly publish articles that are racist, sexist or oth- dance instructor erwise discriminatory. Arturo Perez, who The Gazette welcomes Coop-related articles and letters from members. will be partnered by Carolynn Murphy. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submissions must include author’s name and phone number and www.ProspectConcerts.tumblr.com conform to the following guidelines. Editors will reject letters and articles that are illegible or too long. Submission deadlines appear 53 Prospect Park West [at 2nd Street] • $10 • 8pm [doors open at 7:45] in the Coop Calendar opposite. Performers are Park Slope Food Coop members and receive Coop workslot credit. Booking: Bev Grant, 718-788-3741 Letters: Maximum 500 words. All letters will be printed if they conform to the guidelines above. The Anonymity and Fairness policies appear on the letters page in most issues. Voluntary Articles: Maximum 750 words. Editors will reject articles This Issue Prepared By: that are essentially just advertisements for member businesses and services. Coordinating Editors: Stephanie Golden 2%452. 0/,)#9 Erik Lewis Committee Reports: Maximum 1,000 words. I]Z 8dde hig^kZh id 2%15)2%$ &/2 !.9 2%452. Editors (development): Erik Lewis Editor-Writer Guidelines: Except for letters to the editor, which `ZZeeg^XZhadl[dgdjg &#I]ZEV^Y">c";jaagZXZ^eiBJHI bZbWZgh]^e# B^c^" Joan Minieri are published without editing but are subject to the Gazette letters WZegZhZciZY# b^o^c\ i]Z Vbdjci d[ policy regarding length, anonymity, respect and fairness, all '#GZijgchbjhiWZ]VcYaZY gZijgcZY bZgX]VcY^hZ Reporters: Frank Haberle submissions to the Linewaiters' Gazette will be reviewed and, if l^i]^c(%YVnhd[ejgX]VhZ# ^h dcZ lVn lZ Yd i]^h# Ed Levy necessary, edited by the editor. In their review, editors are guid- >[ ndj cZZY id bV`Z V ed by the Gazette's Fairness and Anonymity policies as well as Alison Rose Levy gZijgc! eaZVhZ \d id i]Z #!. ) %8#(!.'% -9 )4%- standard editorial practices of grammatical review, separation of 'cY;addgHZgk^XZ9Zh`# Cd!lZYdcdiÆZmX]Vc\ZÇ^iZbh# Art Director (development): Eva Schicker fact from opinion, attribution of factual statements, and rudi- NdjbjhigZijgci]ZbZgX]VcY^hZ mentary fact checking. Writers are responsible for the factual VcYgZ"ejgX]VhZl]VindjcZZY# Illustrators: Lynn Bernstein content of their stories. Editors must make a reasonable effort to Rod Morrison contact and communicate with writers regarding any proposed Ethan Pettit editorial changes. Writers must make a reasonable effort to #!. ) 2%452. -9 )4%- respond to and be available to editors to confer about their arti- Deborah Tint cles. If there is no response after a reasonable effort to contact EgdYjXZ 7ja` ^cXa#8dde"WV\\ZYWja` Thumbnails: Kristin Lilley the writer, an editor, at her or his discretion, may make editorial 8]ZZhZ HZVhdcVa=da^YVn>iZbh 7dd`h HeZX^VaDgYZgh changes to a submission without conferring with the writer. .%6%2 Preproduction: Helena Boskovic 8VaZcYVgh GZ[g^\ZgViZYHjeeaZbZcih 2%452.!",% Submissions on Paper: Typed or very legibly handwritten and ?j^XZgh D^ah Hjh]^ 6WjnZg^hVkV^aVWaZYjg^c\i]ZlZZ`" Photoshop: Terrance Carney placed in the wallpocket labeled "Editor" on the second floor at the YVnhidY^hXjhhndjgXdcXZgch# base of the ramp. Art Director (production): Dilhan Kushan 2%452.!",% Digital Submissions: We welcome digital submissions. The /.,9 )& 30/),%$ Desktop Publishing: Kevin Cashman e-mail address for submissions is [email protected]. GZ[g^\ZgViZY
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✮✮✮✮ EXCITING WORKSLOT OPPORTUNITIES ✮✮✮✮ Office Cleaning You will thoroughly clean the refrigerator, might be for you. Please speak to Adriana or Wednesday, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. removing all movable parts and cleaning them, Cynthia in the Membership Office for more The Coop is looking for members to clean the label food items, and discard old or out-of-date information. office after closing. This entails cleaning the products. Please speak to Adriana in the desktops, phones, keyboards. This job is ideal Membership Office if you are interested. Store Equipment for someone who is pro-active, meticulous and Cleaning likes working independently. If interested please Office Set-up Monday, 6 to 8 a.m. speak to Mary in the Membership Office for fur- Monday-Thursday, 6 to 8:30 a.m. The Coop is looking for members to clean ther information. Need an early-riser with lots of energy to do a the checkout area of the store. It entails variety of physical tasks, including: setting up cleaning the scales at each checkout and Refrigerator Cleaning tables and chairs, buying food and supplies, vacuuming around the base of the checkout Monday, 9 to 11 a.m. labeling and putting away food and supplies, station as well as sweeping and occasionally This position requires a desire to do physical recycling, washing dishes and making coffee. mopping. You will work under the supervi- work, enjoy cleaning, and organize refrigerators. Sound like your dream come true? This job sion of a staff person.
