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OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP

Established 1973

Volume BB, Number 9 April 26, 2007 Post-Apartheid Help for Those With HIV By Hayley Gorenberg

ight Coop “commu- your brother or sister is nity” stretch from down, pick them up!’ ” said M Park Slope to South Horwitz. “We are all responsi- Africa? PSFC member Laura ble for one another. We Horwitz, director of the New become a person through the York office of the Ubuntu people around us,” she said. Fund, thinks so. This month “And that’s how we approach she helped a teenaged South the work.” African orphan travel here to Founded nine years ago, test that connection, seeking Ubuntu initially focused on support for a community schools. That focus trans- that—like her family—has formed after a school meet- been ravaged by HIV. ing, where a parent stood up PHOTO BY LISA COHEN PHOTO and said, “It’s wonderful The Meaning of what’s happening around Humanity education, but are we going “Ubuntu” loosely trans- to talk about the fact that in How Safe Is the Food lates to “humanity” or “com- the past two months four of munity.” “It’s really an African You Feed Your Pet? ethical principle that says, ‘If CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 No Coop Pet Food’s Been Recalled By Ann Pappert owners—equal to the num- affected premium brands, like ber of pet food-related com- Hill’s Science Diet, normally n mid-March, Menu Foods, plaints they would normally only sold by veterinarians, the a Canadian-based pet register over 2 years. tainted pet food scandal has Ifood company that manu- Wheat gluten is used as a left many pet owners asking factures dog and cat food filler and binder in pet food. It just how safe is the food they under 90 different labels, is frequently added to wet- feed their pets. announced a product recall style, cuts and gravy-style pet The answer may lie in just after discovering that some of foods to provide a gelatinous what ingredients are in the its food was contaminated. consistency and thicken the pet food you buy. Menu Foods recalled 60 “gravy.” In addition to gravy- None of the pet food sold million cans of cat and dog style canned pet food the at the Coop was involved in food and at least six other pet recall has expanded to the recall. And that’s not just

food companies have also almost 2 dozen dog biscuit luck. FUND OF UBUNTU EDUCATION COURTESY PHOTO recalled tainted products. brands and pet food jerky, “At the Coop there is Lungiswa Ngceza (far right), sister of Zethu Ngceza, with a The U.S. Food and Drug also contaminated with taint- already a consensus to carry case worker and other children at an Ubuntu Education Administration is the agency ed wheat gluten. more natural pet food prod- Fund event. that monitors the nation’s ucts,” Kevin O’Sullivan, a food supply. It says all the Coop coordinator who orders recalled pet food was conta- Gravy style pet food all the pet food sold at the Next General Meeting on May 29 minated with melamine, an and dog biscuits Coop, said. The General Meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop is held on the industrial chemical. The were contaminated. “Coop members already last Tuesday of each month.* The next General Meeting will be melamine-tainted food can know that there is a problem Tuesday, May 29, 7:00 p.m. at the Congregation Beth Elohim cause kidney problems, and with a lot of the food in this Temple House (Garfield Temple), 274 Garfield Pl. melamine was found in the country, particularly with pet The agenda will be available as a flyer in the entryway of the urine and kidneys of pets that The melamine appears to food. People make jokes all Coop on Wednesday, May 2. For more information about the died after eating the tainted have been accidentally added the time about all the junk, GM and about Coop governance, please see the center of this food. Twelve deaths have to wheat gluten produced by things like by-products, that issue. been reported, but the FDA a processing plant in China go into many pet foods.” * Exceptions for November and December will be posted. believes that is just the tip of that supplies the gluten to a But the pet food sold at the iceberg. U.S. distributor. The pet food the Coop is different. “We Since the story first broke, recall is one of the largest in carry more natural pet food IN THIS ISSUE the FDA has received over U.S. history. 12,000 complaints from pet Because the recall even CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Tales from Mali: The Global Fight for the Right to Food . . . . . 3 Helping Our Parks...... 5 Thu, May 3 •Food Class: 7:30 p.m. Spring Vegan Highlights Coop Hours, Coffeehouse, Puzzle...... 6 Coop Fri, May 4 •Film Night: 7:00 p.m. Beyond Conviction Coop Calendar, Workslot Needs Governance Information, Mission Statement...... 7 Sat, May 19 •Children's Clothing Swap: 10:30 am Event Community Calendar ...... 8 Sat, May 19 •Poker Night: 7:00 pm Letters to the Editor ...... 9 Highlights Look for additional information about these and other events in this issue. Classified Ads ...... 10 07-04-26 p 01-07-v6 4/27/07 2:55 PM Page 2

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Thursday, Pet Food Safety at the Coop May, 3 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 But are these “natural” digestibility and biologic 7:30 p.m. products really better for value may seem more at the Coop products, many that are your pet? expensive on the shelf, but human grade,” O’Sullivan Lick Your Chops clearly the cost per feeding is com- explained. “Even the Purina thinks so. Responding to the parable, due to the reduced dry pet food we sell, which FDA recall, the company‘s volume needed to satisfy we carry because it’s a popu- website offers this summary: energy and health require- Spring lar supermarket brand and a “There are considerable ments.” Guest Chef Matt favorite of many of our differences in the nutrition- A Web site blurb for New- Vegan Menu Downes began exploring members as well as more al value between foods con- man’s Own pet food illus- the links between cul- trates the major differences ture, social responsibility between pet food sold in and food as a student of supermarkets and their Sociology and Psychology more natural food. at Wesleyan University. What’s In It and What’s He is a graduate of the Not, the Web site asks, and Natural Gourmet Institute goes on to list many of the products contained in MENU for Health and Culinary Arts and is currently the supermarket foods, includ- pastry chef at Pure Food ing: s with crostini • Poultry by-product • Favetta and m ushroom and Wine in Manhattan. meal, which is actually • Asparagus, cherries and pinenuts with Matt is a Coop member. ground, rendered and apple brandy jus oroccan cleaned poultry carcass • Saffron Israeli cous-cous with M parts such as necks and feet. spring vegetables Frequently, poultry and MEMBERS & • Cherim oya parfait NON-MEMBERS meat by-products have been WELCOME. rejected as unfit for human $4 materials fee consumption. Views expressed by the presenter do not Come early necessarily represent the Park Slope Food Coop. to ensure a seat. • Antibiotics and steroids • Chemical additives and artificial preservatives. Many of these additives are PHOTOGRAPHS BY INGRID CUSSON PHOTOGRAPHS designed to increase the A Coop member's dog chows down on Lick Your Chops. shelf life and reduce fat spoilage of pet food, but can Board of affordable, is still more nat- taining by-products, fillers cause allergic reactions in ural than many other com- and added animal fats and pets. mercial brands of pet food.” chemical preservatives and • Wheat, corn and soy. All Directors Currently, the Coop car- those containing natural of which can cause allergic ries three different brands of ingredients. Much of the reactions in pets. Processed dog food: Petguard and Lick nutritional value of com- soy can also cause bloating Your Chops, both in 14 oz. in dogs. Election cans, and Wysong bagged • Artificial flavors, colors dry dog food. None of the pet food sold or dyes. Artificial flavors are In cat food, the Coop sells at the Coop was involved made from highly processed seven different brands, both in the recall. And that’s not animal tissue. The General Meeting & The Board of Directors con- canned and dry: Petguard, just luck. Newman’s Own pet food the Board of Directors ducts a vote at the end of Wellness, Lick Your Chops, is made with organic brown From our inception in 1973 every GM whether to Newman’s Organic, One rice, Milo (a type of grain), to the present, the monthly accept the advice of the Earth, Wysong and Purina. mercial pet food has been barley, flax seed and oats, as General Meeting has been members that night. Mem- The Coop sells close to removed by over-processing well as organic veggies, the decision-making body bers of the Board are 1,300 cans and bags of cat and adding chemicals that kelp, probiotics and antibi- of the Coop. Since the required to act legally and food every week, and over preserve color and add tex- otic-free chicken. Coop incorporated in 1977, responsibly. 150 dog food products. ture. Foods that are high in The pet food scandal we have been legally seems to beg the question of required to have a Board of Openings whether you really want to Directors. We have two full three-year feed your pet chemically terms and one one-year laden food that’s been sitting The Bylaws of the Park term open this year. on a supermarket shelf for Slope Food Coop state: who knows how long or food “The portion of the Board that contains ingredients of Directors meeting that is Candidate Deadline you wouldn’t mind eating? devoted to receiving the If you wish to place your For more information on the advice of the members name into nomination, pet food recall, visit the FDA’s shall be known as the Gen- please declare your candi- Web site at www.fda.gov. ■ eral Meeting… The mem- dacy by Sunday, May 6. You bers who gather to give will be asked to submit a advice to the directors may statement of up to 750 choose to vote in order to words and a small photo for express their support or publication in the Linewait- opposition for any of the ers’ Gazette and the member issues that have come proxy mailing. Submit dec- before the meeting.” larations of candidacy to Who needs Old Navy when you can outfit GazetteSubmissoins@psfc. your child at the Coop for free?! Duties of the Directors coop or drop your declara- tion off in the Bring your child's outgrown clothes to the The Board of Directors is Membership Coop to trade with other members. comprised of five elected Office. Coop members and the Please bring only items that are senior General Coordina- in good condition. tor present. Members Voting serve three-year Every member will terms. Members of receive a proxy Do not bring clothing to the Coop the Board are expect- package in the mail before the hours of the exchange. ed to attend GMs reg- in late May. Mem- ularly. They receive bes may also vote FREE Saturday, May 19 10:30-2:00 p.m. Coop work credit for at the Annual Meet- Non-members welcome their attendance. ing, June 26. last drop-off 1:30 p.m. 07-04-26 p 01-07-v6 4/27/07 2:55 PM Page 3

