Bottles and Bags, Bans \And Boycotts

$Bottles and Bags, Bans \And Boycotts$

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OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP

OPE FOO SL D CO RK O A 1973–2008 P P

Established 1973 35 YEARS

Volume CC, Number 12 June 5, 2008 A Novel Approach Bottles and Bags, to Literary Acclaim By Gayle Forman or poet and now novelist Robin Messing, success came Bans \and Boycotts Fvery quickly—and then very slowly. By Daniel Burke The New York City native—whose lyrical and beautiful debut novel Serpent in the Garden of Dreams was published last month— never actually intended to be a writer. As a child, she always irst bottled water, then Minute Maid and Odwalla). At kept a notebook handy to jot down poems (her first verse was T-shirt-type plastic bags: one point, the Coop boy- published when she was in second grade), but in college she Ftwo popular items cotted all products from Col- removed from the Food Coop orado. All were removed for by a majority vote at the past political reasons, each two monthly General Meet- removal being intimately con- ings, in April and May respec- nected with the current tively. The bottled water ban events of the time. was two years in the making. Some of the items eventu- The plastic bags were ally returned, signaling tossed after more than that conditions were a year of debate. met. For others, sub- Over the years, stitutes were found. many products— Currently, the including some Coop still boy- popular ones— cotts Coca-Cola have been pulled and Nestle prod- from the shelves. ucts. Some were Many boycotts banned indefi- originate in the BY ANN ROSEN PHOTOGRAPH Brooklyn poet and novelist Robin Messing nitely, others form of a resolu-

boycotted until LONG BY OWEN ILLUSTRATIONS tion, approved conditions were with a majority studied experimental psychology. After graduation, however, met. vote at a General she went to work in a neuropsychology lab and “realized it Meeting. Others wasn’t for me.” Boycotts Must Be have started in a less Part of Wider official manner, with- Early Days at the Coop Struggle out a vote, such as when After college, Messing joined the Park Slope Food Coop. According to General the Coop began to boycott Around that time, she heard well-known Beat poet Anne Coordinator Joe Holtz, bans all South African goods Waldman speak. “She just struck me as the quintessential and boycotts are possible because of apartheid. As poet,” says Messing, who approached Waldman, who in turn because of the stability of the Holtz recalls, “It was such a told Messing about the free workshops at the Poetry Project at Coop’s membership, not to no-brainer, obvious, that it St. Mark’s Church in the East Village. Messing started attending mention its political commit- never got voted on.” That and began working with Waldman’s then-husband, the poet ment. But the days are long gone boycott was eventually Lewis Warsh. “If we were really strug- of worrying about an exodus resolved with the fall of As Messing’s interest in poetry grew, she incorporated it into gling economically, and that of members disgruntled by a apartheid in 1994. the burgeoning Park Slope Food Coop. It was during the early means struggling to get lack of variety on the shelves. days at the Coop, when it was less a grocery store than a weekly enough members to help pay And the Food Coop can sell— Boycott Guidelines CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 the bills, to help share the or not sell—according to According to the Coop’s expenses of running this ever-evolving standards that “Boycott Policy History” Next General Meeting & Annual Meeting on June 24 place—because that’s what are often far different from guidelines, parts of which The General Meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop is held on the we do as members—then I those at your average super- were passed at the General last Tuesday of each month. The next General Meeting and think we wouldn’t be any less market. Meetings of April and July Annual Meeting will be Tuesday, June 24 at 7:00 p.m. at the pure or righteous if we decid- 1987, a boycott proposal must Congregation Beth Elohim Temple House (Garfield Temple), ed to do an education cam- A Little History be published in the Linewaiters’ 274 Garfield Place. paign instead of a boycott,” Holtz recalls some of the Gazette a month before it is dis- The agenda is in this Gazette and available as a flyer in the he says. “Because it could be more poignant boycotts: cussed at the General Meet- entryway of the Coop. For more information about the GM and that we would be killing our- Chilean grapes, Pep- ing. The stocking of the item about Coop governance, please see the center of this issue. selves, and no one wants us peridge Farm cookies, Tropi- must “upset a significant to kill ourselves, because cana juices, Nestle products, number of Coop members,” then we’d never boycott any- Domino sugar, GE light bulbs, IN THIS ISSUE thing again.” Coca-Cola drinks (including CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Truly a Child’s Play—Babywearing Hits the Stage ...... 2 Candidates for Board of Directors of the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc...... 3 Thu, Jun 5 •Food Class: Doggy Diets 7:30 p.m. Puzzle ...... 4 Fri, Jun 6 •Film Night: Personal Velocity 7:30 p.m. GM Agenda ...... 4 Coop Fri, Jun 20 •The Good Coffeehouse: Female Voices Coop Hours, Coffeehouse ...... 6 of the African Diaspora 8:00 p.m. Coop Calendar, Workslot Needs Event Sat, Jun 28 •Pocketbook, Purse, Bag and Shoe Exchange Governance Information, Mission Statement...... 7 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Community Calendar ...... 8 Highlights Letters to the Editor ...... 9 Look for additional information about these and other events in this issue. Classified Ads ...... 11 06-05-08 p 01-07B 6/4/08 6:40 PM Page 2

2 June 5, 2008 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY Truly a Child’s Play—Babywearing Hits the Stage (Along with Co-sleeping, Breastfeeding and Baby Sign Language)

By Elsa Haas mute weekly to shop at the and provided with a night light) The baby cries Coop). Why does the baby cry? To signal his tribe If you choose baby slings, Member Slings at the Coop make it (In his safety-sealed crib The baby cries breastfeeding and a (carefully easier to get through the All smoke detectors in working (Hearing no heartbeat prepared) king-size bed over Contribution crowded aisles, and help keep order Touching no warm skin strollers, playpens, bottles babies and small children Temperature medically adjusted by Mouthing no soft breast and cribs, do you get a happi- woes stem in part from how from screaming their heads thermostat Breathing no shared breath) er baby who cries less and we treat our babies? off. Some parents wearing Baby monitor on The baby cries doesn’t suffer from insom- At the Coop, you’ll see lots them for practical reasons Emergency numbers in the speed- Alone in the wilderness nia? Is Jean Liedloff, an of babies in slings. Not so may not be aware of the histo- dial observer of tribal cultures, much on Staten Island, where ry behind their growing use. Loving parents at the ready) Elsa Haas and cast will be right in that our civilization’s our family lives (yes, we com- In 1975, Jean Liedloff’s The Why, oh WHY does the baby cry? performing her show, “Wearing Continuum Concept proposed The baby cries My Baby: A Stone Age Mommy PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP that parents in our culture In the jungle or on the savannah on Staten Island,” at the St. consider doing like the The baby cries George Theatre, 35 Hyatt natives (she had lived among As the marauding beasts edge for- Street, Staten Island, on June the Yequana of Venezuela, ward 14 at 10 a.m. For info, contact Product Return Policy stumbling into observations The baby cries Elsa at [email protected] or The Coop does not “exchange” items. You must return item and repurchase of their way of life after join- For protection 917-750-2643. ■ what you need. Returns of eligible items will be handled at the Second ing a failed diamond-hunting Floor Service Desk within 30 days of purchase only when accompanied by expedition). the PAID IN FULL receipt. I first read Liedloff’s book Please use the following guide to determine if an item is eligible for return: in 1985 after dropping out of college to work at the now- Produce May not be returned with the exception of (fresh fruits & vegetables) coconuts, pineapples and watermelon. Even if defunct homeschooling mag- the claim is that the item is spoiled or that it azine Growing Without Schooling was purchased by mistake, produce cannot be in Boston. It was only in 1999 returned except for the three items listed above. that our son was born, and by that time a babywearing sub- The produce buyer may be contacted on culture had grown up around weekdays by members to discuss any other books by Liedloff and others claims for credit. (for example, Dr. William Books May not be returned. Sears, M.D.). Juicers May not be returned. Babywearing often goes hand-in-hand with co-sleep- Bulk items & bulk items May not be returned. Members may contact ing—my show will address packaged by the Coop the bulk buyer to discuss any other claims for the co-sleeping controversy. credit. Refrigerated items May not be returned unless spoiled. REALITY Frozen items Why does the baby cry? (Dressed in his brand-new, powder- All Other Products A. Other products may be returned if they blue, flame-retardant pajamas) (not covered above) are spoiled or defective and the category is not specified above Why does the baby cry? (Freshly-laundered, recently-fed, B. Other products may be returned if they newly-changed, just-burped are unopened, undamaged and therefore can be sold again. C. Other products may not be returned if they are opened or unsellable, and were purchased by mistake or not needed. Bottles and Bags, Bans and Boycotts

