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OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP
Established 1973
Volume FF, Number 17 August 25, 2011 Drunken Goats, If a Tree Falls Constant Bliss A Tale of Environmental Terror By Gayle Forman DIARY OF A CHEESE WIZ reuse, expounding on recy- hat constitutes ter- cling and composting like By Thomas Matthews f one of the Coop’s goals rorism? Blowing up many a Coop member Iis to celebrate diversity, W buildings? Burning (except that he’s wearing an the cheese department down buildings? What if peo- ankle monitor bracelet). But counts among its successes. ple are intentionally not while McGowan’s deep con- There you can find the hurt? If the goal is property cerns about the state of the firm, creamy Spanish cheese damage? If the target is an environment, rampant con- called Drunken Goat (it’s organization or corporation sumerism, and unchecked made from goat’s milk, and that arguably does harm to corporate power mirror those the cheese is soaked in red the environment? of many Coop members, the wine). Constant Bliss is a Such questions weave path he chose to express cow’s milk cheese from Ver- their way through the com- those concerns diverged. mont’s Jasper Hill Creamery, pelling and nuanced recent McGowan’s environmental named for a Revolutionary documentary If a Tree Falls. The activism led him to work with War soldier. There are film chronicles the rise and Earth First! and then inex- cheeses from France and Italy fall of the radical environ- orably pulled him out west to and England, from California mental group the Earth Lib- Oregon, where environmen- and New York. They are made eration Front (ELF) through talists were engaging in a new from the milk of cows, goats, the awakening, radicalization kind of activism. After the sheep, buffalo and even, and prosecution of one ELF Warner Creek timber sale in sometimes, yaks. And, of member, a former Coop Oregon, protesters occupied course, some cheeses are not member by the name of the forest, building a blockade made from milk at all, but Daniel McGowan. and a fence, and keeping log- from nuts or tofu. gers out (and monkeying with At any given time, more than An Unlikely Suspect their equipment). The block- 50 different cheeses are offered At first glance, McGowan ade held the loggers at bay for for sale, and over the course of seems like an unlikely sus- a year—until the Forest Ser- a year some 200 will rotate pect. Born in Brooklyn, raised vice came in and arrested all through the store, according in Rockaway Beach, he stud- the protesters. to Receiving Coordinator Yuri ied business in college and ILLUSTRATION BY PAUL BUCKLEY PAUL BY ILLUSTRATION CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 got a job with public relations The Disgruntled One firm Burson-Marstellar in New Time and again, as the York City in the late 1990s. film shows, protesters were Board & Officer Elections When the film opens, he is undone by authorities, who bustling around a kitchen, often used brute force in Election of new Coop Secretary at the September 27th General Meeting. cleaning out Ziploc bags for CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Election of a new member of the Board of Directors at the October 25th General Meeting. Each term expires at the June 2012 Annual Meeting. Next General Meeting on August 30 The General Meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop is held on the last Tuesday of each month.* The next General Meeting will be If you are interested in one or both of these, on Tuesday, August 30, at 7:00 p.m. at the Congregation Beth please attend the meeting and announce your candidacy. Elohim Temple House (Garfield Temple), 274 Garfield Place. The agenda is in this Gazette and available as a flier in the entry- If you have questions about these positions, please speak to way of the Coop. For more information about the GM and about a General Coordinator at 718-622-0560. Coop governance, please see the center of this issue. * Exceptions for November and December will be posted.
Thu, Sep 1 • Food Class: IN THIS ISSUE Fermentation Basics 7:30 p.m. A Green Cart Grows in Brooklyn ...... 3 Coop Tue, Sep 13•Safe Food Committee Film Night: Puzzle ...... 4 Invitation to Boycott Debate ...... 5 Event Two Angry Moms 7:00 p.m. What is the BDS Movement? ...... 7 Coop Hours, Coffeehouse ...... 8 Thu, Oct 6 • Food Class 7:30 p.m. Highlights Coop Calendar, Workslot Needs Governance Information, Mission Statement...... 9 Look for additional information about these and other events in this issue. Letters to the Editor ...... 12 Classified Ads, Community Calendar ...... 16 11-08-25 p1-16_Layout 1 8/24/11 6:38 PM Page 2
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Drunken Goats descriptions are so evocative nuts, whatever has to be ing the cutting boards, clear- would be great for melting or CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 that your mouth waters. packaged, weighed and ing away plastic, paper and grating in any dish that called “Cheese is the main reason priced. It smells good here. crumbs of cheese. for cheese, but brought to Weber, who has been in I belong to the Coop,” con- This Saturday morning’s “But there’s no snacking,” room temperature it’s also charge of cheese since 2007. fessed Erin, who has been a shift is for squad C-2, though, grumbled Leigh Anne, a six- delicious on its own. Smooth In all, he says, the Coop sells member for two and half as often happens at the year member, four with cheese. in texture, it offers a clean, about 180,000 pounds of bulk years. She was shopping for a Coop, some regular members Dorothy has been a mem- buttery flavor with just a hint cheese per year, and another selection of interesting are absent, and other workers ber for 27 years, and, like Rita, of sharpness. An excellent 20,000 pounds of prepack- cheeses to take to a party. She are filling in, making up shifts cut and packaged cheese on partner to show off a fine red aged cheese, with revenues of had enjoyed a Coop-spon- or working FTOP. the shopping floor. Shoppers wine. more than $1.5 million, a fig- sored talk and tasting on Ifeona, standing at the would step up to the counter ure basically stable since northern Italian cheeses, and table with half a dozen other (after waiting in line) and Brie d’Amir 60% 2008. she was looking for Taleggio. workers, has belonged to the order; workers would note the Brie, a soft-ripened cow’s The perennial favorites are She found it, and happily Coop for 16 years, “most of order on a piece of paper, and milk cheese from northern the sharp cheddars from New moved on with her shopping. that working with cheese,” if the paper wasn’t lost, cut France, has been a Coop York and Vermont, along with Rita, who has been a Coop though not normally with the cheese and package it. favorite for decades. The ver- Parmigiano Reggiano from member for “more than 20 this squad. When the shopper returned, sions sold in the U.S. must be Italy. But, Yuri notes, “a lot of years,” once worked selling “My regular squad has he or she picked up the order. made from pasteurized milk cheese sales are seasonal and cheese when each sale was maintained basically the Was anything lost when the (unlike the French versions). the hits right now are the hand-cut to order by a mem- same membership for years,” Coop abandoned that sys- This double-crème version salad-type cheeses. Feta, fresh ber at the cheese counter on she said. “We like the shift. tem? Dorothy was adamant. (60 percent milk fat) is goat cheeses and crumbly the shopping floor. It’s a team effort, and it lends “Nothing. We didn’t have imported by Epicure Foods in blues are very popular.” “The cheese selection has itself to conversation. Plus, refrigeration then, and refrig- NJ. It has a soft, creamy tex- come a really long way,” she it’s heaven for cheese lovers. eration is better. People didn’t ture and a mild, milky flavor A World on Display enthused. “We lost the We’ve gotten so many more wear gloves—there were peo- with pleasant hints of herb. It The Coop stocks cheeses in one–on–one communication, exotic cheeses in the last five ple with dirty hands cutting would show well with a gen- several places. Cottage cheese but the range of choices is to eight years, yet prices have my cheese. Cleanliness is bet- erous white wine such as and ricotta mingle with the incredible. I love some of our remained good. It’s really ter. So is a bigger selection, Chardonnay. butter. Non-dairy cheeses are local cheeses. I think they’re hard to get a better deal and much less waste. But with other tofu products. expensive, but I understand somewhere else.” even back then, the cheeses Drunken Goat Prepackaged cheeses, from why. I think America can Kevin, who has been a were delicious. Ah, the Brie... This Spanish goat cheese has Kraft American singles to become a real cheese coun- member for four years, is cut- It’s still a big seller today.” its own “denominacion de imported clotted cream, get try, just like we’ve become a ting big blocks of cheddar origin” (DO); it’s from Murcia, their own case. wine country.” with a contraption that fea- On the Plate in the southeast corner of the But shoppers tend to tures a broad base and a Based on my conversa- country, and soaked in the linger longest at the Coop’s Behind the Scenes sharp wire. “Cheddar is job tions with workers and shop- local red wine, made from principal cheese display, and The Coop’s cheeses are security,” he said. “There’s pers, I picked up four cheeses Monastrell grapes. It’s firm in it’s no wonder. stored and prepared for sale always a strong demand.” that showcase a range of ori- texture, but light-bodied on The brightly lit refrigerated in the basement, in a snug, Almost all the cheese is cut gins and prices. the palate, with a clean, case is stocked with dozens of bright corner that centers on with a wire, not with knives. herbal flavor and a hint of cheeses, in colors that range a good-sized aluminum “It cuts cleaner, and there’s NY Sharp Cheddar sweetness from the wine. Try from cloud white to gold, rus- table, along with a sink, a less waste,” said Kevin. The From the McAdam Cheese pairing this with a crisp set and turquoise. Labels dis- refrigerated case, and shelves workers wear plastic gloves, Cooperative in Heuvelton, white, such as a Spanish play exotic names—Dorset of dry goods. The squads that aprons and kerchiefs on their NY, this is the Coop’s most Albarino, or contrast it with a Red, Moses Sleeper, Saga process the cheese also work heads. Cleaning is constant: popular cheese. Flavorful, sweet Sherry. Blue—and Yuri’s handwritten with other foods—spices, wiping down the table, wash- versatile and well-priced, it Smoked Dorset Red This English cheddar comes from Ford Farm, located in VALET BIKE PARKING ER Dorset. They make a wide MM TIM range of farmhouse cheeses, IS HERE U E including this version, which S develops a red rind as it’s smoked over oak chips. It has ON SUNDAYS! a rich, crumbly texture and a very pungent flavor, smoky and sharp. I’d pair this cheese with a single malt Scotch. Every Sunday through November 20, from 3:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Coop members can It’s hard to imagine anyone leave their bikes with not liking the New York Ched- our valet parking service, which is like dar. Smoked Dorset, on the a coat check for bikes. Working members will other hand, powerful and dis- ...and the living is easy. tinctive, may not please every- check in and watch your bike for you. one. But between them, they But don’t forget your coop shift! testify to the incredible range Just drop off your bike, do your shopping of flavors offered by the or your shift, and hop back on. If you plan on being away during one of your world’s cheeses. The Coop No locks, no worries, no theft. workslots, please make arrangements to have offers an open door to explor- Service operates rain or shine. your shift covered. ing this wonderful diversity. ■ Look for us in front of the yellow wall. One way to do it is to use (Note: no bike check-in after 7:30 p.m.) the Shift Swap at www.foodcoop.com! Valet bicycle parking at If you plan on being away for eight weeks or the Coop is brought to more, contact the Membership Office to take a you by the PSFC Shop leave of absence. & Cycle Committee. Your co-workers will love you for it!