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SAFE FOOD COMMITTEE REPORT Tales from Mali: The Global Fight for the Right to Food A conversation with John Peck from Family Farm Defenders and Anna Lappé, co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen and Hope’s Edge

his February, I had the gates, John Peck, who grew up been trading with each other opportunity to travel to on his family’s farm in Central for eons, long before Christo- T the West African coun- Minnesota and now lives in pher Columbus got into a boat. try of Mali to attend the world’s Madison, Wisconsin. As the We’re for fairness for those prod- first forum on food sovereignty. executive director of the grass- ucts that we do trade like Bringing together more than roots organization, Family bananas and coffee, and for 600 farmers, pastoralists, fish- Farm Defenders, John keeps the right to have power over erfolk, trade union activists busy fighting for food sover- production and supply of and others from over 80 coun- eignty here at home. In our those products we produce tries, the forum was a unique conversation, John helps and sell locally.

moment for discussion of explain what food sovereignty Lappé: In trade talks in Can- BY ANNA LAPPÉ PHOTOS cun a few years ago, a Kore- Discussions during the women's meeting, held one day before an farmer committed suicide, the forum began declaring that the World Trade Organization kills money, while the same farmers ders for this illegal dumping? farmers. Why are trade mod- are hurt. Unfortunately, no. els so damaging that this Lappé: Many people I meet Lappé: Let’s end with some leader would take his own have the impression that action steps. How can we life in protest? only people in industrialized promote food sovereignty in Peck: One of the big problems countries have serious con- the United States? is called dumping, in which cerns with GMOs. What was Peck: There’s a lot that we can countries like the United States the feeling about GMOs at do, and a lot going on across can now export heavily subsi- the forum? the country. We can join the dized crops and flood local Peck: Farmers were unani- efforts to create local food poli- markets with artificially cheap mously concerned. We heard, cy councils [AL: one is in the products, often decimating for instance, from the Armen- works for our city and state]. small farmers’ livelihoods. ian delegation that despite a We can promote community- Mexico post-NAFTA is a power- national ban on GMOs, Syn- supported agriculture where North American and Palestinian delegations; including (far ful example. Following the pas- genta, one of the world’s largest people invest at the beginning left) John Peck and Anna Lappé sage of NAFTA, the domestic GMO producers, has been of the growing season in a farm corn price in Mexico dropped dumping Bt corn there illegally to receive fresh food through- common strategies and strug- means, why it matters and by 50 percent due to subsidized for five years. When the compa- out the harvest [AL: check out gles in the globalized fight for what we can do to support it. (I U.S. corn. This cheap corn ny was confronted, Syngenta www.justfood.org to find food sovereignty. Broadly can happily report that John undercut local markets and said the dumping was a mis- local ones]. We can visit (or defined, food sovereignty mentioned “joining a food contributed to 1.3 million peas- take. If that’s true, there have start) a local farmers market means bringing democracy cooperative” as one of those ants being driven off their land, been a lot of “mistakes” in [AL: visit www.cenyc.org to into the food system so that “things we can do!”) many becoming migrant labor- recent years, like the mistake of find some of our local ones]. food producers and food Lappé: What does food sov- ers or sweatshop workers. exporting GMO rice in Thailand And that’s just for starters. We eaters—not just transnational ereignty mean to you? or dumping genetically modi- can also fight for specific poli- corporations—have power Peck: Food sovereignty may fied food aid in Sierra Leone. cies, like local food purchas- over food. sound like a fancy concept, but But does the government of ing in our school districts or The meeting was held in it’s really simple: it means Food sovereignty may sound Armenia or Thailand or Sierra property tax rebates for con- rural Mali, an hour-and-a-half community democracy and like a fancy concept, but Leone have the resources to be verting to organics or bans on outside of Bamako, the capital, control over our food and farm it’s really simple: it means testing or controlling their bor- the planting of GMOs. ■ in a village that had been creat- system; it means buying local community democracy ed for the forum. We slept in and supporting your local and control over our food and four- and six-person huts, farmers. showered outside in un-roofed Lappé: When I promote local farm system; it means stalls and ate together on mats foods, I sometimes get the buying local and supporting laid out on the sand. The meet- response that buying local your local farmers. ings were held in open-air huts actually hurts farmers over- with thatched roofs to shade seas. Does supporting local us from the sometimes 100 foods—shopping at a food Lappé: You’ve talked a lot degree heat. At any given coop, for instance—support about how farmers in the glob- moment, you could hear food sovereignty globally? al South have been affected dozens of languages, with all Peck: First of all, only 5% of by dumping. What about farm- formal conversation simulta- food is traded in the global ers in the United States? neously translated into Eng- marketplace. A lot of people Peck: Once you’re on the lish, Spanish, French and the don’t realize that three times dumping treadmill everyone local language, Bombara. as much food is grown in cities can dump on everyone. Our The choice of Mali was a as crosses borders, but it’s this dairy farmers have been really conscious one. The country, tiny fraction of food that dic- hurt by milk protein concen- like many African nations in tates prices. When the world trate, or MPC, which is being the Sahel, struggles mightily market price for commodities imported for use in fake-o with its food self-sufficiency. dive bombs, farmers every- cheese products like Velveeta Mali, in particular, faces under- where are hurt. Via Campesina and Kraft Singles. Also, since standable challenges: it’s near- argues that there shouldn’t be MPC is imported as a glue ly twice the size of Texas, but it world market prices for food. ingredient, which is an indus- is land-locked and only 4% of Prices should not just be coun- trial product, we have no safety its land is farmable. try specific, but bioregional. screening. Once imported, it’s The forum was organized by For instance, milk will cost used in various cheese prod- several international networks, farmers more to produce in ucts, cutting off markets to our including Via Campesina, the New England than it does for domestic dairy farmers. Mean- largest umbrella group of orga- farmers in the Midwest, and so while, here in the United nizations of fishing, farming, the price should reflect that. States, milk prices have been pastoralist and indigenous Lappé: So does this mean stuck at the same level since communities. you and your allies are 1970. So yes, dumping comes I had a chance recently to against trade? back to haunt us. Globally, it’s interview one of the U.S. dele- Peck: Not at all. People have the same corporations making 07-04-26 p 01-07-v6 4/27/07 2:55 PM Page 4