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Meeting. Well, why didn’t ing to the 1987 guidelines, The Diversity & Equality Committee (DEC) is dedicated anybody ever bring it to the must have a representative to improving human relations and communications and that anger also must General Meeting?” and must undergo re-evalua- through impeccable interpersonal interactions, poli- be mirrored by a The dictator in tion at each October’s General cies and procedures in the Coop. regional or that unnamed Meeting to remain in effect. national cam- country could This component, however, The goal is to work toward preventing and eliminating discrimination in paign. have been as seems to be a victim of col- the Coop and to promote the ideal of equal and respectful treatment “Some- bad as lective lethargy—a regulation between all Coop members and paid staff regardless of each individual’s one once Chile’s enacted and then quickly for- different identity. The DEC also aims to provide advocacy for individuals said to me, Augusto gotten. who feel they have experienced discriminatory practices in the Coop. ‘Why do we Pinochet, “I think it might have hap- have this but without pened once or twice,” Holtz Voicemail (888) 204-0098 stuff from a larger said. “And then it stopped.” ■ XYZ country? organization E-mail [email protected] It’s got a dicta- signaling a tor that is just as protest, the Coop Contact Form DEC Contact forms are available in the literature rack bad as Pinochet,’ ” boycott would be or Letter: in the ground floor elevator lobby. Place a completed Holtz recalls, in refer- ineffective. Or, as Holtz form or other letter/note (anonymously if desired) in a ence to the Chilean puts it, “If the Coop sealed envelope labeled “Attn: Diversity and Equality grapes boycott. “And I just decided we’re Committee” and use one of the three methods listed said, ‘Well, that’s a really going to do what’s right in below to get it to the committee. interesting thing. I think the isolation from the rest of the reason is that no one ever world, then we’re going to be Mail Park Slope Food Coop brought it to the General a drop in the bucket and Attention: Diversity & Equality Committee Meeting.’ So that’s a very sim- we’re just going to hurt our- 782 Union Street plistic answer—no one ever selves.” Brooklyn, New York 11215 brought it to the General An active boycott, accord-

Mail Which is located in the entryway vestibule Drop Box on the ground floor under the flier caddy.

Membership The DEC has a mailbox in the Membership Office Mailbox Office on the second floor of the Coop.

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Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY June 5, 2008 3 Candidates for Board of Directors of the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc. One full three-year term is open. To vote you may use a proxy or be present at the Food Coop Annual Meeting on June 24, 2008. Every member should have received a proxy package in the mail in late May. You will have the opportunity to meet the candidates at the Annual Meeting. Candidate Statements: (Statements are unedited and presented in alphabetical order.)

Bill Penner nomic force of incredible importance. This is important because the Coop’s continued I am writing to ask for your support for reelection as Because the Coop is a corporation, it is required to financial stability maintains low prices, which one of the six members of the Board of Directors of have a board of directors. Our Board of Directors enables many people to benefit from fresh whole- the Coop. My candidacy has been endorsed by the meets every month in public at the General Meeting. some food while supporting the Coop community Coop’s General Coordinators. At the Meeting, any Coop member can bring an item and values. The amount of money that members save I have been a member of the for discussion or make a proposal to be debated and shopping at the Coop is substantial, in fact it is in the Coop for eight years. In addi- voted on by the Coop membership present. At the millions of dollars each year. This savings is true tion to serving on the Board of end of the Meeting, the Board of Directors vote on power for people of all economic backgrounds and Directors for the last two years, taking the advice of the membership. This is how the allows members to make healthy decisions for them- I have served on both the Coop combines its corporate structure with its town selves and their families while supporting the envi- Receiving Committee and on hall style of democracy. ronmental and the social mission of the Coop. the CHIPS Soup Kitchen Com- In my opinion, there is often confusion as to the I have been honored to have had the opportunity mittee preparing meals with primary role of the Board of Directors in the Coop’s to serve the Coop as a member of Board of Directors food donated by the Coop. In decision-making process. I see the Board’s role as for two years. The late President of the Board, Israel my life outside the Coop, I am one of oversight rather than one of advocacy. As Fishman, used to say that the Coop saved his life— a 45-year-old architect with my own architectural such, I focus on maintaining a thorough knowledge the different view points and different people all firm which I started six years ago in Brooklyn, and of open issues and concerns of the membership by working together for a common purpose gave him last fall I became the new father of a beautiful baby attending General Meetings, reading the Gazette, the perspective and patience to see beyond himself girl. Prior to receiving my degree in architecture, I and staying in contact with General Coordinators. I towards what was really important. I am reminded of apprenticed as a chef and cooked professionally for 6 make a particular effort of familiarizing myself with this cherished thought each time I attend a meeting years. The Coop is an important part of my life, it is a the monthly financial statement, and I believe and when I shop. place were I connect with my passion for food and being well informed of the financial condition of the Cooperatively yours, realize the significance of food and food production Coop is one of my biggest responsibilities as a Bill Penner ■ in our society as a cultural, environmental, and eco- board member.

Albert Solomon tors have so little power that they don’t even sign ment. This policy was applied to the delay in con- It is true that it has branched out in other directions, an oath of secrecy. struction and rejection of the plans for the new but my main point since Joe Holtz’s proxies. We used to elect directors at building which included an atrium, a focus of atten- 1992 when I joined was annual meetings, but Joe Holtz (the Supreme Ruler) tion and sociability. It was applied to the cheese and remains: An Assem- held 200 proxies, so if anyone he didn’t want ran he case. It was applied when we started selling red bly of Elected Delegates. could vote his proxies. I almost single-handedly put an meat. Did you or I ever vote for that big policy? And by that I mean pro- end to this shameful exclusivity by acquiring my own Don’t you think maybe we should? $300,000 was portional representation. proxies and refusing not to vote them. I also sent two wasted in the construction process, according to People ask me what separate briefs to the Chair Pool Committee. But no some. Did you vote for that? would be different under one ever credits me with the change! Years later Carl Another biiiiiiiiiigggg policy of the Rulers is indefi- an assembly of elected Arnold, a Management supporter, changed the elec- nite expansion, coupled with minimal storage space delegates. Here are just a few things since I joined tion of directors to a mail ballot, mooting the whole and maximum turnover. Do the Rulers ever discuss in 1992. sorry question of proxies and allowing thousands these questions? Why should they, when there is no The pension plan instead of hundreds to participate in the elections. one to oversee them? Don’t these requirements pre- The Governance Committee But it made no difference because directors were clude more and better social actions by the Co-Op? The Milquetoast Board of Directors still neutered by the informal yet effective pledge to You bet they do! The atrium only ratify the actions of the Meeting. It is even Not a policy itself but a result of these policies Item pricing frowned upon if directors call each other on the was to buy the Building Next Door. They really want- The Gazette phone! So much for your input into important poli- ed that. They disparaged every alternative suggest- The Disciplinary Hearing Committee cies of the Co-Op! So now more people are voting for ed— funding satellite co-ops (which they couldn’t The Chair Pool Committee powerless directors! Another word for which is, uh, control so directly), renting warehouse space, which The Agenda Committee disenfranchisement!! would affect our turnover policy. After it was denied The Personnel Committee Although my main thrust is an assembly of elected in a referendum they rammed it through again as The process would be many times more transpar- delegates, I see the Board of Directors as another rep- soon as they could. Yes, we know what their policies ent and accountable. And the Rulers would have just resentative body. As a director, I would propose reso- are, but they never have to defend them or even artic- as much influence over the process, maybe even lutions to the Board, forcing it to act as the Statutes ulate them! more. Only the representatives would have names in intended, or at least to vote down my proposals. Since we have a longer election season this year, contrast to just walk-in people, most of them going The mantra of the Rulers is that any effort to over- give me a shout-out or better, write a letter in sup- for workslot credit. Also the Meeting would have ride the decisions of the Sacred General Meeting is port of Co-Op Democracy!! some real authority—because the delegates would an act against the Co-Op. But this is merely a smoke- A. Solomon represent actual people! screen to hide the near-total blackout in visibility Loyal Supporter of the Co-Op How can you govern by the town meeting? The and accountability brought about by this smoothly Scrivener to The Pacifica Foundation answer is you can’t, so the Rulers hold sway with- pernicious system. [email protected] out even the normal accountability they would The big policy they don’t have to tell us about is 718-768-9079 have if there were a board of directors. Our direc- that we are a food store and not a social experi- 1000 - 74 .■