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Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY August 25, 2011 3 A Green Cart Grows in Brooklyn
By Danielle Uchitelle veryone knows the E Coop brings you the best produce imagin- able, but what if it’s 10 p.m., you’ve got an empty refrigera- tor, and you suddenly have a taste for blueberries? If only there was a pushcart full of fruits and vegetables sta- tioned on your street corner, waiting to meet your off-hours cravings. On my street corner in Prospect Heights there is such a pushcart, part of a city- wide program called Green Carts. While it’s no substitute for the Coop produce aisle, Green Carts bring another healthy food option to neigh- borhoods where access to fresh produce is limited. Rudy Shayn proudly displays his fresh, mobile produce. Figs anyone? Not Every Cart is a on your feet; they’ll lend you Green Cart up to $5,000 to get started in Not every produce stand the Green Cart business. In on the streets of the city is a addition to purchasing your Green Cart, part of a special own cart, you’ll need to program initially seeded with obtain a Certificate of Author- a $1.5 million grant from the ity to Collect Sales Tax, pass Laurie M. Tisch Illumination the Food Protection Course Fund. Mayor Bloomberg for Mobile Food Vendors, and signed a law three years ago purchase a Mobile Food to provide permits for up to Vending License. 1,000 produce carts through- If a vegetable cart isn’t part out the city, of which 350 are of your career plans, consider designated for Brooklyn. Last the resumé of Rudy Shayn, year, there were 1,403 appli- whose Green Cart stands cations for a Green Cart per- proudly on the street corner mit, 522 specifically for beneath my apartment win- Brooklyn, where 116 Green dow. A former programmer/ Carts currently operate. analyst for JPMorgan Chase, City law stipulates that Rudy says he got tired of the these carts may only sell raw boom and bust cycles of the fruits and vegetables. No New York banking industry frozen or processed produce and decided to become his is allowed, nor may the cart own boss with a cart. At first, sell cut, sliced, or peeled he simply wanted to obtain a fruits or vegetables. Accord- street vendor license, but as BY INGSU LIU PHOTOS ing to city regulations, Green he read about the various Carts must be situated “exclu- programs he realized that a go to Hunts Point Market But I do it because I love it.” vegetable options in your life, sively in neighborhoods Green Cart would perfectly every three days and only buy As I look down from my and I’m thrilled that Rudy has where consumption [of veg- suit his enthusiasm for fresh the highest quality. I take care apartment window I can see set up his Green Cart on my etables and fruits] is particu- produce and his desire to of my food. I have a refrigera- that blueberries have disap- corner. ■ larly low.” I’m not sure interact with neighborhood tor to store everything at peared from Rudy’s offerings, whether this is a subtly coded residents. Now in its second night; most others don’t do but the mangos look ripe and message or not, but I do know season, Rudy’s cart can be that.” Rudy enjoys his status I’m going to go downstairs that our own household con- found on the same corner as a local fixture and likes and buy one. I won’t have a sumes enough vegetables in a seven days a week, from early interacting with the residents choice between organic and week to raise the neighbor- spring until late November. of his block. “The people in non-organic, as I do at the hood average to extraordinary Rudy has become a fixture in this neighborhood are amaz- Coop; but on the other hand, I levels. Hopefully the city the neighborhood, greeting ing and I enjoy being out don’t have to spend 2.75 won’t find out and take away customers by name and here,” he says. “I’m not going hours a month cleaning our wonderfully convenient excitedly showing off his lat- to get rich; in fact some Rudy’s cart. You can never Green Cart. est offerings; when Rudy months I’m just getting even. have too many fresh fruit and stops you on the street to Want to Run a Green taste a litchi, you can’t help Cart? going home with a bag full. Please protect your feet and toes If you think you have what while working your shift at the it takes to run a Green Cart, A Local Fixture but you’re short of start-up Rudy takes great pride in Coop by not wearing sandals or funds, there’s a special pro- his cart and is quick to point gram administered by the city out the difference between other open-toed footwear. in partnership with Accion his Green Cart and other veg- Thanks for your cooperation, The Park Slope Food Coop USA, a non-profit micro- etable vendors. “You can see lender, that will help get you the difference,” says Rudy. “I
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their crackdowns. Witness- Enter Marshall Curry, the ing this, McGowan, whom Academy Award-nominated other local activists chris- documentary filmmaker. tened The Disgruntled One, Curry already knew McGowan became frustrated, then because Curry’s wife worked enraged, and ultimately con- at that same domestic vio- vinced that “systemic change lence foundation. She was cannot happen from within,” there when McGowan was as he says during the film. arrested. But Curry had no “No real social change has idea McGowan had this happened without pressure, whole other life, and at first, without force, without intim- it was hard to reconcile the idating governments and person he knew with the corporations into changing actions prosecutors were PHOTOS COUTESY OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF DANIEL MCGOWAN AND FRIENDS OF DANIEL COUTESY OF FAMILY PHOTOS their behavior.” claiming he’d committed. Earth Liberation Front fire at Superior Lumber. After the 2001 Seattle protests (in which McGowan talks about the fear he and love story is a sweet spot of McGowan, as you’d expect partook, as part of the black- his family felt after the attack, the film) are conducted from someone this passion- hooded, break-windows con- the newly cautious way in through bullet-proof glass. ate. And the problems that tingent), he moved to which they live, that argu- When his mother was dying, drove him to take such Eugene, Oregon, at the time ment loses some strength. he had to go through so much extreme action—which are ground zero for the radical Still, it’s hard to take serious- red tape before he could call some of the same concerns environmental movement. ly the Department of Justice’s her that by the time he did, that drive so many of us to, There, he became part of an claim that the ELF was the she was already unconscious. among other things, join the ELF cell. The ELF was (and most dangerous domestic McGowan is now in the Coop—have not gone away. remains) loosely structured: terrorist organization, given “home stretch” of his sen- Because the trees, they’re no leadership, its public face that in all its existence, it has tence, says his wife. In anoth- still falling. a handful of talking heads never harmed or injured a er year, he could be who would report on ELF single person. transferred to a halfway If a Tree Falls is playing at actions to the media and When McGowan commit- house. “He's very eager to get select theaters nationwide and espouse ELF philosophy but Daniel McGowan. ted his two arsons, it was early a job and live like the rest of comes out on DVD on August who had no direct knowledge 2001, before 9/11. It would us on the outside,” Synan 30th. It will be available on Net- of the actions until after the No Wild-Eyed take the unrelenting Oregon says. “He often has friends flix at the end of November. fact and no knowledge of the Revolutionary police more than four years to send him job listings to get For more information, go to people behind them. It was “Before making the film, if piece together the crimes an idea what is out there. www.ifatreefallsfilm.com. ■ an effective strategy. In the you'd asked me who was (and this police procedural He's been compiling a list of heyday of the ELF, its mem- behind the ELF, I might have part of the film plays like a organizations he will be bers committed a string of guessed it was wild-eyed, true life Law & Order). By the reaching out to for employ- arsons at a variety of targets aggressive revolutionaries,” time McGowan pleaded guilty ment before his release. His from ski resorts to university Curry says. “Daniel didn't rant –unlike many of his co-defen- focus is completely on the labs to car dealerships to tree and rave and knew how to talk dants, he refused to be a gov- future and being with me and farms. Anything seen as with people who didn't share ernment cooperator and the rest of his family.” harmful to the environment his opinions. But my stereo- testify against his co-conspir- Synan says social justice was fair game—with costs types were wrong—he had ators in exchange for a more and environmental issues are spiraling into the millions of done those fires and I wanted lenient sentence – it was 2007. still deeply important to dollars. Because of its struc- to understand that. How had ture, the ELF stymied law someone like him gotten Prison Life enforcement and evaded cap- involved in those actions?” The timing matters, not just ture for years. The film provides a com- in the philosophical question Sudoku McGowan participated in pelling, even visceral, under- of what constitutes terrorism, two fires. His first was at a standing of McGowan’s (and but in terms of his sentencing. lumber mill. “Sometimes other like-minded activists’) Had McGowan gone to trial when you see things you radicalization. Some scenes, and been found guilty, he love being destroyed, you of the police almost gently would’ve been facing several just want to destroy those dabbing pepper spray into life sentences—for two victim- things.” The second was an the eyes of prostate protest- less fires—because the fires attack on a tree farm sus- ers, are difficult to watch. The qualified as a terrorist crime. pected of growing genetical- views of clearcuts are dis- The sentence he did receive, ly engineered species, which heartening. But part of the about seven years, seems rela- turned out to be untrue. And film’s strength is pushing tively light given what he was it left him with more misgiv- past the propaganda of a initially facing. But he received ings. Watching the place go highly charged group like the a so-called terrorism enhance- up in flames, McGowan felt ELF. Part of the film’s sur- ment, which meant that much that there had to be a better prise—after the initial brutal of his sentence has been way than “just burning clampdown footage—is that served in a Communications things down.” That was his it manages to be sympathetic Management Unit, “essential- last ELF action. He eventual- to all the players: McGowan, ly a terrorist wing,” as Curry ly returned to New York City, other ELF members, the puts it. His communication is limited his activism to the police, and even lumber com- heavily restricted: one letter a confines of the law, fell in pany executives. week, one phone call and visit love, and got a job working ELF members may claim per month. The Linewaiters’ for a domestic violence that what they do is property Gazette is among the mail he foundation. That was where destruction, not terrorism, receives. Visits, even those he was working when, four but when the head of the with his wife (he married girl- years later, federal agents lumber company whose friend Jenny Synan during the barged in to arrest him. offices McGowan torched thick of his legal battle; the Puzzle author: James Vasile. For answers, see page 15.xx.