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private/public partnerships cussed everything from her addressed through schools. Fighting HIV in South Africa in South Africa, with a fair experience with Ubuntu, to Realizing students needed amount of focus on launch- her aspiration to become an food, and recognizing as well CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 We’re trying to figure out, ing case management for accountant, to her fascina- that people on HIV medica- ‘How do we work and how do orphaned and otherwise vul- tion with the prospect of see- tions may have trouble com- our learners have died we rebuild access?’ ” nerable children. Apparently ing dinosaur bones at the plying with their regimens because of this disease that’s Despite the structural hur- struck by Ubuntu’s progress Museum of Natural History. when they don’t have food, killing us?” Forty percent of dles, many of the leaders of report, representatives came “In my home, there is no Ubuntu began a community the community has HIV, the African National Con- to South Africa to observe the guardian,” she explained. garden project in the schools, according to Horwitz, so of gress came from the area, so work first-hand, meeting with “Ubuntu is my guardian. They building food security initially the 400,000 people living it nevertheless has a proud case managers, other staff counseled me, because I with students. Staff worked there, 140,000 have HIV, many history of organizing. “There’s and students, including couldn’t face the thing of with grandparents who care with advanced, debilitating Ntombizethu “Zethu” Ngceza, being an orphan. There is a for many children whose par- disease. “We still continue to a 17-year-old who has cared secret room in our school so ents are ill or dead, offering a work in schools for empower- “...There is a secret room in for herself, her brother, a person could not be weekly stipend while training ment but use schools as our school so a person could Andisiwe, and her sister, ashamed of going there for them to grow and prepare nodes of care and support.” not be ashamed of going there Lungiswa, since the three of talking.” food. Today, sustainable agri- Ubuntu works with life- them were orphaned by HIV She left South Africa for culture practices at Ubuntu skills educators in schools, for talking.” --Zethu Ngceza. in 2005. “Zethu is just this the first time to take this trip. gardens feed 1,750 students a including education pro- AIDS Activist extraordinary young woman,” “It was amazing,” she said. “I nutritious meal each day. grams dealing with every- said Horwitz. The Clinton am so excited now!” Looking Those who run Ubuntu gar- thing from age-appropriate representatives “were blown toward the meeting with dens also receive their own HIV prevention information a lot of resiliency and President Clinton small plots to cultivate as they beginning in first grade to strength, but at the same and his founda- like. One garden in the local supports for building self- time it’s tempered by these tion, she said, “I clinic, run by HIV support esteem. Case managers work structural difficulties, such as just hope they will group members, yields food with students, bringing their finding a way to get a decent not be bored, just for 50 people, Horwitz said. entire families into systems education or losing your par- listen to me and of case management and ents to some kind of disease just get interest- And in New York… psychosocial support, includ- and really having no one to ed, asking me Horwitz directs Ubuntu’s ing home visits, income take care of you,” questions.” four-person New York office, grants, stabilizing access to Horwitz says. Zethu also where she’s shepherded food and helping escort Ubuntu recently launched hoped to visit operations and fundraising those who need medical care a capital campaign to build a schools, to “see since 2006, after a stint doing to local clinics. They reach gathering space in the town- how they operate.” domestic HIV work at the 40,000 youth and adults ship, planning a 19,000- She professed a Institute for Gay Men’s annually. square-foot community fascination with Health at Gay Men’s Health American stu- Crisis. Before that, she lived dents’ freedom to in South Africa for about five choose their own years, where she worked for clothes to wear to the University of Capetown school, instead of on HIV prevention efforts, donning uniforms. support, and “social market- “Uniform is pretty ing campaigns.” In South Africa, she met her husband, Left: Children working in one of Ubuntu Education Fund’s Hilton Horwitz, now a receiv- organic gardens. The gardens provide meals to 1750 ing coordinator at the Coop. children per day. Above: Children attending Camp Ubuntu She related the Ubuntu holiday program for orphaned and vulnerable children. principles to community at the Coop and in Brooklyn away by all the things she cool,” Zethu said, explaining, generally, where she seeks to had to say.” Horwitz remarked “When a child is wearing a grow awareness about the that when asked to identify school uniform, you could organization, using its guid- her “hero,” Zethu said it was not identify the rich one and ing principle of taking her Ubuntu case manager, the poor one.” responsibility for one’s com- Fezeka Mzalala, who joined Mzalala, the Ubuntu case munity. “In such a fractured PHOTOGRAPHS BY I JAMES BAIGRIE PHOTOGRAPHS Ubuntu five years ago. manager, recalled first society it can be a way to con- Structured Oppression center, with spaces for other Ubuntu brought Zethu and encountering Zethu. “When I nect to your community. Ubuntu focuses its ser- nonprofits, a multipurpose Fezeka to New York last week, met Zethu she already lost Community has a lot of dys- vices in a community “over- theater, HIV testing facilities, where Zethu shared the stage both her parents. function, and that’s OK; it’s come by the impact of a multimedia center with a with President Clinton on apartheid,” according to computer lab and a career April 19 for a conversation Horwitz. Its catchment is a and tutoring center. The huge about her community and her grouping of townships in the undertaking will increase own experience and talk “It’s wonderful what’s happening around education, but are we vicinity of Port Elizabeth. capacity tremendously. The about commitments that going to talk about the fact that in the past two months four of Known as Ibhayi, it’s a collec- facility is “state-of-the-art, could be made to help in the our learners have died because of this disease that’s killing us?” tion of shacks and informal all green-designed,” said future. --Banks Guazua, Ubuntu dwellings, “very, very scant Horwitz. “These people “For us it’s an extraordinary infrastructure,” purposely deserve the best quality ser- opportunity,” said Horwitz. laid out in that fashion under vices. If someone were build- She looks toward expanding “From there she was stay- about learning to be in it and apartheid, said Horwitz, to ing it in the center of town, services and support in areas ing with an aunt, who has her have dialogue with each inhibit people from meeting nobody would question it. where schools typically have own children plus three of other and how we support and organizing. The people deserve this kind 50 children sharing two text- Zethu’s family members— each other. I think that hap- “That’s why you have com- of space.” She terms it an books and clinics have eight in one small shack. It pens at the Coop, at different munities that are so vulnera- “environmental intervention.” “maybe two nurses and the was not a proper place. It was levels. You can choose how ble to HIV,” Horwitz says. Safe space is centrally doctor will come once a week. small, and it was having involved or not involved to be “The more education some- important for young children, Especially on the day that the some holes. It was not a great in the community. It helps body has access to, the more who Horwitz said are very doctor comes, you can just thing to see that children are give more control in things likely they’re employed. HIV often abused. The case man- imagine what the lines are suffering.” that these days are often can impact anybody, but agers encounter a great deal like! There’s no AC, crowds And soon, Zethu’s aunt left being taken out of the com- there are conditions that of gender-based violence and crowds of people who are the area to seek employment, munity, like control over your make you more vulnerable to with young children, she sick. There’s huge [HIV] stig- “so I had to work harder than food sources. Taking away the disease. Right now it’s noted, observing that with ma. Those who come usually before,” said Fazeka, whose people’s food source is a decimating the most produc- the area’s 80% unemploy- don’t come until they’re very, current work for the children huge way of exercising con- tive sector of the [South ment rate, a fair number of very ill. And there’s no trans- includes seeking a foster par- trol over them.” ■ African] population. It‘s deci- people spend excessive time portation. If you have diar- ent for them, which will facili- mating those who are raising in local taverns drinking, “and rhea and have to walk five tate a better housing Coop members and members of children and those who are what happens after that…” miles to a clinic, you’re not placement, “and also to the public who wish to walk with contributing to the economy. going to do it.” relieve Zethu from being a Team Ubuntu in the upcoming There’s less teachers. There’s International Support parent.” AIDS Walk in Central Park on less people to raise children. Within the past year, the Meeting Zethu Ngceza May 20 can join at www.ubuntu- So there’s less leadership. “Clinton Global Initiative” Zethu, enthusiastic Food Security fund.org/aidswalk. Click on “Join That’s pretty devastating. and others have facilitated despite jet lag last week, dis- The most basic needs are Our Team,” and fill out the form. 07-04-26 p 01-07-v6 4/27/07 2:55 PM Page 5

