GM 10 8/25/15: a Proposed Ban on New GMO Foods That She Wrote a Letter on This New Hiatus, but the Let- Ter Was Rejected Because of Its BDS Content

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Volume JJ, Number 19 September 17, 2015 GM 10 8/25/15: A Proposed Ban on New GMO Foods that she wrote a letter on this new hiatus, but the letter was rejected because of its BDS content. Referring to the hiatus, she noted that, “we are disallowed from dis-

cussing policy change at the ILLUSTRATION BY DEBORAH TINT Gazette.” She urged that the Coop membership “needs to get accountability from the Coop Technology: Gazette.” Secretary Jesse Rosenfeld next responded to Clausen An Interview with IT by thanking her “for talking about the Gazette. I can sum it up in one word—censorship.” ByCoordinator Frank Haberle Geraldground? What Barker has brought General Coordinator Jes- s the Coop has grown you into this line of work? sica Robinson responded to and evolved in recent GB: My degree is in physics. the question about the vote Ayears, so has its demand for I studied theoretical physics to join the National Cooper- the high-quality technology at San Francisco State Uni- ative Grocers. Prior discus- needed to keep its systems versity, Harvard, University of sion in advance of a vote is running faster and better. Texas at Austin and Universi- “not required for every item,” The Coop has three full-time ty of Chicago, specializing in she said. “There is not a dif- IT Coordinators who plan and Relativity and Field Theory. ferent path for GC propos- develop new technologies, I used computers in school

ILLUSTRATION BY LYNN BERNSTEIN als. But the decision about while ensuring that existing to calculate the behavior of how to respond to timely GC systems operate at full capac- space-time during black hole By Alison Rose Levy al Meeting, and then voted requests is up to the Agenda ity. The Gazette interviewed and naked singularity cre- he August 25, 2015 Gen- on at a subsequent meet- Committee.” lead IT Coordinator Gerald ation. At some point I needed Teral Meeting was opened ing; and also asked whether Agenda Committee mem- Barker to learn more about more income, so I got a job and chaired by Josef Szende. proposals introduced by the ber Susan Sternberg con- the role of the IT team. using computers. The Open Forum began General Coordinators fol- firmed that there is always Gazette: What is your back- CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 the agenda. Susan Metz, low a different procedure, the same process and that co-leader of the Interna- because the discussion and the Agenda Committee has Next General Meeting on September 29 tional Trade Education vote occurred at the same discretion, especially for The General Meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop is held Squad (ITES) raised ques- meeting. timely proposals. on the last Tuesday of each month. The September General tions about an item from the Jan Clausen, who works on Meeting will be on Tuesday, September 29, at 7:00 p.m. at previous GM: the propos- the shopping squad report- Coordinator Reports St. Francis Xavier School, 763 President St., between al for the Coop to join the ed that at the prior GM she Since the meeting was held Sixth and Seventh Aves. National Cooperative Gro- had learned about the new the final week in August and The agenda is in this Gazette, on the Coop website at cers. Metz pointed out that Linewaiters’ Gazette’s hiatus many people were on vacation, www.foodcoop.com and available as a flier in the entryway often items are presented from printing letters about Jessica Robinson announced of the Coop. For more information about the GM and about for discussion at the Gener- the BDS issue. Clausen said CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Coop governance, please see the center of this issue.

Thur, Oct 1 • Food Class: IN THIS ISSUE A Day In The Plant-Based Life 7:00 p.m. Puzzle ...... 2 Fri, Oct 2 • Film Night: Biking to Shop: Easier Said Than Done ...... 3 Coop The Ultimate Wish 7:00 p.m. International Trade Education Squad Report ...... 6 Fri, Oct 9 • Wordsprouts: Welcome ...... 9 Event The Human Side of the Immigration Crisis 7:00 p.m. Coop Calendar, Governance Information, Mission Statement . 9 Calendar of Events ...... 10 Highlights Tue, Oct 13 • Safe Food Committee Film Night: Letters to the Editor ...... 12 Weight of the Nation, Part IV 7:00 p.m. Bonus Puzzle!, Community Calendar ...... 14 Look for additional information about these and other events in this issue. Food Coop Ice Cream ...... 14 Exciting Workslot Opportunities, Thank You ...... 16 2 September 17, 2015 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY

GM Meeting Agenda Item 1 People seeking to limit year, and how long it would asked the committee to Marian Hertz, an FTOP consumption of GMO foods take to vet products. Others provide more information CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 worker who also serves on the base their concern on both questioned the need for a as to how this new policy that there would be “no finan- Hearing Officer Committee, the increased use of pesti- special vetting process. Todd would be implemented and cial or produce report” at this discussed the work of that cides these crops engender, responded that the Coop what would be entailed in meeting. One up side of this committee, as the prelude to as well as uncertainties over labeling process identified terms of additional staff more quiet time of year, she proposing a new member. After the health and environmen- 450 products that contained and time. She also won- noted, is that at other times, running an ad in the Gazette and tal risks of genetic modifi- at risk ingredients. “We dered how the new rule, if “spots in the new member ori- interviewing many people, the cation. With 26 countries asked them if the question- adopted, would apply to entation get taken up in min- Hearing Officer Committee banning GMOs, and another able ingredient was indeed holiday food products. utes.” Late summer is a time selected Catherine McCaw, a 60 countries placing “signif- GMO. After sending three The committee would like when people can more readily lawyer working as a prosecutor icant restrictions” on them, letters, we got a 5% response to bring in someone from get into the orientation. in the District Attorney’s office. according to Todd’s research, rate,” he reported. “It’s ‘don’t Big Carrot to meet with staff Robinson also mentioned McCaw told members that, “I there are also concerns over ask, don’t tell.’” and determine how the pro- that there is “high absentee- enjoy the work, and my job will GMO resistant weeds, as well GC Jessica Robinson cess would work. n ism” in September and Octo- give me some perspective” on as the pollution and envi- ber, times when the Coop the issues that come before the ronmental damage wrought gets busy. “The weekend committee. McCaw’s participa- by GMO agriculture. Whole after Labor Day is the bus- tion was passed by a majority Foods will label all GMO Crossword Puzzle iest of the year.” She urged via a vote of hands. ingredients by 2018. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 members to sign up for FTOP Todd cited three respect- shifts or do their makeups Agenda Item 2: ed groceries and coops who 14 15 16 in the early morning at 5:30 Discussion of “No New” have undertaken this type of 17 18 19 a.m., 6 a.m., 7 a.m., or at 3:30 GMO Products ban and who would be will- p.m. in Shopping, as well as GMO Shelf Labeling Com- ing to guide the Coop in how 20 21 22 Friday or Saturday night at mittee members, Greg Todd, to manage it: Toronto’s Big 6 p.m. or 8:30 p.m. in Receiv- Nancy Siesel and Kathy Price Carrot Food Coop, Berkeley 23 24 25 26 27 ing, when there is need for raised a discussion item that Natural Grocery, and Jimbo. 28 29 more workers. had previously been present- The Non-GMO Project will ed in January 2014 to ban also provide technical assis- 30 31 32 33 34 35 36