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Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY August 25, 2011 5 An Invitation to a Community Debate on the Boycott Issue
By Carol Horwitz differences may split apart a European governments, have community, an institution, or failed to act to stop the abuses Want to know more about friendships. This open conver- that are intensifying and when The Event: what Boycott, Divestment sation is a way to open up dis- other forms of pressure have and Sanctions against Israel cussion, not shut it down. not been successful. On September 15, we will be fortunate to hear speak- is all about? As a member of Background: Many artists Some artists, actors, musi- ers who have thought deeply about—and been involved the Park Slope Food Coop, I and musicians and others cians and others, also commit- in—issues of peace and justice, who have spent time in invite you to attend “An Open oppose the Israeli occupation ted to peace and justice, feel Israel/Palestine, and who disagree with each other Jewish Conversation on Cul- and support the cultural boy- differently. They believe that a about BDS and cultural boycott. Some of our speakers tural Boycott of Israel” (Kolot cott of Israel—which is part of cultural boycott of Israel does are active in the arts, and some are members of Jewish Chayeinu, on Eighth Ave. the international Boycott, more harm than good and is groups that focus on peace in the Middle East. Some between 10th and 11th Divestment, and Sanctions not an appropriate tool in the are members of our host congregation. Streets, Thursday, Sept. 15, Israeli-Palestinian context. Hosted by Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives: Building a Pro- 7:30 p.m.). They accept—or support gressive Jewish Community in Brooklyn 1012 Eighth Ave. All PSFC members and accepting—invitations to per- between 10th and 11th Streets in Park Slope. their friends are invited to a Member form or exhibit in Israel and respectful conversation prefer to keep channels of Speakers (organizational affiliation for identification among Jews with many differ- Contribution communication open. When purposes only): Udi Aloni*, filmmaker; Dalit Baum*, ent perspectives about the Israeli cultural institutions or Who Profits?: Jethro Eisenstein, Board of Directors, Jew- cultural boycott of Israel. artists perform in the U.S., ish Voice for Peace; Roy Nathanson, musician, member During this time when the UN (BDS) campaign—as a non- some of these people prefer to of Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives; Lynne Sachs, is scheduled to vote on Pales- violent way to press Israel to focus on their art, and not to filmmaker, member of Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our tinian statehood, we hope to abide by international law and engage in political action such Lives; Ron Skolnik, executive director, Partners for Pro- encourage discussion and recognize Palestinians’ human as protests or calls for boycott. gressive Israel (Meretz USA) thought within the Jewish rights and self-determination. Some who share this view Moderator: Esther Kaplan, radio and print journalist community about how to This boycott includes the deci- about cultural boycott also best support movements for sion not to perform or exhibit feel this way about the Pales- *The two Israeli speakers confirmed their participa- peace and justice in Pales- in Israel or in settlements in tinian call regarding BDS in tion prior to the July 11 passage in the Israeli Knesset of tine/Israel. This evening will the Occupied Territories. This general or other specific the “Bill for Prevention of Damage to the State of Israel provide an opportunity to also includes a call to boycott expressions of it. ■ Through Boycott.” This law, which has drawn wide- hear from people with differ- Israeli institutions that are spread international criticism, limits freedom of expres- ent points of view about complicit with the occupation. sion and association and exposes Israeli citizens and whether a cultural boycott is Supporters of BDS and of a organizations to litigation and penalties if they publicly an appropriate and effective cultural boycott have joined call for all kinds of boycotts of Israel, settlements, or the strategy for doing just that. an appeal called for by Pales- occupation. As of this writing, both of these speakers Too often these days open tinian civil society asking the have confirmed they can join us. In the event they must discussions among American international community to adjust their plans, alternate speakers will be confirmed. Jews about Israel, its politics, use this non-violent tool at a Organizing Committee: Naomi Allen, Ricky Blum, culture, and government are time when the Israeli govern- Mary Buchwald (Brooklyn For Peace); Elly Bulkin, Carol prevented, often from fear that ment, as well as the U.S. and Horwitz, Donna Nevel (Jews Say No!); Cindy Greenberg, Rabbi Ellen Lippmann (Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives).
Interested in learning more about how diversity issues affect Coop members’ shopping and work shift experiences?
Want to know more about what resources are available to help your shift run more smoothly? Labor Day Hours The Park Slope Food Coop’s Diversity and Equality Committee is holding a series of workshops for Squad Leaders. The goal of the two-hour workshop is to increase awareness and understanding of diversity in the Coop. Through interactive discussions we will talk Monday, Sept 5th about the values of diversity, how differences can create both collaboration and conflict and strategies for dealing with issues of diversity. We will discuss conflicts that have arisen in the Coop, the findings of the diversity survey and what you can do to make the Coop a more welcoming place for all. TRAINING DATES: Shopping: 8:00 am-10:00 pm Saturday, September 17, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Thursday, September 22, 7-9 p.m. Membership Office: Saturday, October 15, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Thursday, October 27, 7-9 p.m. 8:00 am-8:30 pm
Please call 888-922-COOP (2667) box 89 or send an e-mail to [email protected] (with “SL Training” in the subject line) to confirm your attendance and/or for more information. In either case, please tell us your name, Coop member number, contact information and the date you are interested in attending. We will reply with a confirmation within a week.
DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY COMMITTEE PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP WORKSLOT CREDIT (MAKE-UP OR FTOP) IS AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO ATTEND.
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6 August 25, 2011 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY IMPORTANT CHANGES — that could affect your shopping privileges — are coming to the Coop on September 12! Starting on September 12 the Checkout/Cashier stations will know your member status and your household status. A “suspension” could impact your ability to shop.
Contact the Membership Office or pick up a flier at the Entrance Desk to learn more.
The Orientation Committee is looking for Coop members who have a group teaching and/or training back- ground to lead Orientation sessions.
Potential orientors should be articulate, well-organized, and able to give a large amount of information in a personable and accessible way to a diverse group in a short period of time. Orientors lead sessions every six weeks, and on the week midway between sessions, must be available as ecokvetch backup for emergency coverage. i]ZZck^gdcbZciVa Xdbb^iiZZWad\ Regular slots are on Sunday afternoons, Monday or Wednesday evenings, or Wednesday mornings. 8ddeBZbWZghjhZ Coop member need at least two years of membership and an excellent (-(EA6HI>876 Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com 11-08-25 p1-16_Layout 1 8/24/11 6:38 PM Page 7 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY August 25, 2011 7 What Is the BDS Movement? Follow the Food Coop on By Barbara Mazor BDS supporter Ahmed Moor recognition of a Jewish state. is more direct: “BDS does Seven Arab League nations What is the BDS movement? mean the end of the Jewish declared war on Israel, vowing What is its goal? We need to state.” The world is filled with to exterminate the Jews. know if we in the Coop are to vote ethnic nation-states. There are War is a terrible thing. on holding a referendum to join About 25 million Germans, BDS. Russians, Poles, Ukrainians BDS stands for Boycott, and others were uprooted in Divest, Sanction. The target is Member the aftermath of World War II. Israel. BDS equates Israel with Contribution Some 2 million Jewish sur- @foodcoop the former apartheid regime of vivors in Europe had nowhere South Africa. It claims Israel is to go home. The partition of obligated under international law India caused the displacement to: 1) end the occupation of Arab 21 Arab states. Islam enjoys an of 14 million Hindus, Sikhs and The 160,000 Arabs who uniquely evil. It ignores Arab lands; 2) provide equal rights for official state status in 17 of Muslims. Around 700,000 remained inside Israel and incitement and violence. It is Arab citizens of Israel; 3) allow the them. BDS applies a different Arabs fled to the neighboring their descendants have full citi- BDS’s position that Israel has return of Arabs who left Palestine standard to Israel; only Jews are invading Arab countries, during zenship and full civil rights in no right to exist. during the 1948 war. The goal, denied the right of self-deter- the 1948 war. Subsequently, at Israel. Arabs in Israel vote, When does criticism of according to BDS leader Omar mination. least 700,000 Jews were forced attend university, work in all Israel cross the line and Barghouti, is “a more just, moral Jews share a unique history, out of Arab countries. professions, serve in the Parlia- become anti-Semitism? and therefore enduring alterna- culture, language and religion. In this context, the Palestin- ment, and serve as judges. To According to Hannah Rosen- tive for peaceful coexistence By every definition they are a ian exodus, while tragic, is not compare their situation to thal of the US State Depart- between Jews and Arabs in Man- nation, and historically have extraordinary. Yet, while all “apartheid” is a bald-faced lie ment: “when Israel is date Palestine: the one-state been treated that way. If there other refugees were absorbed and disrespectful to those who demonized, when Israel is solution.” is a right of all peoples to self- by their host countries, only the truly suffered in South Africa. It held to different standards The BDS claims seem rea- determination, then Jews, too, Arab Palestinians remained is an attempt to demonize than the rest of the countries, sonable, only if you know noth- are entitled to that right. stateless. Their Arab host coun- Israel. and when Israel is delegit- ing about the Middle East or Up until the 1948 war, Jews tries refused to absorb them Since 1967, the Arabs have imized, these cases are not world history. acquired land though purchas- and grant them the full rights of rejected numerous offers by disagreements with a policy An advocate of a “peaceful es from Arab landowners at citizenship. There is no move- Israel to end the occupation – of Israel, this is anti-Semi- coexistence between Jews and inflated prices. In 1947, in