All About the General Meeting
COOP CALENDAR Our Governing Structure New Member Orientations General Meeting Info From our inception in 1973 to the present, the open Attending an Orientation is the first step toward TUE, DECEMBER 3 monthly General Meetings have been at the center of the Coop membership. Pre-registration is required for AGENDA SUBMISSIONS: 8:00 p.m. all of the three weekly New Member Orientations. Coop’s decision-making process. Since the Coop incor- To pre-register, visit foodcoop.com or contact the Submissions will be considered for the December 17 porated in 1977, we have been legally required to have a Membership Office. Visit in person or call 718-622- General Meeting. Board of Directors. The Coop continued the tradition of 0560 during office hours. General Meetings by requiring the Board to have open Have questions about Orientation? Please visit TUE, DECEMBER 17 meetings and to receive the advice of the members at www.foodcoop.com and look at the “Join the Coop” GENERAL MEETING: 7:00 p.m. General Meetings. The Board of Directors, which is page for answers to frequently asked questions. required to act legally and responsibly, has approved almost every General Meeting decision at the end of The Coop on the Internet Gazette Deadlines every General Meeting. Board members are elected at www.foodcoop.com LETTERS & VOLUNTARY ARTICLES: the Annual Meeting in June. Copies of the Coop’s bylaws Nov 28 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, Nov 18 are available at the Coop Community Corner and at The Coop on Cable TV Dec 12 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, Dec 2 Inside the Park Slope Food Coop every General Meeting. FRIDAYS 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Channels: 56 (Time- Warner), 69 (CableVision), 84 (RCN), 44 (Verizon), CLASSIFIED ADS DEADLINE: Next Meeting: Tuesday, and live streaming on the Web: www.bricartsmedia.org/ Nov 28 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, Nov 20 community-media/bcat-tv-network. Dec 12 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, Dec 4 December 17, 7:00 p.m. The General Meeting is held on the last Tuesday of each month. December’s meeting is one week earlier due to Attend a GM Park Slope Food Coop the Christmas holiday. and Receive Work Credit Mission Statement Location Since the Coop’s inception in 1973, the General The Park Slope Food Coop is a mem- MS 51, 350 5th Ave., between 4th and 5th Sts. Enter on 4th Meeting has been our decision-making body. At the ber-owned and operated food store—an St. cul-de-sac. 4th St. entrance is handicap-accessible. General Meeting (GM) members gather to make alternative to commercial profit-oriented decisions and set Coop policy. The General-Meeting-for- business. As members, we contribute our How to Place an Item workslot-credit program was created to increase labor: working together builds trust participation in the Coop’s decision-making process. through cooperation and teamwork and Following is an outline of the program. For full details, see on the Agenda the instruction sheets by the sign-up board. enables us to keep prices as low as possi- If you have something you’d like discussed at a General ble within the context of our values and Meeting, please complete a submission form for the • Advance Sign-up required: To be eligible for workslot credit, you must add your principles. Only members may shop, and Agenda Committee. Forms are available in the rack near name to the sign-up sheet in the elevator lobby. The sign- we share responsibilities and benefits the Coop Community Corner bulletin board and at ups sheet is available all month long, except for the day of equally. We strive to be a responsible and General Meetings. Instructions and helpful information the meeting when you have until 5 p.m. to sign up. On the ethical employer and neighbor. We are a on how to submit an item appear on the submission day of the meeting, the sign-up sheet is kept in the buying agent for our members and not a form. The Agenda Committee meets on the first Tuesday Membership Office. selling agent for any industry. We are a part of each month to plan the agenda for the GM held on the Some restrictions to this program do apply. Please see last Tuesday of the month. If you have a question, please below for details. of and support the cooperative movement. We offer a diversity of products with an call Ann Herpel at the coop. • Two GM attendance credits per year: Each member may take advantage of the GM-for- emphasis on organic, minimally pro- workslot-credit program two times per calendar year. cessed and healthful foods. We seek to Meeting Format • Certain Squads not eligible: avoid products that depend on the Warm Up (7:00 p.m.) • Meet the Coordinators Eligible: Shopping, Receiving/Stocking, Food exploitation of others. We support non- • Enjoy some Coop snacks • Submit Open Forum items Processing, Office, Maintenance, Inventory, Construction, toxic, sustainable agriculture. We respect • Explore meeting literature and FTOP committees. (Some Committees are omitted the environment. We strive to reduce the because covering absent members is too difficult.) Open Forum (7:15 p.m.) Open Forum is a time for impact of our lifestyles on the world we members to bring brief items to the General Meeting. If • Attend the entire GM: share with other species and future genera- an item is more than brief, it can be submitted to the In order to earn workslot credit you must be present tions. We prefer to buy from local, earth- for the entire meeting. Agenda Committee as an item for a future GM. friendly producers. We recycle. We try to Reports (7:30 p.m.) • Financial Report • Coordinators’ • Signing in at the Meeting: lead by example, educating ourselves and Report • Committee Reports 1. After the meeting the Chair will provide the others about health and nutrition, coopera- Workslot Credit Attendance Sheet. Agenda (8:00 p.m.) 2.Please also sign in the attendance book that is tion and the environment. We are com- The agenda is posted at the Coop Community Corner passed around during the meeting. mitted to diversity and equality. We and may also appear elsewhere in this issue. • Being Absent from the GM: oppose discrimination in any form. We Wrap Up (9:30-9:45) (unless there is a vote to extend It is possible to cancel without penalty. We do ask that strive to make the Coop welcoming and the meeting) • Meeting evaluation • Board of Directors you remove your name if you know cannot attend. Please accessible to all and to respect the opin- vote • Announcements, etc. do not call the Membership Office with GM cancellations. ions, needs and concerns of every member.
