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Volume JJ, Number 8 April 16, 2015 General Meeting: A History of The Latest on Finances & Shaping the Coop Zimmerman Says Goodbye PHOTO BY LISA COHEN Receiving Coordinators (left to right): John Horsman, Ross Gibson, Janet Schumacher (General Coordinator, Supervisor of Receiving Coordinators), Peter Wohlsen, Elizabeth Christ, Miriam Eusebio, Rachelle Faroul, Yuri Weber and Kevin O’Sullivan.

By Hayley Gorenberg to institute the work require- he started at the top. ment,” said Schumacher. SGeneral Coordinator General Coordinator Joe Janet Schumacher, retiring Holtz credits Schumacher this month, remembers sit- with critical insight, fol- ting at the top of the Coop lowing on the heels of her

PHOTO BY KEVIN RYAN stairs with a work chart in stairway-top sessions, that Allen Zimmerman reading his last produce report. 1973 “when we were still kept the Coop alive—and truly a volunteer organiza- happens to have landed By Taigi Smith ship that during his reign as by people who get paid far tion” and asking—“actually him the job he holds now. he PSFC held its month- produce buyer, he chose not less than us.” begging”—members to sign Holtz related that in its ear- Tly membership meeting to purchase produce from up for a work slot. “We soon liest days, the Coop closed with Allen Zimmerman tak- China not because of poten- “Zimmerman is more than recognized that it was not twice for soul-searching and ing the opportunity to for- tial of human rights abuses, effective to rely on volunteer restructuring. First, after mally pass the baton to a new but because he didn’t trust just a produce buyer, he’s labor, and one of the Coop’s opening in February 1973, team of produce buyers, at the safety of the produce. been a key part of the first important decisions was CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 the March GM. Zimmerman He also reminded the mem- management team.” had held the position for bership that no matter how —Joe Holtz Next General Meeting on April 28 about 20 years before finally hard the PSFC may try to The General Meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop is held on the retiring. But before stepping purchase from growers who last Tuesday of each month. The April General Meeting will be on down for good, Allen took a treat workers fairly, “Farm As he turned the reins of Tuesday, April 28, at 7:00 p.m. at MS 51, 350 Fifth Ave., between few moments to disperse a workers all around the world produce buying over to new Fourth and Fifth Sts. Enter on Fourth St. cul-de-sac. The Fourth few gems of vegetable buying are exploited. All we can do leadership, he reminded St. entrance is handicap-accessible.. wisdom. “No GMOs or irradi- is try to support the farms everyone in attendance The agenda is in this Gazette, on the Coop website at www. ated produce are allowed,” at that treat their workers fair. about the importance of foodcoop.com and available as a flier in the entryway of the the Coop, said Allen. Frankly, everything we can eating fresh fruits and veg- Coop. For more information about the GM and about Coop gov- He also told the member- afford to eat is being picked CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ernance, please see the center of this issue.

Thu, Apr 23 • NY GMO Labeling Workshop 7:00 p.m. IN THIS ISSUE Sat, Apr 25 • Public Forum on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Puzzle ...... 2 2:00-4:00 p.m. Non-GMO Shelf-Labeling Committee Report ...... 4 Coop International Trade Education Squad ...... 5 Fri, May 1 • Film Night: Fighter 7:00 p.m. Welcome ...... 9 Event Coop Calendar, Governance Information, Mission Statement . 9 Thu, May 7 • Food Class: Calendar of Events ...... 10 Highlights Feeding Our Deeper Selves 7:30 p.m. Letters to the Editor ...... 12 Exciting Workslot Opportunities ...... 13 Look for additional information about these and other events in this issue. Community Calendar, Classifieds ...... 14 Candidates for Board of Directors ...... 15-16 2 April 16, 2015 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY

General Meeting CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 etables. “It’s better to eat conventional produce than skip produce altogether. The PSFC will try to offer choices,” said Zimmer- man. “The most important thing that the buyers do is serve you.” To the new lead- ership, Allen offered these sage words. “Listen to the members. Members aren’t an interruption of your work. They are your work. “ “Talk to them, write to them, call them.” He also

urged the membership to PHOTOS BY KEVIN RYAN communicate with the pro- Monique Bowen, Board of Directors candidate. Eunju Lee, Board of Directors candidate. duce team, saying, “They are very accessible. Reach out first time in eight years.’’ ing an update on a proposed about the challenges we tenor and tone of what the to them. We’re just a bunch Eakin added that the partnership between the face as a society. The chal- membership is saying. of members. You are the Coop’s sales increased the PSFC and TerraCycle, a recy- lenges, said Metz, include a Christopher McQuale pulse.” Allen ended his com- least, rising to $49.6 million, cling program that collects chaotic political economy, works in Food Processing ments to a rousing standing and Coop sales per member items not accepted by the contract work instead of jobs and has only been a member ovation and a stirring round declined slightly to $3045 New York City recycling pro- for immigrants and women, of the PSFC for about four of applause. per member for the first time gram. Greg Todd, the GMO and people of color being months. However, he is run- Joe Holtz expressed his in 20 years. He said those Shelf-Labeling committee exploited and oppressed. ning for the Board with years thoughts on Zimmerman’s numbers probably show that chairperson also made a “We are looking for a way to of experience behind him. retirement, saying, “We will other markets are now sell- short presentation as did the organize ourselves and that’s He has several years of cor- miss him dearly. He has ing more and more of the committee that deals with why the Coop is so import- porate experience, money been so dedicated to the foods that the Coop sells, Coop and doing good for “It is now available at other the Coop. More than just a markets,” according to Eakin. produce buyer, he’s been a He concluded, “We are key part of the management undertaking actions to team.” reduce our expenses and to The meeting included increase our sales.’’ the latest look at the Coop’s General Coordinator Jess finances. Mike Eakin, Gen- Robinson talked about changes eral Coordinator said, “While at checkout. Members will be our gross margin increased limited to “4’ish” items at the to almost 17 cents on the cashier, while new express line dollar, the best in the last limits will be “one green bas- five years, our expenses ket’s worth of product.” increased even more, result- Reports were presented by ing in a modest loss for the several committees, includ-

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Sudoku is a puzzle. You are presented with a 9x9 grid of Christopher McQuale, Board of Directors squares, and that grid is divided into 3x3 zones. Susan Metz, Board of Directors candidate. candidate. You solve the puzzle by filling the empty squares with single-digit numbers so that every zone, column and row international trade. ant. We support lower prices management skills, people uses each of the numbers from 1 to 9. There were four agenda with our work-slot labor, said coordinating skills and a items on the March roster. Ms. Metz. great sense of humor. 2 8 7 6 Four candidates running Eunju Lee, a current One member, so moved for the Board of Directors Board member and former by Ms. Metz self introduc- 4 spoke to the membership Membership Coordinator at tion, took to the micro- and responded to ques- the PSFC, has been a mem- phone and asked, “What will tions from those in the ber for 20 years. ”It’s been a you, as Board members do, 5 4 2 audience. The vote for the real growth and privilege for to make the world a better new Board of Directors me,” said Eunju, who prides place and to shake us out of 3 5 1 8 will take place at the June herself on listening to the CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 Annual Meeting. 3 Monique Bowen, who cur- rently serves on the Board of Directors, has held just 1 2 9 about every job at the Coop except Receiving. She talked 6 3 1 about the inconveniences of shopping at the PSFC, but 1 3 6 2 ended by saying that she finds being a part of the Coop fulfilling. 8 9 In her crafted speech, Puzzle author:author: JamesJames Vasile.Vasile. For For answers, answers, see see page page 14. 14. Susan Metz, also running for

a seat on the Board, talked ILLUSTRATION BY ROD MORRISON

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Schumacher ability had been polished palm and coconut trees. during work abroad and at “It’s very hard not to look CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 home. She earned a Bache- at food as being global,” the Coop made it through lor’s Degree in Zoology and she concluded. “Our Coop the summer and then worked on data collection members are well meaning closed for a month that and medical research at but they really want organic fall, weakened by fall-off in New York University before strawberries 365 days per member labor over vacation her decades-long stint at year. People think they’re months. “We realized, ‘We the Coop. She also taught being very ecological, but don’t know how we could go English in the highlands of when you think about it, on, and we really love this Ethiopia as a Peace Corps it’s really not very ecolog- place,’ said Holtz. “What is volunteer, where she wit- ical. You have to consider the problem? The problem nessed extreme poverty and factors like shipping. Ships is not nearly everybody is limited food sources in the have some of the worst doing the share of the labor countryside, fueling her con- working conditions for they’ve agreed to do.” cerns about food security. employees.” “I had always been inter- Schumacher, who grew “Janet Schumacher ested in food,” Schum- up on a dairy farm in south- acher said. She found food ern Wisconsin, urged, “Peo- always was able to think “very practical, hands-on” ple should look at the whole really big about the Coop.” during the early ’70s, when big picture, the big issues —Joe Holtz she found herself in some we’re going to be facing