an ment demanding the right of the result of a defensive war - in tism.” BDS does all three. Arabs” would encourage activities attempt to end the ethnic vio- return for anyone displaced dur- return for an end to the conflict Entertaining any connec- intended to normalize relation- lence in Mandatory Palestine, ing this period in history but the and coexistence with a secure tion to BDS means treating it ships between Arabs and Jews. the UN General Assembly rec- Palestinians. Ahmed Moor Jewish state. Again, Moor: as having a legitimate side of Barghouti’s organization, PACBI, ommended partition of the writes, “The right of return “Ending the occupation doesn’t a public debate, an unaccept- published a pamphlet to discour- land into 2 states - one for Jews, [BDS’s third demand] is an invi- mean anything if it doesn’t able position for the Park age Palestinian youth from partic- one for Arabs. The Jews accept- olable and sacrosanct principle mean upending the Jewish Slope Food Coop. ■ ipating in peacebuilding efforts, ed the plan. The Arabs rejected which necessarily spells out the state itself.” branding those who do “traitors.” the plan because it included end of the Jewish state.” BDS seeks to depict Israel as What Is That? How Do I Use It? Food Tours in the Coop Monday, August 29, September 12 & 26 Noon to 2:45 p.m. You can join in any time during a tour. BY KEVIN RYAN PHOTO If the weather is hot If you are depressed find water find your heart and put a hand there Looking If you are late If loss grieves you for find the sky—it is never late find gratitude for what you have something new? If you are pressured Endless torments await Check out the Coop’s find your breath products blog. Find the good If you are lonely Focus there The place to go for the latest find your smile information on our current product inventory. If you are in pain The Park Slope Food Coop find the part of you that is well Finding you the goods by Myra Klockenbrink You can connect to the blog via the Coop’s website www.foodcoop.com Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com 11-08-25 p1-16_Layout 1 8/24/11 6:38 PM Page 8 8 August 25, 2011 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY COOP HOURS Friday A monthly musical fundraising partnership of Office Hours: Sep 16 the Park Slope Monday through Thursday Food Coop and 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. the Brooklyn Society Friday & Saturday for Ethical Culture 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Shopping Hours: Monday–Friday 8:00 a.m. to 10:00* p.m. Saturday 6:00 a.m. to 10:00* p.m. Sunday Park Slope local singer and guitarist Mamie Minch 6:00 a.m. to 7:30* p.m. sounds something like a well-fleshed-out 78rpm record. *Shoppers must be on a checkout line She’s known around town for her Piedmont-style 15 minutes after closing time. Childcare Hours: fingerpicking chops, her big deep voice and her Monday through Sunday self-penned antique-sounding songs. She’s played 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 p.m. music all over the world and Brooklyn, with all kinds Telephone: of excellent people, including Dayna Kurtz, the 718-622-0560 Roulette Sisters, Jimbo Mathis and CW Stoneking. Web address: www.foodcoop.com Singer-songwriter Noe Venable is a composer of mystically tinged experimental folk songs, incorporating spine-tingling vocal harmonies and soaring strings. Ani DiFranco has called her music “ravishingly melodic!” The Linewaiters’ Gazette is published biweekly by the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc., 782 Union Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215. Puremusic.com dubs her “a full-blown young musical Opinions expressed here may be solely the views of the writer. The visionary.” Having honed her songwriting and musicianship Gazette will not knowingly publish articles that are racist, sexist, or oth- erwise discriminatory. within the context of San Francisco’s rich experimental and jazz music scene, Venable has The Gazette welcomes Coop-related articles, and letters from members. gone on to wider recognition through the release of five albums, as well as national SUBMISSION GUIDELINES tours opening for artists from Ani DiFranco to They Might be Giants. All submissions must include author’s name and phone number and conform to the following guidelines. Editors will reject letters and 53 Prospect Park West [at 2nd Street] $10 8:00 p.m. [doors open at 7:45] articles that are illegible or too long. Submission deadlines appear • • in the Coop Calendar opposite. Performers are Park Slope Food Coop members and receive Coop workslot credit. Booking: Bev Grant, 718-788-3741 Letters: Maximum 500 words. All letters will be printed if they conform to the guidelines above. The Anonymity and Fairness policies appear on the letters page in most issues. Voluntary Articles: Maximum 750 words. Editors will reject articles that are essentially just advertisements for member businesses and Monthly on the... services. Last Sunday This Issue Prepared By: August 28 R Coordinating Editors: Stephanie Golden Committee Reports: Maximum 1,000 words. 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Erik Lewis Editor-Writer Guidelines: Except for letters to the editor, which Second Saturday are published without editing but are subject to the Gazette letters September 10 E Editors (development): Dan Jacobson policy regarding length, anonymity, respect, and fairness, all 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Carey Meyers submissions to the Linewaiters' Gazette will be reviewed and if Third Thursday Reporters: Gayle Forman necessary edited by the editor. In their review, editors are guided September 15 by the Gazette's Fairness and Anonymity policies as well as stan- 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. C Tom Matthews dard editorial practices of grammatical review, separation of fact Danielle Uchitelle from opinion, attribution of factual statements, and rudimentary On the sidewalk in front of the receiving fact checking. Writers are responsible for the factual content of area at the Coop. Art Director (development): Michelle Ishay their stories. Editors must make a reasonable effort to contact Y Illustrators: Paul Buckley and communicate with writers regarding any proposed editorial changes. Writers must make a reasonable effort to respond to Photographers: Ann Rosen and be available to editors to confer about their articles. 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Submissions willbeconsideredfortheSep27 TU GM TU Ne e 2ise 12:00p.m.,Mon,Sep12 12:00p.m.,Mon,Aug29 Sep 22issue: Sep 8issue: E A TT E E x zette De SS , S , Gazette ions, needs and concerns of every member.ions, needsandconcernsof every accessible toallandrespect theopin- strive tomaketheCoop welcoming and oppose discriminationin anyform.We mitted todiversityand equality. tion andtheenvironment. others abouthealthandnutrition,coopera- lead byexample,educatingourselvesand friendly producers.We We recycle. to try tions. We prefertobuyfromlocal,earth- share withotherspeciesandfuturegenera- impact ofourlifestylesontheworldwe the environment. toxic, sustainableagriculture. exploitation ofothers.We supportnon- avoid productsthatdependonthe cessed andhealthfulfoods. emphasis onorganic,minimallypro- We offeradiversityofproductswithan of andsupportthecooperativemovement. selling agentforanyindustry. We areapart buying agentforourmembersandnota ethical employerandneighbor. We area equally. We strivetobearesponsibleand we shareresponsibilitiesandbenefits principles. Onlymembersmayshop,and ble withinthecontextofourvaluesand enables ustokeeppricesaslowpossi- through cooperationandteamwork labor: workingtogetherbuildstrust business. Asmembers,wecontributeour alternative tocommercialprofit-oriented ber-owned andoperatedfoodstore— The Park SlopeFood Coopisamem- t A E A G ge Park SlopeFood Coop I RS &VOLUNT E U F e P 6,8:00 G IE Mission Statement akSoeFo op roln YAugust25,2011 Park SlopeFood Coop,Brooklyn, NY nda n 30,7:00P 1 B the bathrooms.You willworkwithonlynatural cleaning toilets,moppingfloorsandstocking bathrooms. 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The GeneralMeetingisheldonthelastTuesday ofeach August 30,7:00p.m. Next Meeting:Tuesday, every GeneralMeeting. are availableattheCoopCommunityCornerand the AnnualMeetinginJune.CopiesofCoop’s bylaws every GeneralMeeting.Boardmembersareelectedat almost everyGeneralMeetingdecisionattheendof required toactlegallyandresponsibly, hasapproved General Meetings.TheBoardofDirectors,whichis meetings andtoreceivetheadviceofmembersat General MeetingsbyrequiringtheBoardtohaveopen Board ofDirectors.TheCoopcontinuedthetradition porated in1977,wehavebeenlegallyrequiredtoa Coop’s decision-makingprocess.SincetheCoopincor- monthly GeneralMeetingshavebeenatthecenterof From ourinceptionin1973tothepresent,open Our GoverningStructure Report •CommitteeReports General Meeting All Aboutthe Membership Officeformoreinformation. ed inthisworkslot,pleasecontactthe perform otherrelatedtasks.Ifyouareinterest- floor, labelvitaminsandsupplements, ply areainthebasementandonshopping her checkinorders,organizethevitaminsup- The Coop’s vitaminbuyerneedsyoutohelp independently andinabusyenvironment? Are youadetail-orientedworkerwhocanwork F V about doingathoroughjob. bers wholiketocleanandareconscientious cleaning products.Thisjobisperfectformem- riday i t amin , 2:30to5: A • FinancialReportCoordinators’ ss (unless thereisavotetoextend • MeettheCoordinators 1 i Open Forumisatimefor 5 st p.m. an t 9 11-08-25 p1-16_Layout 1 8/24/11 6:38 PM Page 10 10 August 25, 2011 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY aug 28 sep 6 sun 12 pm Intro to Fertility Awareness tue 8 pm Agenda Committee Meeting Learn how to chart your menstrual cycle events in order to achieve or avoid pregnancy. This The Committee reviews pending agenda items and creates the workshop will describe the basic tools used to interpret the body’s signals, indicating fertile agenda for this month’s General Meeting. Drop by and talk with and infertile days. Women with menstrual issues, irregular cycles or compromised fertility committee members face-to-face between 8 and 8:15 p.m. may also find charting helpful. Open to both women and men. Coop member Kim Chinh is Before submitting an item, read “How to Develop an Agenda currently in training to become certified as a Holistic Reproductive Healthcare Practitioner Item for the General Meeting” and fill out the General Meeting Agenda Item Submission through a Canadian program: Justisse Healthworks for Women. Form, both available from the Membership Office or at foodcoop.com. The next General Meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 27, 7 p.m., at Congregation Beth Elohim Social Hall (Garfield Temple), 274 Garfield Place at Eighth Avenue. aug 30 tue 7 pm PSFC AUG General Meeting Items will be taken up in the order given. Times in parentheses are suggestions. More information on each item may be avail sep 10 able on the entrance table at the meeting. We ask members to Understanding Your Toddler please read the materials available between 7 and 7:15 p.m. sat 12 pm Meeting location: Congregation Beth Elohim Social Hall (Garfield Temple), Toddlers can be delightful, confusing, frustrating and exhausting—all in the span of 274 Garfield Place at Eighth Avenue. five minutes! Understanding the toddler’s developmental changes can