Committee Reports new products with ingredi- tance to the Coop staff in 37 38 39 40 Susan Metz of the ITES ents that are at risk of being this transition, if approved gave an update on the trade GMOs. The Coop currently by a vote at a GM (to be held 41 42 43 treaties, reporting that two buys some products with at a later date). With a July 44 45 46 weeks prior, negotiations on GMO ingredients. The GMO vote in the U.S. House to the TPP had broken down Shelf Labeling Committee pass HR 1499, the Safe and 47 48 49 50 51 with many issues left unre- labels products which are Accurate Food Labeling Act 52 53 54 55 solved, including those assured to be GMO-free. The of 2015, also dubbed the related to Japanese cars, rationale for the proposal DARK Act (Deny Americans 56 57 58 59 60 and the dairy industry in is that some products con- the Right to Know) which 61 62 63 New Zealand and Canada. tain certain specific ingre- would overturn states’ rights Coop members can learn dients, such as non-organic to label GMOs, the com- 64 65 66 more about upcoming pub- soy, corn, canola and beet mittee urges that passing lic forums at the ITES blog at sugar, which are known to this proposal would be an Ac ross Down Coopites.wordpress.com. often come from common important step for the Coop. 1. Jul. 4 events 1. Lettuce variety Sam Marks, who is an GMO crops. However, not all “Glyphosate [the predom- 5. Scarlett O’Hara and others 2. One side of an 1899-1902 war 11. Cable channel since 1981 3. Like some reports elected member of the Coop Coop suppliers of products inant chemical used in the 14. Promises to pay 4. ID thief’s target Revolving Loan Committee, containing these ingredi- Roundup pesticide deployed 15. London insurance giant 5. Valuable (and valueless) Scrabble tiles reported that the Coop made ents may know (or disclose) in GMO agriculture] has 16. Palindromic girl’s name 6. ____ the Cow (Borden symbol) 17. Hit a famous microbiologist in the 7. Bunch of, casually a $10K loan to the Greene whether or not their ingredi- been called a likely carcin- head with a baseball pitch? 8. Grease dissolver Hill Food Co-op and he wel- ents are in fact GMO variet- ogen,” said Nancy Siesel. 19. LIII + LIII 9. Follower of brown. or rice. comed members to shop at ies. If the nature of suspect “This is not something that 20. “It’s ch-ch-chilly!” 10. Belarus, until 1991: Abbr. 21. Have ____ to pick 11. Asian gambling mecca Greene Hill. The Greene Hill ingredients cannot be ascer- is good for the environment 22. Burrito alternative 12. ‘80s-’90s entertainment combo Food Co-op is located on Put- tained from the supplier, the or should be in the Coop.” 23. Wallop someone who likes to put on 13. Sony laptop line nam Ave. near Grand St. and proposed rule would ban new Members wanted to know airs? 18. Beach toy has accorded PSFC members products. (Old ones would be how many new GMO prod- 28. Some reef dwellers 22. ____ Aviv 29. Diabolical 24. Word on American Library Associa- shopping privileges. considered “grandfathered.”) ucts are introduced each 30. Banks on a runway tion posters 32. Actor Robert of “The 39 Steps” 25. Remains undecided 34. Stephen Colbert’s network, as of 2015 26. Elliptical 37. Traveling nighttime vigil? 27. Online destination 41. Adams of “American Hustle” 30. “____ Carter III” (bestselling album 42. Shaggy locks of 2008) 43. “Roll in ze hay” enthusiast in “Young 31. ____ Kippur Frankenstein” 32. Tony of “Taxi” WHAT'S BEING COLLECTED: WHEN: 2nd Wednesday of the month, 4pm - 6pm 44. “Aaay!” sayer of TV, with “the” 33. Unified Toothpaste tubes, any brand and size 4th Saturday of the month, 2pm - 4pm 45. Forever and ever 34. Government building 47. What someone averse to lip-puckering 35. Creepy-crawly (toothbrushes OK too) WHERE: Outside in front of the Coop might cry when handed a pickle? 36. Relative of Mme. or inside during inclement weather 52. TomKat’s kid 38. Mine, to Monet Baby food pouches and caps (any brand) 53. Mineralogist with a scale 39. Doesn’t have what it takes Energy bar wrappers (any brand but only energy PSFC / TerraCycle Recycling Collections 54. Was up 40. Two-time All-Star Martinez 56. Piece in the Middle East? 44. Memo-heading initials bars—no other wrappers please) The vote is in and members at the May GM 57. “Correctamundo!” (or a hint to solving 45. Antiknock fluids Brita filters (other filter brands okay) plus other unanimously voted to create work shifts to collect a 17-, 23-, 37- and 47-Across) 46. ____ buco 61. “Yo mama’s so poor, she can’t even 47. “____ Q” (1968 hit) Brita filter–related items variety of hard-to-recycle packaging in partnership pay attention,” e.g. 48. Issue (from) with TerraCycle. 62. Pertaining to a son or daughter 49. “Somebody shot me!” Plastic food storage zip lock bags (any size), plastic cling 63. Floor 50. Absent from wrap, and small bulk bags (NO PLASTIC ROLL BAGS OR Save up your eligible waste for upcoming 64. Witness 51. Any “Breaking Bad” showing, now SHOPPING BAGS) 65. “The Andy Griffith Show” costar 52. Brewskis collection dates. 66. In the mail 55. Impression Cereal bag and cracker bag liners or bulk cereal bags QUESTIONS: [email protected] 57. Subj. of the 2006 film “Bobby” (any brand) 58. “There’s no ____ ‘team’” LEARN MORE: www.terracycle.com 59. Mop & ____ (floor cleaner) 60. Navy ship letters Note: Presort and separate items by category. No need to clean or remove labels. Do not bring items other than those listed here. PuzzlePuzzle aauthor:uthor: D Davidavid L eLevinsonvinson Wi lk.Wilk. For Foransw answers,ers, see p seeage page15. 6.

Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY September 17, 2015 3 Biking to Shop: Easier Said Than Done By Ed Levy Rack Issues is feared that would result in a ince the bicycle’s inven- All the bike racks along the lot of jaywalking across Union, Stion about 200 years ago curb belong to the city. Some of a busy two-way thoroughfare (its exact origins are shroud- these racks, however, are in our that is arterial to Grand Army ed in grease), a lot has been expanded loading zone, and get Plaza, and lead to mishaps and said and written about the hit from time to time by deliv- accidents. human-powered, pedal-driven ery trucks. At times, the driv- vehicle that inspires so much ers of these behemoths don’t Valet Parking affection. H.G. Wells once even know they have dam- The valet bike parking on quipped, “When I see an adult aged the bike racks, and drive weekend afternoons is very on a bicycle, I do not despair off—although legally, anyone popular with members, and for the future of the human who damages city property is Sarah Nicole Phillips of the race.” Mechanophiliacs have responsible for reporting it to Shop and Cycle Committee said praised the bike as the most the police. According to the the committee is thrilled that it

efficient machine ever created. DOT, it is expensive to repair gets many requests to expand PHOTOS BY ROD MORRISON the service. But there are sev- Some of the Union Street bike racks have been hit by the eral obstacles to doing so. One delivery trucks. is that it is very labor intensive. When you factor in the number the idea up with the commit- of road, and would require of people needed to set up and tee’s Coordinator liaison to see community board approval. A take down the temporary racks if conditions have changed. bike corral would take away one and tent that shelters the work- parking space at a minimum. ers and cycles for two shifts per Bike Corrals Coop member Stephen weekend day, and plug that The Shop and Cycle Com- Arthur, a self-described high- in to our four-week rotation mittee met with the DOT sev- use cyclist, would like to see schedule, it comes out to 64 eral years ago to discuss the the bike parking improved. He people. That is a lot of mem- possibility of having a bike notes that snow sometimes ber labor, and it has to come corral installed near the Coop. piled up on the racks last winter from somewhere. Bike corrals are rows of racks and at times completely buried Another barrier to expan- installed in the street instead of them. And the ice underneath Coop cyclists bring their shopping home in backpacks, sion, according to Sarah, is on the sidewalk, sometimes set the St. Xavier racks was not saddlebags, panniers, wedge packs, rack trunks and even the lack of sidewalk space off by planters. “This design,” removed, making it impos- beat-up milk crates. during weekdays when deliv- according to the DOT, “is a sible to use them if you’re eries are made. “Monday good solution for places where juggling locks and carrying gro- And Mark Twain once famously racks that are bent over, pried through Friday,” she said “the demand for bicycle parking out- ceries. The bike situation, he remarked, “Get a bicycle. You out of the sidewalk or mangled sidewalk adjacent to our load- strips the available sidewalk.” said, doesn’t fit his image of a will not regret it—if you live.” by their encounters with a semi, ing zone is a hive of activity The problem on Union Street high-functioning community. But perhaps the most apt and we are in danger of losing with near constant unloading quip about bikes for our purpose the racks in front of the store that requires sidewalk space. here is Flann O’Brien’s: “Why altogether if the hit-and-run should anyone steal a watch situation persists. Coop Mem- St. Francis Xavier Racks when he could steal a bicycle?” bership Coordinator Ginger There is a string of bike Indeed. That is the problem Jung told the Gazette that we are racks along the yellow wall in with bikes. As easy as it is to now writing our suppliers and front of the St. Francis Xavi- hop on a bike and ride off, with asking them to tell their driv- er’s schoolyard, immediately just your own legs propelling ers to be mindful of the racks. to the west of the store. The you smoothly through streets Ginger said that the DOT is Coop purchased, installed and clogged with traffic, that’s how sympathetic to our need for maintains these racks with the easy it is for someone else to more bike parking on Union school’s permission. Current- do so, too—on your beloved Street and will have their engi- ly, there is at least one rusted cycle. And that is why many neers look into the matter. But abandoned bicycle that has shoppers who have discovered there are a number of obstacles, been chained there for years, the pleasure of cycling to the including the loading zone, the its tires flat, waiting patiently Valet bike parking on weekend afternoons is very popular Coop and transporting their firehouse, active driveways, for its owner to return with the with members. purchases home in saddle- hydrants and the intense inter- groceries and free it from cap- bags, panniers, wedge packs, est of Union Street residents tivity. The Coop now intends is again the limited number of Registering Your Bike rack trunks or a beat-up milk in preserving parking spots for to remove abandoned bikes options. At the time the bike The 78th Police Precinct crate bolted to a tubular rack cars. Additional racks could from the St. Xavier racks first corral program was in its infan- on Sixth Avenue between are interested in the bike park- theoretically be placed across after tagging them with a cy and it was deciding where to Dean and Bergen will register ing situation around the store. the street from the store, but it notice for several weeks. place them, Union Street was your bike free of charge under A “dream come true” for the unfortunately felt to be too nar- the Operation ID-Bicycle Shop and Cycle Committee row for a corral. But the corrals Registration Program. Just would be to have access to the have since become more com- go there with your bike new St. Xavier playground when it’s mon (Rosewater, the restau- or old, and see the fit-look- not in use. Access through the rant on Union Street just below ing Crime Prevention Officer. existing small door in the wall Sixth Avenue, now has one). The He’ll note the serial number, would simplify security, and Coop’s loading zone precludes a put a sticker on the bike, and reduce the number of mem- corral, but one of our neighbors photograph you with your bers required to staff it. The on Union Street could request bike. The sticker functions as playground would essentially one and seek community board a sort of tattoo—if anyone turn into a vast bicycle parking approval for it. tries to remove it, it leaves lot. Sarah said she remembers The Shop and Cycle Com- an indelible imprint on the the committee discussing this mittee would love to have a frame. Next time you see option when the committee was bike corral adjacent to our your stolen bike on Craigslist formed, but for some reason she loading zone, but it would have you can bring a police officer This abandoned bicycle has been chained to the bike can’t recall why it did not mate- to be requested by the owner of with you when you go to buy racks for years. rialize. She said she would bring the property along that stretch it back. n