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The moon hangs over a peaceful stretch of Prospect Park.

Helping Our Parks BY INGRID CUSSON PHOTOGRAPHS By Walecia Konrad Wintry mists in Brooklyn's beloved Prospect Park.

hether it’s a run in are expected to pay for those There’s no doubt that well- space and development in and support. Programs such Prospect Park, a trip costs through commercial maintained parks add to the our area. In addition, leading as poetry readings, potlucks, W to the working farm development, says Lout. The quality of all of our lives. green space advocates from movies, bake sales and other in Red Hook or a work slot at expansion plans of Brooklyn They increase real estate val- Brooklyn and throughout the activities that non-members the Garden of Union, there’s Bridge Park from its current ues and help decrease crime city will be in attendance, also enjoy help gardens no doubt Park Slope Food 12 acres to 76 acres, for rates. Even more important, offering advice and informa- become an integral part of the Coop members have a special example, include 10% of the green spaces can have an tion on how residents can get community. “When a neigh- relationship with the green park set aside for housing, incredibly positive impact on more involved. borhood is truly invested in spaces in and around the hotel rooms, retail space and our health. Cities with lots of • Join your local community its open space, residents are Coop. After all, if you’re inter- other commercial uses. But green space have lower rates garden, suggests Robin less likely to sit idly by and let ested in eating healthy, sus- Lout worries that when pub- of asthma, diabetes, obesity Simmen, manager of Brook- the developers steal it from tainably grown foods, you’re lic funds are not used to and other chronic illnesses. lyn GreenBridge, Community them,” says Simmen. naturally going to seek out operate a park, citizens are So what can PSFC mem- Horticulture Program, Brook- While you’re at it, mark and enjoy the outdoors. But forced to make private deals bers do to support our parks? lyn Botanic Garden. Strong your calendar for June 16 how about taking it a step fur- that may compromise future Here are some ways to get advocacy organizations like (10 a.m. to 1 p.m.) when the ther and really advocating for green space. Buildings will started: the Trust for Public Land and Brooklyn Botanic Gardens Brooklyn’s parks and gardens, take up what could be open • Sign up for Parks Advoca- the New York Restoration sponsors Our Gardens! Our asks Maura Lout, former Coop space and residents may cy Day sponsored by New Project (founded by Bette Future! a panel discussion member and director of oper- and open forum on the status ations at New Yorkers for of New York City Community Parks, a non-profit watchdog Gardens. group for New York City’s • Check out other green parks and beaches. space non-profits such as

Continual budget cuts have the Parks Department’s MORRISON BY ROD ILLUSTRATION hit the parks department require private access to the Yorkers For Parks, on May 8 Midler) have helped lessen Partnerships for Parks (www. hard. Currently, New York City adjoining parks, cutting off from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 14 the threat of massive closings partnershipsforparks.org) spends only three-tenths of public accessibility, she says. Vesey Street (www.NY4P.org). that took place during the to see how you can volunteer 1% of its budget on parks Closer to home, Lout wor- So far, 51 city council mem- Rudy Guiliani days. But just at your local park or other- compared to a city like Chica- ries about green space being bers are scheduled to attend about every garden can use wise get involved in park go, which spends 4%. That’s incorporated into the devel- the event. In addition to dis- more community volunteers advocacy. ■ less per person than Washing- opment plans for Atlantic cussing a citywide green ton, DC, Seattle and San Fran- Yards. “We had a conversation space agenda, the non-profit cisco. Here’s one result of the with the Ratner Companies to will pair council members cuts: There are 1,700 parks in get them to commit to a with residents from their dis- New York City and only 10 gar- maintenance fund to take tricts to discuss local park deners and 16 assistant gar- care of adjacent parks. Clearly concerns, budgets and other deners to take care of them, those spaces are going to issues. This is your chance to says Lott. “The Parks Depart- have to deal with heavier use. tell your local council mem- ment staff perform minor mir- We also gave them some ber you want better parks, acles every day. They need our designs for new open space. playgrounds and beaches. It’s help,” she adds. Overall, they weren’t interest- also a great place to voice More and more the city’s ed,” says Lout. concerns about local green parks have to rely on volun- teers for manpower and pri- vate and non-profit organizations for funds. The PROGRAMS Prospect Park Alliance, for instance, has been enor- Thursday, April 26 through mously successful in raising money to improve and main- Sunday, April 29 tain Brooklyn’s gem. But smaller green spaces that The following programs will happen within four days of can be equally important to publication of this issue. For full ads, please look at the local residents get far less March 29 or April 12 issues or pick up copies of the flyers attention. “We want everyone in the Coop. to walk into a city park that looks as good as Prospect Thu, Apr 26 Park or Central Park,” says 3:00–8:00 p.m. Blood Drive Lout. Fri, Apr 27 and Sat, Apr 28 What’s more, new parks that are in the process of 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Blood Drive being developed are often Sun, Apr 29 not set to receive funding 12:00 p.m. Preparing for a Powerful Birth: How a Doula from the city for maintenance Can Help and operations. Instead, they 07-04-26 p 01-07-v6 4/27/07 2:55 PM Page 6