help parents nav- Item #1: Co-sponsorship of the next Brooklyn Food Conference (45 minutes) igate the often demanding toddler years with increased patience and skill. This work- Discussion: “The Park Slope Food Coop will be a co-sponsor of the 2012 Brooklyn Food shop will explore the reasons for toddlers’ behavior. We’ll discuss balancing the needs Conference with a donation of $10,000.” of the child and the parents, and ideas for handling common challenging behaviors, —submitted by Nancy Romer on behalf of the Brooklyn Food Coalition such as tantrums and defiance. Pre-registration requested: to register, e-mail Explanation: The second Brooklyn Food Conference, on May 12, 2012, will strengthen [email protected]. Coop member Becky Plattus and Sharon Connor are the food movement and healthy, sustainable access in Brooklyn and beyond, and social workers and early-childhood and parent educators. advance the community work of the Park Slope Food Coop. Item #2: Create Cooperative Study/Education Committee (45 minutes) Discussion: “Regular work assignment for 5/7 members to organize four yearly events on the theme of economics, governance and history of cooperative enterprises and to share the ideas raised therein. One work credit per year offered to each member who sep 10 attends.” —submitted by Susan Metz What Are Nutrient-Dense Foods Explanation: As co-owners, each member has the privilege and the responsibility to partici- sat 3 pm pate in short-, medium- and long-term planning of the PSFC. However, the Cooperative You trust that everything you and your family eat is nourishing, but in truth, most of model and our decision-making structures are not well-understood. In addition to studying it only adds unnecessary energy and not enough of the nutrients that make health cooperative economics, governance and history and to planning and implementing four soar. Come and learn about the nutrient-dense foods that we, just like our ances- educational events per year, the committee members will use the Gazette and the website tors, need for flourishing health. You won't look at your grocery shopping cart the to share information and stimulate discussion about the Cooperative Movement internation- same way again. Andrea Ramirez is a health coach for women with chronic diges- ally, throughout the U.S., as well as about our own structures. tive, auto-immune and hormonal issues. For information on how to place an item on the Agenda, please see the center pages of the Linewaiters’ Gazette. The Agenda Committee minutes and the status of pending agenda items are available in the Coop office. aug 30 NOFA Locavore sep 11 Fibroids, Cysts and PMS tue 7–9 pm Cooking Challenge sun 12 pm Participants will learn five effective, natural ways to eliminate fibroids, cysts and Several experienced cooks—all Coop members—will demonstrate how to make delicious PMS. Learn the underlying causes of hormonal imbalance, how to resolve them dishes using the great variety and abundance of foods the Coop carries within a 200-mile and how to boost energy and clarity through beneficial diet, appropriate exercise radius. Come to sample the delicious offerings and take home recipes that you may easily and the use of natural supplements. Advanced registration suggested: call 646- use at home. The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY) was found- 483-4571. Coop member Rebecca Curtis is a licensed and registered health and ed in 1983. It is an organization of consumers, gardeners and farmers, working together to fertility coach, through the New York State Department of Education and the create a sustainable regional food system that is ecologically sound and economically viable. American Association of Drugless Practitioners, specializing in women’s issues and hormonal balance. sep 1 Food Class: thu 7:30 pm Fermentation Basics Raw, vitamin-rich and full of probiotics, traditionally lacto-fer sep 13 Safe Food Committee Film Night: mented foods such as sauerkraut, kimchi and half-sour pickles tue 7 pm are both delicious and healthy. They are also easy to make. Chef Two Angry Moms Susan Baldassano, Coordinator Michaela Hayes will discuss fermentation basics and demon- Over the course of a school year, we see a coalition drive dra- strate how to prepare these foods. She developed the “pickling” position while at Gramercy matic changes in one Westchester, NY, school district, show- Tavern, expanding her preservation repertoire to include fermented pickles such as kimchi ing not only what is wrong with school food; but offering and nuka-zuke (Japanese rice-bran pickles). She learned about the sauerkraut business strategies for overcoming roadblocks and getting healthy, and began co-packing and creating pickles and jam in Santa Cruz, CA. Based in Brooklyn, good-tasting, real food into school cafeterias. The movie she teaches pickling, canning and fermentation through her company, Crock & Jar. Menu explores the roles the federal government, corporate interests, school administration includes classic sauerkraut; kimchi; half-sour pickles. Materials fee: $4. and parents play in feeding our country’s school kids. Refreshments will be served. 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. Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com 11-08-25 p1-16_Layout 1 8/24/11 6:38 PM Page 11 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY August 25, 2011 11 sep 16 Mamie Minch and sep 30 Improve Your Health fri 8 pm Noe Venable fri 7 pm With Taoist Tai ChiTM Park Slope local singer and guitarist Learn the first few moves of the 108-move Tai Chi set, which can bring a wide range of Mamie Minch sounds something health benefits to the muscular, skeletal and circulatory systems, with a soothing effect like a well-fleshed-out 78rpm on the mind. Coop member Aaron Kirtz invites you to a demonstration as a member of record. She’s known around town the International Taoist Tai Chi Society™, which has just started classes in Brooklyn. for her Piedmont-style fingerpicking chops, her big deep Please wear loose and comfortable clothing and comfortable shoes. Aaron Kirtz has voice and her self-penned antique-sounding songs. She’s been practicing Taoist Tai Chi™ for 13 years and is a Continuing Instructor in Training. played music all over the world and Brooklyn, with all kinds of excellent people, including Dayna Kurtz, the Roulette Sisters, Jimbo Mathis and CW Stoneking. Singer-songwriter Noe Venable is a composer of mystically tinged experimen- oct 2 tal folk songs, incorporating spine-tingling vocal harmonies Why You’re Not Losing Weight and soaring strings. Ani DiFranco has called her music “rav- sun 12 pm ishingly melodic!” Puremusic.com dubs her “a full-blown What many people don't seem to realize is that you can lose weight and still be young musical visionary.” Having honed her songwriting and unhealthy—which means lost weight is often gained back. This workshop is designed to musicianship within the context of San Francisco’s rich give you the tools you need to kick-start your metabolism and get your body in a state of experimental and jazz music scene, Venable has gone on to wider recognition calorie-burning health and balance. Find out how to become the shape you are meant to through the release of five albums, as well as national tours opening for artists from be! Coop member Coleen DeVol is a health counselor and whole foods nutrition educator. Ani DiFranco to They Might be Giants. This event is rescheduled from an earlier postponed event. Concert takes place at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect Park West (at 2nd St.), $10, doors open at 7:45. The Very Good Coffeehouse is a monthly musical fundraising partnership of the Coop and the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture. To book a Coffeehouse event, contact Bev Grant, 718-788-3741. oct 4 tue 8 pm Agenda Committee Meeting sep 17 The Committee reviews pending agenda items and creates the Why You’re Not Losing Weight sat 3 pm agenda for this month’s General Meeting. Drop by and talk with committee members face-to-face between 8 and 8:15 p.m. What many people don't seem to realize is that you can lose weight and still be Before submitting an item, read “How to Develop an Agenda unhealthy—which means lost weight is often gained back. This workshop is designed to Item for the General Meeting” and fill out the General Meeting Agenda Item Submission give you the tools you need to kick-start your metabolism and get your body in a state of Form, both available from the Membership Office or at foodcoop.com. The next General calorie-burning health and balance. Find out how to become the shape you are meant to Meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 25, 7 p.m., at Congregation Beth Elohim Social be! Coop member Coleen DeVol is a health counselor and whole foods nutrition educator. Hall (Garfield Temple), 274 Garfield Place at Eighth Avenue. sep 27 Qi Gung to Prevent tue 7 pm The Common Cold oct 6 Do you get sniffles, cough or sinus problems every fall and winter? Join in for an thu 7:30 pm Food Class evening of Qi Gung exercises and breathing techniques to strengthen your lungs’ resis- tance to illness. Learn how to treat yourself if you get sick. Workshop is limited to 18 Class subject, chef and menu to be announced. participants. Please reserve by calling 347-461-2028. Presented by licensed acupunc- Materials fee: $4. turist and long-time Coop member Ann E. Reibel-Coyne, who has studied Tai Chi Chuan and Qi Gung with Master Hua Chi Wang and Master Jeffrey Yuen. Susan Baldassano, Coordinator sep 27 PSFC SEPT General Meeting oct 7 tue 7 pm fri 7 pm Film Night Meeting Agenda to be announced. For information on how to Film to be announced. place an item on the Agenda, please see the center pages of To book a Film Night, contact Faye Lederman, the Linewaiters’ Gazette. The Agenda Committee minutes [email protected]. and the status of pending agenda items are available in the Coop office. Meeting location: Congregation Beth Elohim Social Hall (Garfield Temple), 274 Garfield Place at Eighth Avenue. oct 8 Healthy Thyroid oct 21 Wordsprouts: The Coop’s Reading Series oct 11 Safe Food Committee Film Night oct 21 The Very Good Coffeehouse Coop Concert Series oct 15–16 Food Drive to Benefit CHIPS Soup Kitchen oct 25 What Are Nutrient-Dense Foods? oct 16 Food Sensitivities Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com 11-08-25 p1-16_Layout 1 8/24/11 6:38 PM Page 12 12 August 25, 2011 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY FORMING A COOPERATIVE 16,000 members. As individuals, we The conference will advance the cancer, erectile dysfunction, miscar- STUDY/EDUCATION need to accept the responsibility to mission of the PSFC, particularly the riages and asthma. COMMITTEE offer our expertise. That will ensure following commitments: support for Anvil's main active ingredient is that the PSFC can adapt to changing local, sustainable agriculture, protec- Sumithrin—an odorless synthetic DEAR MEMBERS, circumstances as well as share coop- tion of the environment, advancement toxin. Anvil also contains piperonyl We join to shop for quality prod- erative experiences and ideas. of healthy foods and commitment to butoxide and MGK-264, listed by the ucts. Our highly organized work Susan Metz diversity and equality. EPA as possible human carcinogens, responsibility is an obligation that we We estimate the costs for the confer- and benzene-related chemicals each accept to keep prices moderate. THE BROOKLYN FOOD ence to be similar in 2012 as it was in (labeled "inert ingredients"). NYC As Coop members we are co-owners. 