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nov 15 David Roche and nov 23 Sleep Better, Feel Better, fri 8 pm Stephanie Jenkins sat 12 pm Live Better David Roche is a talented Poor sleep is rampant in today’s frenetic 24/7 culture and Americans spend $100 bil- singer/songwriter who hails from an lion on sleep-related products yearly. Sleep represents the key component of the trinity artistic family of musicians and writ- of health (with diet and exercise) and regulates both physical and mental health and is ers. He’s been writing songs slowly often precipitated by stress. Disturbed sleep is associated with poor cardiac health, but steadily for damn near half a century. He is a longtime obesity, and increased mortality as well as memory and mood dysregulation. However, Coop member and New York Giants fan. You can hear the few individuals seek sleep treatment and most go to physicians who prescribe sleeping songs from his latest album, Harp Trouble in Heaven, at medications. This workshop will present an overview of sleep and offer concrete steps www.davidroche.net. Stephanie Jenkins grew up in a musical to improve sleep without medication. Dr. Ross Levin is a clinical psychologist and family in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. She started playing behavioral sleep expert and maintains a private practice on the Upper West Side devot- old-time banjo at 16 and has never looked back. Now a ed exclusively to treating anxiety-based sleep disorders. He has written more than 100 Brooklynite, Steph works in documentary film and plays with scientific papers on sleep and has been a Food Coop member since 1992. local all-girl stringband The Calamity Janes, as well as Ithaca- based bands The Pearly Snaps and Evil City Stringband. She’ll be joined by her brother, Reid Jenkins. Concert takes place at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical nov 23 Take Great Photos Culture, 53 Prospect Park West (at 2nd St.), $10, doors open sat 3 pm at 7:45. Prospect Concerts is a monthly musical fundraising partnership of the Coop With Your iPhone and the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture. Get expert tips and advice for taking great pictures with your iPhone. This hands-on To book a Prospect Concert event, contact Bev Grant, 718-788-3741. workshop, given by pro photographer GIRLRAY, will give you all the tools you need to make your smart phone photos 100 times better. Coop member Sue Schaffner's pho- tography work has been widely published under the alias GIRLRAY and has appeared in Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, People, Esquire, Wired, and Glamour, among others. nov 16 Ten Warning Signs Getty Images licenses her photography library internationally. She is also the founder of sat 2 pm Of Alzheimer’s PIXOBOOK, an event-book publishing service based in Brooklyn. Golden Steps Elder Care Cooperative invites you to this lecture featuring guest speaker Meg Drislane, from the Alzheimer’s Association. Her informative presentation on detect- ing the early warning signs of Alzheimer’s will be followed by a reception hosted by nov 23 Film & Conversation: Golden Steps. Meg Drislane has been a member of the Alzheimer’s Association sat 7:30 pm Speakers Bureaus for the past four years. Golden Steps Elder Care Cooperative is made Direct Democracy...and NYC? up of 16 members who provide affordable non-medical care and companionship to It's Time We Talked is a wry and intense road trip across direct democracy's history and older New Yorkers who want to remain safe and independent at home. They are based potential in America, probing the historical record, stories of ballot activists, our politi- in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Every companion they place is a member of the cooperative cal assumptions, and everyday people’s ideas for laws, to build the case for true citizen- and an owner of the business, committed to providing excellent service. They can be ship. Screening followed by a talk about the possibility and hurdles for modern-day contacted at www.goldensteps.coop or by calling 718-687-1978. citizen lawmaking in New York. Coop member Olaf Bertram-Nothnagel was led by what he learned making the film to coordinate the drafting of groundbreaking amendments offered for our city’s charter. What law would you propose? nov 17 sun 12 pm It’s Your Funeral Planning for your own death now (as opposed to later) is a practice that can enable you dec 3 to live in the moment, face your own mortality with courage—and create an end-of-life tue 8 pm Agenda Committee Meeting service that reflects your values. Join Coop member Amy Cunningham, former journalist The Committee reviews pending agenda items and creates the and graduate of the American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service, in a conversation about fascinating advancements within the funeral business. The talk will agenda for this month’s General Meeting. Drop by and talk with cover how to plan a low-cost, back-to-basics funeral or memorial service, as well as committee members face-to-face between 8:00 and 8:15 p.m. offer information on green cemeteries near New York City, cremation pros and cons, Before submitting an item, read “How to Develop an Agenda biodegradable caskets and urns, blended-faith/alternative ceremonies, and more. You’ll Item for the General Meeting” and fill out the General Meeting Agenda Item Submission get a glimmer of what funerals of the future might look like—and leave with planning Form, both available from the Membership Office or at foodcoop.com. The next literature for yourself or for someone you love. General Meeting will be held one week earlier than usual, on Tuesday, December 17, 7 p.m., due to the Christmas holiday, at a location to be announced.
nov 19 PSFC NOV General Meeting dec 5 Food Class: tue 7 pm thu 7:30 pm Eastern Mediterranean Tapas Meeting Agenda to be announced. For information on how to place an item on the Agenda, please see the center pages of Learn to prepare an array of traditional small plates that have the Linewaiters’ Gazette. The Agenda Committee minutes and been integral to the food culture in Mediterranean and Middle the status of pending agenda items are available in the Coop Eastern countries for many centuries. Uncover how to take office. Meeting location to be CANCELEDdetermined. November’s General Meeting is held one Susan Baldassano, Coordinator ingredients and spices such has sumac, harissa, tahini, pre- week earlier than usual, due to the Thanksgiving holiday. served lemons, and rosewater to new heights while utilizing whole grains, legumes 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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seasonal vegetables. Chef Olivia Roszkowski holds a Neuroscience and Behavior degree from Columbia University, has worked as a line cook in restaurants under Jean-Georges dec 14 Vongerichten, David Chang, and Danny Meyer, and is currently a chef instructor at the sat 3 pm The Gems of Excellence Natural Gourmet Institute. Menu includes: red quinoa tabbouleh with apricots & cilantro; duck bacon–wrapped medjool dates with dijon creme fraiche; Lebanese lemon Are you addicted to shame and guilt? Are you addicted to victimhood and misery? Can lentil soup; swiss chard falafel with harissa-tahini dip; homemade preserved lemons; you be happy for others? Experience the Gems of Excellence program, and see rapid rosewater-infused dark chocolate bark with pistachios. changes in your life and the life of your loved ones. The Gems of Excellence is one of ASL interpreter may be available upon advance request. Please contact Ginger Jung in the programs of Geotran. Geotran is a numeric, geometric and digital language of all the Membership Office by November 21 to make a request. possibilities that speaks to the memory field that is around us. It is based on quantum Materials fee: $4. Food classes are coordinated