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applications (Membership new business applications. software configuration issues. and application acceptance Coop Technology and Inventory Ordering). I Ithran is an expert Java devel- With staff and management testing. Consequently, that CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 also manage the 45+ Mac oper for both the server and we identify new features need- work is done almost entirely I worked in Battle Creek, workstations and provide client-sides. ed by the business and imple- by the software developers MI and Omaha, NE before user support. I am a serv- John is the newest mem- ment those features using the or administration staff and it coming to work at Bellcore in er-side Java developer and ber of the staff. He is respon- best technologies. We share greatly impacts new system Piscataway, NJ. Since the late system architect. sible for managing the server application testing and work development. ’80s I have worked with banks Gazette: What are the cur- environment, including 50+ on support issues together. Gazette: What is the most and brokerages, primarily as rent IT staff roles? How do virtual servers, 20+ network There is a mostly seamless exciting technology project a technological consultant they work with other coordi- devices and multiple connec- interaction between Coop currently underway at the (programming, architecture nators and squad members? tions to the Internet. John is Technology and staff at all lev- Coop? What is in our plans and project management). I GB: We currently have an expert system and network els. The environment is such for the future? managed my own company, three members of Coop Tech- engineer, with many years of that anybody can talk directly GB: I find the development developing system admin- nology, including myself. The experience across multiple to anyone else, regardless of of the new business applica- istration and programmer others are Ithran Einhorn technologies. job level. tions the most exciting work; tools for the OpenVMS oper- and John McNally. Ithran has We all contribute to the Gazette: How does the Coop it is a chance to re-write and ating system. been with the Coop the lon- architectural designs of our structure compare to other change the business appli- Gazette: How long have you gest, almost 13 years. He is systems and software. We work environments? cations using a newer, more been working at the Coop? the most knowledgeable staff act as backups for each other GB: The Coop structure forward-looking technology. What is your specific role/ member, having worked with and provide support to staff is unique in my experience. It will be exciting to help the area of expertise? many aspects of the Coop and members. As a group, we It is essentially a three-tier Coop move forward. However, GB: I have been working at systems and applications. are on call 24/7, responding system; there are the General members probably find other the Coop for 6.5 years. I am, His primary responsibility is to problems that significant- Coordinators (management), things exciting. Everyone as of November 2014, the the software and hardware ly affect the operation of our regular Coordinators (work- gets excited when the Store, IT lead, responsible for the maintenance of the Store sys- business. ers), and Information Tech- Inventory Ordering or Mem- overall direction and work tem (the register computers, Coop Technology interacts nology (technology workers). bership systems stop work- done by IT. As a member of IT debit readers, etc. and the directly with all staff mem- Within each tier, the salaries ing. They don’t appreciate the my main responsibilities are application software running bers. We help staff to use are identical; there is no complexity of these systems maintaining, enhancing and on the servers that orches- applications (e.g., Microsoft direct financial motivation and the Coop’s dependency re-engineering (i.e., replac- trate buying of merchandise) Word, Excel, Membership, for doing outstanding work, on such systems. If any of ing) the current desktop and the development of the etc.). We fix hardware and so you want to hire people these systems stopped work- who are self-motivated and ing for any length of time, can produce good work, but the Coop would struggle, you want to have people who and if the systems were out put the concerns of the Coop too long the Coop would be above their own interests. hard-pressed to survive as an As I mentioned above, organization. the Coop has a very simple People get excited about structure. Communication, things they don’t expect to at least for technical matters, see. Given this fact, the web- is very open. In other envi- site is probably the most D SHOES Please protect your feet and ronments I’ve worked in, be exciting (and most frustrat- OE it engineering or financial, ing) for us. We still plan on -T N toes while working your project work was decided by having a new Coop website, E some business group and the but we are only in the plan- P requirements were handed ning stage at this point. O shift at the Coop by not

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I ment. At the Coop, technolo- technology challenge we face N wearing sandals or other H gy has a much larger role in and how can we answer it? S deciding what needs to be GB: The biggest challenge K open-toed footwear. R done; primary because we are we have is moving off the old O part of the business group systems and applications W and we have the subject mat- and preparing the Coop for W UR Thanks for your cooperation, HIL YO ter knowledge to contribute the next 10–15 years. Replac- E DOING The Park Slope Food Coop in this way. ing an old system with a new There is one big critical one requires a tremendous difference that separates the amount of time, careful plan- Coop from other environ- ning and testing. When a NOTICE TO COOP MEMBER/OWNERS ments. The Coop does not brand new system is put in have a support layer between place, there is generally less the software developers and dependency on the software, INTERIM BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION desktops/users. I like doing problems are expected, and WHEN? REQUIRED GENERAL MEETING, OCTOBER 27, 2015 support and helping peo- there is a phase where the ple, but serious software system is allowed to grow up. he Members of the Board of Directors have received written notification from Zoey Laskaris development requires sin- When a new system replaces Tthat she will resign her seat on the Board of Directors as of the end of the day on August gle-minded focus. It is not an existing system, the new 31, 2015. Our Bylaws state “In the case of a vacancy on the Board of Directors, there shall be an good to have an event-driv- system needs to function election held at a regular Board of Directors meeting to fill the vacancy. Such meeting shall be en model. A good software near 100% as well as the sys- held no less than 30 days nor more than 60 days after the vacancy occurs. The Board may hold developer spends most of tem it is replacing on day one. the vacancy open to be filled at the next Annual Meeting provided that the vacancy is created their time sitting at their desk The expectation is that the with less than six months remaining before the Annual Meeting and provided there is only programming and thinking. A end-users can only see the one vacancy. A Director elected to fill a vacancy shall serve only until the next Annual Meeting, good system/network admin- new system as an improve- at which meeting the membership shall elect a Director to serve for the balance of the term.” istrator, which is by the way ment, which it is often not Therefore the required date for the election is Tuesday, October 27, 2015. Furthermore the usually two different jobs, during the early days. Bylaws state that “The ballot used for the Directors election shall provide for voting ‘yes’ or works on the network inter- It is essential that the ‘no’ or ‘abstain’ for each candidate. Any candidate who receives more ‘no’ votes than ‘yes’ faces and servers and is not Coop invest in moving off the votes is deemed ineligible for election.” also responsible for handling early 1990s business appli- If you’re interested in running for this Board opening, come to the October 27, 2015 Gen- end-user requests or fixing cation technology that has eral Meeting and nominate yourself from the floor. Please be prepared to say a few words MS Excel problems. We don’t served us well, but will not be about yourself and your interest in joining the Board of Directors. have staff dedicated to desk- able to continue to do so for top and application support the next 10–15 years. n