environments focused on PHOTO BY LISA COHEN with global warming, water The work requirement things far more theoretical. Janet Schumacher helped shape the Coop to become the shortages. How much can we and squad system resulted. At the Coop, she said, “peo- functioning organization it is today. really rely on California? “ “The idea was to create this ple were really doing some- “I personally have some social glue in the Coop thing, providing cheap food super-fresh food and fast cally about their consump- mixed feelings about GMO where people would have for people, rather than just turnover. You can’t tie your tion. She noted members and non-GMO,” she said. allegiance not only to the talking about doing some- money up in something you are interested in purchas- For example, “there may be Coop but to the squad, and thing.” can’t sell.” ing locally sourced food, some need, to have drought they would get to know each She met with a Coop Managing inventory but opined, “it sometimes resistance. I think people other and like each other,” committee on Sundays and involves anticipating mem- seems kinda silly how peo- should consider the big Holtz explained. Schum- dove into work. “I ordered ber desires, and that fore- ple call themselves ‘local,’” picture and not necessar- acher—who confessed she food and did inventory and sight involves knowing not noting that the Coop stocks ily focus on ‘Let’s get rid of had missed her first work was involved in general only that members consis- “local” chocolate manufac- this fat that is bad for you slot, resulting in a pointed running of the Coop. Some- tently and overwhelming tured nearby, “but we don’t and go to this one that is phone call—was part of the body was a bookkeeper, and favor organics, but also that have any cacao trees in good for you personally but core group of people who somebody was taking our new diets routinely sweep Brooklyn.” not good for the people in formulated the ideas. garbage to the dump, and the popular imagination. Schumacher credits fair the country where you get But even with squads someone organized.” Fat-free, gluten-free, paleo trade as something “I per- the coconut or palm oil operating, “the communi- By 1989 Schumacher or raw, “whether they’re sonally feel is very import- from.’” cation system wasn’t there,” had completed a Master’s good trends or not is some- ant,” and offered a critique Schumacher plans to Holtz said. The Coop suf- Degree in Science and Envi- what debatable, but peo- about the “new trend of keep learning in retirement, fered as key information ronmental Journalism and ple get very excited about non-GMO” foods. “At first contemplating Internet necessary for coordination was working at a medical them,” said Schumacher, I was surprised that some courses on food security dropped out of the matrix, publishing job she didn’t who then orders to suit. “We of the big corporations that she will be able to take week-to-week, as one squad like. That year the Coop try to balance those type really jumped on that band- with “a fresh start in the departed and the next hired her as a General Coor- of things with just regular wagon,” she said. She then morning,” noting, “It’s fun, arrived. “The squad sys- dinator. She handled gen- food,” she concluded. noticed that the “non-GMO” and it’s free, and it’s good tem, a great system we had eral ordering, aside from tag in some cases seemed to for people to know.” invented, required a staff produce. That was the pur- “I’m hoping to supplant other adjectives, She hopes to travel more, person to make it in the view of her colleague Allen like “organic” or “fair trade.” and as an avid birder, has long run. We didn’t under- Zimmerman, also retir- clear my brain On another front, the already scheduled a trip to stand that. But Janet could ing this month. There are of little Coop facts Coop was working to stock Bolivia in September. “My see it a few months later.” details about his service in that I don’t need to know, crackers and cookies with- main goal is to be outside The General Meeting the General Meeting article like what aisle is out trans-fats, which in more often and get some agreed with Schumacher in this issue. the Sriracha in?” many cases entailed a more vitamin D,” she said. that “the Coop’s not gonna While she certainly par- —Janet Schumacher recipe switch to palm or “I know I’ll keep busy. I have make it unless we go from ticipated in large, import- coconut oil. Schumacher, lots of interests, and I’m having no employees to ant decisions, Schumacher having read and traveled hoping to clear my brain of one employee,” Holtz said. stressed that “the reason Big-picture, Schumacher extensively, started to little Coop facts that I don’t “No one else was saying the Coop’s been really suc- would challenge Coop note reports of native for- need to know, like what that. But Janet said it.” The cessful is sometimes not members to think criti- ests mowed down to plant aisle is the Sriracha in?” n result? Hiring Holtz as the big things, but the daily Coop’s first staff member. nitty-gritty. We always had “She always was able to a handle on the invoices, think really big about the paid bills on time, always Are you a lighting designer? Coop,” Holtz said. “Janet had excellent accounting.” always had a great analy- Tracking inventory was Do you know a lighting designer? sis of what was wrong, vital. “We’ve always had and some ideas of how to a trim but knowledgeable Do you know someone who knows a lighting designer? change it. She kept won- product selection,” she Do you know someone who knows someone who knows a lighting designer? dering about it and wor- said. “Inventory is really rying about it. That’s what important. It’s a little boring The Coop is looking for a member who is a lighting designer or an architect with lighting experience to an organization needs. It but really important. Some work with the Energy Efficiency Committee to help improve the quality and energy efficiency of the lighting in the Coop. needs as many people as new Coop startups imme- possible to be really con- diately folded, because If interested, or if you know someone who’s interested, please contact the committee by going to cerned about its sustain- they purchased the wrong the Contact Us page on foodcoop.com — http://www.foodcoop.com/?page=contact — and select ability.” thing, it could be perish- “Workslot Needs” from the “Person to Contact” dropdown menu. Schumacher’s wide-lens able, and they lost all their FTOP work credit will be given. focus on food and sustain- money. We’ve always had

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NON-GMO SHELF-LABELING COMMITTEE REPORT

still turning a deaf ear to the FDA recently approved It’s Time to Pass a GMO Labeling Law! the 90% of Americans who non-browning, non-bruis- By Greg Todd, ing of genetically engi- dark, the time has come for want GMOs labeled—in fact ing GMO apples (Arctic Non-GMO Shelf-Labeling neered (GMO) foods offered transparency about GMOs there’s a bill in Congress Apples) and non-bruising Committee and Stacie Orell, for retail sale. The bill has in our food. Why? Because that if passed will prevent GMO potatoes. And because Campaign Director, GMO Free already moved in the Assem- there is a rising tide of con- mandatory labeling at the the USDA and EPA have NY bly—it was successfully sumers demanding to know federal level, block label- approved the use of glypho- MO Free NY is a grass- voted out of the Consumer how their food is produced ing laws at the state level, sate in combination with Groots group allied Affairs and Protection com- so they can make informed and allow continued use of older, more-toxic pesticides with Food & Water Watch, mittee in March and is now decisions when choosing the word “natural” on GMO such as 2,4-D (an active Consumers Union, NRDC, awaiting a vote in the Codes what to feed their families. food labels. ingredient in Agent Orange) NOFA-NY, Sierra Club and committee, much to the cha- Because despite industry Need more reasons? and dicamba in an effort to NYPIRG in the NY GMO grin of the throngs of lobby- claims, there is no scientific Okay! Because three weeks combat “superweeds” that Labeling Coalition. ists deployed to Albany by consensus that GMOs are ago the World Health have become resistant to Our mission is to the agrichemical and junk safe for us to eat—in fact Organization classified glyphosate alone. empower New Yorkers to food companies and the NY hundreds of scientists pub- glyphosate (Roundup)— There are even more pressure the NY Legisla- Farm Bureau who are trying licly signed a letter to the the weed killer doused on arguments in favor of label- ture to pass Assembly bill to kill the bill. contrary. Because the FDA GMO crops—as a probable ing, but we’re out of space! A.617 / Senate bill S.485, But despite industry’s does not mandate inde- human carcinogen! Because To find out what you which requires the label- desire to keep us in the pendently conducted safety 64 countries already have can do to help make testing of GMOs and has no GMO labeling laws. Con- GMO labeling the law in pre-market or post-market sumers aren’t confused by NY, come to the discus- oversight of them. Because these labels, food prices sion we’re holding at the the American public wants haven’t risen, and the sky Food Coop on Thursday, to stop being unwitting hasn’t fallen. And the same April 23 at 7 p.m. in the guinea pigs for the biotech companies that are fighting 2nd floor meeting room. industry—we’ve been eat- tooth and nail to prevent If you can’t make it, visit ing them since 1996 without labeling here are already www.gmofreeny.net or con- our knowledge! Because complying with the laws in tact [email protected]. Congress and the FDA are these countries. Because Thank you! n

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The Hearing Officer Committee is seeking two new members. The committee conducts and presides over disciplinary hearings, ensures that hearings proceed in an efficient and unbiased manner and, after a randomly selected Deciding Group has decided whether an accused member violated a Coop rule, determines what disciplinary action should be taken against the member. Applicants should be Coop members in good standing for at least two years, have good attendance records and preferably have judicial, arbitration, mediation or legal backgrounds. Plants can be dropped off Members of the committee meet and earn workslot credit on an as-needed basis only, at the home of the TC Squad leader, that is, when hearings are required. Therefore these members must maintain regular Coop workslots in good standing or be FTOP members in good standing. on President St., between Fifth and Sixth Aves. Or, if you have too much to carry, The nature of the committee’s work requires that all members maintain we can pick them up from your house. strict confidentiality with respect to all matters on which they work. Please e-mail [email protected] if you would The committee seeks an applicant pool that reflects the diversity of the Coop membership at large. Those interested, please telephone Marian Hertz of the Hearing Officer Committee @ 212-440-2743 or e-mail at [email protected]. like to make a donation.