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COOP HOURS A monthly musical Friday fundraising partnership of Office Hours: the Park Slope Food Coop Monday through Thursday May 18 and the Brooklyn Society 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. for Ethical Culture Friday & Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Shopping Hours: Monday–Friday 8:00 a.m. to 10:00* p.m. Saturday 6:00 a.m. to 10:00* p.m. Sunday 6:00 a.m. to 7:30* p.m. *Shoppers must be on a checkout line Bruce Markow 15 minutes after closing time. “Hot! Amazingly tasty!” (Vance Gilbert) Childcare Hours: Alternative-Folk singer-songwriter Bruce Markow’s uplifting rock, Monday through Sunday pop, jazz and Afro-Brazilian infused songs deftly explore—with 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 p.m. spunk and grace, playfulness and passion—the wonders and woes of growing more fully alive. The Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist’s Telephone: rich voice expresses both the deepest human capacity for joy and 718-622-0560 the hunger for a world of greater peace, truth and love. “Infectious, irresistible, memorable and tons of fun” (Mitch Teplitsky, filmmaker) Web address: “Eloquent, sensitive and full of heart” (WBCR-FM) www.foodcoop.com Jean Rohe Jean Rohe and her band perform an exciting, multilin- gual mix of their own original music as well as folk music from various parts of Latin America. With diverse The Linewaiters’ Gazette is published biweekly by musical backgrounds that span from jazz and impro- the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc., 782 Union Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215. vised music to folk music of the Balkans and back to Opinions expressed here may be solely the views Brazil, the band members bring a wide range of talent of the writer. The Gazette will not knowingly publish and experience to their unique sound. Band members articles that are racist, sexist, or otherwise are Ilusha Tsinadze, guitar; Liam Robinson, accordion; discriminatory. Benjy Fox-Rosen, bass; and Hector Morales, percussion. The Gazette welcomes Coop-related articles, and letters from members. Jean will be singing and playing some percussion.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submissions MUST include author’s name and 53 Prospect Park West [at 2nd Street] • $10 • 8:00 p.m. [doors open at 7:45] phone number and conform to the following guidelines. Editors will reject letters and articles Performers are Park Slope Food Coop members and receive Coop workslot credit. that are illegible or too long. Submission deadlines Booking: Bev Grant, 718-230-4999 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 Puzzle Corner This Issue Prepared By: the letters page in most issues. Contributions from members are welcome. Coordinating Editors: Stephanie Golden Voluntary Articles: Maximum 750 words. Please sign your entries. Answer is on page 11. Erik Lewis Submissions on Paper: Typed or very legibly Cheeses of the Week Editor (development): Phyllis Eckhaus handwritten and placed in the wallpocket labeled The code used on the list below is a simple let- Tom Moore "Editor" on the second floor at the base of the ramp. ter substitution. That is, if “J” stands for “C” in Reporters: Hayley Gorenberg Submissions on Disk & by Email: We welcome one word, it will be the same throughout the Wally Konrad digital submissions. Drop disks in the wallpocket list. Ann Pappert described above. The email address for Art Director (development): Mike Miranda submissions is [email protected]. JKEK PN JKLHK Receipt of your submissions will be acknowledged Illustrators: Rod Morrison on the deadline day. FRHNN QZYEFKWE Photographers: Lisa Cohen Classified & Display Ads: Ads may only be placed Ingrid Cusson by and on behalf of Coop members. Classified ads KDDNEOKBBNH Kevin Ryan are prepaid at $15 per insertion, business card ads at Traffic Manager: Monona Yin $30. (Ads in the “Merchandise–Non-commercial” JKLHKBNG category are free.) All ads must be written on a Classified Ads Prep: Heather Cottrell submission form (available in a wallpocket on the NZFWXZ Saturday Coordinator: Deborah Alperin first floor near the elevator). Classified ads may be Text Converters: Diana Quick up to 315 characters and spaces. Display ads must be camera-ready and business card size (2"x3.5"). TBNYH PY QKMYWG Proofreader: Susan Brodlie Thumbnails: Barbara Jungwirth Recipes: We welcome original recipes from JYNXK BBZEWE members. Recipes must be signed by the creator. Photoshop: Adam Segal Subscriptions: The Gazette is available free to SKQZENPZ Preproduction: Susan Louie members in the store. Subscriptions are available by Art Director (production): Doug Popovich mail at $23 per year to cover the cost of postage (at QKBXZHZGK First Class rates because our volume is low). Desktop Publishing: Lee Schere Andrea Summers QZEFJKLHNH Maxwell Taylor QWQZBNFFN Editor (production): Lynn Goodman Final Proofreader: Isabelle Sulek DNFNEINBB HNGN- Post Production: Becky Cassidy Index: Len Neufeld HXN Printed by: Prompt Printing Press, Camden, NJ. 07-04-26 p 01-07-v6 4/27/07 2:55 PM Page 7

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system. The work needs to be completed on computer, and like working independently? If Vitamin Assistant Wednesday, but the time slot is flexible. Please this sounds like you, then Office Data Entry will Saturday, 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. or 8:30 to 11:00 p.m. contact Michelle Wiemer in the Membership be your perfect shift. You will receive training, Are you a detail-oriented worker who can work Office if you are interested. and Coop staff will always be available to independently in a busy environment? The answer questions. Please speak to Rocco Arrigo Coop's vitamin buyer needs you to help her check in the Membership Office if you would like in orders, organize the vitamin supply and help Inventory Data Entry Sunday, D week, 9:15 to 11:00 p.m. more information. This workslot requires a six- with labeling and other related tasks. You will be Help the Coop complete its weekly inventory. month commitment. trained by Edite and will report directly to her. If Familiarity and comfort working on computers is interested, please contact the Membership Office. required for this workslot. You will be working Office Setup with a small group of members, so reliability and Weekday mornings, 6:00 to 8:30 a.m. Cashier Subsidiary Ledger good attendance are a must. This workslot The Coop needs an early riser with lots of energy Wednesday, 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. requires a six-month commitment. to do a variety of physical tasks including: The Bookkeeping staff is looking for workers to setting up tables and chairs, buying food and assist with cashier record keeping. The workslot supplies, labeling and putting away food and requires good handwriting, attention to detail, Office Data Entry Wed. or Thurs., A week, 4:30 to 7:15 p.m. supplies, recycling, washing dishes and making and facility with Excel spreadsheets. You will be WORKSLOT NEEDS Are you a stickler for details, accurate on the manually entering information from the cashier CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

All About the COOPCALENDAR 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 incor- porated 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, MAY 1 General Meetings. The Board of Directors, which is Wednesday mornings: ...... 10:00 a.m. AGENDA SUBMISSIONS: 8:00 p.m. required to act legally and responsibly, has approved Sunday afternoons:...... 4:00 p.m. Submissions will be considered for the May 29 almost every General Meeting decision at the end of General Meeting. Be sure to be here promptly—or early—as we every General Meeting. Board members are elected at begin on time! The orientation takes about two TUE, MAY 29 the Annual Meeting in June. Copies of the Coop’s bylaws hours. Please don't bring small children. GENERAL MEETING: 7:00 p.m. are available at the Coop Community Corner and at The agenda will appear in the next Gazette and as every General Meeting. a flyer in the entryway on Wednesday, May 29. Gazette Deadlines Next Meeting: Tuesday, The Coop on Cable TV LETTERS & VOLUNTARY ARTICLES: May 29, 7:00 p.m. May 10 issue: 7:00 p.m., Mon, Apr 30 Inside the Park Slope Food Coop May 24 issue: 7:00 p.m., Mon, May 14 FRIDAYS 1:00 p.m. with a replay at 9:00 p.m. The General Meeting is held on the last Tuesday of each Channels: 56 (TimeWarner), 67 (CableVision). month. CLASSIFIED ADS DEADLINE: If specific programming is available at press May 10 issue: 10:00 p.m., Wed, May 2 time, it will appear on the Community Calendar Location May 24 issue: 10:00 p.m., Wed, May 16 page overleaf. 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. 07-04-26 p 08-12-v6 4/27/07 2:58 PM Page 8

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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.