The Role of the Board come before the meeting.” If you submit a proxy but come to the Annual From our inception in 1973 to the present, the The Board of Directors, which is required to act Meeting in person, your proxy will be returned to monthly General Meeting has been the decision- legally and responsibly, conducts a vote at the end you when you register. making body of the Coop. Since the Coop incorpo- of every General Meeting on whether to accept the Members who have a current membership as of rated in 1977, we have been legally required to advice of the members as expressed in their vote(s) Saturday, June 14, 2008 are eligible to vote in the have a board of Directors. during the GM. election of Directors at the Annual Meeting either The Bylaws of the Park Slope Food Coop state: in person or by proxy. “The portion of the Board of Directors meeting that The Election Process Proxy packets were mailed to members in mid- is devoted to receiving the advice of the members Each year the Coop must, by law, hold an Annual May. If you did not receive a packet, please call the shall be known as the General Meeting. …The Meeting. This is the only meeting where proxies Membership Office or pick one up at the entrance members who gather to give advice to the directors can be used. Those members who cannot attend door of the Coop. ■ may choose to vote in order to express their sup- the Annual Meeting may be represented, if they port or opposition for any of the issues that have wish, by a proxy. Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com 06-05-08 p 01-07B 6/4/08 6:40 PM Page 4

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Thursday, June 5 PSFC JUNE 2008 ANNUAL 7:30 p.m. AND GENERAL MEETING at the Coop Tuesday, June 24, 7:00 p.m. • The Annual Meeting begins at 7:00 p.m. followed by the GM • Meeting Location: Congregation Beth Elohim Social Hall (Garfield Temple) Cooking Tanya Braham is a 274 Garfield Pl. at 8th Ave. Brooklyn-based personal for your Dog! ANNUAL MEETING AGENDA: chef with a focus on diet Item #1: Presentation of the audited financial report for the year ended February 3, 2008 and nutrition, and is also Following the presentation members will have the opportunity to pose questions to our outside auditor, Robert Reitman of Cornick, Garber & Sandler, LLP. Members will then vote whether to a writer, dog owner and acccept the audited statement. the former staff editor of Item #2: By-laws change: two national dog and pet Learn to prepare healthy and delicious On July 31, 2007 both the General Meeting and Board of Directors voted to approve the following food for your dog magazines. In this class, bylaws amendment. In order for it to remain in effect, it must be approved at the Annual Meeting. Tanya will discuss do’s The following bylaws amendment is to be inserted in the bylaws in Article VII. Currently this article has two paragraphs. The amendment, if approved, forms a new third and last paragraph. The MENU and don’ts of doggy diets existing paragraphs would be unchanged. The amendment reads as follows: as well as tips on how to “The ballot used for the Directors election shall provide for voting either ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or ‘abstain’ for each candidate. Any candidate who receives more ‘no’ votes than ‘yes’ votes is deemed to be • Turkey Burgers become your own pup’s ineligible for election. Directors elected at the Annual Meeting shall be elected by a plurality of • Peanut Butter and Bacon Biscotti personal chef. ‘yes’ votes cast unless the candidate has been deemed ineligible pursuant to this paragraph.” • Frozen Summer Pupsicles! MEMBERS & Item #3: Board of Directors election NON-MEMBERS Election: One position is open this year for a full three-year term. WELCOME. $4 materials fee Views expressed by the presenter do not Come early ENERAL EETING GENDA necessarily represent the Park Slope Food Coop. to ensure a seat. G M A : Item #1: Renewing the Services of the Auditor Proposal: “To retain the services of Cornick, Garber & Sandler, LLP, to perform an audit of the Coop for the fiscal year ending February 1, 2009.” — submitted by the General Coordinators

WHAT IS THAT? HOW DO I USE IT? Item #2: Election of Officers of the PSFC Election: Following the election of members to the Board of Directors at the Annual Meeting, we must elect officers of the corporation at the General Meeting—president, vice president, secretary Food Tours in the Coop and treasurer. I brought my kids with me [PSFC Bylaws: “Article IV, Officers: §3. The President and Vice-President shall be, at the time of to shop at the Coop (oh my) election, directors of the corporation.”] my son blew in on his scooter the doors opening magically before him my daughter chanting and skipping on one foot

I tried to organize all this energy into a shopping cart Puzzle Corner but apples kept falling and rolling on the floor Diagramless the aisles seemed unusually narrow In a diagramless puzzle the numbers and the black squares have been left out. Clues are to be answered as normal, and by checkout they had eaten the interlocking of Across and Down answers will fill out empty grid. The pattern of black squares follows regular $8.50 worth of raspberries crossword symmetry. As a hint, 1-Across begins in the first square of the first row.

Other parents backpacked their children, DOWN some wrapped them in long bandages 1 Bisques or bouillons against their bodies, 2 Beginning others pushed them in carts, 3 Unhoed 4 Tiny grain one mom navigated with what 5 It might be in the hole looked like a front-end loader 6 “Alright!” —her baby in the bucket 7 A tough nut to crack 8 Bullring cheer Mine (ahem) helped me shop. 9 Go soft 10 That’s all ___ wrote It was chaotic 11 Smidgen not the orderly march from aisle to aisle 17 U.S. central bank we tend to envision 19 A cold state whatever the reality 22 Holliday at the O.K. Corral But they filled the cart 24 Breakfast bowlful 25 Imitate with whole foods: vegetables, fruit and grain, 26 Number of little Indians some fish, yogurt - hot dogs! 27 Matched pair, maybe 29 Oversized cup Amid the giggles and horseplay 31 Coach on the tennis court they performed this necessary task: 32 Corn unit 33 Further… feeding the family 35 Little Jack Horner’s snack 38 Incited a Doberman our babies 40 Snifter filler ourselves 42 Pal of Winken and Blinken by Myra Klockenbrink ACROSS 44 It’s said to be slippery 1 One in a sty 36 Hit Broadway musical 45 Dog-_____, like a used book 4 From Taurus to Gemini 37 What you may break or close 46 Some garment workers Mondays June 16 (D Week) 7 Superlatively bad 39 Taunt 48 Tip one’s hat July 7 (C Week) 12 The second Fibonacci number 41 Consecrate 50 Beach sight 13 Highway hazard 43 Rubbed out 51 Totally excellent! July 21 (A Week) 52 It justifieds the means Noon to 1 p.m. 14 Hello, or goodbye 47 Fish with chips 15 Employ 49 Ease ones fears 53 Ripe old ___ and 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. 16 Spread the word, in a way 50 Nervous collapse 54 ___ of the Worlds, H.G.Wells 18 Zero-emission power source 55 Miner’s objective Sunday June 8 (B Week) 20 One in a coop 56 Where the antelope play June 29 (B Week) 21 Coifed 57 Hula hoop, for one Noon to 2 p.m. 23 Common European currency, once 58 Apiece 28 Elemental unit 59 Threw in For answers, see page 10. 30 Mobile home? 60 Grill alternative This issue’s puzzle author: You can join in any time during a tour. 31 They may have black eyes 61 Norton, Begley, etc. Stuart Marquis 34 Baking measure