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other fossil fuel projects Global Crisis, Local Action: in our state and city. Wind, water and solar 350Brooklyn’s September 27 Climate Change Teach-In energy resources, togeth- By Mimi Bluestone Ave.) from 4 to 6 p.m. hottest year on record. 350Brooklyn teach-in he’ll er with improved energy ow is climate change New York State Assembly Yet even though we know explain how Brooklynites efficiency, can replace all Hhurting the world’s member Felix Ortiz, Green it’s happening, climate can support this important that fossil fuel infrastruc- most vulnerable people? Education and Legal Fund change can seem hard to legislation. ture with clean energy by What new fossil fuel President Mark Dunlea, tackle because we all rely on Rosina Pohlmann, a 2030, according to a study projects are developers Sane Energy Project co-di- fossil fuels, those bad actors Methodist seminary stu- by Stanford University engi- planning for the New York rectors Kim Fraczek and responsible for heat-trap- dent, has already helped neering professor Mark Z. region? Patrick Robbins, and sem- ping emissions. Aren’t we convince the Church of Jacobson. Mark Dunlea, How can divesting fossil inary student Rosina Pohl- all to blame? Despite the St. Paul and St. Andrew in president of the Green Edu- fuel holdings from public mann will talk about how fact that we depend on coal, Manhattan to divest fossil cation and Legal Fund, will pension funds help loosen to combat climate change oil and gas today, we can fuels from its investment explain how New York state oil and gas companies’ grip through action at the city help create solutions for holdings. Given the expo- can flip the switch to clean on political power? and state level. the near future that turn off sure of the world’s poorest energy sources over the What can we in Brook- Following these speak- those fossil fuels and turn people to its ravages, Pohl- next 15 years. lyn do about a crisis that ers, Brooklynites will on clean energy solutions. mann says, climate change 350Brooklyn’s Septem- threatens the health, safe- be able to take part in That may sound abstract. raises the most basic issues ber 27 teach-in is part of a ty and survival of people break-out groups with cli- But there are concrete of conscience for people season of actions leading around the globe? mate-concerned neighbors actions that can get us to of good will, religious or up to UN-sponsored cli- On Sunday, September and help move our city and that goal. Assembly member not. She will discuss moral mate talks in Paris starting 27, 350Brooklyn, the local state toward a low-carbon, Felix Ortiz, who represents dimensions of the crisis. in late November. For more affiliate of the internation- clean-energy and fossil Red Hook and Sunset Park, Sane Energy Project information on these events al climate change campaign fuel-free future. is sponsoring legislation co-directors Kim Fraczek and how to participate, visit 350.org, will present “Act Climate change can be that would require New and Patrick Robbins will http://350brooklyn.org. And Locally to Solve the Cli- tough to conceptualize. It York state to divest fossil unravel the web of new if you can’t make it on Sep- mate Crisis,” a panel discus- can seem distant—affect- fuel holdings from state fossil fuel infrastruc- tember 27, you can still join sion followed by break-out ing some other part of the employee pension funds, ture that developers are 350Brooklyn at its bi-weekly groups. This will be a teach- world—or far off in time—a freeing up funds for invest- spinning over our region. Tuesday evening meetings in event at Camp Friend- murky future phenomenon. ment in clean energy. Ortiz They’ll describe their in Gowanus. Information ship, located at 339 Eighth But it’s here, and it’s now. is also sponsoring a carbon group’s work opposing about the meetings is on St. in Park Slope (near Sixth 2015 is on track to be the tax bill in Albany. At the fracking, shale gas and the website. n

one Join the Committee and help set the monthly General Meeting agenda. Requirements: Attend monthly Committee meetings on the first Tuesday of the month at 8:00 p.m. Attend at least five General Meetings per year Are you a writer? Have a cooperative spirit and willingness Do you want FTOP credit? to work in a collaborative committee environment Be interested in the ongoing business of Wordsprouts, the Food Coop’s the Coop reading series, is looking for you, Have a good attendance record for its monthly events in the If interested, contact Ann Herpel at second-ﬂoor meeting room. 718-622-0560 or [email protected]. The Committee will interview applicants before submitting candidates to the GM for election. Please contact the organizers at We are seeking an applicant pool that reflects [email protected]. the diversity of the Coop’s membership.

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE EDUCATION SQUAD REPORT

There were two speak- Nothing Fair About “Free Trade” Agreements ers who discussed issues By Dan Wiley with Willy Naess regulations that protect voted against fast-track- jobs, stripped away envi- that are of particular inter- for the ITES the environment, food ing the TPP earlier this ronmental safeguards, and est to many members of ree Trade” sounds good. safety and security, and summer. Some of these undermined consumer the Coop. Eric Weltman “FWho can be against good jobs at home. Joel representatives were in protections. They have of Food and Water Watch free? But there is little free Kupferman of the National attendance on Thursday continued to undercut our New York explained that or fair about the Trans-Pa- Lawyers Guild explained night. Congresswoman nation’s small businesses, the already lax regulations cific Partnership (TPP), a how the agreements Yvette Clarke explained which have been locked out on food imports will be “free trade” agreement being undermine corrective gov- that she and her col- of the negotiating process. become even weaker if TPP negotiated by the U.S. and 11 ernment controls through leagues opposed Fast Track Also speaking were State is passed. Stephanie Low other countries. This was the a mechanism called Inves- because it would not allow Assemblywoman Jo Anne of the Sierra Club warned topic of discussion among tor-State Dispute Set- proper review of the TPP, Simon and State Senators that the agreement’s ISDS elected officials, advocates tlement (ISDS). ISDS an agreement that could Velmanette Montgomery rules would spell the end and the concerned at the empowers corporations to hurt jobs and the envi- and Jesse Hamilton. Ham- of New York state’s fracking August 20 Town Meeting on sue national governments ronment. The TPP would ilton announced that he is ban. Stephanie explained TPP. The event, held at the when they believe that benefit multinational cor- circulating a letter, to be that a Canadian mining Park Slope United Methodist government regulations porations, not the people, signed by New York State company, incorporated Church (PSUMC), was orga- are costing them profit. Clarke argued, and cor- legislators, requesting in the U.S., is currently nized by the Coop’s Inter- These regulations include porations are not people. that the NYS Congressio- using the ISDS provisions national Trade Education environmental controls Although Congresswoman nal Delegation vote No on in NAFTA to sue Que- Squad as well as Brooklyn to reduce global warming Nydia Velazquez could not TPP on the grounds that bec over its fracking ban. For Peace and the PSUMC and human rights controls attend the meeting, Com- ISDS undermines national David Lippman and his Justice Committee. to enforce fair labor prac- munity Coordinator Dan and state sovereignty. The guitar reminded us: TPP Representatives from a tices. Wiley read a statement Coop’s International Trade is “NAFTA en esteroides— variety of advocacy groups With the exception of outlining how trade agree- Education Squad (ITES) ¡no te olvides!” showed how such interna- Representative Gregory ments from NAFTA to the will continue to follow and Susan Metz of the ITES, tional trade agreements Meeks of Queens, every present have weakened publicize the outcome of who moderated the event, undermine governmental NYC Congress member workers’ rights, cost us this campaign. wrapped up the night by Dave Lippman, trouba- pointing out the lack of dour of the 99%, regaled transparency in TPP’s the crowd with a bilingual drafting process. Only one sing-a-long on the perils chapter has been leaked, of “La Dictadura Corpora- so there is a lot we don’t tiva”—“Monsanto is not know about TPP. Should a the cure.” Other activists trade agreement pass Con- also took the floor. Brook- gress, there would be 30 lyn For Peace asserted that chapters to review in 60 free trade agreements like days. If that happens, she TPP were actually military argued, we must be ready agreements that promote to make sure that TPP is the development of army subject to a democratic and naval bases and rein- review. force Yankee imperialism. The ITES is doing its TradeJustice Metro NYC gave part to provide the pub- examples of how some of the lic with information and 12 TPP nations, including news about this important Vietnam and Malaysia, have agreement. The squad will horrendous labor abuses hold its next forum on TPP and human trafficking that on Friday, September 25. approaches slavery. Mark your calendar! n Crossword Answers