SAT, APR 28 Unsettled World. Programmed by an’s point of view. Programmed by *Martha Siegel. JJ Byrne Park, 5th *Martha Siegel. JJ Byrne Park, 5th PEOPLES' VOICE CAFÉ: Jack Lan- Av btw 3rd/4th Sts. 2:00 p.m. $10. Av btw 3rd/4th Sts. 2:00 p.m. $10. dron. 45 East 33rd St. (btw Madi- son & Park). 8 p.m. Suggested MON, MAY 7 WED, MAY 16 Donation: $12 or TDF; More if you hoose; Less if you can't. No one MAY IS ENTREPRENEUR'S BROOKLYN UNCORKED: Drink turned away. 212-787-3903. MONTH at the Sankofa Center for local! A wine tasting event with Health and Healing. Business wines from 30 Long Island winer- POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY development sessions 6:30 - 8 ies. Wines available for purchase Friday, May 4 • 7:00 p.m. SCHOOL PRESENTS Simon Sha- p.m. Free-will donation. 5/7: What (cash only), and opportunity to win heen & Qantara in a benefit con- is your Fire Within? 5/14: How to a getaway at a B&B in wine country. at the Coop cert to help replace the roof on St. be a Visionary. 5/21 Are you work- May 16 at the BAMcafé at the Nicholas Cathedral in Brooklyn. ing on your Biz? Call to reserve Brooklyn Academy of Music. 6–9 $30.00 admission. For more info your space: (718) 735-5079. p.m. Admission $30. Tickets avail- visit www.stnicholascathedral.org. able via www.ediblebrooklyn.net Poly Prep Country Day School, 9216 7 Ave. Bklyn. TUE, MAY 8 SUN, APR 29 ZEEMEEUWSIC II: Sunday con- certs at the Old Stone House. *Bev Grant & the Dissident Daughters, ZEEMEEUWSIC II: Sunday con- original songs from a sassy wom- certs at the Old Stone House. Har- monic Insurgence—Songs for an

WORKSLOT NEEDS

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 large capacity vehicle (van or truck) for the volume of recycling collected. You need to BeyondBeyond ConvictionConviction coffee. Sound like your dream come true? be able to lift and work independently. This job might be for you. Please speak to Reliability a must as you are the only person Beyond Conviction tells the moving story of three crime Adrianna in the Membership Office, Monday coming to do this job on your day. If inter- through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.. ested please contact General Coordinator victims on a journey towards healing and resolution. Jessica Robinson at The film follows participants in a pioneering program Kitchen Cleaning [email protected] or drop by the run by the state of Pennsylvania in which victims of the Wednesday, 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. Membership Office to speak to her. Deep clean all three kitchens in the Coop: most violent crimes meet face-to-face with their perpe- childcare, the meeting room, and the staff Soup Prep trators. Beyond Conviction provides a rare glimpse into room. You will work independently to clean Friday, 7:00 to 9:45 a.m. the lingering pain, questions and regrets for both vic- countertops, cabinets, drawers, kitchen Do you have a strong social conscience? Do equipment, sinks, and refrigerators. Reliabil- you hate waste? You can help the Coop tims and perpetrators and reveals the bold and difficult ity is a must, as you are the only person rescue slightly damaged food and turn it path to redemption and reconciliation. coming to do this job on your day. into ingredients for nutritious meals. You will be sorting and packing food by category (vegetables, fruit, eggs, milk, etc). You and a Rachel Libert, (Director) is a producer/director and Plastic Recycling Drivers partner will be asked to take a U-boat of cinematographer based in New York City. She is the direc- Wednesday, time to be arranged. food to CHIPS, the soup kitchen on 4 Ave. tor of the short film Undertaker, which aired nationally on The Plastics Recycling Squads are looking (it's downhill all the way!) The job involves Lifetime Television after premiering at the Sundance Film for drivers to transport plastic recycling some lifting and working in the walk-in Festival and screening at over 30 film festivals worldwide. collected at the Coop to the recycling plant refrigerator for part of the shift. You may be The film received many awards including a national in Brooklyn. Drivers needed to work Wednes- asked to help do produce preparation if you day during the daytime. The time can be finish the soup kitchen tasks early. On-the- CableACE for best dramatic short film. arranged with Jessica Robinson, but the workslot training with receiving coordinator As a cinematographer, she has shot documentaries on a work needs to be completed between the Hilton Horwitz. Help the cooks at the soup wide range of subjects including Investigating Hate, which hours of 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. when the kitchen get a head start in their efforts to examined the prosecution of hate crimes, to Smokestack recycling facility is open. Drivers must have a feed the hungry. Lightning: A Day in the Life of Barbeque. Her broadcast credits include work for MTV, Discovery Health, Court TV, VH1 and Oxygen. She has also shot numerous commercials and WHAT IS THAT? HOW DO I USE IT? promotional videos for clients such as The Partnership for Drug Free America, Levis, Citigroup and IBM. Food Tours in the Coop She is the co-founder of Tied to the Tracks Films, a produc- tion company dedicated to the creation of films that raise Spring Campaign awareness and affect change. Beyond Conviction is her Method: first feature film. FREE get outside A discussion with Rachel Non-members Okay. So what stay outside will follow. welcome do we have... give away hugs Views expressed by the presenter do not necessarily represent the Park Slope Food Coop Checklist: (push the envelope & fresh greenery give away some kisses) Mondays: flowers April 30 (A Week) May 14 (C Purpose: singing birds Week) to be a fount of joy mild weather and Follow-up May 21 (D Week) June 4 (B Week) Plan: surprise family with To wantonly spend Noon to 1 p.m. and same plan & method above resources 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Addendum: hit Coop Or you can join in any time during a tour by Myra Klockenbrink 07-04-26 p 08-12-v6 4/27/07 2:58 PM Page 9