by Coop member Susan Baldassano. physics and it’s not a talk therapy. Be curious. This unique technology will be demon- strated by Coop member Marija Santo-Sarnyai, CNHP and Geotran practitioner. Discovering her passion for helping people get their life back gives her the greatest joy dec 6 Film Night: and meaning. fri 7 pm Bordering On Treason Bordering On Treason tells the amazing story of Lorna Tychostup, a single mother and photojournalist who travels to dec 17 Iraq continuously for nine years to put a human face on a hor- tue 7 pm PSFC DEC General Meeting rific global tragedy. Visiting military units and Iraqi families Meeting Agenda to be announced. For information on how to beyond the green zone, she evolves from naïve civilian to place an item on the Agenda, please see the center pages of established journalist. Through Lorna’s personal journey, the Linewaiters’ Gazette. The Agenda Committee minutes and Bordering On Treason explores the complexities of this war and the possibility of hope. the status of pending agenda items are available in the Coop Trish Dalton (director/producer/videographer) is an award-winning independent director office. Meeting location to be determined. December’s General Meeting is held one and producer. Her recent film credits include Southmost U.S.A. (director/producer), week earlier than usual, due to the Christmas holiday. One Night Stand (director/producer), Keras & Manis (editor), Why Are We In Afghanistan? (producer/editor), 34x25x36 (co-producer), Farm Sanctuary (co- director/co-producer), and Tiffany’s Story (director/producer). To book a Film Night, contact Faye Lederman, [email protected]. dec 20 Swing Street with Barry fri 8 pm dec 10 Safe Food Committee Film Night: Bryson and Marje Wagner tue 7 pm Come join Barry Bryson, bandleader Food Beware and trumpeter of the Swing Street Orchestra, and fabulous Coop jazz It’s hard not to be charmed at the sight of a school group musicians for a night of big-band sitting on a riverbank near a Roman aqueduct eating arti- swing-dance music. Musicians include Barry Bryson, trum- sanal bread, hard-boiled organic eggs and local sausage, pet/leader; Emily Asher, trombone; Lisa Parrott, alto sax; grapes and pears. Food Beware is a cheerful film is set in Jenny Hill, tenor sax; Cynthia Hilts, piano; Alexis Cuadrado, the French town of Barjac, which decreed that local bass; Rob Garcia, drums; Tom Beckham, vibraphone; Dave schools would go organic. New Yorkers, with schools larger than Barjac’s popula- Phelps, guitar; Marje Wagner, vocal. There will also be free tion, might wonder how well it would work here. Food Beware takes a pragmatic, dance lessons with professional dance instructor Arturo health-based approach, buttressed by frightening statistics about cancer rates in Perez, who will be partnered by Carolynn Murphy. children, that’s a refreshing change from the moral and cultural preening that Concert takes place at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical sometimes enter this debate. Culture, 53 Prospect Park West (at 2nd St.), $10, doors open at 7:45. Prospect Concerts is a monthly musical fundraising partnership of the Coop and the Brooklyn dec 13 What Is the Trans-Pacific Society for Ethical Culture. To book a Prospect Concert event, contact Bev Grant, 718-788-3741. fri 6:30 pm Partnership (TPP)? Why do we need to study it? The TPP, negotiated by trade representatives from 12 Pacific-rim countries with 600 corporate advisors, would become law in all those countries. Neither Congress members nor journalists have had access to the text. dec 27 The treaty would endanger government regulation of food safety and fracking. fri 7 pm Cheese Class Questions? Coop member Susan Metz will facilitate a discussion with a panel of activists about “free trade” and “fair trade” and why we oppose giving the President We invite Coop members to learn more about the wonderful cheeses the Coop has to the “Fast Track Authority” that would deprive us of time to debate. Bring questions offer. This event will be limited to 30 people on a first-come, first-seated basis. A guest- and suggestions, neighbors and friends. Metz retired from teaching high school to speaker will be announced. This workshop is brought to you by Coop member Aaron do research in Cuba. A Coop member since 1980, she was a Shopping Squad Kirtz, who has worked in the cheese industry since 2003, and sells cheese to the Coop Leader for 22 years. via Forever Cheese.
jan 2 Food Class jan 5 Kids’ Variety Show Auditions
jan 3 Film Night jan 7 Agenda Committee Meeting
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LET’S BAN NEW GMO posed policy soon at the General Kaniklidis’ statements made it past find Kaniklidis’ accusations prob- PRODUCTS Meeting. the chopping block. lematic and speak up about them. In the meantime, look for the In fact, I’m puzzled about the Meantime, do we have an ethical MEMBERS: green dot on the shelf label to be Gazette’s purpose and policies. Why obligation to refrain from publishing I read with interest the thoughtful sure the foods you buy do not con- are member submissions apparently this kind of hate-fueled speech, letter by Geraldine McCleave tain GMOs. and utterly unrelated to food includ- whether it’s in the guise of fighting appearing in the October 17 issue Thanks, ed in this publication? As Charlene anti-Semitism or not? This Jew cer- (“Go Slow On GMO”). Ms. McCleave Greg Todd Swift recently pointed out in her tainly hopes so. should know that our committee, in astute letter to the editor, it would Teresa Theophano, LMSW place since 2000, has tried a variety LET’S FOCUS ON FOOD be nice to see more member sub- of measures to address the issue of missions and letters about, well, Editor Diane Aronson of the October GMOs at the Coop. About six years food. (Big shocker here: many of us 31, 2013, issue responds: There is noth- ago, we wrote the producers of more TO THE EDITOR: joined the Coop to buy good food at ing under the Linewaiters’ Gazette’s than 450 products on the shelves I found it interesting, to say the good prices.) Was Kaniklidis’ article fairness doctrine that would have prohibited that contained ingredients likely to least, that Constantine Kaniklidis’ a veiled argument against BDS? If going forward with publishing Constantine be GMO. After receiving three letters member submission [Linewaiters’ so, why not broach the topic of the Kaniklidis’s “Fair Expression and Princi- asking whether the ingredients were Gazette, October 31, 2013, “Fair kind of food our food store stocks? ples of Community.” It’s my belief as a indeed GMO, only 5% of the produc- Expression and Principles of Com- Ironically, Kaniklidis’ article Linewaiters’ Gazette editor that my role ers responded. munity”] was approved for publica- roundly criticizes the “free speech is not to censor, within the Gazette’s It’s this policy of “don’t ask, don’t tion, what with its inflammatory defense.” Here’s hoping that others guidelines. tell” that is preventing consumers allegations about the Muslim Stu- from knowing what we are eating in dent Association (which the writer our food. describes as “[an] on-campus hate We know how the “don’t ask, don’t movement...[extremist]...[demon- tell” policy ended in the U.S. mili- strably terrorist-affiliated, with many tary. I’m hopeful it will end in the MSA officers already convicted of food industry with universal labeling material support for terrorism]”). of GMO ingredients. Already, Whole I feel strongly that Kaniklidis’ Foods has announced mandatory incendiary article should have been GMO labeling by 2018 in all of its more carefully edited prior to publi- stores. Walmart met with suppliers cation, if not omitted altogether— Thanksgiving Day, in January to discuss the feasibility not even, mind you, because it of GMO labeling. Chipotle Restau- consisted primarily of self-referen- November 28, rant labels GMO ingredients on its tial ranting (this particular rant was 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. website menu. PART THREE in a series, no less!), Until regulators require mandato- but because it contained anti-Mus- ry labeling, the GMO Shelf Labeling lim sentiment and little, if any, rele- December 24, Committee is asking that the Coop vance to what is ultimately a food ban any new GMO products from our store. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. shelves. This policy has already been I know for a fact that potentially instituted by a variety of both com- offensive comments about transgen- mercial and Coop retailers. We have der women were edited out of December 25, asked the Agenda Committee to a Gazette interview prior to publica- CLOSED schedule a discussion of this pro- tion last year. Still, I’m puzzled that LETTERS POLICY December 31,