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The Linewaiters’ Gazette is published biweekly by the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc., 782 Union Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215. Opinions expressed here may be solely the views of the writer. The Gazette will not knowingly publish articles that are racist, sexist or otherwise discriminatory. The Gazette welcomes Coop-related articles and letters from members. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The Gazette will not knowingly publish letters, articles or reports that are hateful, racist, sexist, otherwise discriminatory, inflammatory or needlessly provocative. The Gazette welcomes Coop-related articles, letters and committee reports from members that follow the published guidelines and policies. The following is a summary—please see the detailed guidelines for each type of submission on the Coop website: www.foodcoop.com. All submissions must include author’s name, phone number and e-mail address, conform to the following guidelines and to the Fairness, Anonym- ity and Respect policies. Editors will reject letters, articles and reports that do not follow the guidelines or policies. Submission deadlines appear each Brooklyn Bluegrass Cooperative features Jordan edition in the Coop Calendar section. Shapiro on guitar, Jonah Bruno on banjo, Alex Kramer You may submit on paper, typed or very legibly handwritten, or via e-mail on ddle, and Jim Whitney on upright bass. The band to [email protected] or on disk. was organically grown in local concrete and reared on a Letters: Maximum 500 words. All letters will be printed if they follow the published guidelines and policies. diet of free-range vegetables and pro-biotic algae Voluntary Articles: Maximum 750 words. A Voluntary Article is held to a supplements. Come hear their stirring renditions of higher standard than a letter and must meet at least the following criteria: old-time ddle tunes, murder ballads, train-wreck lulla- A Voluntary Article must analyze the topic it is discussing; it must present bies, prison songs, and tales of tragic heartbreak and accurate, verifiable corroboration for factual assertions; it can criticize but not attack Coop practices and personnel; if critical it must present positive love gone wrong, performed on analog acoustic instru- solutions; it cannot be solely or mainly opinion. It must strive to make a ments carved from sustain- positive contribution to the understanding of the reader on a topic. If a sub- ably harvested lumber. mitted Voluntary Article is substantially opinion, it must be re-submitted, under 500 words, as a Letter to the Editor, possibly to a future issue. Edi- tors will reject articles that are essentially just advertisements for member businesses, those of family and friends of members, solely expressions of Natural Feelings draws from the sounds and rhythms of opinion or that do not follow the guidelines and policies. nature, the psychedelic ’70s and the alternate reality of our Committee Reports: Maximum 1,000 words. Reports must follow the dreamworlds. The group was inspired by Brazilian compos- published guidelines and policies. er and multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal and percus- LETTERS, ARTICLES AND REPORTS SUBMISSION POLICIES Letters must be the opinion of the letter-writer and can contain no more sionist Airto Moreira’s collaboration and reinterprets their than 25% non-original writing. music in a strange, fun, danceable manner. Karlie Bruce, All submissions must be written by the writer. Letters or articles that are vocals; Sean Moran, guitar; Mariel Berger, piano; Rene Hart, form letters, chain letters, template letters or letters prepared by someone bass; Brian Adler, drums; and Matt Kilmer, percussion. other than the submitting member will be rejected. Letters, articles and reports must adhere to the Fairness, Anonymity and Respect policies. They cannot be hateful, needlessly inflammatory, discrimina- www.facebook.com/ProspectConcerts tory libelous, personal attacks or make unsubstantiated claims or accusations or be contrary to the values of the Coop as expressed in our mission statement. 53 Prospect Park West [at 2nd Street] • $10 • 8pm [doors open at 7:45] All submissions must be legible, intelligible, civil, well and concisely written with Performers are Park Slope Food Coop members and receive Coop workslot credit. accurate, attributed, easily verifiable statements of facts separated from opinions. 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If a writer does not respond to requests for editorial changes, the editor may make the changes without conferring with the writer, The Coop strives to REQUIRED FOR ANY RETURN keep prices low for our Editors (development): Erik Lewis or reject the submission. If agreement between the writer and the editor 1. The Paid-In-Full receipt MUST m embership. Mini- about changes does not occur after a first revision, the editor may reject be presented. Carey Meyers mizing the amount of the submission, and the writer may revise and resubmit for a future issue. 2. Returns must be handled returned merchandise within 30 days of purchase. Reporters: Frank Haberle FAIRNESS, ANONYMITY AND RESPECT POLICIES is one way we do this. In order to provide fair, comprehensive, factual coverage: If you need to make a Ed Levy Fairness return, please go to the CAN I EXCHANGE MY ITEM? Alison Rose Levy 1. The Gazette will not publish hearsay—that is, allegations not based on 2nd Floor Service Desk. 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WELCOME!

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

Weston Andrews Chelsea Cote Juliet Fleming Robert Gruenberg Robert Kennedy Jennifer Meister Sonia Reid Paul Sutch Lukas Arnold Patricia Cremins Eleonora Franco Rebecca Grussgott Karen Khodzhayev Lev Mendes Jose Rios Mary Sweeney Kristin Baganz Catherine Cuello Fuente Nancy Freeman-Carroll Natacha Gutierrez Alizeh Kohari Lucas Miller Nicholas Rivera John Ta Sarah Baker Stephen Dahmer Clare Frost Jessica Hahn Roanne Kolvenbach Oliver Miska Deborah Roth Laura Taishoff Amanda L. Banks Greg de Tournemire Alfred Fuente Sarah Hahn Harris Kornstein Meredith Moore Alexander Russo Michelle Tarantelli Eduard Bayer Chad DeChant Miriam Gabriel Steven Hakusa Yisroel Kotlarsky Nicholas Moore Maura Sanchez Jessica Taraski Kevin Beazley Jessica Doyle Kathleen Galante Dinah Handel Max Krasilovsky-Revell Jessica Morgan Barbara Santiago Jeremy Taub Sarah Beazley Kevin Doyle Rachel Garcia-Grossman Julia Hartjes Simon Kress Joel Moritz Francis Secada Kimberly Tauches Talia Berstein Dmitry Dragilev Sophia Gilbukh Jonathan Hessney Stephanie Lai Melissa Morrison Adam Shepard Samantha Thomas Chrisalice Blue Henrietta Dudas Sarah Goffman Elizabeth Hetterly Thomas LeViness Peter Morrison Evening Shinerock Slawek Uscinowicz Tess Borden Jessica Dukes Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham Adam Hoffman Ricardo Lopez Aviv Nitsan Fahn-Wenn Siak Emile van der Hilst David Bruder Deshawn Dumas Antonio Gonzalez Laura Hoffman Ryan Luce Ben Palmquist Bernadette Silva Sheryl van der Hilst Jillian Buckley Aron Egelko Shianna Gonzalez Lauren Hollender Larisa Mann Alex Papazafiropoulos Rebecca Silva Camille Vidal David Butler Lisa Ellwood Michael Louis Gordon Jenna Hopp Erica Marnell Tehmina Pechefsy Hillela Simpson Rut Vilar Javier Calvo Lourdes Escorial Elka Gotfryd Daniel Horowitz Ruben Martinez Amy Pechukas Adam Sipos Edward Vint Paul Carroll Matthew Esser Ethan Graham Susanna Jivotovski Elizabeth Masalsky Allyn Peterson Melanie Skemer Carl Wagoner Paloma E. Castillo Rivera Meib A. Farjoun Veronique Graham Alexandra Jones Elizabeth Matos Jeremy Pollet Theodora Sopko Daniel Wang Rica Castroll Ilya Feldsherov Alastair Gray Rachel Kahn Taylor Stephen Mayo Jr. Chelsea Price Tanah Spencer Meredith Whitley Frantz Cayo Joe Fenton Zachary Green Sara Kay Masha Mazer Struan Ralph Tara Stark Rachel Willey Kelly Clark Bess Fergusson Michael Greenberg Kirsten Kelly Corey McAveeney Alex Ratner Pavlos Stephanides Nadia Zehngut Therese Condit Matthew Flaherty David Greenblatt Janet Kennedy Steven McCutcheon Drew Reid Susan Stern Patricia Cortés Michael Flegan Anglesea Griffin Randy Kennedy Oscar McDonald