2009, about $70,000. In 2012 we are local law 37 prohibits the application What benefits do we expect and what COALITION NEEDS YOUR expecting close to 5,000 participants to of pesticides in public places if they responsibilities do we accept related SUPPORT attend. PSFC support continues to be contain chemicals on the EPA's list. to that aspect of our membership? critical to the conference’s success. We In 2000, the No Spray Coalition Coops are decentralized and democ- LETTER TO THE EDITOR: are presently seeking co-sponsoring filed a lawsuit against then Mayor ratic institutions that can survive the The Park Slope Food Coop, through organizations and are submitting a GM Rudy Giuliani. A federal district court collapse of corporate capitalism, a sys- its Safe Food Squad, initiated the resolution requesting that the Park judge agreed with the Coalition; he tem that is failing. We need to study 2009 Brooklyn Food Conference and Slope Food Coop contribute $10,000, ruled that pesticides sprayed over or and understand the theories and the was its most generous financial and as it did in 2009 ($5,000 outright contri- near waterways constitute a "point ideology of the movement, the history labor contributor. The conference bution and $5,138 in direct food dona- source" for pollutants under the Clean of different cooperative initiatives, aimed to educate and activate the tions for meals). What a pleasure to Water Act. In April 2007 the city models of organizing investment and people of Brooklyn on the many criti- build the food movement in Brooklyn! agreed to a settlement, and explicitly work obligations, and the variety of cal aspects of the food system includ- Respectfully submitted, acknowledged that pesticides: structures for decision making and ing increasing affordable access to The Brooklyn Food Coalition Squad planning—failures as well as success- healthy food, an environmentally sus- • May remain in the environment es. We will learn from each experience tainable food system, and social jus- THANKS FOR FIGHTING beyond their intended purpose; how to protect and improve our Coop tice for workers. Over 3,000 adults and • Cause adverse health effects; that is based on member labor to about 500 kids from most zip codes in FRACKING • Kill mosquitoes' natural preda- maintain equity and affordable prices. Brooklyn attended the free-of-charge DEAR ANN & THE PARK tors (such as dragonflies, bats, The following idea will come before conference in May 2009. Its great par- SLOPE FOOD COOP, frogs and birds); the GM on August 30th for discussion. ticipation and enthusiasm launched • Increase mosquitoes' resistance to With your additional input, the idea the Brooklyn Food Coalition. Many thanks for helping CDOG the sprays; and, will be developed into a proposal and Since the conference, the Brooklyn (Chenango Delaware Otsego Gas • Are not presently approved for presented for a vote at a future GM. If Food Coalition has established 10 Drilling Opposition Group) with your direct application to waterways. the majority of the members at that branches in Brooklyn neighborhoods generous contribution. Your support later GM approve, this new work-slot working on healthy food access, food- goes toward helping CDOG continue Over the last decade, pesticides committee will be formed. related environmental issues and its work fighting gas drilling, and have contributed to the collapse of Here is the idea: worker rights. It has created active encouraging a ban in New York State. bee colonies in New York and spray We form a Cooperative Study/Edu- committees working on school food Signed, drift has forced reclassification of pro- cation Committee that will consist of change, policy issues, racism, map- Members of CDOG duce from now-ruined organic farms. seven members who will receive work- ping and research, and planning the Clearly, the "cure" has been far worse slot credit. next conference. We are committed to [Editor’s note: The Coop bike raffle than the disease. Their mission will be to study the building an inclusive, multi-racial, raised $4,950 for CDOG, which fights Officials are again promoting history, extent and practices of coopera- multi-cultural alliance of residents hydrofracking in New York] insect repellents containing DEET. tives (consumer, producer and housing) and community-based groups from This is crazy! DEET is suspected in and to bring information and insight all parts of Brooklyn. The Coalition NYC MUST STOP numerous infant deaths and should into the dialog among Coop co-owners has organized hundreds of volunteers NEVER be used! In negotiations with through all of the available channels: for Brooklyn-based projects on urban SPRAYING TOXIC the No Spray Coalition last year, the Gazette, the website, special presen- farms and community gardens, food PESTICIDES health officials agreed to stop recom- tations, and regular meetings. pantries, farmers markets, education- mending DEET. Three times a year, the committee al events, and worked with parents DEAR COOP MEMBERS, Over the years, thousands of New will plan, organize and present an and school personnel to improve Mayor Bloomberg's new health Yorkers and visitors were severely sick- informational/educational event that school food for all our kids. officials recently ordered Brooklyn ened by the spraying. Many who suffer will last for three hours. A member One great result, among many, of and Queens sprayed with toxic pesti- from Multiple Chemical Sensitivities who attends a presentation will sign the last Brooklyn Food Conference was cides. Airborne spraying is extremely (MCS) or asthma find that pesticides up in advance and receive one work- the formation of the Food Coop dangerous, especially to children, the exacerbate their conditions. Several slot credit once a year. Alliance/NYC (joining all the NYC food elderly, and people who are immune members of the No Spray Coalition A target number of 40 participants coops and mentoring new ones). The compromised. died in the course of this battle from will encourage those who attend to conference also advanced the agendas The city says that spraying is neces- pesticide-related illnesses. take part in the discussion. A member of food system change and school food sary to reduce the "threat of West Nile The city should reconsider its entire who voluntarily attends two additional change and these ideas have been Virus." But no legitimate threat of the approach to mosquito-borne diseases sessions may join the committee. The reflected in recent City Council resolu- sort has been reported. Poisoning us and seek alternative means for control- committee can expand to 11 members. tions and proposals. Many new all, and pets and wildlife, is simply ling mosquitoes. Coop members are A the end of each event, half an alliances and understandings came not an acceptable approach to any urging the city to accept the fact that hour will be set aside for each partici- from the conference as well. The “food health "threat" even if the "threat" was pesticides are extremely dangerous to pant to write reactions, insights, movement” was given a great boost. valid (it's not). human health and natural environ- questions and suggestions. These It’s time for our next Brooklyn Food Scant public notice was issued ments, and have long-term conse- comments will be published in the Conference! It will be on May 12, 2012 prior to this year's spraying. Immune quences. Stop spraying pesticides Gazette and posted on an interactive at Brooklyn Technical HS in Ft. Greene compromised individuals, among immediately! Safer alternatives can be blog linked to the Coop website. (within three blocks of almost all sub- others, were not provided with found on the No Spray Coalition's web- After three years the committee ways lines in Brooklyn). Our conference enough time to make alternate hous- site at www.NoSpray.org. will report to the GM with recommen- planning committee includes many ing and shopping arrangements. Mitchel Cohen dations for continuing, amending or PSFC members and non-members The pesticide sprayed this year, canceling the project. from a wide range of Brooklyn neigh- Anvil 10+10, belongs to a class of COOP TAXES, REDUX Thanks to those who offered com- borhoods. We will need lots of volun- adulticides—"pyrethroids"—which ments. Consider joining the committee. teers and organizers starting now and are endocrine disruptors. Pyrethroids DEAR EDITOR, As a collective, we need to channel more as we get closer to the date. All mimic hormones such as estrogen, The July 28th Gazette carried my letter all the valuable knowledge, experi- are welcome and invited to join in and may cause breast cancer, drasti- correcting some information in a previ- ence and skills held among our nearly ([email protected]). cally lowered sperm counts, prostate ously published article about Coop Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com 11-08-25 p1-16_Layout 1 8/24/11 6:38 PM Page 13 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY August 25, 2011 13 taxes. I also noted in my letter that sales college students and youth, and to lives, nor could it help bring about allowed to return to the State of Israel, tax had recently been applied to certain building the cooperative movement peace in the Middle East. The only leading to the rejection of its legitima- prepared foods at the Coop, and asked from the local level. Your contribu- conceivable purpose would be to cy by Palestinians and Arab states for for an explanation. tions are vital in enabling us to do so. make a political statement, one decades, expressly on grounds that The "Editor's note" in response to They will be tax-deductible, and you already causing growing divisiveness such obligation would also indirectly my letter clarified a number of tax will be featured on our website, and concern in the Coop. compel them to recognize the exis- issues in the original article, and then www.cofed.org, as an organization If a referendum were to be conduct- tence of the State of Israel. Hence it is stated that "Recently, it was deter- that has provided significant support. ed, PSFC would be identified as being illogical to subsequently argue that a mined by the PSFC legal counsel that Thanks again for all your help! part of a global movement seeking to resolution rejected by both the Pales- certain prepared sandwiches fell within Sincerely, delegitimize Israel and bring about its tinians and the Israelis at the time of the NYS sales tax category and sales CoFed Staff dissolution. You can read about BDS adoption should now be construed as tax has been collected on these items." aims in its own words on its official web the source of law which binds these It would be helpful to have more site: www.bdsmovement.net/bdsintro. parties today. Critically, however, Gen- information. What is the sales tax cat- BUY PRODUCTS FROM By its words and actions, BDS shows eral Assembly resolutions do not con- egory on which basis the determina- ISRAEL AND PALESTINE itself to be more interested in hatred stitute binding international law, and tion was made by our legal counsel? and destruction than peace. are recommendation only, not binding Why are only "certain" sandwiches COOP MEMBERS, Discussion of the