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE EDUCATION SQUAD

ing Congress, the press Investor-State Dispute Settlement to be Discussed at the and the public from study- ing and debated the provi- Public International Forum on April 25 at the Coop sions. NO on Fast Track is By Bart DeCoursy, their business, such as protecting Pine Resources Inc. versus affect the company’s future the campaign. Write cards, International Trade the environment or public health, the Government of Quebec. profits. This case is also call and email all elected Education Squad hurts a firm’s current or expected After passing legislation in still pending. officials with this message. ast Track” would grant profits. Under ISDS rules, cor- 2011 to place a moratorium The Coop joined hun- Corporate lobbyists are “Fthe President author- porations may seek compensa- on “fracking” underneath dreds of labor, faith, advo- swarming. They have the ity to push the Trans-Pa- tion from a secretive tribunal the St. Lawrence River until cacy and community money. We have the votes. cific Partnership (TPP) of corporate international trade sufficient scientific study organizations in opposing The Saturday, April 25 quickly through both hous- lawyers which put investor pro- could be done to deter- the President’s push to Forum will be held at 2 p.m. es of Congress. Fast Track tections and corporate profits mine health risks, Lone bring the entire 29 chapters at the Coop. It is open to bypasses traditional leg- ahead of consumer rights and job Pine decided to sue for the (only a handful of which non-members. Bring family, islative protocol to amend protections and outside the U.S. loss of expected earnings govern traditional trade neighbors, colleagues and and debate in favor of one court system. from fracked gas. The Cal- issues such as tariffs) to friends to discuss how we yes or no vote on the whole NAFTA included ISDS with gary based firm opened a one Yes or No vote, depriv- can respond. n complicated treaty. Should dire consequences for Cana- branch in the U.S. and used Congress allow the Presi- dian and Mexican taxpayers. the Chapter 11 provision in dent to bypass Congress, According to the Cana- NAFTA to sue its own coun- it will be more difficult to dian Centre for Policy Alter- try for $250 million dollars. stop the TPP. That would natives, Canada has already This case is still pending. leave the United States and paid over $170 million dol- Another case demon- eleven Pacific-rim nations lars in damages resulting strates how corporations in a vulnerable position from NAFTA investor-state can bend the law to their against multi-national cor- dispute settlements (not advantage and manipulate porations. One aspect is including the tens of mil- the ISDS system in another particularly alarming and lions of dollars of legal “free trade agreement.” In dangerous. At a Coop pub- costs to defend itself). “Six- 2011, Phillip Morris Interna- lic forum on April 25 we will ty-three percent of claims tional sued the Australian discuss the Investor-State against Canada involve Government for passing a Dispute Settlement mecha- challenges to environmen- law that replaces the com- nism included in a number tal protection or resource pany logo on packs of cig- of “free trade agreements.” management measures,” arettes with pictures of the There is considerable resis- according to trade officials. physical effects of cigarette Are you a writer? tance to Investor-State Dis- Mexico has shelled out smoking. There was no ISDS pute Settlement (ISDS). $204 million. Interestingly, mechanism in the U.S.-Aus- U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan the U.S. has never lost an tralian Free Trade Agree- Do you want FTOP credit? (D-WI) and 12 House Dem- investor-state dispute. ment. It had been voted ocrats introduced H.R. 967: There is evidence to suggest out of the agreement due Protecting America’s Sov- that the number of cases to a strong public opposi- Wordsprouts, the Food Coop’s ereignty Act, legislation brought forward and won tion. Phillip Morris opened to prohibit Investor-State by investors over states is offices in Hong Kong and reading series, is looking for you, Dispute Settlement (ISDS) encouraging more corpora- created Phillip Morris Asia for its monthly events in the provisions in foreign trade tions to follow suit. In the that had ISDS in the 1993 agreements. first ten years of NAFTA “free trade Agreement” second-floor meeting room. The bill states: This legisla- (1995-2005) there were 12 between Australia and tion will prevent the inclusion of cases brought forward; in Hong Kong. Phillip Mor- investor-state dispute settlement the last ten there have been ris was able to then bring Please contact the organizers at (ISDS) provisions in any trade 23. There are currently nine the case against Australia agreement between the U.S. and active ISDS claims against that the new legislation, [email protected]. a foreign country. ISDS rules the Canadian government, designed to protect pub- give foreign corporations a spe- with billions of dollars lic health, would adversely cial right to sue a government hanging in the balance. when a law they deem could affect Note the case of Lone

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Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com 6 April 16, 2015 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY March 17, 2015 ARE YOU A Coop Job Opening: BROOKLYN-BASED Receiving/Stocking Coordinator FILMMAKER? Description: The Coop is hiring a Receiving/Stocking Coordinator to work evenings and weekends. The evening and weekend Receiving/Stocking Coordinators oversee the smooth functioning of the Coop. Would you like to They work with squads to ensure that the Coop is well stocked, and that produce quality is maintained. screen your work 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 at the Coop? other Receiving Coordinators. Applicants must have excellent people skills, excellent communication and organizational skills as well as patience. Applicants should be able to remain calm in hectic surroundings, have the ability to prioritize Then submit your film tasks, teach and explain procedures, delegate work, give feedback, and pay attention to several things at for possible inclusion once. Comfort with computers is expected. Experience working in a grocery store, working with food, or working on a PSFC Food Processing squad in the Coop’s is a plus. Friday Film Night We are looking for a candidate who wants an evening/weekend schedule. This is a high-energy job for a fit Screening Series. candidate. You must be able to lift and work for hours on your feet including in the walk-in coolers and freezer. 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. If you’re a Coop member you’ll receive one FTOP Hours: Approx. 39 hours in 5 days/week: Primarily evenings and weekends, some shifts until 11 p.m. credit for screening and offering a Q+A with your Wages: $26.24/hour. film. If you’re not a member, it’s still a chance to spread the word about your work and build your fan Benefits: • Paid Holidays: July 4th, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day • Paid Health and Personal Time: 11 days per year base by screening for a local audience. • Paid Vacation: three weeks per year increasing in the 4th, 8th & 11th years • Health Insurance • Dental and Vision Plan We accept documentary and fiction, both features • Pension Plan and shorts (we program shorts as a group). • Life Insurance • 401(k) Plan PleasePlease e-mail e-mail Faye LedermanGabrielfor Rhodes details at • TransitChek Program [email protected] detailsor at mail your DVD to: • Flexible Spending Account [email protected]. Lederman, 2000 Linwood Ave, #9E Prerequisite: Fort Lee, NJ 07024 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. 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General Meeting was to make sure they say the same thing. Back in the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 ’70s, the PSFC was formed our selfish stupor?” as a general Coop. However, McQuale answered, “I the PSFC later approved might start by cleaning up bylaws that made us a mem- the Gowanus Canal. Sus- bership Coop. It was later tainability begins at home. learned that remaining a I’m really into composting membership Coop would and all of that other good mean the PSFC would need stuff.” to bring in outside direc- tors, making us subject to “Changes at checkout: required procedures and policies we have not voted members will be on. We must legally become limited to ‘4’ish’ items a general non-stock Cooper- at the cashier, ative corporation, according while new express line to Coop staff. limits will be “All we have to remove ‘one green basket’s worth from our bylaws is the notion that we’re a membership of product.’” Coop and we go back to being —Jess Robinson a general Coop,” said Joe Holtz. The vote was placed There was an election for before the membership and the Disciplinary Commit- passed by a large majority. tee which resulted in Cur- The final presenter gave

tis March, Steve Schwerner PHOTO BY KEVIN RYAN a succinct, yet passionate and Cara Tuzzolino being A full house at the General Meeting. case for the PSFC becom- reelected to the commit- ing part of the movement to tee. All were voted in by reminded the attendees that job is to get people out of There was an amend- oppose the Port Ambrose an overwhelming show of “Not everybody works Coop- the Coop when they deserve ment made to the Coop offshore, liquified natural hands by members present. eratively with each other and to be out….when their bylaws that passed with an gas project off the Long “Most often, the issues that it’s our job to stand up and behavior is so outrageous overwhelming majority. The Island coast. A petition come up are issues that can protect the Coop and you.” that it’s things that even issue was that the bylaws to join the movement was be resolved with a conver- Karen Kramer, who is cur- we think is outrageous… were written using difference passed around and many sation,” said Curtis of the rently on the Disciplinary whether people steal goods language than the certificate members in the audience Disciplinary Committee. He Committee, said, “Part of my or time.” of incorporation. The goal signed it. n ILLUSTRATIONS BY ROD MORRISON

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COOP HOURS Friday, May 15, 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 through 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 SAMBA!! Groove to the music of women 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 p.m. rockin’ the house with the pulsing Telephone: sounds of Carnaval! Members of Paprika 718-622-0560 and Batala join forces to celebrate the Web address: lilting melodies of Bossa Nova, the www.foodcoop.com heart-thumping rhythms of Samba and the dare-you-to-stay-seated sway of Samba Reggae. The space will be set up for dancing and grooving, to have everyone moving to the national rhythms of Brazil. Beckoned back for the third year in a row, your power-bateria The Linewaiters’ Gazette is published biweekly by the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc., 782 Union Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215. for the evening is: Robin Burdulis, Opinions expressed here may be solely the views of the writer. The Terry Dame, Viva DeConcini, Dawn Gazette will not knowingly publish articles that are racist, sexist or oth- Drake, Simone Matthews, Deinya erwise discriminatory. Phenix, Anne Pope, Vanessa Roe and The Gazette welcomes Coop-related articles and letters from members. Michelle Williams. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submissions must include author’s name and phone number and www.facebook.com/ProspectConcerts conform to the following guidelines. Editors will reject letters and arti- cles that are illegible or too long. Submission deadlines appear in the 53 Prospect Park West [at 2nd Street] • $10 • 8pm [doors open at 7:45] Coop Calendar opposite. 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WELCOME!