ALL ABOUT THE COOP CALENDAR GENERAL MEETING New Member Orientations General Meeting Info Attending an Orientation is the first step toward Our Governing Structure TUE, SEPTEMBER 29 From our inception in 1973 to the present, the open Coop membership. Pre-registration is required for GENERAL MEETING: 7:00 p.m. all of the three weekly New Member Orientations. monthly General Meetings have been at the center of To pre-register, visit foodcoop.com or contact the the Coop’s decision-making process. Since the Coop Membership Office. Visit in person or call 718-622- TUE, OCTOBER 6 incorporated in 1977, we have been legally required 0560 during office hours. AGENDA SUBMISSIONS: 8:00 p.m. to have a Board of Directors. The Coop continued the Have questions about Orientation? Please visit Submissions will be considered for the October 27 tradition of General Meetings by requiring the Board www.foodcoop.com and look at the “Join the Coop” to have open meetings and to receive the advice of the page for answers to frequently asked questions. General Meeting. members at General Meetings. The Board of Directors, The Coop on the Internet Gazette Deadlines which is required to act legally and responsibly, has www.foodcoop.com approved almost every General Meeting decision at LETTERS & VOLUNTARY ARTICLES: the end of every General Meeting. Board members are October 1 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, September 21 elected at the Annual Meeting in June. Copies of the The Coop on Cable TV October 15 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, October 5 Inside the Park Slope Food Coop Coop’s bylaws are available on foodcoop.com and at The fourth FRIDAY of the month at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. every General Meeting. Channels: 56 (Time-Warner), 69 (CableVision), 84 (RCN), CLASSIFIED ADS DEADLINE: 44 (Verizon), and live streaming on the Web: www. October 1 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, September 23 bricartsmedia.org/community-media/bcat-tv-network. October 15 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, October 7 Next Meeting: Tuesday, September 29, 7:00 p.m. The General Meeting is held on the last Tuesday of each Attend a GM Park Slope Food Coop month. and Receive Work Credit Mission Statement Location Since the Coop’s inception in 1973, the General Meeting The Park Slope Food Coop is a mem- St. Francis Xavier School, 763 President Street, between has been our decision-making body. At the General ber-owned and operated food store—an Sixth and Seventh Aves. Meeting (GM) members gather to make decisions and alternative to commercial profit-oriented busi- set Coop policy. The General-Meeting-for-workslot-credit ness. As members, we contribute our labor: How to Place an Item program was created to increase participation in the working together builds trust through coop- Coop’s decision-making process. eration and teamwork and enables us to keep Following is an outline of the program. For full details, see on the Agenda prices as low as possible within the context the instruction sheets by the sign-up board. If you have something you’d like discussed at a General of our values and principles. Only members Meeting, please complete a submission form for the • Advance Sign-up required: may shop, and we share responsibilities and Agenda Committee. Forms are available in the rack To be eligible for workslot credit, you must add your benefits equally. We strive to be a responsible near the Coop Community Corner bulletin board and name to the sign-up sheet in the elevator lobby. The and ethical employer and neighbor. We are at General Meetings. Instructions and helpful informa- sign-ups sheet is available all month long, except for the a buying agent for our members and not a day of the meeting when you have until 5 p.m. to sign up. tion on how to submit an item appear on the submis- selling agent for any industry. We are a part of sion form. The Agenda Committee meets on the first On the day of the meeting, the sign-up sheet is kept in the and support the cooperative movement. Membership Office. Tuesday of each month to plan the agenda for the GM Some restrictions to this program do apply. Please We offer a diversity of products with an held on the last Tuesday of the month. If you have a see below for details. emphasis on organic, minimally processed question, please call Ann Herpel at the Coop. and healthful foods. We seek to avoid prod- • Two GM attendance credits per year: ucts that depend on the exploitation of others. Each member may take advantage of the GM-for- We support non-toxic, sustainable agriculture. Meeting Format workslot-credit program two times per calendar year. We respect the environment. We strive Warm Up (7:00 p.m.) • Meet the Coordinators • Squads eligible for credit: to reduce the impact of our lifestyles on the • Enjoy some Coop snacks • Submit Open Forum items Shopping, Receiving/Stocking, Food Processing, world we share with other species and future • Explore meeting literature Office, Maintenance, Inventory, Construction, and FTOP generations. We prefer to buy from local, Open Forum is a time for committees. (Some Committees are omitted because Open Forum (7:15 p.m.) earth-friendly producers. We recycle. We try members to bring brief items to the General Meeting. covering absent members is too difficult.) to lead by example, educating ourselves and If an item is more than brief, it can be submitted to the • Attend the entire GM: others about health and nutrition, coopera- Agenda Committee as an item for a future GM. In order to earn workslot credit you must be present tion and the environment. • Financial Report • Coordinators’ for the entire meeting. Reports (7:30 p.m.) We are committed to diversity and Report • Committee Reports • Signing in at the Meeting: equality. We oppose discrimination in any Agenda (8:00 p.m.) The agenda is posted at the Coop After the meeting the Chair will provide the Workslot form. We strive to make the Coop welcoming Community Corner and may also appear elsewhere in Credit Attendance Sheet. and accessible to all and to respect the opin- this issue. • Being Absent from the GM: ions, needs and concerns of every member. We seek to maximize participation at every Wrap Up (9:30-9:45) (unless there is a vote to It is possible to cancel without penalty. We do ask that extend the meeting) • Meeting evaluation • Board of you remove your name if you know cannot attend. Please level, from policy making to running the store. do not call the Membership Office with GM cancellations. We welcome all who respect these values. Directors vote • Announcements, etc.

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Arthur Goodman is a financial planner and longtime member of the Food Coop. sep 19 Help Your Kids Grow He is very interested in behavioral finance and how our culture and experience sat 12 pm From Challenges affect how we think and act about our money. In this short workshop, we’ll delve into the psychology of attention and resil- ience, as well as learning a few simple tools for helping kids—and adults— sep 29 overcome and grow from challenges. Supported by scientific research, these tue 6:45 pm College Admissions 101 methods have been shown to improve focus, emotional regulation, and pattern recognition skills. You’ll also leave with some practical tips for implementing Get your children into their first-choice college. Are you or your child stressed about applying to college? Want to know what goes into writing a winning college these simple and effective techniques in daily life. Presented by Coop mem- PSFC MARCH GENERAL MEETING Tuesday,essay? March If 31,you’ve 7:00 p.m. been wondering what you can do now to make things easier when ber David Wolovsky. David is a teacher, educational innovator, and certified • Items will be taken up in the order given. • Times in parentheses are suggestions. • applicationMore information on each item may time be available atcomes, the entrance table come to this free workshop. Time for Q&A afterward, and Positive Psychology Practitioner. at the meeting. We ask members to please read the materials available between additional7:00 & 7:15 p.m. resources will be provided. Steve Schwartz is a professional college • Meeting Location: Congregation Beth Elohim Social Hall (Garfield Temple) admission274 Garfield Pl. at 8th Ave. counselor in Park Slope with more than a decade of experience. He also AGENDA: Itemwrites #1: Annual Disciplinarythe popular Committee Election Get Into College blog and is a Coop member. (35 minutes) sep 19 Election: The committee will present four members to be re- elected.—submitted by the Disciplinary Committee sat 3 pm Be-Friending Your Inner Critic Item #2: Board of Directors Candidates’ Presentations 45 minutes) Discussion: “Presentation by candidates for the Board of Directors Nonviolent/compassionate communication for greater self-empathy, under- followed by questions for the candidates” Future Agenda Information:sep 29 standing, and connection. Are you your own best friend—or your worst enemy? For information on how to place an item on the Agenda, please seePSFC SEPT General Meeting the center pages of the Linewaiters' Gazette. The Agenda Committeetue minutes 7 and pm the satatus of pending Come learn some simple and powerful tools to transform negative self-talk agenda items are available in the office and at all GMs. and demands into greater awareness, self-compassion, action and choice. Items will be taken up in the order given. Times in paren- Transform those nasty inner critics into advocates! Dian Killian, PhD, has been theses are suggestions. More information on each item a Coop member for 15 years and is a Certified Trainer with the international may be available on the entrance table at the meeting. Center for Nonviolent Communication, director of Work Collaboratively, LLC, We ask members to please read the materials available and co-author of the popular book, Connecting across Differences as well as between 7 and 7:15 p.m. Urban Empathy, that features a story set in the Coop! Meeting location: St. Francis Xavier School, 763 President St., between Sixth and Seventh Aves. I. Member Arrival and Meeting Warm-Up II. Open Forum sep 25 ITES Public Forum: III. Coordinator and Committee Reports fri 6:30 pm Analyzing the Text of the TPP IV. Meeting Agenda Item 1: Annual Hearing Administration Committee Election (15 minutes) Guest experts will concentrate on the sections about campaigns in which Election: Three current committee members will stand for re-election. Hearing the Coop participates: country of origin and GMO labeling; buy local and buy Administrators work on an FTOP basis when needed and serve three-year terms. America; and no to fracking. As well as aspects which affect us all: extention — submitted by the Hearing Administration Committee of pharmacuetical patents and Internet access and U.S. jobs; and especially Item 2: Coop’s Standards for Purchasing Seafood (45 minutes) the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) which invites investors to sue a Discussion: Discussion of the Coop’s standards and practices for purchasing government that regulates corporate behavior to protect human rights or labor rights, the environment. Our blog, CoopITES.wordpress.com has articles to seafood (smoked, frozen, canned, sushi, pet food) and specifically discuss the prepare for the discussion. Non-members are most welcome. And please join canned Bumble Bee brand tuna that we buy. —submitted by Yello Goller us at a community forum with CD 9 Representative Yvette Clarke and oth- V. Board of Directors Meeting ers scheduled for Wednesday evening, August 19, at the Park Slope United VI. Wrap-Up. Includes member sign-in for workslot credit. Methodist Church. Check the blog to confirm the day and time. For information on how to place an item on the Agenda, please see the center pages of the Linewaiters’ Gazette. The Agenda Committee minutes and the status of pending agenda items are available in the Coop office.