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Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY June 5, 2008 5 A Novel Approach to Literary Acclaim The Environmental CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Committee has a blog! food-distribution center. But it was also a flourishing community and arts scene, and Please visit often Messing and another mem- for timely news and ber named Kip Zegers decided to start a Coop poetry information series. books from the PSFC “It was up the rickety stairs together and reading and Environmental in a little room. I think it last- aloud,” remembers daughter then ed maybe a year, but it was Emma Alabaster, now 21 and passed on Committee. great. We were such a little also a Coop member. “When I the book. community there,” Messing was in middle school, she felt Eventually, Messing part- says. my education in public school ed ways with the agent, went wasn’t giving me enough great back to the manuscript for Learning from Allen books, so she organized a another revision, and submit- We’re Ginsberg mother-daughter book club ted it to a few independent blogging After a year of working with with some friends of hers.” publishing houses, one of Warsh, Messing decided to When Emma was eight, which was The Permanent about our go to the Naropa Institute in Messing began the long road Press. “It took nine months activities at the Coop, Boulder, Colorado, to study to publishing a novel. She for anyone there to read it,” as well as with Allen Ginsberg. worked on a book about her Messing says. “They asked for environmental events “It was a big lecture class,” upbringing for several years, more. It took another nine Messing remembers. “At the then went to grad school for months for them to accept it of interest at the Coop end of the class, he asked for her MFA in the mid 1990s, for publication, and then a and beyond. someone to type his dream shelved the novel about her year and a half to actually journals. I went up to him family, and began working publish.” and had the nerve to say ‘I’m on the book that was to The book is a slender vol- Find us at: a really good typist and I’ll become Serpent in the Garden ume that jumps back and http://ecokvetch.blogspot.com/ type for you but in exchange of Dreams. It would take four forth between past and pre- you have to read my work.’ years to write a first draft sent-day Brooklyn as a And he said okay. We’d sit at because she had a full-time woman named Tidly attempts his kitchen table and to recover from a devas- he’d hand me some jour- tating breakup and come nals and he’d look at my to terms with her dys- Pocketbook, Purse, Bag work.” functional relationship When she returned to with her mother. It has the city, Messing was the poet’s touch all over and Shoe Exchange suddenly a hot poet, her it. Its lush images read This exchange is a community event that is ecologically work being lauded and like poetry, yet the story responsible and fun. Why support the consumer market recorded, along with is also accessible and and buy, when you can share bags that have Ginsberg and William S. readable and, in places— Burroughs, on John in particular, the main already been well loved? Giorno’s Dial-A-Poem character’s recorded Reuse, renew, recycle. series. musings—raw. Brook- “All this kind of hap- lynites will savor how the FREE pened without my ask- borough is a character in Non-members ing. I was on the scene its own right; the nostal- welcome and recognized very gic Brooklyn of Messing’s young. I’d do a New childhood (dead-end Saturday, June 28 Year’s reading at St. streets where kids can 10:00 a.m.—2:00 p.m. Mark’s Church. I’d come play dodge ball on the in the meeting room off the stage and Gins- road and catch fireflies in berg would say: ‘I love a jar) contrasts with mod- that poem you wrote ern-day Park Slope, To bring Pocketbooks, and Shoes… about the nails.’ ” As which has been her home • Do not leave items in the Coop Messing reminisces for most of her adult life. before the hours of the exchange. about this part of her life, she job and a child she was now Some 25 years after • Bring up to 15 items only appears half wistful, half sur- raising mostly on her own. Messing captured the poetry • Bring gently used, clean purses, prised, as if she hadn’t real- “It’s been interesting and world’s attention with her pocketbooks and shoes that you are ized the splash she’d made informative to watch her verse, she’s now caught the so early on. struggle between having a attention of the literary proud to be able to exchange with full-time job and trying to do world. The writer Phillip a new owner. Turning to Prose her writing,” Emma says. “I Lopate has praised her novel It would take many years, remember times when I was as “sensitive, exquisitely (Unchosen items will be donated to a local shelter.) however, for Messing to young on the weekend and observed,” and National evolve into the next phase of she’d be writing and I’d both- Book Award finalist Joan Sil- her literary life. In her 20s, er her. I didn’t understand. ber raved that Serpent in the she fell into, and then out of, Other people who aren’t Garden of Dreams is “a novel of a relationship with a novelist. artists don’t understand why great beauty that has much This sparked her interest in she’s not free on weekends. to say about the painful com- writing longer-form prose, She has lost friendships plexities of obsession, pos- but the dissolution of the because of her commitment session, loss and love.” relationship broke something to her writing, but I think it Seeing these blurbs for the in her. “I fell apart. I lost my takes that kind of discipline first time was the ultimate confidence. Because [of] my to create.” affirmation for Messing. She childhood, because of a lot of had done it. She had pub- different things. I just lost my Years to Get Published lished a novel. “When these Authors Wanted faith in myself.” Once the novel was fin- writers I admired so much She got married and had a ished, Messing signed with a said these lovely things Wordsprouts—The Park Slope Food Coop’s Reading Series—is daughter. For the first eight high-powered literary agent, about my book, it was such planning its fall season now. We’re looking for Coop members who years of her daughter’s life, who submitted the work over an honor and so important to are published authors interested in leading writing workshops at the Coop or in reading their work at a local bookstore. Members who writing took a back seat to a period of two years. me,” she says. “I felt that I’d participate in Wordsprouts receive workslot credit. working a day job as a Responses from editors came been accepted.” ■ teacher and raising a child. back complimenting the work Serpent in the Garden of If you’re interested please send your book info and/or workshop Though her own literary aspi- for its beauty, but saying it Dreams by Robin Messing is pub- ideas to PJ Corso at [email protected]. rations may have been on was not commercial enough. lished by The Permanent Press and hiatus, her love of the written One famous editor called available at Amazon.com. You can word was not. Messing the most talented read an excerpt at Messing’s web “We were always reading writer she’d seen in years— site, www.robinmessing.com Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com 06-05-08 p 01-07B 6/4/08 6:40 PM Page 6

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COOP HOURS A monthly musical Friday fundraising partnership of Office Hours: the Park Slope Monday through Thursday Jun 20 Food Coop and 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. the Brooklyn Society Friday & Saturday 8:00 p.m. for Ethical Culture 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Shopping Hours: Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 10:00* p.m. Saturday 6:00 a.m. to 10:00* p.m. Sunday 6:00 a.m. to 7:30* p.m. *Shoppers must be on a checkout line Female Voices of the African Diaspora 15 minutes after closing time. (curated by Jenny Hill)

Childcare Hours: Two amazing bands featur- Monday through Sunday ing vocalists Kaissa (from 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 p.m. Cameroon) and Tamar- Telephone: kali (Geechee Goddess). 718-622-0560 Kaissa is known for her Web address: highly engaging vocals www.foodcoop.com and pulsating African/ Kaissa Western rhythmic back- drops. Originally from Cameroon, by way of Paris, Kaissa fuses African and world music, singing lyrics with a message, speaking out against war and injustice. Tamar-kali Tamar-kali harnesses gut-based, hardcore-tinged rock with the honest melodic inflections of soul, a passionate expression of her South Carolinian Geechee The Linewaiters’ Gazette is published biweekly by roots and Brooklyn punk/soul upbringing. the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc., 782 Union Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215. Opinions expressed here may be solely the These two artists will present their original music, along with Jenny Hill on saxophone and views of the writer. The Gazette will not knowingly flute, Patrice Blanchard on bass, Maciek Schejbal on drums, Todd Isler on percussion, publish articles that are racist, sexist, or otherwise and others. discriminatory. The Gazette welcomes Coop-related articles, and letters from members. 53 Prospect Park West [at 2nd Street] • $10 • 8:00 p.m. [doors open at 7:45] SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Performers are Park Slope Food Coop members and receive Coop workslot credit. All submissions MUST include author’s name and Booking: Bev Grant, 718-788-3741 phone number and conform to the following Childcare is available from Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture for a nominal fee. guidelines. Editors will reject letters and articles that are illegible or too long. Submission deadlines appear in the Coop Calendar opposite. Letters: Maximum 500 words. All letters will be printed if they conform to the guidelines above. The Anonymity and Fairness policies appear on Monthly on the... This Issue Prepared By: the letters page in most issues. Third Thursday R Coordinating Editors: Stephanie Golden Voluntary Articles: Maximum 750 words. June 19 7:00–9:00 p.m. Erik Lewis Submissions on Paper: Typed or very legibly handwritten and placed in the wallpocket labeled Last Sunday Editors (development): Dan Jacobson June 29 E "Editor" on the second floor at the base of the ramp. Michael O’Keeffe 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Reporters: Gayle Forman Submissions on Disk & by Email: We welcome Second Saturday digital submissions. Drop disks in the wallpocket June 14 Daniel Burke described above. The email address for sub- C 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. Art Director (development): Michelle Ishay missions is [email protected]. Receipt of your submissions will be acknowledged On the sidewalk in front of Illustrators: Susan Greenstein the receiving area at the Coop. on the deadline day. Y Owen Long Classified & Display Ads: Ads may only be placed Photographers: Hazel Hankin by and on behalf of Coop members. Classified ads Ann Rosen are prepaid at $15 per insertion, business card ads at PLASTIC S Traffic Manager: Monona Yin $30. (Ads in the “Merchandise–Non-commercial” category are free.) All ads must be written on a What plastics do we accept? Text Converters: Peter Benton submission form (available in a wallpocket on the • #1 and #2 non-bottle shaped Diana Quick first floor near the elevator). Classified ads may be containers and #1 and #2 labeled L up to 315 characters and spaces. Display ads must lids. Mouths of containers must be Proofreader: Margaret Benton be camera-ready and business card size (2"x3.5"). equal width or wider than the body Thumbnails: Barbara Jungwirth of the container. Recipes: We welcome original recipes from I Preproduction: Yan Kong • All #4 plastic and #4 labeled lids. members. Recipes must be signed by the creator. Photoshop: Bill Kontzias Subscriptions: The Gazette is available free to • #5 plastic tubs, cups & specifically Art Director (production): Lynn Cole-Walker members in the store. Subscriptions are available by marked lids and caps (discard any mail at $23 per year to cover the cost of postage (at with paper labels). N Desktop Publishing: Midori Nakamura First Class rates because our volume is low). • Plastic film, such as shopping and Trisha Stapleton dry cleaning bags, etc. Okay if not Michael Walters labeled. G Editor (production): Lynn Goodman ALL PLASTIC MUST BE COMPLETELY CLEAN AND DRY Final Proofreader: Teresa Theophano We close up promptly. Post Production: Becky Cassidy Last drop offs will be accepted Index: Len Neufeld 10 minutes prior to our end time to allow for sorting. Printed by: Prompt Printing Press, Camden, NJ.