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

Ruchi Amin Charles Debold Ryan Hackett Amanda Kemeny Nica Mayer Kristie Nelson Irina Savinetskaya Jose Torres Gawanya Baity Suzanne Debold George Haeringer Meredith Klein Eneceo Mayers Scott Ogden Laura Schatz Ryo Toyama Victor Barre Duane Domutz Jean Haeringer Meg Koglin Corey McDuffy Jason Orans Julie Schuck Manuel Tragut Yury Bekerman Julie Ebenstein Micol Hernandez Dimitry Kovalski Karen McDuffy Nora Painten Megan Shank Emilia Valencia Darcy Bullock Adam Feeney Rodriguez Eugene Kurochlein Ashley McKay Carrette Perkins Alejandro Silva John Volpe Michelle Capor Kris Feliz Aimée Hirst Alexandra Legrady Claire Menelas Grant Peters Giuseppe Sorrentino Juliette Wallack Claudia Carrera Anna Flinchbaugh Gregory Hodgson Laura Leone Julie Metral Mariko Pieterse Anna-kay Spence Sanura Weathers Tori Cha Kathleen Fontano Tonian Irving Siobhan Lettow David Metz Benjamin Popper Elizabeth Stephens Bakari Williams Jasper Chan Tomas Fontano Marilyn Jackson Katie Lewis Marianne Mikhaylova Tatsiana Prakurat Berena Sullivan Danielle Williams Rita Chase Kosuke Furukawa Douglas James Jerry Lieberman Mariusz Mikulec Mario Prohasky Grace Sullivan Elizabeth Williams Patricia Cole Yuko Furukawa Mahiro Jean-Gilles Molly Malloy Catherine Miller Richard Range Peter Szollosi Robyn Yaker Chris D’Apice Caitlin Gillies Ronald Jean-Gilles Elan Margulies Erica Miller Mariana Rittenhouse Lisa Tannenbaum Christina Yan Terri-Jo Daley Rachel Glick Jason Jeunnette Cathline Marshall Patrick Miller Casson Rosenblatt Megan Taros Michael Yarmark Kevin Dann Charles Glover Elliott Kaufman Akiko Matsumoto Celine Mizrahi Russ Ross Kira Topik Joel Dasch Nathan Green Jeelu Kaufman Jaclyn Mayer Allia Mohamed Carleddy Sanon Grace Torres

ALL ABOUT THE COOP CALENDAR GENERAL MEETING New Member Orientations General Meeting Info Our Governing Structure Attending an Orientation is the first step toward TUE, APRIL 28 From our inception in 1973 to the present, the open Coop membership. Pre-registration is required for GENERAL MEETING: 7:00 p.m. monthly General Meetings have been at the center of all of the three weekly New Member Orientations. the Coop’s decision-making process. Since the Coop To pre-register, visit foodcoop.com or contact the incorporated in 1977, we have been legally required Membership Office. Visit in person or call 718-622- TUE, MAY 5 to have a Board of Directors. The Coop continued the 0560 during office hours. AGENDA SUBMISSIONS: 8:00 p.m. tradition of General Meetings by requiring the Board Have questions about Orientation? Please visit Submissions will be considered for the May 26 to have open meetings and to receive the advice of the www.foodcoop.com and look at the “Join the Coop” page for answers to frequently asked questions. General Meeting. members at General Meetings. The Board of Directors, which is required to act legally and responsibly, has The Coop on the Internet Gazette Deadlines approved almost every General Meeting decision at www.foodcoop.com the end of every General Meeting. Board members are LETTERS & VOLUNTARY ARTICLES: elected at the Annual Meeting in June. Copies of the Apr. 30 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, April 20 Coop’s bylaws are available at the Coop Community The Coop on Cable TV May 14 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, May 4 Inside the Park Slope Food Coop Corner and at every General Meeting. The fourth FRIDAY of the month at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Channels: 56 (Time-Warner), 69 (CableVision), 84 (RCN), CLASSIFIED ADS DEADLINE: 44 (Verizon), and live streaming on the Web: www. Apr. 30 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, April 22 Next Meeting: Tuesday, bricartsmedia.org/community-media/bcat-tv-network. May 14 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, May 6 April 28, 7:00 p.m. The General Meeting is held on the last Tuesday of each month. Attend a GM Park Slope Food Coop Location and Receive Work Credit Mission Statement MS 51, 350 Fifth Ave., between Fourth and Fifth Sts. Since the Coop’s inception in 1973, the General Meeting The Park Slope Food Coop is a mem- Enter on Fourth St. cul-de-sac. Fourth St. entrance is has been our decision-making body. At the General ber-owned and operated food handicap-accessible. Meeting (GM) members gather to make decisions and store—an alternative to commercial prof- set Coop policy. The General-Meeting-for-workslot-credit it-oriented business. As members, we con- How to Place an Item program was created to increase participation in the tribute our labor: working together builds Coop’s decision-making process. trust through cooperation and teamwork Following is an outline of the program. For full details, see on the Agenda and enables us to keep prices as low as the instruction sheets by the sign-up board. If you have something you’d like discussed at a General possible within the context of our values Meeting, please complete a submission form for the • Advance Sign-up required: and principles. Only members may shop, Agenda Committee. Forms are available in the rack To be eligible for workslot credit, you must add your and we share responsibilities and bene- near the Coop Community Corner bulletin board and name to the sign-up sheet in the elevator lobby. The fits equally. We strive to be a responsible at General Meetings. Instructions and helpful informa- sign-ups sheet is available all month long, except for the and ethical employer and neighbor. We day of the meeting when you have until 5 p.m. to sign up. tion on how to submit an item appear on the submis- are a buying agent for our members and sion form. The Agenda Committee meets on the first On the day of the meeting, the sign-up sheet is kept in the not a selling agent for any industry. We Membership Office. Tuesday of each month to plan the agenda for the GM are a part of and support the coopera- held on the last Tuesday of the month. If you have a Some restrictions to this program do apply. Please tive movement. We offer a diversity of see below for details. question, please call Ann Herpel at the coop. products with an emphasis on organ- • Two GM attendance credits per year: ic, minimally pro-cessed and healthful Each member may take advantage of the GM-for- foods. We seek to avoid products that Meeting Format workslot-credit program two times per calendar year. depend on the exploitation of others. We Warm Up (7:00 p.m.) • Meet the Coordinators • Squads eligible for credit: support non-toxic, sustainable agriculture. • Enjoy some Coop snacks • Submit Open Forum items Shopping, Receiving/Stocking, Food Processing, We respect the environment. We strive • Explore meeting literature Office, Maintenance, Inventory, Construction, and FTOP to reduce the impact of our lifestyles on Open Forum is a time for committees. (Some Committees are omitted because Open Forum (7:15 p.m.) the world we share with other species and members to bring brief items to the General Meeting. covering absent members is too difficult.) future generations. We prefer to buy from If an item is more than brief, it can be submitted to the • Attend the entire GM: local, earth-friendly producers. We recy- Agenda Committee as an item for a future GM. In order to earn workslot credit you must be present cle. We try to lead by example, educating • Financial Report • Coordinators’ for the entire meeting. ourselves and others about health and Reports (7:30 p.m.) Report • Committee Reports • Signing in at the Meeting: nutrition, cooperation and the environ- ment. We are committed to diversity Agenda (8:00 p.m.) The agenda is posted at the Coop After the meeting the Chair will provide the Workslot Community Corner and may also appear elsewhere in Credit Attendance Sheet. and equality. We oppose discrimination in any form. We strive to make the Coop this issue. • Being Absent from the GM: welcoming and accessible to all and to Wrap Up (9:30-9:45) (unless there is a vote to It is possible to cancel without penalty. We do ask that respect the opinions, needs and concerns extend the meeting) • Meeting evaluation • Board of you remove your name if you know cannot attend. Please of every member. do not call the Membership Office with GM cancellations. Directors vote • Announcements, etc.

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show you how to: resolve “mystery infertility”; eliminate toxins that apr 17 Andrew Rose Gregory, impair fertility; cook meals that help you get pregnant; identify the fri 8 pm foods and supplements that improve prenatal health; clear blocked Friday, Oct 19, 8:00 pm Bev Grant tubes; normalize your cycle and improve egg quality; dissolve fibroids Andrew Rose Gregory grew up and cysts; prevent miscarriage; and boost men’s sperm count and quali- in the mountains of Virginia, ty. Pre-registration suggested: to register call (646) 483-4571 or e-mail spending most of his time [email protected]. walking to the library and rac- Friday evening music at the Good Coffeehouse, brewing a new beat ing sticks down creeks. He Wool & Grant. Two veteran singer/songwriters with a mutual passion for songs, stories, harmonies and guitars. Bev Grant and Ina May Wool create a musi- cal alchemy of fire and feistiness, wisdom and wit, has since settled inrocking clear-Brooklyn. Although he has Park Slope local singer and eyed political guitarist Mamie Minch sounds songs along something like a well-fleshed- with a window out 78-rpm record. She’s known on to their playedaround town for herhundreds Piedmont- oftravels—on shows the across America as a style fingerpicking chops, her big road and around deep voice and her self-penned the heart. antique-sounding songs. She’s played music all over the world Public Forum on the songwriterand Brooklyn, with all kinds of and solo artist, he is best known as one excellent people, including apr 25 Dayna Kurtz, the Roulette Sisters, of theJimbo Mathis andcreators CW Stoneking. of the viral YouTube sensations sat 2–4 pm www.ProspectConcerts.tumblr.com 53 Prospect Park West [at 2nd Street] • $10 • 8pm [doors open at 7:45] Trans-Pacific Partnership Performers“Auto-Tune are Park Slope Food Coop members the and receive CoopNews” workslot credit. and “Songify This!” along Booking: Bev Grant, 718-788-3741 withPARK SLOPE FOOD COOPthe 782 Union St., restBrooklyn, NY 11215 (btwnof 6th & 7thThe Av.) • (718) 622-0560 Gregory Brothers. Bev Grant Investor-State Dispute Resolution (ISDR) in “free trade agreements” including grew up in Portland, Oregon, singing with her sis- NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), allows a corporation to sue a ters in a trio. She has since settled in Brooklyn government in a private tribunal which may impose a cash penalty if any reg- where she founded the popular political rock band ulation limits potential corporate profit making. Under NAFTA, according to a Bev Grant & the Human Condition, founded and recently published study by Canadian Council for Policy Alternatives, “Sixty- directs the Brooklyn Women’s Chorus, tours with three percent of claims against Canada involve challenges to environmental her show about women’s labor history called “We Were There!” and protection or resource management measures.” Information, discussion and performs with the duo Wool & Grant. Bev will be joined by Brooklyn action plan offered at the next Public Forum organized by the International musicians Brien Brannigan, guitar; Carolann Solebello, electric bass; Trade Education Squad. and Todd Isler, percussion. Concert takes place at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical 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 Society for Ethical Culture. apr 26 sun 12 pm College Admissions 101 Get your children into their first-choice college. Are you or your child apr 19 stressed about applying to college? Want to know what goes into writing a sun 12 pm It’s Your Funeral winning college essay? If you’ve been wondering what you can do now to PSFCmake MARCH things GENERAL easierMEETING when application time comes, come to this free work- Planning for your own death now (as opposed to later) is a practice that Tuesday, March 31, 7:00 p.m. • shop.Items will be taken Time up in the order given.for Q&A afterward, and additional resources will be provided. • Times in parentheses are suggestions. can enable you to live in the moment, face your own mortality with cour- • More information on each item may be available at the entrance table Steveat the meeting. We Schwartzask members to please read theis materials a professionalavail- college admission counselor in Park Slope able between age—and create an end-of-life service that reflects your values. Join 7:00 & 7:15 p.m. • withMeeting Location: more Congregation thanBeth Elohim Social a Halldecade (Garfield of experience. He also writes the popular Get Into Temple) Coop member Amy Cunningham, former journalist and graduate of the College274 Garfield Pl. at 8th Ave.blog and is a Coop member. AGENDA: American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service, in a conversa- Item #1: Annual Disciplinary Committee Election (35 minutes) Election: The committee will present four members to be re- tion about fascinating advancements within the funeral business. The talk elected.—submitted by the Disciplinary Committee