sep 26 sat 12 pm Anger Management 101 Are you or someone you know suddenly angry with loved ones or someone at oct 1 Food Class: A Day In the work? Never knowing when the anger will explode? Have other people told you thu 7:30 pm or someone you know they are ready to leave because of your anger? Anger is a Plant-Based Life common emotion that when used correctly can clear the air of misunderstand- Eating a more plant-based diet might feel scary, overwhelming and dull. Chef ing, change wrongs to rights and improve relationships both home and work. Talia Pollock will show you quick, easy, healthy and This hour will be devoted to: 1. Understanding the nature of anger. 2. Learning every-day plant-based diet essentials, from easy-to-cus- about the latest neuroscience about anger. 3. Knowing the triggers that set off tomize morning chia bowls, to a mid-morning smoothie

anger. 4. How manage those triggers. Coop member Raymond Reichenberg Olivia Roszkowski, Coordinator snack, the pesto-ist lunches you’ll be excited to break is a Certified Anger Management Association Specialist and New York State– up your work day with, a 3:00 slump–saving snack Licensed Psychoanalyst. He has been doing therapy for 30 years and the last and a perfectly plant-based filling dinner. She might even throw in a guilt- 10 years doing anger management presentation in the NYC area. free fully plant-based dessert to die for (and not stress over). This class will use fully vegan and gluten-free ingredients, all that are available at the Food Coop. Pollock is a plant-based chef, healthy-eating expert, speaker, blogger sep 26 and YouTube video maker. After spending a few years in the NYC comedy Money Madness circuit (that’s right, she’s a former stand-up comedian!), she decided that sat 7:30 pm she couldn’t ignore her passion for eating plants and went through the Chef Are you blocked when it comes to dealing with money? Either clueless or Training Program at the Natural Gourmet Institute. After graduating, in an unable to take the actions you know you need to take? If so you are not at effort to combine both her love for healthy eating and healthy laughing, she all alone. In this session we will talk about the different ways people think founded Partyinmyplants.com, a business whose sole mission is to help others about money, how that affects their behavior and better ways of coping. You take the HELL out of HELLthy eating, which she does by blogging, speaking will leave with clarity about your next steps and how to get help taking them. and making funny YouTube cooking videos. Menu includes: two types of chia

For more information on these and other events, visit the Coop’s website: foodcoop.com All events take place at the Park Slope Food Coop unless otherwise noted. Nonmembers are welcome to attend workshops. Views expressed by the presenter do not necessarily represent the Park Slope Food Coop.

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breakfast bowls; powerhouse mid-morning portable protein smoothie; pesto quinoa salad with a multitude of fix-ins; nut butter snack trio; overly stuffed oct 6 sweet potatoes; banana ice cream, done your way. tue 8 pm Agenda Committee Meeting ASL interpreter may be available upon advance request. If you would like to The Committee reviews pending agenda items and cre- request an ASL interpreter, please contact Ginger Jung in the Membership Office by September 17. ates the agenda for future General Meetings. Drop by Materials fee: $4. Food classes are coordinated by Coop member Olivia Roszkowski. and talk with committee members face-to-face between 8:00 and 8:15 p.m. Before submitting an item, read “How to Develop an Agenda Item for the General Meeting” and fill out the General Meeting Agenda Item Submission oct 2 Film Night: Form, both available from the Membership Office or at foodcoop.com. fri 7 pm The Ultimate Wish The next General Meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 27, 7 p.m., at St. Francis Xavier School, 763 President St., between Sixth and Seventh Aves. The Ultimate Wish focuses on the moving testimony of Nagasaki survivors and Fukushima evacuees. Their stories are interlaced with experts illuminating the largely Wordsprouts: The Human Side unrecognized connection between nuclear weapons and oct 9 nuclear power. Archival footage, some of it disturbing, fri 7 pm of the Immigration Crisis puts their comments in riveting context. The documen- Dr. Partha Banerjee will read his from his memoir manuscript, tary raises profound questions about war, technological failure, radioactive “Have You Ever Been on Two Sides of the Globe, Exactly at the contamination, proliferation, the courage to survive and the importance of tak- Same Time?,” from his poetry, as well as perform the songs of ing action to prevent future nuclear disasters. Director Kathleen Sullivan, PhD, WORDSPROUTS Rabindranath Tagore, the noted Bengali poet and polymath. has been engaged in the nuclear issue for more than 25 years, and has worked Celebrate Father’s Day and meet Brian Gresko, “When the entire world is going through a largely unreported, internationally as an educator for disarmament, and an education consultant unexplained crisis on human migration,” Dr. Banerjee said, “I keep wondering how to to the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. In 2005, she produced the editor of the just-published anthology on throwfatherhood light Whenon I Firstlife, Held Youplight, poetry and music of a new American immigrant. Can I help us her first film with Bob Richter, a feature documentary about survivors from to understand what humanity is all about? Is this only about our politics marred with Nagasaki entitled The Last Atomic Bomb. Currently, Kathleen is the Program xenophobiaWhen I First Held You: 22and Critically Acclaimed bigotry, Writers Talk About the or is it also about love, care, respect, equality, and justice for Director for Hibakusha Stories, an arts-based initiative that has brought atom- Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative Experience of Fatherhood. all—valuesBecoming a father can be onethat of the most profoundly once exhilarating, terrifying, made America America?” Dr. Banerjee writes in Bengali, the lan- ic-bomb survivors into New York City High Schools to share their testimonies life-changing occasions in a man’s life. In this incomparable collection of guage thought-provokingof Tagore, essays, 22 of today’s masterful writers the get straight to thefilmmaker heart of Satyajit Ray and the economist Amartya Sen, and he with more than 30,000 students over the last eight years. modern fatherhood. From making that ultimate decision to having a kid to making it writes throughin the birth,English—language to tangling with a toddler mid-tantrum, and eventually letting a teen that he says he was literally afraid to speak before he came To book a Film Night, contact Gabriel Rhodes, [email protected]. to Americaloose in the world, these fathersfrom explore every facet ofCalcutta as a foreign student. “Is this journey translatable? Does today’s fatherhood and show how being a father changed Friday, June 13 Americathe way they really saw the world—and themselves. get7:00 it?” p.m. at the BanerjeeCoop wonders. Banerjee grew up in a poor, upper caste family FREE in Calcutta,Brian Gresko is the editor ofand the anthology When taughtI in a remote village in Bengal’s mangrove delta. He did his Ph.D. Non members Welcome First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk oct 3 in biologyAbout the Triumphs, from Challenges, and Transformative Southern Experience of Fatherhood. His work Illinois, and then quit science to do a graduate degree in jour- Female Health nalismhas appearedfrom in Poets & Writers ColumbiaMagazine, Glimmer Train Stories, and The Brooklyn RailUniversity., His grassroots activism against post-9/11 hate crimes sat 12 pm and online at The Huﬃngton Post, Salon, TheAtlantic.com, The Los Angeles Review of on immigrantsBooks, and many other sites. got noted by The New York Times and other media, and later he was PMS? Painful periods? Skipping periods? Fibroids? Infertility? Polycystic picked upRefreshments by will a be served.large labor union as their educator, where he has been for almost a Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)? Menopausal symptoms? Looking for a natural decade.All Wordsprout Partha’s participants are Coop members. passion is writing, art, music and activism (and Indian cooking). He solution? Nutrition Response Testing is a non-invasive way of analyzing uses Bookings:his John words Donohue, [email protected] to promote equality and social justice. His memoir is lush with poetry and the body to determine the root cause of symptoms. We’ll discuss some descriptionsViews expressed by the presenters do not necessarilyof representlife’s the Park Slope joys, Food Coop. sorrows, wins and losses. of the major causes of hormonal imbalance and how a custom-designed Bookings: John Donohue, [email protected]. nutrition program can help return you to optimum health. Diane Paxton, MS, LAc, is the owner and principal of Inner Fire Integrative Health Services, with offices in Manhattan and Park Slope. She is also a longtime Coop member. oct 13 Safe Food Committee Film Night: tue 7 pm Weight of the Nation, Part IV Weight of the Nation, Part IV: Challenges. Obesity is a oct 3-4 Food Drive to Benefit very serious medical condition. It’s a contributing factor in the death and disability of too many of our neighbors, sat-sun 9 am–7 pm CHIPS Soup Kitchen friends and family members, and its societal costs are CHIPS Soup Kitchen, located at 4th Avenue and Sackett Street, is the astronomical. Although overall obesity prevalence rates recipient of much of our edible but unsaleable perishable food. They also appear to be leveling off, approximately one-third of adults are overweight or need donations of nonperishable foods. This food will go to CHIPS to help obese—still far too many. The battle against obesity will eventually be won—not them feed people in the neighborhood who are in need of a nutritious by a “silver bullet” but by combined and diverse efforts, from building new meal. Consider contributing nonperishable foods and commercially pack- parks to operating healthy food trucks, opening new grocery stores and other aged foods; canned fish; canned fruits and vegetables; pasta sauce; pasta; healthy food outlets to planting community gardens and everything in between. pre-packaged rice; pre-packaged beans; canned beans; canned soups; See upcoming events, past reviews and a comprehensive list of films shown at Parmalat milk; dry milk; peanut butter; cooking oil; or boxed raisins. Give www.plowtoplatefilms.com which can now also be reached via a link on the donations to the collection table outside the Coop. Park Slope Food Coop’s home page at www.foodcoop.com. still to come oct 16 Prospect Concert Series oct 27 PSFC OCTOBER General Meeting