We welcome letters from members. Submission tual coverage: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. deadlines appear in the Coop Calendar. All let- 1. The Gazette will not publish hearsay—that ters will be printed if they conform to the pub- is, allegations not based on the author's first- lished guidelines. We will not knowingly publish hand observation. January 1, 2014, articles which are racist, sexist or otherwise dis- 2. Nor will we publish accusations that are 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. criminatory not specific or are not substantiated by factual The maximum length for letters is 500 assertions. words. Letters must include your name and 3. Copies of submissions that make substan- phone number and be typed or very legibly tive accusations against specific individuals will handwritten. Editors will reject letters that are be given to those persons to enable them to illegible or too long. write a response, and both submissions and You may submit on paper, typed or very legi- response will be published simultaneously. This bly handwritten, or via email to GazetteSubmis- means that the original submission may not No New Member [email protected] or on disk. appear until the issue after the one for which it was submitted. Orientations will be held Anonymity The above applies to both articles and letters. Unattributed letters will not be published The only exceptions will be articles by Gazette on Sunday, November 24, unless the Gazette knows the identity of the reporters which will be required to include the writer, and therefore must be signed when sub- response within the article itself. Monday, November 25, or mitted (giving phone number). Such letters will be published only where a reason is given to the Respect Wednesday, November 27. editor as to why public identification of the Letters must not be personally derogatory or writer would impose an unfair burden of embar- insulting, even when strongly criticizing an indi- rassment or difficulty. Such letters must relate vidual member's actions. Letter writers must Orientations will resume on the to Coop issues and avoid any non-constructive, refer to other people with respect, refrain from non-cooperative language. calling someone by a nickname that the person normal schedule, after Thanksgiving, never uses himself or herself, and refrain from Fairness comparing other people to odious figures like on Sunday, December 1 at 4 p.m. In order to provide fair, comprehensive, fac- Hitler or Idi Amin.
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BDS TOPICS: A lesson the Park Slope Food Coop tained and increased legal protec- its in Israel’s occupation of Palestinian would do well to learn. tions. “When a minor involved in ter- lands. Veolia has lost more than $16 (Excerpted from www.algemeiner.com/ rorist activity is arrested, the law is billion in contracts worldwide follow- EXCERPTS FROM U.N. 2013/11/01/samantha-power-vows-to- clear: no torture or humiliation is ing “Dump Veolia” campaigns. oppose-every-example-of-anti-israeli- permitted, nor is solitary confine- St. Louis Dump Veolia coalition: REP. SAMANTHA bias-in-the-un-system/) ment allowed to induce confes- After water workers revealed the exis- POWER’S SPEECH TO Sylvia Lowenthal sions… Further, a special juvenile tence of Veolia’s contract proposal, the THE ADL court has been established to guar- St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Commit- ‘TOTO, I’VE A FEELING antee professional care for minors in tee (PSC) helped to form a broad COOP MEMBERS: detention.” (www.honestreporting.com/ based St. Louis Dump Veolia coalition At the annual meeting of the Anti- THAT WE’RE NOT IN israel-responds/to/guardian/child- which included PSC, St. Louis Jewish Defamation League (ADL), an organi- KANSAS’ abuse/charges) Voice for Peace, Organization for Black zation dedicated to fighting hate, Just as facts are irrelevant for BDS, Struggle, Missouri Muslims for Civic including against Muslims and other TO THE EDITORS AND so are logic and reason. The philoso- Engagement, Women’s Voice Raised targeted groups and which has charac- READERS, pher Santayana wrote, “There is for Social Justice, US Campaign to End terized the BDS movement as not only nothing in the world so helpless as the Israeli Occupation, Sierra Club, anti-Israel but anti-Semitic as well, Reading the Gazette column from reason when it is facing unreason.” Missouri Coalition for the Environ- U.S. Ambassador to the United BDSland, I feel I’ve been transported PSFC members face unreason every ment, Food and Water Watch, and Cor- Nations Samantha Power promised to to Oz. time we open the Gazette. Dialogue is porate Accountability International. “oppose every example of anti-Israeli As in all mythic realms (myths, not possible when historical truth Highlights of Veolia v Dump Veolia: bias in the UN system.” dreams, fairy tales), BDS reality is dif- doesn’t matter. BDS automatons, Veolia spent considerable time and “I am personally deeply commit- ferent from our everyday and scientific programmed with hate, repeat their money to win the contract, flying rep- ted and have personally engaged our reality in Kansas and Park Slope. same rants on and on, deaf to any resentatives to speak before commit- European colleagues about expand- In everyday reality people are com- reality but their own. tee meetings, hiring a lobbyist, the ing regional and thematic groupings plex, multi-dimensional individuals. Is there any reason this should be former chairman of the Missouri to end the continuing discrimination In BDSland people are one-dimen- allowed? Not only is it an insult to our Democratic Party. The Veolia water against Israel in the UN system; that sional stereotypes: innocent, caring intelligence and integrity, it’s hate contract was the top requested ques- discrimination is not right and it good guys (BDS proponents and speech: intellectually disreputable, tion at the second mayoral debate. must end. Palestinians) or cruel malicious vil- vicious, vile, offensive and hurtful, The incumbent mayor, a proponent for “As President Obama has affirmed lains (BDS opponents and Israeli notably at a time when anti-Semitism, Veolia, was forced to admit that Pales- in every General Assembly appear- Jews). There are no complexities, no dressed as anti-Zionism, is spreading tinians find Veolia’s involvement with ance, the United States will combat shades of grey. throughout the world. Major human Israel’s occupation objectionable. any effort to undermine Israel’s legiti- In everyday reality, events occur in rights organizations condemn BDS as The mayor easily won re-election macy as a full and equal member of an historical context of time, space anti-Semitic. Publishing unverifiable but the Dump Veolia campaign put his the community of nations.” and causality. In BDSland events hap- BDS deceptions is contrary to the office and Veolia on the defensive. In “On my watch, we will push cease- pen suddenly, unpredictably, without Gazette’s stated Letters Policy and lengthy public hearings, over 150 con- lessly