will cover how to plan a low-cost, back-to-basics funeral or memorial ser- Item #2: Board of Directors Candidates’ Presentations 45 minutes) Discussion: “Presentation by candidates for the Board of Directors vice, as well as offer information on green cemeteries near New York City, followed by questions for the candidates” cremation pros and cons, biodegradable caskets and urns, blended-faith/ Future Agenda Information:apr 28 For information on how to place an item on the Agenda, please seePSFC APR General Meeting the center pages of the Linewaiters' Gazette. The Agenda Committeetue minutes 7 and pm the satatus of pending alternative ceremonies, and more. You’ll get a glimmer of what funerals of agenda items are available in the office and at all GMs. the future might look like—and leave with planning literature for yourself Items will be taken up in the order given. Times in paren- or for someone you love. theses are suggestions. More information on each item may be available on the entrance table at the meeting. We ask members to please read the materials available between 7 and 7:15 p.m. apr 23 Meeting location: MS 51, 350 Fifth Ave., between Fourth and Fifth Sts. thu 7 pm NY GMO Labeling Workshop Enter on Fourth St. cul-de-sac. Fourth St. entrance is handicap-accessible. I. Member Arrival and Meeting Warm-Up Want to know what’s in your food? Join Alex Beauchamp of Food & Water II. Open Forum Watch and Stacie Orell of GMO Free NY for a discussion of the campaign to III. Coordinator and Committee Reports label genetically engineered (GMO) foods in New York. We’re building a move- IV. Meeting Agenda ment that’s taking on Monsanto and other corporate giants to allow consum- Item 1: Presentation of a Candidate to Hire as a General Coordinator (25 minutes) ers the opportunity to make informed choices about what they eat. Working Proposal: The Personnel Committee will present to the General Meeting a together, we can make GMO labeling the law. Find out what you can do to candidate to be hired for the position of General Coordinator: Purchasing/ help. Presented by the Food Coop’s GMO Shelf Labeling Committee. Since Receiving Supervisor. This candidate will be taking on many of the the year 2000, this committee has been working as mandated by the General responsibilities of two long-time General Coordinators who will be retired by Meeting to educate and inform our membership about GMOs. the end of April. —submitted by the Personnel Committee Item 2: Boycott of SodaStream Products (45 minutes) Discussion: We propose that the Coop boycott SodaStream products, which are manufactured in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. apr 25 —submitted by Thomas Cox and Heather Tenzer Fertility Prep V. Board of Directors Meeting sat 11 am VI. Wrap-Up. Includes member sign-in for workslot credit. Identify the right foods and supplements to conceive a healthy baby. For information on how to place an item on the Agenda, please see the center Coop member Rebecca Curtis, M.A., M.F.A., HHC, AADP, certified pages of the Linewaiters’ Gazette. The Agenda Committee minutes and the holistic nutritionist and the founder of Green Gem Holistic Health, will status of pending agenda items are available in the Coop office.

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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Food Class: Feeding Our may 1 Film Night: Fighter may 7 fri 7 pm thu 7:30 pm Deeper Selves Filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev follows two Czech Holocaust True nutrition brings out the best in us, both physi- survivors, Jan Weiner and Arnost Lustig, as they revisit cally and emotionally. Learn how you can balance and Terezin, a labor camp where Arnost was interned for activate your chakras—your emotional body’s energy five years and Jan’s mother was murdered. As the two centers—through cooking. Chef Ann Nunziata will men journey into the past, their dual memories become guide you through how different foods affect our emo- a thorny, unresolved dialogue between an angry man of tions while demonstrating how to prepare a balanced, delicious vegan meal. action and a warmly cynical sage arguing about the very meaning of history. Ann is a graduate of the Chef’s Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called Fighter: “One of the great documentaries Institute. With a background in nutritional sciences, she has gone on to of this year, or any other.” David Denby of The New Yorker labeled the film cook in award-winning, plant-based kitchens, including Millennium “brilliant.” Bar-Lev’s directorial credits include Fighter (2001), My Kid Could Restaurant, the Omega Institute and Ravens Restaurant, where she became Paint That (2007), and The Tillman Story (2010), for which he won an Emmy. known for her tempting vegan Tea Time desserts. Currently, Ann is working He also directed the music documentaries Re:Generation (2011) and with Family Cook Productions, Wellness in the Schools, and the Natural 12.12.12 (2013). He co-produced the documentary Trouble The Water, 2008 Gourmet Institute, sharing natural foods culinary education with the com- Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner and 2009 Academy Award Nominee. He is munity. Her favorite spice is nutmeg and she keeps her Instagram account currently directing a documentary on The Grateful Dead. well-fed at @AnnNunz. Menu includes: green goddess kale salad with green To book a Film Night, contact Gabriel Rhodes, [email protected]. apple and pistachios; mushroom and quinoa pilaf with roasted red pepper puree; raw spiced cacao truffles. ASL interpreter may be available upon advance request. If you would like to request an ASL interpreter, please contact Ginger Jung in the Membership may 3 Is Cohousing For You? Office by April 23. sun 12 pm Materials fee: $4. Food classes are coordinated by Coop member Susan Baldassano. Explore the newest options. Cohousing communities are designed to foster human interaction. People own their own homes but also share common spaces. Share your favorite activities with your neighbors, and a few meals may 8 per week (voluntary). Participate in the management of the community. Wordsprouts Homes are designed with values of sustainability and energy-efficiency fri 7 pm in mind. Child-friendly and desirable school district. Pedestrian-friendly. Readers to be announced. Many communities receive Affordable Housing grants. There are more Bookings: John Donohue, [email protected]. than 100 built and occupied cohousing communities in the United States, including four in New York State, 12 in Massachusetts, and a new one WORDSPROUTS slated to open near New Haven, Connecticut, next year. View slides and Celebrate Father’s Day and meet Brian Gresko, talk with Erika Banks, Coop member, who has lived in and helped create the editor of the just-published anthology on Cohousing in Michigan and is currently involved in establishing the first fatherhood When I First Held You Cohousing community in Connecticut, and Elvira Ferrario, Coop member, may 10 and member of a community being built on a 32-acre site with a working When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the A Focus On Breath sunTriumphs, Challenges, 12 and Transformative pm Experience of Fatherhood. farm, two hours from NY. Becoming a father can be one of the most profoundly exhilarating, terrifying, life-changing occasions in a man’s life. In this incomparable collection of For vitality,thought-provoking essays, 22 health,of today’s masterful writers get straight tofunctional the heart of movements, fitness, survival and self defense. What is modern fatherhood. From making that ultimate decision to having a kid to making it properthrough breathing the birth, to tangling with a toddler mid-tantrum, and eventually letting a howteen does it affect our life? Picture those times when you sign a check,loose in the world,are these fathers exploreabout every facet of to move something heavy or feel threatened. How often do we fatherhood and show how being a father changed Friday, June 13 forget theto way they sawbreathe? the world—and themselves. 7:00 Breathingp.m. at the Coop affects our entire physiology, emotions and senses. This may 5 FREE class willBrian Gresko is theteach editor of the anthology When Ithe breathing technique of Systema, the training of Russian special Agenda Committee Meeting Non members Welcome tue 8 pm forces,First Helddesigned You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk to accompany and improve daily life and be immediately available About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative Experience of Fatherhood. His work in timeshas appeared inof Poets & Writersstress. Magazine, Glimmer Train Stories , andWe The Brooklyn Rail ,will cover some exercises and key principles designed to teach The Committee reviews pending agenda items and cre- the physiologyand online at The Huffington Post, Salon, TheAtlantic.com of, Thebreathing, Los Angeles Review of its relationship with the nervous system, blood pH and ates the agenda for future General Meetings. Drop by Books, and many other sites. pressure,Refreshments digestion will be served. and muscle tone. A member of the Food Coop since 2011, and talk with committee members face-to-face BenjaminAll Wordsprout participants Liu are Coop is members. a Russian martial artist, yoga instructor, fitness and move- between 8:00 and 8:15 p.m. Before submitting an mentBookings: coach. John Donohue, [email protected] He currently teaches at a primary school with an emphasis on item, read “How to Develop an Agenda Item for the movement-basedViews expressed by the presenters do not necessarily represent the Park Slopeeducation. Food Coop. General Meeting” and fill out the General Meeting Agenda Item Submission Form, both available from the Membership Office or at foodcoop.com. The next General Meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 26, 7 p.m., at MS 51, 350 Fifth Ave., between Fourth and Fifth Sts. may 12 Safe Food Committee Film Night tue 7 pm Film to be announced.