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Meat or Bulk Inventory the only person coming to do this job on your Ford-Senghor or Cynthia Pennycooke in the Monday, 8:00 to 10:45 a.m. day. The recycling center is located at 165 43rd Membership Office if you would like more Work with Receiving Coordinators Bill Malloy St in Brooklyn. If interested, please contact information. or Ron Zisa to accurately count and inventory Adriana Becerra at [email protected] or drop meat and bulk products. Must have good hand- by the Membership Office to speak to her. Office Data Entry writing, be able to do basic arithmetic (weights, Tuesday or Thursday, A week, fractions, addition), be reliable and have good Attendance Recorders or 4:30 to 7:15 p.m. attention to detail. Are you a stickler for details, accurate on the Make-up Recorders computer and like working independently? If Thursday, Friday, or Sunday this sounds like you, then Office Data Entry Paper Recycling The Coop needs detail-oriented members to will be your perfect shift. You will receive train- Friday, 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. help maintain attendance recorders for Coop ing, and Coop staff will always be available to Do you have a large vehicle and want to help workers. You will need to work independently, answer questions. Please speak to a Ginger the Coop be a good green citizen? Collect recy- be self-motivated and reliable. Good atten- Hargett in the Membership Office if you would cled paper from the Coop, bag it, load it into dance is a plus. Members will be trained for like more information. This workslot requires a your vehicle and drive it to the paper recycling this position, and staff members are available six-month commitment. center. You need to be able to lift and work for further assistance. Workslot requires a six- CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 WORKSLOT NEEDS independently. Reliability a must as you will be month commitment. Please speak to Lewanika

All About the COOP CALENDAR General Meeting Our Governing Structure From our inception in 1973 to the present, the open monthly General Meetings have been at the center of the Coop’s decision-making process. Since the Coop incorporated in 1977, we have been legally required to have a Board of Directors. The Coop continued the tradition of New Member Orientations General Meeting General Meetings by requiring the Board to have open meetings and to receive the advice of the members at Monday & Wednesday evenings: . . . 7:30 p.m. TUE, JUN 24, ANNUAL MEETING General Meetings. The Board of Directors, which is Wednesday mornings: ...... 10:00 a.m. GENERAL MEETING: 7:00 p.m. required to act legally and responsibly, has approved Sunday afternoons: ...... 4:00 p.m. The agenda appears in this issue and is available almost every General Meeting decision at the end of as a flyer in the entryway. every General Meeting. Board members are elected at Be sure to be here promptly—or early—as we the Annual Meeting in June. Copies of the Coop’s bylaws begin on time! The orientation takes about two TUE, JUL 1 are available at the Coop Community Corner and at hours. Please don't bring small children. AGENDA SUBMISSIONS: 8:00 p.m. every General Meeting. Submissions will be considered for the Aug 26 Gazette Deadlines General Meeting. Next Meeting: Tuesday, LETTERS & VOLUNTARY ARTICLES: The Coop on the Internet June 24, 7:00 p.m. www.foodcoop.com June 19 issue 7:00 p.m., Mon, Jun 9 The General Meeting is held on the last Tuesday of each Jul 3 issue: 7:00 p.m., Mon, Jun 23 The Coop on Cable TV month. CLASSIFIED ADS DEADLINE: Inside the Park Slope Food Coop Location June 19 issue 7:00 p.m., Wed, Jun 11 FRIDAYS 2:30 p.m. with a replay at 10:30 p.m. Jul 3 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, Jun 25 Channels: 56 (TimeWarner), 69 (CableVision). The temple house of Congregation Beth Elohim (Garfield Temple), 274 Garfield Place. How to Place an Item Attend a GM Park Slope Food Coop on the Agenda Mission Statement and Receive Work Credit If you have something you’d like discussed at a General Since the Coop’s inception in 1973, the General The Park Slope Food Coop is a mem- Meeting, please complete a submission form for the Meeting has been our decision-making body. At the ber-owned and operated food store—an Agenda Committee. Forms are available in the rack near General Meeting (GM) members gather to make alternative to commercial profit-oriented the Coop Community Corner bulletin board and at decisions and set Coop policy. The General-Meeting-for- business. As members, we contribute our workslot-credit program was created to increase General Meetings. Instructions and helpful information participation in the Coop’s decision-making process. labor: working together builds trust on how to submit an item appear on the submission Following is an outline of the program. For full details, see through cooperation and teamwork and form. The Agenda Committee meets on the first Tuesday the instruction sheets by the sign-up board. enables us to keep prices as low as possi- of each month to plan the agenda for the GM held on the • Advance Sign-up Required: ble within the context of our values and last Tuesday of the month. If you have a question, please To be eligible for workslot credit, you must add your principles. Only members may shop, and call Ellen Weinstat in the office. name to the sign-up sheet in the elevator lobby. we share responsibilities and benefits Some restrictions to this program do apply. Please see equally. We strive to be a responsible and below for details. ethical employer and neighbor. We are a Meeting Format • Two GM attendance credits per year: buying agent for our members and not a Warm Up (7:00 p.m.) Each member may take advantage of the GM-for- selling agent for any industry. We are a part workslot-credit program two times per calendar year. • Meet the Coordinators of and support the cooperative movement. • Enjoy some Coop snacks • Certain Squads not eligible: We offer a diversity of products with an Eligible: Shopping, Receiving/ Stocking, Food • Submit Open Forum items Processing, Office, Maintenance, Inventory, Construction, emphasis on organic, minimally pro- • Explore meeting literature and FTOP committees. (Some Committees are omitted cessed and healthful foods. We seek to because covering absent members is too difficult.) avoid products that depend on the Open Forum (7:15 p.m.) • Attend the entire GM: exploitation of others. We support non- Open Forum is a time for members to bring brief items In order to earn workslot credit you must be present toxic, sustainable agriculture. We respect to the General Meeting. If an item is more than brief, it for the entire meeting. the environment. We strive to reduce the can be submitted to the Agenda Committee as an item • Childcare can be provided at GMs: impact of our lifestyles on the world we for a future GM. Please notify an Office Coordinator in the Membership share with other species and future genera- Office at least one week prior to the meeting date. tions. We prefer to buy from local, earth- Reports (7:30 p.m.) • Signing in at the Meeting: friendly producers. We recycle. We try to • Financial Report 1. After the meeting the Chair will provide the lead by example, educating ourselves and • Coordinators’ Report Workslot Credit Attendance Sheet. others about health and nutrition, coopera- • Committee Reports 2.Please also sign in the attendance book that is passed around during the meeting. tion and the environment. We are com- Agenda (8:00 p.m.) mitted to diversity and equality. We • Being Absent from the GM: • The agenda is posted at the Coop Community Corner It is possible to cancel without penalty. We do ask that oppose discrimination in any form. We and may also appear elsewhere in this issue. you remove your name if you know cannot attend. Please strive to make the Coop welcoming and do not call the Membership Office with GM cancellations. accessible to all and to respect the opin- Wrap Up (9:30-9:45) • Is it FTOP or a Make-up? ions, needs and concerns of every member. (unless there is a vote to extend the meeting) It depends on your work status at the time of the We seek to maximize participation at every • Meeting evaluation meeting. level, from policy making to running the • Board of Directors vote • Consider making a report… store. We welcome all who respect these • Announcements, etc. ...to your Squad after you attend the meeting. values.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Community calendar listings are free. Please submit your listings in 50 words or less by mail, the mailslot in the entry vestibule, or [email protected]. Submission deadlines are the same as for classified ads. Please refer to the Coop Calendar in the center of this issue. *Denotes a Coop member.