referendum has legal norms (as per authoritative works affected out of all sandwiches and As a history teacher I championed already troubled many in the community. on international law: Akehurst; Shaw; other prepared food items? the successful South African boycott. I In the last issue of the Gazette one Brownlie; others). Cooperatively yours—with many thanks, was part of the original movement to member wrote that if a referendum Also adduced is the Universal Decla- Regina Sandler-Phillips boycott Kosher meat from Agriproces- came to pass, he would "immediately ration of Human Rights or the 1966 sors. To get rid of a powerful, deadly resign from the Coop and urge others Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [Editor’s note: Questions about the weed, you cut its roots. In South Africa, to do the same." I have also heard oth- Again, not applicable: international law sales tax on certain products should Agriprocessors, and the grape farms, a ers say that they could not continue experts have noted that the Covenant be directed to a General Coordinator.] few held all profits and power—you their membership if a boycott policy does not materially and essentially deal boycott, you hurt those few. were adopted. It appears that the Coop with those issues and cannot be ABOUT THOSE LETTER Israel is a capitalist democracy. invariably would lose some members, invoked to support the claim to return, Instead of cutting roots, we would be and that people who might have joined and does not obligate Israel to allow HEADLINES hacking at bark, leaves, and surround- would be likely not to do so. If that hap- the entrance of Palestinian refugees ing grass. We would be hurting regu- pened, it could have economic conse- who were never Israeli citizens or resi- DEAR GAZETTE, lar people in a country at the forefront quences for the Coop. dents. Moreover, regardless of these Thanks for the printed correction of the green movement; people who Since the last GM meeting some legally unsupportable re-interpreta- regarding the error in my letter in the made a BPA-free baby bottle when members have spoken about feeling tions of international law, it is over- previous Gazette. there was no other; one of the only uncomfortable in the Coop because looked that the right to self- However, a new error has appeared successful examples of socialism on they no longer see themselves as part determination is also and explicitly in my letter this current issue: a title this planet. Israel has no small all- of a diverse, harmonious organization. guaranteed in international law, but was used (“Questions about BDS”) that powerful minority for us to cut off. I have heard people express their con- recognized as jus cogens—compelling was not mine: mine was identified both Israel is a player in a terrible situa- cern that if a referendum were held, law taking precedence over other con- in the subject line of my email submis- tion, but not necessarily a starter. Arab members of the Beth Elohim congrega- siderations—which therefore overrides sion, and in the leader to the text of my leaders rejected the1947 UN partition tion might feel resentful at GM meet- other claims, as return of refugees to letter, as “The Illogic of BDS: How Not plan without giving Palestinians a ings continuing to be held there. Israel would negate the Jewish right to to Have a Discussion” and for some voice. After Arab countries attacked the It becomes increasingly clear that a self-determination in violation of the reason it was not used and a different new state of Israel and armistice lines boycott is likely to leave deep, long-term principle of jus cogens. title substituted which has little con- were drawn in 1948, the land allocated scars on our Coop and our community. What in fact international law— nection to what I was after. If for any for the Palestinian state was taken from The wounds have already begun including the resolutions adduced— reason (length or otherwise) my own them by Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and to form. recognizes is the full authority of the title could not be accommodated, best Lebanon (not Israel). Currently in Jor- Ruth Bolletino contesting governments to reach any if I were consulted and informed why, dan, Palestinians make up a majority of compromise deemed just and appro- and I would have been only too glad to the population but receive no citizen- NON-RIGHT OF RETURN priate—the principle of "just settle- effect any modifications as required. ship rights. Can we really just point fin- ment"—and stipulates that the right But I acknowledge that perhaps I have gers at Israel? of return demand must be negotiat- misunderstood either the procedure If it is not clear that Israel deserves COOP MEMBERS, ed by governments as part of politi- for specifying the letter title, or the punishment, and if we cannot guaran- BDS supports the Palestinian claim cal resolution, not resolvable in associated requirements, in which case tee that the punishment will only hurt that international law vests Palestin- courts of law. let me know. those at fault, we should not be pur- ian refugees and their descendants the As I have argued before, the plight Respectfully, suing this expensive referendum. “right of return” to the territory of the of Palestinian refugees everywhere— Constantine Kaniklidis Instead let’s BUY products from Israel State of Israel. But critical appraisal including in Arab states—will not be AND Palestine. demonstrates unequivocally that no improved by irredentist and false— THANKS FOR SUPPORTING Rebeccah Appelbaum such right is assured or granted under under international law—claims of international law, neither international right of return. It is time to address COOPERATIVE FOOD BOYCOTT WOULD LEAVE criminal, citizenship, refugee (per the real issues, for the sake of Pales- EMPOWERMENT refugee covenants), nor humanitarian tinians, for Israelis, and most impor- SCARS law. Nor are the descendants of origi- tantly, for peace. DEAR PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP, nal Palestinian refugees, under inter- Constantine Kaniklidis We are writing on behalf of CoFed TO THE EDITOR: national law, true refugees (95% never (Cooperative Food Empowerment If you are considering the merits of set foot in Israel). Moreover many of Directive) in appreciation for your conducting a referendum to join the the people claiming "right" of return ABOUT THE PROPOSED support of our 2011 retreat. Thank you Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions were never in Palestine, and are BOYCOTT so much for contributing $100! (BDS) of Israel, I urge you to think descended from people who were Because of generous donations from about the possible profound conse- never in Palestine. Critically, in inter- COOP MEMBERS, your organization and others, we had quences to PSFC of the boycott policy national law refugee status and I'm wondering about the proposed a successful and inspiring week that being advocated. refugee rights are never heritable. BDS boycott of Israel. Does this readied students from 10 campuses Even if the Coop were to carry more One basis for right of return include Israeli technology or just its to go back to their universities to start than the very few Israeli products adduced is UN General Assembly Res- peppers and bath salts? How about or expand a student food cooperative. already on its shelves, banning Israeli olution 194(III). But the resolution Israeli citizens? Are they still welcome Our organization is committed to goods would be irrelevant for Israel explicitly includes a condition whereby at the Coop? expanding the market for local, organ- and the Palestinians. It could not help only refugees wishing to “live at peace Chana Lew ic food by growing demand among the Palestinian people improve their with their neighbours” should be Israeli American and proud of it Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com 11-08-25 p1-16_Layout 1 8/24/11 6:38 PM Page 14 14 August 25, 2011 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY JOINING THE BOYCOTT full analysis of how boycott is to be Jordan Goldberg Stewart Pravda the last general meeting, that of how WOULD BE A DISGRACE run and its potential economic Lori Gottesman Joseph Raices climate change is affecting what local effect on the Coop. What are the cri- Beth Halpern Rivka Raices farmers can produce and what we pay TO THE MEMBERSHIP, teria for excluding items? Is it only Fran Hawthorne Rachel Ravitz for it. The Coop would be far better In 1968, a little more than 20 years items we sell or items we use, such Devorah Hershkop Saul D. Raw served by working with others to after the end of World War II and as our computers and software? Will Samuel Hertz Yigal Rechtman sponsor legislation to find solutions exactly 20 years after the birth of Israeli citizens be allowed to stay in Esther Hertzel Jeffrey Rickin to the food supply problems we Israel, I was working at a summer the Coop? How will it affect our Betty Leigh Lila Rieman already face, many of which will camp in Minnesota for disabled chil- sales and membership? What are Hutcheson Michael Rieman become critical in the coming years. dren as a speech therapist. the costs? Sheldon Jacobson Jill Robinson Nothing can be gained by airing One of my young charges was a 10- In Marrickville, Australia, a suburb Constantine Joy Romanski the BDS issue other than much wind year-old girl with whom I developed of Sydney, the Council voted to join Kaniklidis Doris Rosenbaum and members sneering at each other an especially close relationship. She the boycott of Israel. Subsequently, Benjamin Kessel Ron Rosenbaum over something we cannot change. If had a severe stutter and I had, in a they realized that doing so would cost Eric Kim Mirele Rosenberger the BDS supporters don’t like Israel, common technique, shown her that $3.7M. The boycott was immediately Joshua Kranz Jesse Rosenfeld they don’t have to buy Israeli prod- she could speak completely fluently if overturned. Maureen Kushner Tzivia Chaya ucts. They have the right to vote with she couldn't hear her own speech. Before this effort goes any further, I Evelyn Lampart Rosenthal their dollars, not ours. Our focus When she heard the recording of suggest the group proposing the boy- Chaya Lang Yaacov Rosenthal ought to be squarely aimed at mak- her fluent self she went pale and I cott of Israel, provide this analysis. Tzvi Lang Jonathan S. Sack ing the Coop stronger not fragment- questioned whether I should have Avishay Mazor David Leveson Lisa Sack ing the membership over flawed used that strategy on her. But it creat- Margaret Leveson Ruth Seliger premises. ed a bond between us and we worked WITHDRAW THE Sam Levine Shayna Schmidt Rodger Parsons very well together after that to help Chana Lew Rivkah Siegel BOYCOTT REFERENDUM her achieve a better degree of fluency Pinny Lew Mushkie Silberberg QUESTIONING THE in her speech once she had been con- Sylvia Lowenthal Naftali Silberberg vinced that this was possible. COOP MEMBERS, Judith Magen Adam Silver BOYCOTT MOVEMENT One day we were sharing stories Fellow Coop members, we hope Ary Malamud Renee Silver about our lives and in one context or that you will join us in opposing any Sasha Malamud Lisa Smith TO THE MEMBERSHIP: another I mentioned that I was Jewish. proposal for the Coop to hold a refer- Sandy Mandel Nancy Spitalnick After attending the July 26 GM and For the second