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FOOD and food economy. A Council would Adam and his tree-selling col- arrange the donation of twenty exper- POLICY: NATIONAL, address disappearing farmland and leagues are great neighbors for about imental solar homes from the Solar inner city supermarkets, increasing three weeks each December. Decathlon, an annual design compe- STATE AND LOCAL poverty and hunger, diet-related health Joe Holtz tition among Architectural and Engi- DEAR EDITOR: problems and other food policy issues. General Coordinator neering Colleges from around the Dozens of state programs on hunger, world. These houses will be set up on National: This year the US Congress local agriculture, nutrition and health the Mall in Washington, D.C., in will pass the 2007 Farm Bill, a massive problems would benefit from increased DEAR BROOKLYN FRIENDS October, then, I hope, donated to federal subsidy program every five or coordination and planning. Ask your Greetings from Vermont! I have Common Ground to form the nucleus six years that funds everything from state legislators to support A10461 just returned from two weeks of vol- of a community in progressive solar agribusiness corporate welfare to land (Ortiz) / S7618 (Young). unteer work in the Lower Ninth Ward homes. These homes could serve as conservation to Food Stamps. With Web article: http://www. justfood. of New Orleans. Along with three models for more homes to be built in growing public awareness of food org/jf/FPC-factsheet.pdf other Vermont carpenters, I concen- the neighborhood. health and safety, voter attention on Local: Mayor Bloomberg, with con- trated on reframing, rewiring and dry- I urge you all to look at Common this year’s bill may be at the greatest siderable input from Council President walling a severely damaged house. Ground’s Website—www.common- level since it began in the Depression. Christine Quinn, has created a City This house stands very near to the groundrelief.org—and make a dona- House and Senate committees are Food Policy Taskforce and hired a Food place where the levee broke during tion to them if you feel so moved. Many dealing as you read this on how much Policy Coordinator. Park Slope native Hurricane Katrina. With 180 mph thanks for your support of our Christ- of $90 billion goes to which interests. and poverty advocate Benjamin winds ripping roofs off and pushing a mas tree sales. See you in December. The Farm Bill’s impacts resound Thomases, 31, started the new role in huge storm surge, the levee break Adam Parke through the national food system and January after a stint in job creation with caused the water to rise 23 ft. in 20 Barton, Vermont help determine what and how we eat. the Fifth Avenue Committee in Brook- minutes, trapping many people in Your letters to Congress can impact lyn. The Taskforce will focus on improv- their attics, where they thought they decisions traditionally sequestered in ing the availability and quality of meals would be safe. Local estimates for Member Contribution the offices of a few Midwest legislators served in city food programs for the this neighborhood are nearly 3,000 tied to industrial farmers and the likes poor and encourage healthier food in drowned or missing. Bodies are still of ADM and Cargill. To quote writer bodegas that are often the only food being found. Very few houses are still Michael Pollan, “Don’t call it the Farm outlets in low-income neighborhoods. standing. Some blocks are empty, PARK SLOPE Bill; call it the Food Bill.” Increasing access to Food Stamps for only cement steps leading to open air Learn more and pipe up: those eligible is another priority. An and clumps of weeds. HOTHOUSE Coop Food Safety Bulletin board, by interested public could contact City I volunteered for Common Ground I’d never spied a hotpink house, the elevator Council representatives about increas- Collective, a grassroots, nonprofit I’d never hoped to spy one, Website: Northeast Sustainable ing the resources and scope of this new organization that was essential in But now I have—and have to Agriculture Working Group (NESAWG) agency. providing short-term relief for hurri- grouse http://www.nesawg.org/2007/04/2007_ Cooperatively yours, cane victims and now is focusing on I’ll never, ever buy one. farm_bill_resources.html Jeff Heehs long-term support for the physical The color sets the neighbors off Book: FOODFIGHT, A Citizen’s and social redevelopment of this part —They call it mad magenta— Guide to a Food and Farm Bill, Daniel of New Orleans. They are doing the By raising ire much hotter than Imhoff, Watershed Media, 2007. COOP TREE MAN work that the Federal, state and local fire, PODcast by the same author: governments have failed to address, Propelling them off-centa, http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2 LENDS A HAND IN namely the rebuilding of sensible and The kids who pass on Garfield 007/03/27/a-conversation-with-dan- NEW ORLEANS sustainable communities. Place, imhoff/ I drove to New Orleans with a truck Some skipping and some bop- State: New York had a Food Policy DEAR MEMBERS full of carpentry tools expecting to ping, Council under the Cuomo administra- Below is a letter from Adam Parke. work on one house, “The Blue House,” Declare they hear kid-friendly tion but subsequently shut it down. Adam has been selling trees next to which belongs to a sweet little great- sounds: The State Assembly and Senate are the Coop in front of the adjacent grandmother who loves to cook Sun- “Like bubble-gum, like popping.” considering bills to start it again. The school yard wall for many years now. day dinner for her big extended On rainy days, the glow is gone, legislation would create a NY State He has been doing wonderful work family. She would visit us twice a week The structure slips its groove; Food Policy Council to develop com- helping people in need for a long to guide us on her desires for the It lightens mightily in hue, prehensive, coordinated state food time. I remember the pictures he dis- rebuilt house and bring us samples of Becoming mauve-on-the-move. policies for an affordable, safe and played years ago of his volunteer work her southern cooking. She was most And yet the building has its nutritious supply of locally produced in Nicaragua where he helped to build appreciative of our efforts. Proceeds champions foods, supporting a vibrant local farm homes and community infrastructure. of this year’s Christmas tree sales Who’ve written and who’ve went into materials for the project. I phoned LETTERS POLICY hope that within another month she Proclaiming booze reveals the will be living there again as the com- beauty We welcome letters from members. Fairness munity returns and grows once again. Of the brownstone that is Submission deadlines appear in the In order to provide fair, comprehen- Although I am back in Vermont stoned. Coop Calendar. All letters will be sive, factual coverage: now, I am continuing to work on Leon Freilich printed if they conform to the pub- 1. The Gazette will not publish behalf of Common Ground, trying to lished guidelines. We will not know- hearsay—that is, allegations not ingly publish articles which are racist, based on the author's first-hand sexist or otherwise discriminatory observation. The maximum length for letters is 2. Nor will we publish accusations 500 words. Letters must include your that are not specific or are not sub- name and phone number and be stantiated by factual assertions. typed or very legibly handwritten. Edi- 3. 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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 inser- tion, 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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All work is guaranteed MERCHANDISE @aol.com. Discount for Coop mem- to the customer's satisfaction, 27 bers. years experience. Reasonable rates. Free estimates. References available. TEMPUR-PEDIC MATTRESSES, NEED AN ELECTRICIAN CALL ART Call Daniel at 718-832-6143 or NECK pillows, comfort products & CABRERA, celebrating 35 yrs in the 646-734-0899. accessories. Mattress comes with a electrical construction industry. No 20-year guarantee & a 3-month trial job too large or small specializing in YOU KNOW that box of photos? Let period. The ultimate in comfort & trouble shooting, 220 wiring, fans, us let them out and get them back pressure relief. Truly will improve the lights, total or partial renovations. into your life! Album-making services quality of your sleep. Call Janet at Expert in Brownstone renovations. and personal memory consulting in Patrick Mackin Custom Furniture—a Serving Park Slope since 1972, origi- my store or your home. 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[email protected], cana de cabra, three mountain, appenzeller, cabrales 718-938-5573. estivo, fleur du maquis, cueva llonin, gamonedo, mal- CONTINUED ON BACK PAGE varosa, montcabrer, mimolette, petenwell reserve,

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Saturday, May 12 FREE 7:30 p.m. at the Coop Non members Welcome Past Life Regression TheThe proposedproposed AtlanticAtlantic YardsYards Through Hypnosis projectproject isis notnot yetyet aa "done"done deal"deal" withwith AdrianAdrian GerstelGerstel andand IsabelIsabel HillHill WITH J EFFREY T. CARL, CHT . DO YOU HAVE THE FEELING THAT YOU HAVE LIVED BEFORE?

Have you ever just met someone and felt like you have previously known them?

Are there other countries or cultures that seem familiar to you?

Well there might be an explanation for this.

Through hypnosis we can tap into the subconscious mind, as well as enter into with Adrian Gerstel and Isabel Hill a peaceful trance-like state to retrieve memories of our past lives. No single event will have a more drastic and long-lasting impact on Relax and take a journey within. Brooklyn than the proposed Atlantic Yards development. This uncom- mon proposal, however, is mostly misunderstood. Gain: • Realizations • A deeper understanding of who you are Brooklyn Matters is an insightful documentary that reveals the • Retrieve memories • Pass beyond death and back again fuller truth about the Atlantic Yards proposal and highlights how Bring: A blanket to lie down on or a comfortable lawn chair to relax into a few powerful men are circumventing community participation A note book to write down anything that comes up and planning principles to try to push their own interests forward. Jeffrey T. Carl, CHt, a Coop member, is a certified clinical hypnotherapist, A discussion with the filmmaker and invited guests and a member of I.A.C.T. Jeffrey is also certified in past regression though will follow the screening. the Wiess Institute.