still to come may 15 Passive House may 26 PSFC MAY General Meeting

may 15 Prospect Concerts: SAMBA jun 4 Food Class: Food Pharmacy, Tsubo Massage

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PSFC BICYCLE My idea, which the DOT economic strength to influ- she claims in her campaign ernment; exploitation and RACKS: LOVE agrees with, but claims they ence policy,” (Linewaiters’ statement that she is for repression of immigrants, THEM OR LOSE do not have the funding for, Gazette 3.19.2015) I believe consumer boycotts and people of color, women and is to either move the bicycle her to mean exactly that. could have mentioned some working people to concen- THEM! racks off the curb slightly, Her “No!” is a contradic- others right there and then. trate riches and power in and put yellow bollards in tory answer at best, a mis- Conclusive because this still fewer hands. DEAR MEMBERS, front of them, like those leading and tactical one at is an admission that she Confronting frightening On Saturday 3/28/2015, four protecting the fire worst. would push for boycotts of realities without sinking I was shocked to see a hydrant, and/or put more Most importantly, the Israel while on the Board. into denial, rage nor the sign on the second broken bicycle racks up against the Board of Directors is just an The Board does nothing illusion that if one scram- bicycle rack which stated: bicycle mural. affirmation of the wishes of but approve membership bles & claws one can join “No Parking: 3/30/2015 NO You can contact Brad membership, not a platform decisions at the end of a the 1%, we search for anoth- BIKE PARKING THIS BIKE Lander’s office at lander@ for divisive agendas that general meeting. It is not er way to organize ourselves RACK IS SCHEDULED TO council.nyc.gov and the work against our coopera- a platform to air personal that is not savage corporate BE REMOVED UNTIL FUR- DOT at [email protected]. tive enterprise’s principles political agendas. Using it as capitalism nor frozen state THER NOTICE. No Park- gov to help petition for a of broad political inclusion. such for any political agen- command economy. ing 3/30/2015 Department better bicycle-parking sit- Nor is it a platform for ide- da at all could hamstring Another world is possi- of Transportation is not uation than the one that ology that could divide the the operation of our coop- ble. responsible for any Bikes currently exists as of this Board itself and throw sand erative and hurt our bottom The Coop is self-orga- left on this “CityRacks”.” writing, Part 5, on 4/5/2015 on the gears of our highly line. The evasiveness of this nized to meet the needs of I contacted City Coun- at the PSFC. successful organization. candidate’s answer and her members. We are a volun- cil Member Brad Land- Stephen Arthur I reject boycotting of implicit intent to boycott tary association—indepen- er’s office about this on Israel because it’s bigoted Israel while representing dent and autonomous. We the morning of Monday and one-sided. And though the Coop tell me that she is work together with equita- 3/30/2015, and when I went BOARD ELECTION this candidate’s resounding the wrong candidate for our ble distribution of tasks to back to the PSFC later that & BDS I “NO!” is a welcome breath of Board of Directors. keep expenses down and night to shop, fortunately, fresh air among her earlier Henny Hanuna prices moderate. We govern the bicycle rack was still DEAR MEMBERSHIP, calls for a boycott of Israel, ourselves according to our there and repaired! One of our candidates for I don’t trust it one little bit. values and vision. Our deci- If you Google “psfc shop the Board of Directors was Martin A. Ettlinger THINK GLOBALLY, sion-making process can be and cycle” the top result is a asked a direct question at ACT LOCALLY democratic. Facebook page for the PSFC our last General Meeting. In our case, democracy Shop & Cycle Committee, “You are very outspoken in BOARD ELECTION MEMBERS, means nourishing struc- whose entry from 3/19/2013 print and in your campaign & BDS II We humans face grave tures that ensure each mem- shows a picture of the same statement as a boycotter dangers: ber feels and behaves like bicycle rack completely flat- of Israel. Will you use your DEAR MEMBERSHIP, Fossil fuel extraction a proud and responsible tened and destroyed lay- position and identify your- Last week, a candidate contaminates water, soil & owner as well as a consumer ing on the pavement with a self as a board member to for the Board of Directors air and their burning causes and a worker, participating bicycle. promote BDS and boycott was asked at our General global changes in climate. in deciding how our collec- According to them, this Israel? A simple yes or no Meeting, “You say in your Epidemics of violence— tive resources are used and is at least the third time answer will do.” statement that the Coop murders of innocents by sick in planning ahead. this particular bicycle rack Her answer was quite can use its consumer power individuals and automated has been damaged in recent direct: “No!”. to organize boycotts. Other bombing of villages demon- Democracy as a years, and they are recom- I am confused, and that’s than Israel, what else are ically called “War on Terror.” process. mending that DOT remove not a good sign for any can- thinking of boycotting, since Chaotic political econ- From a handful of house- the bicycle rack, not to fix didate already. When a can- you are a supporter of BDS?” omy—banks steal homes; holds through continued it! didate’s statement reads: Her answer was, “I can’t say young people condemned growth and two major Brad Lander’s office is “I believe that we can use at this time.” to wage slavery by stu- expansions into a multi-mil- of the belief that the PSFC our power as consumers in This answer is both eva- dent debt; billionaires buy lion dollar enterprise with needs more bicycle racks organized boycotts when we sive and conclusive at the candidates and their rep- 16,200 working members not less. decide together to use that same time. Evasive because resentatives undermine gov- and about seventy employ-

LETTERS POLICY ADDITIONAL NEW POLICIES We welcome letters from members. Submission dead- Fairness ON LETTERS AND lines appear in the Coop Calendar. All letters will be print- In order to provide fair, comprehensive, factual coverage: MEMBER SUBMISSIONS ed if they conform to the published guidelines. We will 1. The Gazette will not publish hearsay—that is, allega- not knowingly publish articles which are racist, sexist or tions not based on the author’s first-hand observation. In the interest of promoting civil discourse and upholding the main purpose otherwise discriminatory 2. Nor will we publish accusations that are not specific of letter and member submissions to the Linewaiters’ Gazette, the Editorial The maximum length for letters is 500 words. Letters or are not substantiated by factual assertions. Board of the Gazette has created additional policies for “Letters to the Editor” must include your name and phone number and be typed 3. Copies of submissions that make substantive accu- and member submissions: or very legibly handwritten. Editors will reject letters that sations against specific individuals will be given to those Letters and member submissions cannot contain gratuitous personaliza- are illegible or too long. persons to enable them to write a response, and both sub- tion—that is, needlessly identifying a Coop member and directing the sub- You may submit on paper, typed or very legibly hand- missions and response will be published simultaneously. stance of the letter/article to him or her, as in a polemical debate. Letters and written, or via email to [email protected] This means that the original submission may not appear articles should deal mainly with ideas and not persons. Letter/article writers or on disk. until the issue after the one for which it was submitted. will be asked to reword their submissions in accordance with this guideline. The above applies to both articles and letters. The only Letters and member submissions must be mainly (that is 75% or more) Anonymity exceptions will be articles by Gazette reporters which will original writing, and the opinion of the writer. Submissions that are essential- Unattributed letters will not be published unless the be required to include the response within the article itself. ly cut-and-paste, pass-along writing from other publications will be rejected, Gazette knows the identity of the writer, and therefore and the writer asked to re-submit with original writing. must be signed when submitted (giving phone number). Respect Such letters will be published only where a reason is Letters must not be personally derogatory or insulting, even Punctuation and Formatting Disclaimer: given to the editor as to why public identification of when strongly criticizing an individual member’s actions. Because of typesetting-software limitations and the compressed sched- the writer would impose an unfair burden of embar- Letter writers must refer to other people with respect, ule of producing each Linewaiters’ Gazette issue, there is no guarantee rassment or difficulty. Such letters must relate to Coop refrain from calling someone by a nickname that the person that special formatting, including boldface, italics and underlining, will be issues and avoid any non-constructive, non-cooperative never uses himself or herself, and refrain from comparing reproduced accurately. language. other people to odious figures like Hitler or Idi Amin. —The Editors, Linewaiters’ Gazette