for the further inclusion of Israel context or cause. Here anyone is free PSFC’s Mission Statement. cerned citizens attended pointing to a in regional groups. We will demand to invent the world as they choose to. There is little or nothing we can do variety of issues with Veolia from envi- objectivity in resolutions affecting Historical truth has no place. about anti-Semitism elsewhere in the ronmental to its business practices, Middle East peace. After all, it is not For example, in response to a world. But here, in the reality we live saying the company has cut water the UN’s job to pre-judge issues that recent column by a PSFC Arab Lobby in, we don’t have to stand by as it con- quality testing, raised rates, intro- can only be addressed through direct representative describing “the Jenin tinues, however righteously it is justi- duced layoffs coupled with lax mainte- negotiations between Israel and her massacre,” a dozen members wrote fied in the name of “free speech.” nance in other cities. Arab neighbors. And there is no basis Gazette letters protesting the lie. It is Ruth Bolletino The mayor, adamant to secure the to exclude Israel from full participa- not difficult to verify that both the contract, attempted to by-pass the tion in the United Nations system.” Palestinian Authority and the UN ST. LOUIS BDS city’s approval process triggering a “In a forum such as the UN’s issued reports that no such “mas- council bill to strike the $250,000 Human Rights Council, that means sacre” by Israeli soldiers in Jenin ever COMMITTEE IN COALITION from the Water Division’s budget in insisting that we fight to prevent Israel occurred. (Just Google “Jenin massacre WITH ENVIRONMENTAL an effort to block Veolia. At this junc- from being singled out and that we lie.”) Nevertheless, in the next issue a AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ture Veolia withdrew from considera- push the Human Rights Council to letter referred again to the “massacre GROUPS CAMPAIGNED tion. The bill was later approved by a start doubling down on the globe’s in Jenin.” 5-2 vote. truly egregious violators of human Recently accusations escalated, SUCCESSFULLY AGAINST The mayor is now asking the city’s dignity. It also means working with our including the charge that Israelis VEOLIA’S CONTRACT water department to work with the Israeli colleagues to facilitate and abuse, torture, and threaten to rape PROPOSAL Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, make known the Jewish state’s many Palestinian children in prison. And chil- in a public partnership, to analyze the contributions to global progress in dren, sometimes in grisly home inva- MEMBERS: aging infrastructure and find ways to such areas as agricultural technology, sions. There was no mention that these After a year long public protest, on reduce costs. science, the empowerment of prisoners (ages 12-17) committed hor- October 29, 2013, Veolia Water North “Major Victory”: The St. Louis Post- women.” rific acts including murdering civilians, America withdrew itself from consider- Dispatch (10/29) described Veolia’s “Remembrance is part of our agen- often targeting infants and children, ation for a $250,000 consulting con- decision to pull out “a major victory for da, too, which is why I am pleased to sometimes in grisly home invasions. tract to guide cost-cutting for the St. a group called the Dump Veolia Coali- announce that the UN has agreed to (www.israel-war.com/pps/israeli-chil- Louis water department. The contract tion.” The St. Louis Palestine Solidari- make available to us a full copy of its dren.pps), (www.campaignfortruth.info was linked to implementation, that is, ty Committee stressed that the victory War Crimes Commission Archives for /page.aspx?id=251303), in order to take any recommenda- was the result of working in a coalition transfer to Washington and the Holo- (www.scribd.com/doc/ tions, St. Louis would have to rehire that addressed local environmental caust Museum. This transfer will be of 7109702/Israeli-Children), Veolia to implement them, becoming and social justice concerns as well as considerable benefit to scholars at a (www.takeapen.org/ Takeapen/Tem- increasingly entrenched in the city’s Veolia’s appalling human rights record time when Holocaust denial is plates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID water operation. in Palestine. embraced by many who prefer diver- =1&TMID=842&FID=915). Veolia Water North America (Chica- Sources: Ali Abunimah, St. Louis sionary fantasies to inconvenient Besides the fact that prisoner go-based) is a subsidiary of the French PSC facts. That general tendency—to abuse constitutes a breach of Israel’s municipal services multinational Veo- Mary Buchwald ignore the hard lessons of the past— military code of conduct, as well as a lia. Veolia has been a target of global Brooklyn for Peace remains all too present in the world violation of basic Jewish religious protests and boycott campaigns PSFC Members for BDS today.” and ethical values, Israel has main- because Veolia participates and prof- www.psfcbds.workpress.com
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EXPERIENCED REPORTERS Please Apply COMMUNITY CALENDAR Workslot Description We have four distinct Linewaiters’ Community calendar listings are free. Please submit your event listing in 50 words or less to Gazette teams—each producing an [email protected]. issue every eight weeks. You will Submission deadlines are the same as for classified ads. develop and produce an article about Please refer to the Coop Calendar in the center of this issue. the Coop in cooperation with your team’s editor every eight weeks. here: www.docnyc.net/film/ Ave. at Park Pl. For more info SAT, NOV 16 For More Information a-will-for-the-woods. Also on and registration form, e-mail: If you would like to speak to an editor or another reporter to learn 8 p.m. Peoples’ Voice Cafe: Profes- Tuesday 19th at 2:15 p.m. [email protected] Or more about the job, please contact Annette Laskaris in the sor Louie and the Lewis Family. At register on event date. Membership Office or e-mail her at [email protected]. The Community Church of New 4 p.m. BPL Chamber Players at York Unitarian Universalist,40 the Dr.S.Stevan Dweck Center, 4 p.m. The powerHouse Arena To Apply East 35 St. NY Wheelchair-acces- Central Library 10 Grand Army invites you to a book launch and Please send a letter of application and two writing samples at least sible. For info 212-787-3903 or see Plaza Bklyn, featuring The Lark tasting: Balaboosta by Einat 800 words long (one sample must be a reported interview, not a www.peoplesvoicecafe.org. Dona- Quartet with Deborah Buck and Admony featuring recipes pre- Q&A) to [email protected]. Your letter should state tion: $18 general/$10 members; Basia Danilow, violins Kathryn pared by Melissa Vaughan. 1111 your qualifications, your Coop history, relevant experience and no one turned away. Lockwood, viola Caroline Stin- Eighth Ave. Bklyn. For more why you would like to report for the Coop. Your application will be son, cello (free event). information, please call: acknowledged and forwarded to the coordinating editors, SUN, NOV 17 718.666.3049 RSVP appreciated: Stephanie Golden and Erik Lewis. SAT, NOV 23 [email protected]. 2 p.m. Documentary Film Seeking to Diversify the Gazette Staff Screening of A Will for the Woods. 11 a.m. Prospect Park 5K Fun The Gazette is looking for qualified reporters. We are interested in Filmmakers and one of our main Run/Walk/Bike at 15th St./ using this opportunity to diversify our staff. We believe that we subjects present for post-screen- Prospect Park West entrance‚ can enrich the quality of the Gazette and serve the membership ing Q&As. IFC Center, 323 Ave. of rain or shine, to benefit Helping better with a reporting and editing staff that more closely resem- the Americas. Tickets on sale Hands Food Pantry, 116 Sixth bles the mix of Coop members.