time that summer she endum on joining the Boycott, Divest, Abie Mazor Israel Spitalny reading the submission of the BDS went pale and then revealed that she Sanction (BDS) of Israel movement. Avishay Mazor Malkah Spitalny group, I still don't know what we are had never before met a Jewish person We have asked BDS six times to with- Barbara Mazor Marion Stein voting on. They have provided very lit- and thought we all had horns. draw their proposal because it would April Mellas Ronald J. Stein tle substantive information. We are I remember being surprised that be divisive, and thus detrimental to David Michaelson Jonathan Stern supposed to be voting on joining an anyone in 20th-century America could the Coop. Jacob Milkens Susan Tauber already established movement. Who hold such a belief. Obviously she had Our Coop welcomes and thrives on Juliet Milkens Allen Tobias established this movement? They been fed this information at home or diversity of all kinds: not only ethnic, Paula Morrell Rabbi Gerald I. don't tell us. What groups are part of in church, deep in the countryside of racial and sexual diversity, but politi- Barry Nass Weider it? The Coop must not be aligned with Minnesota. cal diversity as well—to be played out Poppy O’Neill Rosalie H. Weider known terrorist organizations, like Twenty years later, in Park Slope, I by each individual within his own Marjorie Ordene Baruch Weisman Hamas, Islamic Jihad or Hezbollah. became friends with nonagenarian sphere of activity outside of the Coop. Jan Orzeck Rivky Wilenkin Can they assure me that these groups neighbor, a deeply Catholic woman BDS supporters are attempting to Rodger Parsons are NOT part of this movement? who had lived through two world wars impose one very narrowly defined Hara Person According to existing BDS literature, and had lost a brother to the Spanish political position upon the entire Ann Powell they are! Flu pandemic of 1918. When she told membership within the Coop. An The result of their boycott is that me that I didn't look Jewish I under- association with BDS takes the Coop BOYCOTT IS A SLIPPERY the Coop would no longer carry goods stood that she thought she was pay- off its path and turns a community that would supply "economic sup- ing me a compliment. center for good food and healthy SLOPE port" to Israel or as their paper dis- Now, in 2011, I belong to a Food choices into a political tool. That's tributed at the GM said, "Israeli Coop some of whose members wish not why we joined. COOP MEMBERS, goods." What goods are we talking to affiliate this organization with one Once again, we ask those propos- The difficulty with BDS is that it about? They were asked about this at that seeks to destroy the Jewish State ing a BDS referendum to withdraw asks the rest of us to accept a flawed the GM but did not answer. Are we of Israel, "nonviolently." their proposal. premise as a starting point—that talking only about goods produced in I've been very lucky to have If you wish to add your name to our Israel is an apartheid state. Whatever Israel? by Israelis no matter where escaped the worst of anti-Jewish sen- list, send an e-mail to: morehum- negative things one can say about the they live? Jewish products that they timents and stereotypes. Many of my [email protected]. To learn more, go to Little Land by the Sea, this label is think support Israel? American goods ancestors weren't so fortunate. Any- stopbdsparkslope.blogspot.com. patently false. since the U.S. supports Israel? Who one who has experienced or studied More Hummus, Please The shadows and mist from which will decide what items to boycott? Jewish history should understand that Rhudi Andreolli Alan Brown BDS emerged ought to warn anyone How long will the boycott last? What there needs to be a Jewish State of Maurice Appelbaum Arthur Brown off their petulant rant. The talking will determine that the boycott is suc- Israel, and joining the Coop to the Rebeccah Appelbaum Matthew Brown point is that the PSFC, by offering cessful? Specific answers from this BDS movement would be a disgrace Eva Aridjis Darrin Cabot Israeli products, is supporting Israel. group are needed if we are going to to this wonderful institution. Roberta Arnold Nathalie Cabot But that’s like saying when we make a have an informed decision. Sylvia Lowenthal Shena Gitel Astrin Rubi Cammarota decision to include the things people Lila Rieman Connie Bell Chana Crayk want to buy, we support the regimes Greg Bell Meir Crayk from which those things emerge, THE COST OF A BOYCOTT Steven Berke Zusha Dean another false premise. Shalmon Bernstein Sharon Eagle I may not like particular govern- WHAT’S BEHIND THE COOP MEMBERS, Esther Bernstein Audrey Elias ments around the world. But I would BOYCOTT MOVEMENT? We are all owner/shareholders in a Danielle Rose Mickey Elias be uncomfortable if cooperators were $42M/year business. We have several Bernstein Eli Eliav compelled by BDS or anyone else to ATTENTION LINEWAITERS’ dozen dedicated, paid employees Ora Chaya Bitton Shayna Eliav hold referendums (costing $10K per GAZETTE, who earn their livelihood from our Gloria Blumenthal Lenore Fineberg minimum) on whether we should A recent anti-Israel demonstration Coop. Many of them have made the Robert Blumenthal Arthur Finn punish all governments defined as at a local grocery store has taken an Coop their life’s work. We have a Ruth Bolletino Carol Freeman “bad” by some self-appointed bunch ironic twist. The Boycott Divestment responsibility to our employees. Elisa Bonneau Riva Freeman of Poobahs. This is an invitation to a and Sanctions group led a rally in Prior to any consideration of join- Carla Brookoff Olia Gitman slippery slope. No, thank you. front of a Publix Supermarket located ing any boycott, we are entitled to a Rita Brookoff Felicia Glucksman A far more important issue arose at in North Miami. Organizer Len Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com 11-08-25 p1-16_Layout 1 8/24/11 6:38 PM Page 15 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY August 25, 2011 15 Kaminsky insisted the protest was not ers with full benefits and allows Arabs LETTERS POLICY anti-Jewish, but rather anti-Zionist. to hold positions in the Knesset (Parlia- Kaminsky said he is a Jew who’s very ment) and hold positions of judges in We welcome letters from members. that are not specific or are not sub- upset with the way that Palestinians are their Supreme Court! Submission deadlines appear in the stantiated by factual assertions. being treated by Israel. He is heading a Where are the human rights organi- Coop Calendar. All letters will be 3. Copies of submissions that make boycott of Israeli products to make his zations for the Arab people and BDS printed if they conform to the pub- substantive accusations against specif- point. protesting the killing of Arab citizens in lished guidelines. We will not know- ic individuals will be given to those per- The question should be raised: what Syria, Libya, where thousands are being ingly publish articles which are racist, sons to enable them to write a is BDS’ intention and who are they killed? sexist or otherwise discriminatory response, and both submissions and sponsored by? A boycott sends a message to the The maximum length for letters is 500 response will be published simultane- Painful as it is to know the leader of terrorist organizations to continue words. Letters must include your name ously. This means that the original sub- this rally is himself Jewish, it isn’t sur- shooting rocket missiles in Israel from and phone number and be typed or very mission may not appear until the issue prising, given the prevalence of Israel- Gaza to kill innocent men, women and legibly handwritten. Editors will reject after the one for which it was submitted. bashing throughout the media. He children. letters that are illegible or too long. The above applies to both articles probably just believes what he has read Renee Silver You may submit on paper, typed or and letters. The only exceptions will in the major papers and seen on televi- very legibly handwritten, or via email be articles by Gazette reporters which sion news and the Internet. to [email protected] or will be required to include the Many Israelis who lack any knowl- THE BDS ‘COMMITTEE’? on disk. response within the article itself. edge of their own history believe that Israel usurped the West Bank from the COOP MEMBERS, Anonymity Respect Palestinians. I learned from the group's literature Unattributed letters will not be pub- Letters must not be personally The technique of the “big lie” is quite at the GM meeting on July 26th that the lished unless the Gazette knows the derogatory or insulting, even when effective. Its method is to repeat misin- people putting forward the proposal identity of the writer, and therefore strongly criticizing an individual formation until it becomes an accepted about having a referendum on our join- must be signed when submitted (giving member's actions. Letter writers must fact. ing the BDS movement are using the phone number). Such letters will be refer to other people with respect, Mainstream media constantly spews name "PSFCBDS Committee" as their published only where a reason is given refrain from calling someone by a out skewed information about the name. I have checked with the General to the editor as to why public identifica- nickname that the person never uses Israel/Arab conflict. The words chosen Coordinators who told me that the Park tion of the writer would impose an himself or herself, and refrain from and the photos used are far from objec- Slope Food Coop does not have a BDS unfair burden of embarrassment or dif- comparing other people to odious fig- tive, the so-called news articles are Committee. Therefore, who gave them ficulty. Such letters must relate to Coop ures like Hitler or Idi Amin. nothing more than opinion pieces. the permission to link the Coop's name issues and avoid any non-constructive, Pro-Arab propaganda is parrotted by to their cause? This is an important non-cooperative language. journalists who make little effort to semantic issue that must be resolved check out the facts. The canards run the since it implies that there is already Fairness gamut and include many false stories. some connection between the Park In order to provide fair, comprehen- Retractions are few and never seem to Slope Food Coop and this inflammatory sive, factual coverage: make the same front pages when these group, the International BDS Move- 1. The Gazette will not publish reports are proven wrong. The root of ment. hearsay—that is, allegations not Israel-bashing is that it poisons minds This is clearly not the case judging based on the author's first-hand and hardens hearts. from the discussion at our last General observation. The relentless barrage of misinfor- Meeting on July 26th. 2. Nor will we publish accusations mation is insidious and dangerous. It Marion Stein has the power to create false impres- sions that cause great harm to Israel. The few Jewish people who spoke ANTI-BOYCOTT VIDEO voraciously at the General Meeting against Israel were indeed pitiful. Let DEAR COOP MEMBERS: them go and live in the many Arab If you want to know what BDS does to countries and then speak of human food coop communities, please watch rights and find out what are human this YouTube video. “Why BDS Scars injustices. 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