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ees, the Coop evolved. credit can participate more SINGLES EVENT— of course, I was the one who sive activities that serve After 42 years the General fully. OPEN TO LGBT had to write the letter. to bring people togeth- Meeting (GM) continues A Board member is COMMUNITY? Say it ain’t so, PSFC! er. When we asked people at the center of our deci- expected to accept the Signed, to RSVP and include their sion-making democracy. Our advice of members as shown HI FOLKS, One dyke and two queers gender and what food they challenge is to adapt gover- by the vote at the GM. The My friends and I are very of various genders and gender would be bringing we by nance to the huge increase vote at the GM is expected confused by the huge sign experiences no means meant to alien- in membership, resources to be based on full informa- on the wall behind the reg- ate any group or individual. and staff without undermin- tion, a transparent process, isters advertising an upcom- DEAR MEMBERS, We regret that the request ing stability. ample debate and inclusive ing singles event sponsored Thank you for bringing this for gender was posted. We The Board of Directors voting. by the Coop. The sign asks issue to our attention. We assure you that we are gen- can play a role. Attend- Being elected as a Board people to register for the at the Fun Raising Commit- der inclusive. ing GMs regularly, Board member means accepting a event, and to “tell us your tee would like to publicly Best, members can hold the heightened responsibility— gender” when registering. apologize to everyone and Jim Kent continuity, identify bottle- responding as external con- We’re not sure how anyone who were offended Fun Raising Committee necks and help us through ditions change and internal knowing someone’s gender by the language used on those tight spaces. A needs change. The respon- without knowing their sex- the poster advertising this Board member can talk to sibility includes helping to uality enables you to make event. The Fun Committee’s others and consider struc- protect the Coop’s sustain- a match. One friend posits ultimate goal is to produce tures that might open up ability by defending the val- that this is plain and simple exciting, creative and inclu- additional channels. ues that brought us together homophobia, thoughtless An active Board member as well as the traditional straight people assuming BDS/MIDDLE EAST can intervene during a GM— structures. Maintaining a everyone else is straight For this edition of the Linewaiters’ Gazette we did not accept make a suggestion during healthy institution in an ail- like them, and thus “need- submissions on BDS-related topics and polemical submis- discussion of a new item to ing society needs everyone’s ing to know” gender so they sions on Middle-east related politics in order to allow us time help the presenter formu- talent and commitment. I have an equal number of to research and formulate policies that can help ensure civil late a proposal; remind the will continue to contribute straight men and straight discourse on these issues. Please check the Coop website for group of recent GM expe- mine. I look forward to your women at the event. I said further announcements and policy revisions. riences that were similar; advice, your support and that the Coop would never The Editors, thoughtfully suggesting how your vote. sponsor and broadcast that The Linewaiters’ Gazette members who get work-slot Susan Metz kind of discrimination. So, N N N N N EXCITING WORKSLOT OPPORTUNITIES N N N N N

RECEIVING PRODUCE clearly convey information about member status Monday-Friday, 5 to 7:30 a.m. directly to members. Entrance workers also pro- The Coop is looking for members to work in vide a key security function, and must remain the produce area. Responsibilities include: lifting alert throughout the shift, which may have slow boxes, unloading deliveries, stacking boxes in the periods. Therefore reading, writing, talking on the basement. You should be willing to get or have wet phone, texting, etc., is not allowed. Punctuali- hands while you are working. Boxes usually weigh ty and good attendance will be essential, as you between 2-20 lbs., a few may weigh up to 50 lbs. will be the only entrance worker scheduled at this time of day. Paid Membership Coordinators will ADMIN INVOICE SCANNING be present to train you on your first (and second) Monday, 6 p.m. shift, and then to support you and answer ques- This job entails scanning approximately 50 doc- tions going forward. uments and naming 400 documents per week. This is a task- and detail-oriented job, ideal for someone who likes working independently. Must be comfort- STORE-EQUIPMENT CLEANING able using Macintosh computers. As training will Monday, 6 to 8 a.m. be necessary, a six-month commitment is required. The Coop is looking for members to clean the checkout area of the store. It entails OFFICE SET-UP cleaning the scales at each check out and Monday & Tuesday, 6 to 8:30 a.m. vacuuming around the base of the checkout Need an early-riser with lots of energy to do station as well as sweeping and occasionally a variety of physical tasks including: setting up mopping. You will work under the supervision tables and chairs, buying food and supplies, label- of a staff person. ing and putting away food and supplies, recycling, washing dishes and making coffee. Sound like LAUNDRY AND TOY CLEANING your dream come true? This job might be for you. Saturday & Sunday, 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Please speak to Adriana in the Membership Office This workslot has two responsibilities. You will for more information. load laundry into dryer, fold it and redistribute it around the Coop. While the laundry is washing/dry- ENTRANCE DESK ing, you will clean toys in the childcare room. You Thursday, 5:45 to 8:00 a.m. will be working with a partner on these tasks. Please Supervised by Membership Coordinators, you contact Annette or Jana in the Membership Office will be staffing the entrance desk in hours of the BATHROOM CLEANING for further information. weekday before the Coop is open to shoppers. Tuesday, 12 to 2 p.m. Primarily you will be checking in working mem- Work with a partner to deep clean the Coop’s GENERAL MEETING SET-UP bers, informing them of their member and house- bathrooms. Tasks include scrubbing floor tiles, Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. hold status, and handing out entrance-desk slips cleaning toilets, mopping floors and stocking the Adaptable, physically energetic, team workers to members who need them. Entrance workers bathrooms. You will work with only natural clean- with excellent attendance needed to help set up provide an essential member service and must ing products. This job is perfect for members who and break down the space where the General Meet- be welcoming, polite, able to read and interpret like to clean and are conscientious about doing a ing is held. Contact Adriana Becerra, Membership information on the entrance-desk screen, able to thorough job. Coordinator, [email protected].

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR To Submit Classified or Display Ads: Community calendar listings are free. Please submit your event listing in 50 words or less to Ads may be placed on behalf of Coop members only. Clas- [email protected]. Submission deadlines are the same as for classified ads. sified ads are prepaid at $15 per insertion, display ads at Please refer to the Coop Calendar in the center of this issue. $30. (Classified ads in the “Merchandise–Non-commercial” category are free.) All ads must be written on a submission SAT, APR 18 Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Center for childcare and for information form. Classified ads may be up to 315 characters and spaces. 8 p.m. Ray Korona Presente! Contemporary Culture Central call Resistance in Brooklyn Display ads must be camera-ready and business card size (2” produced by Ivice, with the Ray Library. 10 Grand Army Plaza 718-783-8141. x 3.5” horizontal). Korona Band and others. At the BKLYN. Admission Free. Submission forms are available in a wallpocket near the Community Church of NY Unitar- elevator in the entrance lobby. ian Universalist, 40 East 35th St. TUE, APR 28 For info call 212-787-3903 or see FRI, APR 24 12 p.m. Label GMOs Now! Rally www peoplesvoicecafe.org. Sug- 6:30 p.m. Women’s Open Poet- and Lobby Day in Albany. Speak gested donation $18, member $10. ry and Performance Event. This out in support of legislation to event is for women and trans label genetically engineered folk only. The Commons, 388 (GMO) foods in New York. Buses SUN, APR 19 Atlantic Ave. Bklyn. Suggested will be available from Manhattan. 4 p.m. BPL Chamber Players donation $10-$20 with all pro- For more information, contact present: Scott Ballantyne, cello; ceeds going to Women with a Eric Weltman with Food & Water Hiroko Sasaki, piano at the Vision. Cafe Open. To reserve Watch: [email protected].

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CLASSES/GROUPS necessary. P/T after school hours MADISON AVENUE HAIRCUTTER ART CLASSES FOR ADULTS: One Monday, Tuesday and possibly a is right around the corner from on one tutorial in oil and water- third day. Please send personally the food Coop, so if you would like color techniques by a Brooklyn composed cover letter with resume a really good haircut at a decent artist, graduate of Harvard and to: [email protected] price, please call Maggie at Columbia. Member: Brooklyn 18-783-2154. I charge $60. Watercolor Society. In my Windsor Terrace home. $60 for two hours. SERVICES HAIRCUTS HAIRCUTS HAIRCUTS. Materials not included. Sundays AVAILABLE Color high lights, low lights, hot oil and Mondays preferred. Phone: EXPRESS MOVES. One flat price treatments in the convenience of 718-832-0161. for the entire move! No deceptive your home or mine. Adults $30.00- hourly estimates! Careful, expe- $40.00. Kids $20.00-$25.00. Call rienced mover. Everything quilt Leonora at 718-857-2215. EMPLOYMENT padded. No extra charge for ward- VISION THERAPY ASSISTANT robes and packing tape. Specialist LISSETT FERREIRA, ESQ. Guard- (Park Slope). Exciting Opportunity: in walkups. Thousands of satisfied ianships, wills, elder & family law. Asst. needed in holistic optomet- customers. Great Coop references. [email protected]. Tel.: ric office in Park Slope, Brooklyn. 718-670-7071. 212-926-9771 / Fax: 917-551-6503. Interest in holistic health and exp 299 Broadway, Suite 1310, New working w/ children and adults York, NY, 10007. Fala-se Portugues.

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Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY April 16, 2015 15 Candidates for Board of Directors of the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc. Two three-year terms on the Board are open. To vote you may use a proxy or attend the Food Coop Annual Meeting on June 30, 2015. Every member will receive a proxy package in the mail in late May. You will have the opportunity to meet the candidates at the June 30 Annual Meeting. Candidate statements follow:

Monique Bowen er and observer to good effect in this position. In addition effort to collaborate with others whenever possible. to my current term on the Board, I have had many jobs at I continue to believe that I am well-suited to serve With the support of the the Coop, including cashier, office worker, childcare work- on the Board of Directors as I endeavor to 1) Be a General Coordinators, er, attendance recorder, and as a member of the Hearing reasonable person who listens well, 2) Be able to I write to ask for your Officers Committee. acknowledge the will of the membership without first continued endorse- My family have been Coop members since 2003, and prefacing my own opinions and perspectives, and 3) ment of my candidacy our relationship to the Coop and its mission remains Be clear about the role of a Director at the Coop as to the PSFC’s Board of an important aspect of our lives in Brooklyn. In my life voting to approve what the membership has decided, Directors. I have been outside of the Coop, I have worked for more than twen- as opposed to what my own wishes might be. More- pleased to serve the ty years at nonprofit and educational institutions in over, I also understand that Board members must be membership for the New York City and Connecticut. In more recent years, able to discern when the advice of the membership on last three years, and I earned post-graduate degrees in psychology, and a particular issue might endanger the fiscal health or I hope to continue have a great deal of experience working one on one legal situation of the cooperative. to bring my exten- and in groups to solve problems, to mediate conflicts, Thank you for taking the time to read my and other sive knowledge of the and to counsel others as they make important life and candidate statement(s), and I look forward to your Coop, my expertise in close collaborations with individu- professional decisions. I take a calm, thoughtful, com- ongoing support and your continued interest in the als, families and groups, and my skills as a trained listen- mon-sense approach to most things, and I make an mission and business of the Coop. n