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Coop Job Opening: To Submit Classified or Display Ads: Ads may be placed on behalf of Coop members only. Clas- Receiving/Stocking Coordinator sified ads are prepaid at $15 per insertion, display ads at $30. Description: (Classified ads in the “Merchandise–Non-commercial” cate- The Coop is hiring a Receiving/Stocking Coordinator to work evenings and weekends. gory are free.) All ads must be written on a submission form. The evening and weekend Receiving/Stocking Coordinators oversee the smooth functioning of the Coop. Classified ads may be up to 315 characters and spaces. Dis- They work with squads to ensure that the Coop is well-stocked, and that produce quality is maintained. play ads must be camera-ready and business card size (2" x The ideal candidate will be a reliable, responsible self-starter who enjoys working with our diverse member-workers. Applicants must be excellent team players, as they will be sharing the work with several 3.5" horizontal). other Receiving Coordinators. Submission forms are available in a wallpocket near the Applicants must have excellent people skills, excellent communication and organizational skills as well elevator in the entrance lobby. as patience. Applicants should be able to remain calm in hectic surroundings, have the ability to prioritize tasks, teach and explain procedures, delegate work, give feedback, and pay attention to several things at once. Comfort with computers is preferred. We are looking for a candidate who wants an evening/weekend schedule. This is a high-energy job for a fit candidate. You must be able to lift and work for hours on your feet including in the walk-in coolers and freezer. Grocery-store experience is a plus. As a retail business, the Coop's busiest times are during traditional holiday seasons. Applicants must be prepared to work during many of the holiday periods, particularly in the winter. Hours: Approx. 39 hours in 5 days/week: Primarily evenings and weekends, some shifts until 11 p.m. Wages: $25.80/hour. Benefits: • Paid Holidays: July 4th, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day • Paid Health and Personal Time: 11 days per year • Paid Vacation: three weeks per year increasing in the 4th, 8th & 11th years • Health Insurance* • Dental and Vision Plan* • Pension Plan* • Life Insurance* • 401(k) Plan • TransitChek Program • Flexible Spending Account *Benefits with no payroll deduction. Prerequisite: Must be a current member of the Park Slope Food Coop for at least six months immediately prior to application. No Receiving/Stocking experience necessary to submit application materials. However, in order to be considered for an interview applicants must have worked at least four Receiving shifts. After submitting your materials, if you wish to schedule shifts please contact the Coop at [email protected]. Please put "Schedule Shifts" in the subject field. How to Apply: Please provide your resumé along with a cover letter explaining your relevant qualifications, skills and experience. Materials will only be accepted electronically. E-mail resumé and cover letter to [email protected]. Please put "Receiving Coordinator" in the subject field. Applicants will receive an e-mail acknowledging receipt of their materials. Please do not call the Membership Office to check on the status of your application. Applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis until the position has been filled. If you applied to a previous Coop job offering, please re-submit your materials. We are seeking an applicant pool that reflects the diversity of the Coop's membership.