Adrian Gerstel is a Coop member and NY AIA member. FREE Friday, May 18 Isabel Hill is the Producer and Director of Brooklyn Matters. Non-members welcome 7:30 p.m. at the Coop

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VACATIONS families per weekend sharing food, Saturday dinner & fun on the COTTAGES FOR RENT in charming beach. House is three houses from Coop Plastics Recycling the beach, has lots of deck space, Catskill summer community. ALL PLASTIC MUST BE COMPLETELY CLEAN AND DRY Beautiful wooded grounds, dishwasher and W/D. Call Kathy, Olympic size pool, tennis courts, Steve & Julia. 718-636-1693. What plastics do we accept? When? basketball, baseball, lake for •#1 and #2 non-bottle shaped containers and #1 and •Second Saturday of each month: 12:00 –2:00 p.m. swimming, boating, fishing. Won- WHAT’S FOR FREE derful families with lots of kids. #2 labeled lids. Mouths of containers must be equal •Third Thursday of each month: 7:00 p.m.– 9:00 p.m. width or wider than the body of the container. Wonderful family vacation, very FREE INITIAL ORAL EXAM in •Last Sunday of each month: 10:00–12:00 p.m. reasonably priced. Contact Mar- holistic dental office for all Coop •All #4 plastic and #4 labeled lids. lene Star, [email protected] members. X-rays are strictly mini- Where? 914-777-3088 mized so bring your own. Dr. Gold- •#5 plastic cups and tubs and #5 labeled lids and On the sidewalk in front of the receiving area at the berg's non-mercury offices in Soho bottle/jug caps, clear and opaque and with all ENJOY THE BERKSHIRES! Charm- or in Midwood section of Brook- paper labels completely removed. Park Slope Food Coop. ing historic home. Meadow moun- lyn. For info please call tain views. Tanglewood nearby. •Plastic film, such as shopping bags, cry cleaning 718-339-5066 or 212-505-5055. Large beautiful living room incl. shrouds, etc. Okay if not labeled. dining area. Wood-burning fire- FREE TICKETS for concerts for place. New kitchen appliances / true classical music lovers only. bedroom, terrace, hiking. One Lincoln Ct., Carnegie, etc., on week min., $850. Two weeks, short notice sometimes. 10-20 $1500. Call Mina 212-427-2324. concerts available each year. East New York S10/yr management fee. For more FAMILY SUMMER SHARE house info, call: 212-802-7456. Food Coop in Davis Park Fire Island. Three Help a new coop in Brooklyn FTOP credit available In accordance with the sixth Principle Signage Committee Seeking of Cooperation, we frequently offer support and consultation to other coops. Sign Fabricator For the East New York Food Coop, we The Signage Committee needs to add a member with the have also offered help in capability and access to facilities to do sign fabrication. Please the form of Park Slope Food Coop mem- ber workslots. contact us if you are capable of fabricating and installing sig- nage, have been a member for at least six months, and have a The East New York Food Coop good attendance record. Materials we use include aluminum, welcomes PSFC members to assist in its vinyl and cintra. first year’s operations. Ability to output, mount and laminate large format digital sig- PSFC members may receive nage a plus. We also use computer vinyl-cutting services for FTOP credit in exchange for their help. To receive credit, you should be a member adhesive lettering. for at least one year and have an excel- Attendance at our monthly meeting (first Monday at 7:00 p.m. lent attendance record. at the Coop) is mandatory. In addition to meetings, members To make work arrangements, please email work on signage projects on their own time. If you would be ellen_weinstat @psfc.coop or call doing fabrication from your place of employment, you may not 718-622-0560. receive pay from your employer and get work credit from the East New York Food Coop Coop for the same hours. The Coop will reimburse the cost of 419 New Lots Avenue materials. between New Jersey Avenue and Vermont Street If you are interested, and for more details, please contact Jessica accessible by the A, J and 3 trains Robinson, General Coordinator, at [email protected]. 718-676-2721

WELCOME!

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

Kayla Axiomakaros James Cullen Adrienne Garbini Celia Kutcher Thomas Murphy Anna Sperber Meggin Bednarczyk Lisa Daly Edna Garces Daniel Kutcher Shirley Ng Julie Spooner Ben Berlin Adrienne Davis Jocelyn Greene Brooke LaValley Chris Ott Tahiti Starship Igor Bernstein Alex Decarli Karen Hagopian Nora Lavender Greig Paterson Krisan Swaminathan Steven Bluth Juno DeMelo Catherine Harrington Ryan Lavender Linda Payson Rajesh Swaminathan Barbara Boeckeler Andrew DeVore Sharon Haynes Shana Lehar Robert Kyle Phinney Dana Szarf Kevin Bowen Spencer Dickinson Danny Hellman Jessica Leinwand Olivia Pi-Sunyer Khanh Tran Joanne Brady Noah Dillard Shelley Herbert Karin Lough Kathy Piscioneri Davida Tretout Donald Breckenridge Jennifer Dominguez Mozell Hill Beth Macri Jennifer Raine Shere Weinstein Kristin Bricker Madeline Figueroa Celia Holliday Turner Asako Maeda Anya Rous Miriam Weiskind Heather Brown Kristen Firminger Kate Itzkowitz Michael Marwit Josh Scheier Sasha Weiss Cynthia Bruckman Simon Fitzgerald Hideyo Iwakiri Brian McCarthy Brandon Schmidt Richard White Jennifer Chen Tucker Foehl Tempei Iwakiri Kathrine McCullough Shayna Schmidt Sheila White Elizabeth Coggin Ari Folman-Cohen Laura Jackson Alejandro Melguizo Elizabeth Sclafani Diane Wohland Zgizelle Cozart Stacey Fowks Kelly Josephs Kate Miller Giovanna Sguera Silvi Wool Charles Craver Katie Fricas Jason Klajnfeld Seneca Miller Noah Shapiro Bill Wright Sarah Croteau Rachel Fritz Grace Koffi Angela Mirra Yona Silverman Alex Ziskis Cherie Crowther Fabrizio Galvagno Sarah Kopelovich Emma Missouri Anat Soudry Mia Zolna

THANK YOU!

Thank you to the following members for referring friends who joined the Coop in the last two weeks.

Nathaniel Allman Hillary Byrum Anny Fodor Gregory Katz Beth Miller Karin S. Neda Arabshahi Evan Carver William Fowks Julie Kay Whitney Missildine Rebekah Smith Eva Aridjis Connie Chan Cara Frankel Rachel Kline Ronnie Najjar Amanda Stevenson Julie Barber Kirsten Cole Goldstein James Knight Tricia Napor Sally Stewart Matthew Barber Ricardo Cortez Amy Grahek Julie Anna Lanning Shanti Nayak Sonia Szajnberg Susie Benton Emily Davison Richard Hart Daniel Levitan Erin Orr Time Out Laurie Berg Joseph Delano Heidi Beth Macri Kelly Pitts Lisa Traxler Sara Bloomberg Ruth Dombrowski Justine Henning Ameet Maturu Sabrina Ramos Juno Turner Steven Bluth Lyndsey Dussling Rene Houtrides Sean McClintock Nathaniel Reed Emily Winkelstein Andrew Breck Ben Eichler Maria Elena K. Lauren Mechling Johannah Rodgers Matt Brown Midori Evans Elisa Kaplan Linda J. Miglierina Annie Rosenthal