Eunju Lee member. I thank you for that support and having grant- community that values social responsibility and justice. ed me the opportunity to serve on our Coop’s Board of Second, I have learned that the practice of democracy I have been a member Directors. Coming to the end of my term, I come before can be messy. The GMs are forums that accept, absorb, of the Park Slope Food you again to request your support for a second term. and contain diverse voices and opinions. Sometimes this Coop for 20 years When I asked for your support three years ago, I means that we must muddle through a bedlam of rancor and a member of the articulated my desire to function as a conduit of diverse and conflict in parsing out the merits and faults of a par- Coop’s Board of Direc- membership voices, to thoughtfully weigh differences, ticular position. Through this sometimes painful process, tors for the past three. seeking cooperation and respectful dissent. I viewed my we affirm our common commitment to a decision-mak- Initially joining as an role as aiding in the articulation of circumspect and rea- ing process that trusts in the wisdom of a crowd. FTOP worker, I worked soned positions that ensure the Coop’s sustainability Finally, I have learned that the Coop is indeed a shifts in a variety of in a manner that is consistent with its founding values. unique place worth sustaining and nurturing. The Coop settings: shopping, My first term as a Board member has provided me with membership has ceaselessly embraced the challenges receiving, childcare ample opportunity to do just this and I have learned a of change necessary to keep evolving and improving. In and the office. In 2000, few valuable things along the way. my 20-year membership history, I have witnessed many I joined the staff of the First, I have learned the importance of an engaged and of these changes. In my three years as a Board member, Coop as a Membership Coordinator. I worked in this vocal membership in ensuring the continued vitality of I have been privileged to claim agency among them. I position for seven years and when I resigned to work the Coop. It seems trite, but whenever I am sitting in a am grateful for this opportunity and request your sup- full-time as a hospice social worker, I joined the atten- general meeting, I am reminded of the old Dr. Seuss say- port as I seek to continue to serve on the Board of Direc- dance and compost squads. ing, “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, tors. I am also grateful to the General Coordinators who Three years ago, I came before you, the membership, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” And the Coop is have endorsed my candidacy and hope I will have yours. to request your support for my candidacy as a Board filled with people who care an awful lot about creating a Thank you for your consideration. n

Christopher McQuale I am not new to food coops, having been a member ence has included program and project management of the Huntington Food Coop in 1971, where I also responsibilities that involve preparing technical scopes Shortly after my arriv- helped establish an organic community garden, and of work, cost estimates, schedules, and budgets for al here I spoke with a the Queens Food Coop in 1973. multimillion- dollar contracts providing a wide range of woman who told me Truly, I have enjoyed and found board work for professional services to Federal and state governments that she had moved non-profits to be very rewarding. But that has been and industries; negotiating contracts; developing work to Park Slope just to less from personal ambition and more because others plans for multi-year projects and obtaining approvals join the Coop, hav- I have worked with found the talents and skills I pos- from numerous regulatory agencies; coordinating with ing fled from some- sess, coupled with the willingness to build consensus community organizations and other stakeholders; over- where below the within a diverse community of independently minded seeing work, subcontractors, preparing status reports; Mason-Dixon Line, individuals, and a sense of humor, all applicable to their and ensuring all work is completed on time. This type of which, I understand is common cause. It is up to you to decide whether the work often resulted in my serving as an expert witness the southern bound- qualities presented below will be applicable and appre- for the USDOJ, USDOT, and the DC Office of the Attor- ary for Coop mem- ciated by the membership; one for all, and all for one. ney General on technical/legal matters, and required a bership, the Poconos I was the chairperson for the Board of Directors combination of technical and creative writing skills with to the west, Montauk to the east, and to the north the for the Charlottesville Waldorf School (CWS) for five public speaking thrown in for good measure. rapidly receding glacier we can be thankful for leaving years, while my sons were in attendance. It was at CWS On a more personal level, I have been an organic gar- behind most of Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island. that I learned the importance and challenges of con- dener and beekeeper since 1973. My mother and I ran a And I was grateful to her because that has become the sensus governance, a truly life-changing awareness. modest registered dairy goat operation and were found- reason I now tell my friends why I moved here, even A chairperson under such circumstances is more of a ing members of the Long Island Dairy Goat Association, though I didn’t know it at the time. But the day I walked facilitator than a decision maker: railroading simply surreptitiously selling raw goat’s milk to lactose-intoler- in amongst you all to sign up for orientation, I felt like slows things down. I also realized the importance of ant individuals, their children, and kindred health nuts. I had died and gone to heaven, or perhaps Valhalla electing board members wisely, for their combined Before returning to college in the 80s to obtain a degree would be more appropriate for the pagans and veteran vision (non-pedagogical) and objectivity. Our respon- in environmental engineering and resource manage- heroes of times long forgotten. sibilities were for financial and legal matters, and ment from the University of Pennsylvania, I was a facility So, what I bring to the Coop, whether I am elected to during my tenure the school experienced their longest manager, composter, planter, salad chef, and janitor at a the Board or not, is fresh enthusiasm; and unfortunate- period of balanced budgets. holistic nutritional facility, Hippocrates Health Institute, ly not the longevity that most candidates have boasted Since consulting firms and government tend to be in Boston; an organic citrus farmer in south Florida; and in previous archival copies of this curious publication. hierarchical, management-wise, the benefits to the helped raise my sons on a ten-acre homestead with dairy Mine is a different but no less significant story of dedi- Coop from my 29 years as a professional environmental goats, chickens, an orchard, peafowl, in rural Virginia. cation, sacrifice, and renewal. engineer (specializing in water resources), would tend It would be an honor to serve our illustrious My interest in being considered for the Board of to be more from budgetary planning, scheduling, and community. n Directors is service oriented. Though new to PSFC, general technical expertise. In particular, this experi- CANDIDATES CONTINUE ON PAGE 16

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 Candidates for Board of Directors of the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc. Two three-year terms on the Board are open. To vote you may use a proxy or attend the Food Coop Annual Meeting on June 30, 2015. Every member will receive a proxy package in the mail in late May. You will have the opportunity to meet the candidates at the June 30 Annual Meeting. Candidate statements follow:

Susan Metz (United Federation of Teachers) Chapter leader Track). I initiated the campaign to remove bottled for eight years there. My main interest has always water. I helped write the Mission Statement. And An active Coop been in how we make decisions in groups and it was the Tuesday, B4 shopping squad while I was member since 1980, how we can engage each of our talents in that squad leader (for 18 years) that first offered work- being involved in process. slot credit for one of us to go to a GM. We used to community is part My letters can be found in the archives of the send a squad member with the expectation that s/ of my identity. Linewaiters’ Gazette. I am always calling for great- he would report back to our monthly squad meet- Raised in the Bronx, er participation. I practice collective creation in ing so we could follow what was going on in other the only child of Playback Theatre—an improvisational perfor- parts of the organization. Jewish leftists, I mance form based on enacting personal stories After retiring from teaching, I did food process- worked with Bayard of members of the audience. Playback helped ing on FTOP. When I began travelling, I served as Rustin in the Youth keep my imagination and my sense of humor loaned labor at the East New York Food Coop. Marches for Inte- fresh while institutionalized in the public school I understand that discussion will include dis- grated Schools system, and also to keep me balanced during the agreement. Controversy can be the basis of great- during the late 50s struggles with powerful adversaries, as well as er understanding and personal growth. I am still and have continued participating in local initia- with allies convinced that answers are in ideol- refining my skills at presenting my positions with tives for Peace, Racial Justice, Environmental Sus- ogy, rather than in the value of caring for each passion and with an agnostic’s sense that what tainability and in support of candidates for public other and thinking about how we can improve our will be will be. I believe in the collective action office who present proposals for a more humane common condition. of workers in union. I believe that we can use our society. Without building a base, contesting state I have been doing research on the community power as consumers in organized boycotts when power can’t bring the prosperity and liberty that cultural centers in Cuba for 15 years while learn- we decide together to use that economic strength we need and want. The Coop provides part of that ing Spanish. As that project drew to a close, I took to influence policy. Above all, a transparent pro- base, outside of corporate hierarchical control. urban agriculture classes at the Brooklyn Botanic cess and an open, honest and respectful debate We are a community that is self-organized and Garden. Growing my own salad is a joy. My worms are essential. independent, created to meet the needs of the are another pet. I will come to GMs, listen attentively and hold members, where decisions can be made demo- My accomplishments at the Coop include, as the continuity from one meeting to another. I am cratically. Defending that base and helping to part of a team of comrades, the creation of the accessible, and look forward to conversation as build on it is why I am running for the Board. Trade Education Squad which can make obvious we continue to share our work, build our culture I was a public high school English teacher for the links between international trade and the and enrich our lives. I want to join the Board 27 years, prepared with an MA in Social Founda- causes we defend—food safety, sovereignty and because my experience and my interest and my tions of Education and (most of) an MFA in writ- security, animal rights and environmental sus- commitment to our Coop as part of the founda- ing Poetry. Eight years before I retired in 1996 I tainability, particularly the urgent need to slow tion for a just and productive society makes this founded the Human Services Academy at Pros- and stop further climate change. (Please contact the most meaningful thing I can do with this part pect Heights High School. I was elected as UFT congress today and ask them to vote NO on Fast of my life. n

Did you ever wonder exactly what those humane claims on product labels at the Coop mean? Or want to confirm which items we carry are not tested on animals? The Animal Welfare Committee provides transparent animal welfare information about the Coop’s products.

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