Crossword Answers Members Sought for PSFC Personnel Committee POPART UPS DSL If you know how to work collaboratively and believe you could make a contribution I NEVER EP I C ACE to the Coop, we would love to hear from you. The Personnel Committee is an elected group of members that serves in an advisory capacity to the THEGQAMBLER MRB General Coordinators (the Coop’s collective managerial team), S I DS NOR I TE PEA supporting them with/in performance evaluations, succession planning, developing human resources policies and in the hiring/termination of AGE I QGO T AWOMA N General Coordinators when/if either of those actions is necessary. WHELP S L OMO We would like the Personnel Committee to reflect the diversity of the Coop. EASTERS SPAN We are especially interested in people who have skills in finance, running a business, upper-level management, organizational development, personnel and WI LDWI LDQWEST human resources. Applicants should have a minimum of one year of LADA ES I ASON Coop membership immediately prior to applying, experience doing workshifts at the Coop and excellent attendance. I RENA RSVPS The Personnel Committee meets with the General Coordinators on QBADROMANCE LOT the third Tuesday of every month from 5:30 to 7:15 p.m. URL EVENER HALO Additional work outside the meetings is also required. III CUETHEMUS I C If you are interested, please do the following two things: e-mail your resume and a letter explaining why you would like to be part of the committee to DDS ALTS MA L I CK pc.psfc@ gmail.com, and go to http://bit.ly/120Dn2s to fill out a short questionnaire. SET SEA EDUCES
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16 November 14, 2013 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY
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. Kush Abadey Sumie Davis Alan Haburchak Patrick Leonard Jessica Moe Caroline Rossignol Beck Tangen David Andrew Melina Dimitriou Will Hagle Dylan Levers Kimberly Moon Anneta Rozenberg Chatel Theagene Mauricio Arango Andres Dominguez Raviva Hanser Annie Levy Fiona Neale-May Jorge Rubio Deborah Thomas Maya Baran Crashonda Edwards Allison Hicks Charlotte Licker Diana Newmark Benjamin Russell Gregory Thomson Peter Baran Paul Elie Tim Howard Esther Lieblich Anh-Thu Nguyen John Russell Augustinus Tjahaya Stephanie Bejar Ryann Freeman Jade Hurtado Yehuda Lieblich Eirene O’Connor Daria Sanford Lenora Todaro Nathan Brackett Gabriel Fuentes Nicollette Jagger Marina Livchits Yael Offer Jenny Sansouci Nataliya Tonyuk Christine Burke Yeila Fuentes Danielle Kachler Marie Lochard Ruth Pardee Betsy Sargisson Torrey Townsend Jeff Burke Noémy Gagnon-Lafrenais Jennifer Kachler Carolina Lopez Amanda Peden Gal Sasson Linda Tran Kate Burton Melania Gazzotti Laura Kaplan Rose Mahan Jimmy Pham Noa Sasson-Shalit Ali Van Putten Elizabeth Busch Kendall George Robert Keibel Danielle Malmgren Marie Philippeaux Ilyssa Satter Inkeri Von Hase Joe Campanale KIm Georges Olivia Keister James Mangan Melina Pierre Jenea Scott Lian Walden Ashley Campbell Marguerite Georges Hannah Kirshner Nay Marie Evan Quinn Mikhail Sergeev Geoffrey Wallace Phillip Causey Maria Gil Claus Kuhn Annabeth Marks Arun Ramesh Evelyn Shapiro Sophia Wallace Rebecca Causey Ramon Gil Hiroshi Kumagai Arley Marks Derek Ramlal Joan Shapiro Rachel Walter Nia Chauvin Romulo A. Gil Sidrah Laldin Graham Marks Kristin Reynolds Zak Sherzad Nathan Watchous Susana Colina Rômulo Gil Melida Patricia Landinez Magan S. Marks Eliza Rhee Maya Shulman-Ment Lisa Watson Theodore Cooper Pablo Gimenez Ethan Langevin Carlos Martinez Rebecca Riddell Daniela Sinobad Alex Weiss Amy Craiger Jennie Goldfarb James Lasdun Manija Mayel Monica Risi Robert Solomon Leah Wener Nico Dann Deborah Goldstein Laura Lassy Polina Medvedeva Braxton Robbason Alex Stachowiak Hirata Yoshiko Anderson Davis Tobi Gottlieb Asuka Lauscher Nils Mellquist Baross Rochelle Richard Stephenson Ilana Zarankin Keturah Davis Eion Greenidge Marc Lauscher Cassandra Melstrom Shalev Roisman Julian Stetkevych Ariane Zaytzeff Pia Davis Desiree Guzman Wendy Lee Tessa Miller Francesca Rossi Luvenia Suber Thanksgiving Day Shopping Hours 8:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
THE MEMBERSHIP OFFICE IS CLOSED ON THANKSGIVING DAY.
THANK YOU!
Thank you to the following members for referring friends who joined the Coop in the last four weeks.
Diana A. Zoe Carey Natalie Figueroa Dale Ho Julie Lipton Jeff Reeves Mutsuko Sullivan Jennifer Ajami Albert Castle Peter Finlon Judy Hoffman Tonya Lobato Patrick Reid Tim Zainab Akbar Celia Stephanie Forsman Vivian Huang Justine Lynch John Resig Alaris Todar Adio Kuumba Akil Iryna Chernykh Marina Fridman Rybner Ryota Iwamatsu Jody Madell Faye Rimalovski Dimitrea Tokunbo Tahira Faune Alford Jean-Claude Chetrit Chaya Friedman Joe Joshua Madell Janice Rivera-Hall Geoff Traugh Mark Amir Priya Choo-Ying Dawn Froome Johanna Sophie Maguire Billy Roberts Hanna Tulis Audrey Jocelyn Cooper Nathan G. Josh Marcus Nadia Rohrs Haley Turner Joe Austin Steven Curtis Thishi G. Ted Joyce Emily May Corona Sanchez Stewart Wagner Eugenia B. Bruce Davidson Haale Gafori Seiko Kamiya Velma McKenzie James Schaffer Stana Weisburd Jason B. Ben Davis Erin Gallagher Kyle Kimball Kim Meijer Alyssa Sealock Anne Wells Christopher Baum James Davis Emily Gannett Shira Kline Katherine Mountz Paul Sealock Nathan Wesley Carly Benkov Dawn Sue Gilad Betsy Klompus Catherine Mullarkey Robin Selicious Nathan Wessler Pamela Berger Valerie Deacy Jack Glottman Leah Kopperman Susan Nakley Caroline Sharman Kiki Williams Fabiola G. Bergi Sara Dierck Erik Goetze Laetitia Kouassi Tracy O. Kanako Shimura Olivia Williamson Sam Berliner Ann-Marie Driver Asya M. Gorokhovsky Cindy Laning Jeff O’Malley Barbara Silverman Zachary Willis Doug Beube Emily DuBois Abraham Greene Amanda Lee Siobhan O’Neill Ramona Sivells Ora Wise Therese Bimka Debra Duby Cosmo Grill Arnold Lee Marko Pankovich Tom Snell Gracelyn Woods Leila Binder Noreen Eddy Hannah Gruber Susan Lee Ryan Pawling Scott Stamper Nancy Worthington Stav Birnbaum Vanessa Evelyn Maya Gur William Lehman Caterina Peters Tahiti Starship Alexandra Yannias Eric Bogin Rachel Fee Jacey Hanson Celia Lesh Sharon Petty Jenna Stern Bron York Brittany Lisa Fernandez Doug Hecklinger Sarah Lewin Aarona Pichinson Aaron Streiter Gabrielle Young Charles Buckley Paul Ferris Emiliano Henry Sascha Lewis Suzanne Price Teah Strozer Juliet Young My-Nygoc (Annie) Bui David Field Ana Hernandez Valerie Lieber Kevin Quealy Kirill Strounine Pashtoun Youssof
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