SUN, JUN 8 FRI, JUN 13 10 a.m., show starts 10:15 a.m. Ten-minute walk from ferry. Fami- ZEEMEEUWSIC III!: an eclectic BROOKLYN WOMEN’S CHORUS: ly-friendly (sound piped to glass- Sunday concert series at the Old 45 women singing together to cre- doored lobby in case of Stone House, featuring Kyklos ate one powerful voice for peace restlessness). Blurb: freesummer- (experimental sextet of guitar/ and justice. Directed by *Bev fest.org Directions: stgeorgethe- vibes/percussion/electric bass/ Grant and backed by a band of atre.com or [email protected] / clarinet/sax & accordian) and Mar- Brooklyn musicians. At the Good 917-750-2643 shall Farr with Urban Edge. JJ Byrne Coffeehouse Music Parlor, 53 Park, 5th Ave. (btwn. 3rd & 4th Sts). Prospect Park West at 2nd St. 718- TUE, JUN 17 Friday, June 6 • 7:30 p.m. 2 p.m. $10. For info/reservations: 768-2972. www.gchmusic.org at the Coop 718-768-3195. GET YOUR SALSA SWING ON at Park Slope's Voodoo Lounge. Fun- ABOLISH TORTURE: Sister Dianna SAT, JUN 14 filled evening includes Happy Ortiz, the torture survivor and Hour, Salsa performance, Latin founder of Torture Abolition & GALLERY OPENING/MEET THE buffet, lessons, raffle prizes and Support Coalition, speaks at the ARTIST: Art show titled “In free parking. 138 5th Avenue. 6 – Brooklyn Ethical Society and Meinem Wilden Herzen” by *Cor- 10 p.m./$25. For more info, call receives its annual Peace Site dula Volkening. 4–8 p.m. Cordula, Melissa at 347-563-8282. Proceeds Award. 53 Prospect Park West at an artist for 35 years, created the to the Imani House nonprofit. 2nd St. 11 a.m. work for this show since being diagnosed with brain cancer last CITY SOLAR RENEWABLE ENERGY fall. The show runs from June SAT, JUN 21 WORKSHOP: “Determine Your 13–19 at the Brooklyn Artists Gym, Solar Electric Needs” 1–3 p.m; 168 7th St., third floor. For more CITY SOLAR RENEWABLE ENER- “Rooftop Solar Electricity, Can You info, www.myspace.com/cor- GY WORKSHOP: “Battery Backup Have It?” 3:30–5:30 p.m. At 6/15 dulavolkening for Emergencies” 1–3 p.m; “Rain- Community Garden, 6th Ave. btwn water Collection and Storage WEARING MY BABY: A Stone Age 15th & 16th Sts. Each workshop: Design” 3:30–5:30 p.m. At 6/15 Mommy on Staten Island. Free $40/door, or $20/door for City Community Garden, 6th Ave. btwn show. St. George Theatre, 35 Hyatt Solar RAY members or garden 15 & 16th Sts. Each workshop: Street, Staten Island. Doors open members. For info, call 347-254- $40/door, or $20/door for City 0019 or visit www.citysolar.org. Solar RAY members or garden members. For info, call 347-254- Personal Velocity THU, JUN 12 0019 or visit www.citysolar.org A tale of three women who have reached a turning FREE Introduction class to NVC at SUN, JUN 22 the Open Center at 7:45 p.m. A 4- point in their lives. Delia is a spirited, working-class week introduction course to Non- ZEEMEEUWSIC III!: an eclectic woman from a small town in New York who leaves violent Communication by Sunday concert series at the Old her abusive husband and sets out on a journey to Marshall Rosenberg starts June 19. Stone House, featuring Robert reclaim the power she has lost. Greta is a sharp, Please register at www.opencen- Secrist (classical guitar, accom- ter.org. Experience the transfor- panied by Erica’s Rugelach for spunky editor who is rotten with ambition. To spite mative power of compassion. all!) and Jane Byaela (poetry and the hated infidel ways of her father, she has settled Course will be held by *Dian Kil- music for voice and guitar). into a complacent relationship and is struggling (not lian (www.brooklynnvc.org).FRI, JUN JJ Byrne Park, 5th Ave. (between 13Approved for CEUs. 3rd & 4th Sts). 2 p.m. $10. For too hard) with issues of fidelity to her kind but unex- info/reservations: 718-768-3195. citing husband. Finally, Paula, who ran away from home and got pregnant, is now in a relationship she doesn’t want. She’s a troubled young woman who takes off on a journey with a hitchhiker after a WORKSLOT NEEDS strange, fateful encounter on a New York street.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 the produce the Coop sells. make a six-month commitment to the work slot. If you Rebecca Miller, Writer, Director, is an American film are interested in this work- Early Morning General Ledger director, screenwriter and actress. Personal Velocity: slot please speak to Andie Three Portraits was a winner of the Independent Spirit Receiving/ Bookkeeping Taras by contacting the Friday, Saturday and John Cassavetes Award and Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Membership Office. Stocking Com- Sunday Miller’s other films include The Ballad of Jack and Rose mittees Are you a detailed-oriented CHIPS Soup and Angela, both of which she wrote and directed. She is Monday—Friday, 5:30, person who likes working the daughter of playwright Arthur 6:00, and 7:00 a.m. with numbers and is at ease Kitchen Miller and Austrian photographer FREE handling a calculator? Monday, Tuesday or Inge Morath. Personal Velocity: Early morning Receiving/ Non-members Stocking squads work with General Ledger Bookkeeping Saturday, Three Portraits is an adaptation Receiving Coordinators to might be the workslot for 9:00 to 11:45 a.m. or of a collection of short stories. welcome receive deliveries and stock you! General Ledger book- 11:15 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Winona Ryder, Robin Wright the store. These squads keeping consists of making CHIPS serves a daily meal Penn, and Julianne Moore will help to unload delivery entries into the General to the homeless, needy and team up for an upcoming comedy/drama called The trucks, organize products in Ledger, running a calculator hungry at their storefront Private Lives of Pippa Lee, which Miller is adapting the basement, load carts, tape to draw account bal- soup kitchen located at 4th from her own upcoming novel of the same name. ances and, finally, balancing Avenue and Sackett Street. and stock shelves, bulk Sabine Hoffman, Editor has passionately edited inde- the General Ledger. The Workslots preparing food, bins, coolers and produce pendent feature films for over ten years. Credits include work must be completed in helping serve meals and on the shopping floor. You Rebecca Miller’s films The Ballad of Jack and Rose, three separate segments, on cleaning-up are available may be asked to stock per- Rodney Evans’s Brother to Brother, Katherine 3 separate days, between to Coop members who ishables in the reach-in Dieckman’s Diggers, Alice Wu’s Saving Face, Morgan Thursday evening and have been a member for at freezer or walk-in cooler. J. Freeman’s Desert Blue and Hurricane Streets, Katja Sunday evening, allowing least six months. Coop Boxes generally weigh Essons’s Academy Award-nominated Ferry Tales and some flexibility in schedul- members will work along- between 2 – 20 lbs., a few Bill Jennings’s Harlem Aria (opening in June). She is ing the work. This is all hand side other volunteers at may weigh up to 50 lbs. currently editing Rebecca Miller’s upcoming feature entry work, since the Coop CHIPS. Reliability, coopera- Other duties include break- film The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. Sabine is an bookkeeping system is not tion and ability to take ing down cardboard for adjunct professor at Columbia University and serves on computerized. Good hand- directions are vital. recycling, preparing pro- the advisory boards of the Fusion Film Festival and the writing is a must. Prior book- Experience with food prep duce for display, and gener- Woodstock Film Festival. al cleaning. You will have keeping experience helps. is a plus for working in the the opportunity to work Prerequisites are: 1) must kitchen. Please contact A discussion with Sabine will follow. Film curator Alexandra have been a member in Camille Scuria in the closely with our produce Berger can be reached at [email protected]. buyers and learn a lot about good standing of the Coop Membership Office if inter- for 6 months; and 2) must ested. Views expressed by the presenter do not necessarily represent the Park Slope Food Coop

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THE CULLIGAN Architect, ex-chef, family guy—how Albert Solomon. Strongly and often. UM, I DISAGREE… SOLUTION cute, with a little baby girl”—almost The candidate who is *not* endorsed perfect enough to run for president. by Management! DEAR MEMBERS: GREETINGS: Then yours, nothing of that. Not the In cooperation, Member Jerome Barth wrote a con- My family and I spent a week in Tuc- nice guy ,and straight into crazy poli- Albert Baron Solomon structive letter about how to shorten son, Arizona, last week. While we were tics, [expletive deleted] .... didn’t like it 718-768-9079 checkout lines, which began with a there we came across a charming food at all for 5 seconds. but then, some- [email protected] jokey comment about the “random coop called the Food Conspiracy Coop body who doesn’t paint this totally product availability” at the Coop. Just (www.foodconspiracy.org). Being curi- redundant ‘nice guy’ picture but goes to note that in 20 years as a member I ous I couldn’t resist the urge to enter, straight into medias res. Liked it—you FAVORITE WORDS really haven’t found this to be the case. so I did. I introduced myself as a gonna have my vote. You strike me as Often what’s needed to find something member of the Park Slope Food Coop somebody who gives a [expletive HI: is a page-out asking for it—which in Brooklyn, New York, and was warmly deleted] about the ‘peace and love’ When I was working the Exit Worker might fall under his category of “quirky received. While touring Food Conspir- stuff that’s just blocking change for a position one evening, I encouraged announcements over the speaker sys- acy I noticed that they have a Culligan better situation, not in the world but people to share a favorite word as tem,” which we certainly do have— water dispensing vending machine, maybe in the Coop. (As if some people they were leaving. This is what they along with incredibly hard-working which is a high-end tap water filtra- in NYC don’t have a life and join the came up with: staff that have made the Coop uniquely tion system. For 29 cents, a person can Coop for the cheaper prices.) don’t get Favorite Words Collected at the successful and obliging. Let’s throw fill their own gallon container. It’s been me wrong, I like the Coop and its gen- Exit of the Food Coop: them some well-deserved laurels if very successful. Although they do not eral set-up and the cheap, good gro- tremendous pillow we’re just bandying words around… sell gallon jugs of bottled water they cery, but I don’t need to vote (ever) for splendid ruminate Your laurel thrower, do carry clean containers for sale if somebody because he/she has a baby tremor cien fuegas Jess Greenbaum needed. I thought this was a great and a successful architect firm and did spandrel banter idea especially with the recent deci- some cooking before that. kindness cumulus sion of our Coop not to carry the plas- You seem to know what you are extra-terrestrial negotiate NOT YOUR RUBIKLE’S tic jugs of water. It totally makes talking about and I still do believe in sasquatch inconceivable sense, since most bottled water today democracy calabash spatula CUBICLES is essentially tap water. I thought I Good Luck!” peripherally perturbed Who put up the first cubicle? would share my sighting. Good letter, but as always I wish he shrubbery ice cream Probably it wasn’t Rubikle. Cheers, had understood that my sole purpose oobleck thistle But we do know the fuzzy date, Gerry Da Silva is Fair and Equal Representation— ice bucket detritus Sometime in nineteen sixty-eight. not the Government With Star Cham- egg-drop ceiling thistle Forty years ago arose ber we seem to support instead. elbow audiologist Fences blocking some from those SOLOMONIC DECISION For starters, who are you voting corroborate wow Ready and willing to distract for? And why? The other candidate shaker shibboleth Workers from their working act, DEAR MEMBERS: has pledged *not* to exercise his pamplemousse quetch Cutting production, Before anything else, please vote for legal authority as a Director if he is perambulate jaunty sinking quotas, Board of Directors by June 23 dead- elected. Isn’t your vote wasted, then? superfluous carriage Bringing joy to rival gloatas. line—you should have your ballot by Why vote for a cipher? Why vote at love nocturnal Any employee here botching? now (May 26th is the date I’m writ- all? Because *one* of the two candi- judicious embellishments On a ladder a spy is watching. ing)—and vote for Albert Solomon. dates will *not* squander your vote freedom twerp That at least is what the bosses Strongly and often. The candidate who in the service of a romantic delusion enjoying tergiversation Told themselves would limit losses is *not* endorsed by the Management! of town-meeting communalism, but fantastic orange Unaware their production troubles A supporter writes… will fight for real representative ghost potato chip Stem not from conversational “Yes, at first I read the first state- democracy at our Co-Op. Haitian mango echolocation bubbles ment from Bill, and I thought “Wow, So please vote and also vote for asparagus indubitable But rather from the office medium plaid quetzal Bringing on unending tedium. LETTERS POLICY Mongolian yaks turpitude What then has the demi-wall discombobulate onomatopoeic Accomplished? chocolate boing Less than nothing at all. We welcome letters from members. 2. Nor will we publish accusations bourgeoisie cherries Fences that are six feet high Submission deadlines appear in the that are not specific or are not sub- epiphany woofer Prove as redundant as “pizza pie.” Coop Calendar. All letters will be stantiated by factual assertions. no yes Better to cover mouths with gags, printed if they conform to the pub- 3. Copies of submissions that make Bosses, and cover heads with bags. lished guidelines. We will not know- substantive accusations against spe- Elizabeth Heisner That’s the direction you need to go: ingly publish articles which are racist, cific individuals will be given to those Build another Guantanamo. sexist or otherwise discriminatory persons to enable them to write a Leon Freilich The maximum length for letters is 500 response, and both submissions and words. Letters must include your name response will be published simultane- and phone number and be typed or very ously. This means that the original sub- legibly handwritten. Editors will reject mission may not appear until the issue letters that are illegible or too long. after the one for which it was submitted. You may submit on paper, typed or The above applies to both articles very legibly handwritten, or via email and letters. The only exceptions will to [email protected] or be articles by Gazette reporters which on disk. will be required to include the response within the article itself. Anonymity Unattributed letters will not be pub- Respect lished unless the Gazette knows the Letters must not be personally identity of the writer, and therefore derogatory or insulting, even when must be signed when submitted (giv- strongly criticizing an individual ing phone number). Such letters will member's actions. Letter writers must be published only where a reason is refer to other people with respect, given to the editor as to why public refrain from calling someone by a identification of the writer would nickname that the person never uses impose an unfair burden of embar- himself or herself, and refrain from rassment or difficulty. Such letters comparing other people to odious fig- must relate to Coop issues and avoid ures like Hitler or Idi Amin. any non-constructive, non-cooperative language.

Fairness In order to provide fair, comprehen- sive, factual coverage: 1. The Gazette will not publish hearsay—that is, allegations not based on the author's first-hand observation.

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Support a New Coop! Do you live or work in the Bronx? East New York Food Coop Help a new coop in Brooklyn • FTOP credit available Would you prefer to do your workslot on Saturdays? In accordance with the sixth Principle of Cooperation, we frequently offer support and consultation to other coops. For the East New York Food Coop, we have also offered help in the form of Park Slope Food Coop member workslots. Then inquire about supporting the South Bronx Food Cooperative! The East New York Food Coop welcomes PSFC members to assist in its first year’s operations.

In accordance with the 6th Principle of PSFC members may receive FTOP credit in exchange for their help. To receive credit, you should be Cooperation, the Park Slope Food Coop is a member for at least one year and have an excellent attendance record. offering the SBFC support and consultation by To make work arrangements, please email ellen_weinstat @psfc.coop or call 718-622-0560. allowing PSFC members to complete their workslot at the Bronx location. East New York Food Coop 419 New Lots Avenue • between New Jersey Avenue and Vermont Street PSFC members will receive FTOP credit in accessible by the A, J and 3 trains • 718-676-2721 exchange for their help. To receive credit, you should be a PSFC member for at least one year and have an excellent attendance record. To make work arrangements, please email Hearing Officer Committee Seeks New Members [email protected] or call The Hearing Office Committee is seeking new members. The committee conducts and presides 718-622-0560 over disciplinary hearings, ensures that hearings proceed in an efficient and unbiased manner South Bronx Food Coop and, after a randomly selected Deciding Group has decided whether an accused member violat- ed a Coop rule, determines what disciplinary action should be taken against the member. 646-226-0758 • [email protected] Applicants should be Coop members in good standing for at least two years, have good attendance records and preferably have judicial, arbitration, mediation or legal backgrounds. Members of the committee meet and earn workslot credit on an as-needed basis only, that is, when hearings are required. Therefore these members must maintain regular Coop workslots The South Bronx Food Coop is seeking an in good standing or be FTOP members in good standing. experienced The nature of the committee’s work requires that all members maintain strict confidentiality graphic/web designer with respect to all matters on which they work. to update their website ASAP for work- The committee seeks an applicant pool that reflects the diversity of the Coop membership at large. slot credit! Those interested please telephone Mel Spain of the Hearing Officer Committee at Must know how to: 718-783-7405 or email at [email protected] • set up online purchasing system • create edit-able calendar • incorporate audio & video links • link websites Preference for designers who can link The Orientation Committee database/inventory systems to web sales. Most Needs You! important—must have cool sense of design! We are looking for energetic Coop members with South Bronx Food Coop a teaching or training background who can work 646-226-0758 • [email protected] on Monday evenings, Wednesday mornings or evenings, or Sunday afternoons. Orienters lead sessions every six weeks, and on the week mid- way between sessions you must be available as TAKE OUR SURVEY! backup for emergency coverage. Only Coop mem- The Diversity and Equality Committee (DEC) of the bers with at least two years of membership will be considered. Park Slope Food Coop is currently conducting a Workslot credit will be given for training sessions. An annual meeting of the member-wide survey to document and better understand Orientation Committee is part of the work requirement. issues of bias and discrimination at the Coop. For more information, contact the Membership Office or write to [email protected]. We are asking ALL Coop members to take the survey. Your participation will help us to get a broad range of views and perspectives on these issues.

The survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. Puzzle Answer The fastest and most environmentally friendly way to complete the survey is to take it online at: SOW MAY WORST ONE I CE A LOHA www.foodcoop.com USE LEAFLETED P EDAL HEN (Click on the box on the upper right that says “Take Survey”) STYLED DUCATS If you prefer to complete a paper version of the survey, ATOM TEP EE copies are available at the entrance desk, PEAS CUP RENT second floor service desk, and the membership office. RANKSRG I BE ORDA I N ERASED If you have any questions or difficulties COD AL LAY with accessing the surveys and/or any special needs, BREAKDOWN ORE please contact the DEC Committee at RANGE FAD PER ADDED FRY EDS 1-888-204-0098

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To Submit Classified or Display Ads: Ads may be placed on behalf of Coop members only. Classified ads are prepaid at $15 per insertion, business card ads at $30. (Ads in the “Merchandise–Non-commercial” category are free.) All ads must be written on a submission form. Classified ads may be up to 315 characters and spaces. Display ads must be camera-ready and business card size (2" x 3.5" horizontal).Submission forms are available in a wallpocket near the elevator.

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Original Coop member, floors, lots of windows & closet born in Brooklyn. Brownstone spe- space. Easy parking around the cialist, low voltage & 220 wiring. neighborhood. Two blocks away from HAIRCUTS HAIRCUTS HAIRCUTS in Prospect Park & the subway stop Fort the convenience of your home or Hamilton. 718-438-7920. mine. Also color perms, hot oil treat- ments. Adults $30.00, Kids $15.00. HOUSING SUBLETS Call Leonora 718-857-2215. ATTORNEY—Personal Injury Empha- JULY and AUGUST (dates neg.). Fur- sis—30 years experience in all aspects HOLISTIC OPTOMETRY: Most eye nished room on ground floor of lovely of injury law. Individual attention pro- doctors treat patients symptomati- Prospect Heights brownstone. Share vided for entire case. Free phone or cally by prescribing ever-increasing kitchen and bath with retired woman office consultation. Prompt, courte- prescriptions. We try to find the who travels and three friendly cats. ous communications. 18-year Park source of your vision problem. Some Wireless internet. $800/mo. One Slope Food Coop member; Park Slope of the symptoms that can be treated month security and ref. Near muse- resident; downtown Brooklyn office. include headaches, eye fatigue, um, library, BAM. Near trains, 2/3, Q, Tom Guccione, 718-596-4184, also at computer discomfort, learning dis- 4/5, C. Contact Tasha 917-613-4207 www.tguccionelaw.com. abilities. Convenient Park Slope loca- [email protected] tion. Dr. Jerry Wintrob, 718-789-2020. RELAX AND LET ME do the work: holisticeyecare.com MERCHANDISE- planting, weeding, pruning, design- NONCOMMERCIAL ing to make your garden an oasis in HOLISTIC DOCTOR in Naturopathy the concrete jungle. Certificate in stimulates body’s natural ability to Urban Garden Design from Brooklyn heal chronic conditions, allergy, skin, SLEEPTEK ORGANIC LATEX king- Botanic Garden. Free estimates. Call muscle, cancer support with home- size mattress for sale. Covered with Deborah or Gus at 718-438-1170. opathy, physical & chelation thera- quilted organic wool & organic cot- pies, bioenergetic acupuncture, lab ton. One month old. In perfect condi- NEW LOOK PAINTING. 28 years exp. tests, hair analysis & more. Research tion, protected by organic mattress Everything from expert wall prep to Director. 20 years exp. As Featured in pad from day one. Comes with origi- the finest painted details. Whether Allure Magazine. Dr. Gilman nal plastic bag for transport. We paid the job requires “standard” or “spe- 212-505-1010. $2,253, yours for $1,550 (save over cialized” painting, all work is guaran- $700). Call Laura: 718-499-2789. teed to meet customers satisfaction. LIFE COACHING WITH MINA. Are you References and portfolio available. in transition? Want to tap into your PETS All materials recycled. Reasonable creativity? Jump-start your present — rates! Insured. 646-734-0899. or a new — career? Live a happier, more fulfilled life? Life Coaching is a ADOPT CAVENDISH! Cavendish was MADISON AVENUE Hair Stylist is powerful tool for change and growth. born on the street. He is four right around the corner from the Sessions either by phone or in months old 5/08. He’s an adorable Food Coop—so if you would like a convenient Park Slope location. First tuxedo-like kitten. Neutered & really good haircut at a decent price, session free. Call 212-427-2324. blood tested healthy. Up-to-date on please call Maggie at 718-783-2154. shots. Looking for a forever home. I charge $60.00. So cute! Modest adoption fee. Pix VACATIONS can be emailed to you. If interested OLIVE DESIGN Interior Design . contact Victoria 914-443-9209 / Color consulting, space planning, COTTAGES FOR RENT in charming [email protected]. custom lamps, window coverings. Catskill summer community. Beautiful Use what you have or start fresh. Rug wooded grounds. Olympic-size pool, SERVICES and furniture selection. 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Hiking, biking, Better Business Bureau. ings, acupuncture, homeopathy, antiquing & cultural attractions near- temporo-mandibular (TM) joint ther- by. TV & DVD/VHS player, Sirius radio, PAINTING-PLASTERING+PAPER- apy & much more. For a no-obliga- screened & open porches, fireplace, HANGING-Over 25 years experience tion free initial oral examination, call firepit. $900/wk, $500/Sun-Fri. doing the finest prep + finish work in 212-505-5055. Please bring X-rays. 10% discount for Coop members. Brownstone Brooklyn. An entire Contact Deborah at 718-438-1170 or house or one room. Reliable, clean [email protected]. and reasonably priced. Fred Becker - 718-853-0750. WHAT’S FOR FREE EXPRESS MOVES. One flat price for the entire move! No deceptive hourly FREE INITIAL LIFE COACHING SES- estimates! Careful, experienced SION. 30-minute complimentary ses- mover. Everything quilt padded. No sion. Coaching will help you clarify extra charge for wardrobes and pack- your life goals, overcome limiting ing tape. Specialist in walkups. Thou- beliefs, jump into your own unique sands of satisfied customers. Great greatness. Call Mina, 212-427-2324. Coop references. 718-670-7071

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