oct 18 Basics of Solar Electric Energy oct 27 And When I Die

oct 24 Learning Difficulties oct 30 It’s Your Funeral

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A NORMAL could be delineated in every (In order not to trigger the occurs in a non-coercive ing member contributions to GAZETTE— issue as a reminder to us all prohibition on reference to atmosphere, i.e. the Gazette the Gazette. UNFETTERED AND of how things work. these topics, I will not men- must be censorship-free Rochdale Society in GOVERNANCE: A differ- tion them here, but inter- while the process goes for- England, established 1844, FREE ent bylaw or governance fact ested members can read the ward; (3) present the even- is credited with forming the or issue could be highlight- new policy under the head- tual proposal to the GM with guiding principles of the DEAR EDITOR, ed every issue to educate us ing “Announcement” on p. ample time for members to modern cooperative move- As a new member in 2011, all on how the system works. 10 of the Sept. 3 Gazette.) We inform themselves and thor- ment based on 7 principles: I was so excited to read the PRODUCE: A list of pro- are told this prohibition is oughly discuss the proposal 1-Voluntary and open Gazette hoping it would help duce coming into season temporary, until a new pol- prior to a vote. membership me understand and navigate and going out of season. icy is arrived at, but tempo- Sincerely, 2-Democratic member this elusive institution. I had KIDS CORNER: Featuring rary or not, it amounts to Jan Clausen control so many questions as to how a Coop kid’s artwork or poem. censorship. That should be 3-Member economic par- everything worked. Instead, OVERHEARD AT THE a matter of serious concern ticipation I was totally turned off and COOP: Members submit to all who acknowledge the GAZETTE 4-Autonomy and Indepen- confused as to all of the neg- funny things they overheard Gazette’s importance as both PUBLISHING dence ative energy that radiated people say here. our “newspaper of record” GUIDELINES 5-Education, Training and from issue after issue. I can These suggestions are and our foremost vehicle Information only imagine that many of close to home and would (along with the GM) for the TO THE EDITOR: 6-Cooperation among the newcomers to the Coop help fill in gaps in our collec- membership to discuss and Let’s get staff, member cooperatives since then have felt the tive knowledge. The possibil- debate important matters. contributors and interested Look at our mission state- same way. I am at the Coop ities of uplifting, interesting I do not believe the members together to update ment too. often and never do I see topics are as endless and as Gazette should exclude any and refine guidelines for This is our Coop. We make anyone in line reading the diverse as our membership. I topic that members wish publication in the Gazette. policy decisions together. Linewaiters’ Gazette. I have so know I myself would eagerly to discuss. Even more fun- The Gazette is our media The Gazette is ours. We will much enjoyed the last few anticipate each issue. damentally, however, the for sharing information. vote on issues of policy at issues of the Gazette, unfet- Thank you, current practice of creat- The Gazette is a forum for our Coop. tered and free. It feels so Jessa Fisher ing editorial policies on an discussing policy and plan- Censorship of the Gazette normal, healthy and posi- ad hoc basis and without ning. The Gazette is our pub- is a mistake, dangerous and tive to have a newsletter like accountability to the mem- lic presentation, and it is wrong. A detailed plan for a any other coop’s newsletter GAZETTE bership is miserably inade- our journal of record. To inclusive process to revise across the country. The fol- EDITORIAL POLICY quate to the requirements serve individual members Gazette guidelines has been lowing is a list of sugges- QUESTIONED of a member-run, democrat- and our community, we submitted to the Agenda tions of columns that could ically governed Coop. For can work together through Committee for discussion at be included in the Gazette. TO THE EDITOR: Coop democracy to work, collegial consultation to an upcoming GM. Let’s work There could be several The Gazette’s current edi- members must be able to revise the Gazette guide- through accepted past policy series that run every week. torial process creates seri- debate their views openly, lines so they are clear and & practice to solve our prob- VENDORS: There are ous problems for editors based on standards that all fair—Gazette guidelines that lems and vote to make poli- enough local and even and contributors alike. The have agreed to. Whatever members who want to con- cy and to plan the future of non-local vendors where a editors complain of the bur- the pressures on the Gazette’s tribute and editors doing our collective. Let’s defend, different vendor could be den involved in vetting let- editors (and obviously these their workslots agree upon protect and ensure Demo- featured every other week. ters and other submissions are real, involving both edi- and can implement. cratic member control of our ASK THE BUYER: People about controversial topics, tors’ time and the emotion- An editor announced at media and of our Coop. can write in different ques- discussing proposed chang- al intensity of discussion), the July GM that restric- Susan Metz tions and a buyer could es with authors, and field- it is unacceptable that this tions are being imposed answer the questions, and ing inquiries from unhappy small group should decide on what will be published. we can all learn something. members (like me) whose for the rest of us that certain She announced a unilater- SAFEGUARDING MEET AN EMPLOY- material was rejected or subject matters, or even cer- al change to the guidelines THE DEMOCRATIC EE: The Coop has over 50 censored. In recent weeks, tain tones (e.g. “uncooper- passed by a GM in 2012. Hurt PROCESS IN employees. Learn what I’ve spoken with several ative” language), need to feelings, anger and intensi- BYLAWS AND AT GM everyone does. people who share my experi- be censored. While creat- fied adversarial friction are LIST OF FREQUENTLY ence of having had material ing a host of other prob- the result. MEMBERS: PAGED ITEMS: Every issue refused, or delayed so long lems, censorship sends the After years of writing let- Referencing the letter to should feature the location that it lost relevance, or put destructive message that ters regularly, one of my the editor, August 20, 2015: for frequently paged items, through a tortuous revision our organization is too letters was rejected. Dialog “Clarification of Provision to help out shoppers. process, although we did our weak to work through our is being cut off. I am not for Majority Voting in Coop SUGGESTIONS: Answers best to adhere to published disagreements in a mature, allowed to respond to a let- Bylaws” by Joe Holtz, Gener- to the suggestions that guidelines. forthright fashion. ter, actually to a series of al Coordinator. Joe Holtz, as people write in the sugges- While frustration with The Gazette’s editors have letters, in which I am named the most senior Coordinator tion book located where the the Gazette’s editorial poli- promised to unveil a new and criticized. By whose is the ex officio member of shopping squad leader is. cies has simmered for years, editorial policy in the near authority? the Board of Directors. MEET A MEMBER: A matters have reached a new future. In order to avoid a Does this or does this I will address two points member could be featured and alarming pitch with the further escalation of mis- not amount to a group tak- made in the “Explanation:” in an interview every issue. editors’ recent decision to trust on the part of would-be ing control of our principle (1) Joe Holtz: “To sum MEMBERSHIP RULES: A exclude submissions that contributors, with its poten- media of communication up, procedures for the for- different membership rule address specific topics. tial to increase the editors’ and our journal of record— mulation of advice to the frustrations as well, any such permitting some comments Board have nothing to do ANNOUNCEMENT policy must be developed in and prohibiting others? To with the reference in the dialogue with the member- what extent is assuming bylaws to majority voting. he printing of Letters and Articles relating to BDS and ship, not unilaterally. At a that authority a way of tak- The Board ... whether they Tanti-BDS subjects will be suspended to allow the Gazette minimum, the following con- ing sides on a controversial get advice from a minori- staff to devise and propose a fair and comprehensive editorial ditions need to be fulfilled: issue? Several maneuvers ty, a simple majority or a policy regarding the management of controversial issues. The (1) develop the proposal have been aimed at shutting super majority at the Gen- suspension will be lifted if a topic appearing on the GM Agenda collaboratively, with formal down debate—disrupting a eral Meeting …” warrants it to allow discussion before and after the GM presen- opportunities for member GM, proposing a referendum These statements appear tation. This suspension is regarded as temporary until such feedback to shape the text; to prohibit the topic being at odds with the Bylaws, Arti- time as a new editorial policy is in place. n (2) assure that development discussed, and now censor- cle VI, Meetings, #4: “Except

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as otherwise provided all decision-making that is the tors. Interestingly, although bylaws should not apply. LOCAL MEAT matters shall be decided purpose of the GM.” Joe reproduced the full Moreover, as David by a majority vote of those Note regarding July GM: text of Article VI, he never Barouh pointed out in his TO THE MEMBERSHIP: present and voting.” The dis- A too lengthy presentation addressed the language letter in the September 3 In the article “Slaugh- cussion item on Boycotts at of the discussion item on of the relevant provision. Gazette, despite the Board’s terhouse Shortage” by the May GM, proposed that Boycotts prevented a full Instead, he argued that the status as the body legally Kama Einhorn [September future boycotts garner 75 discussion of the topic by provision does not apply to authorized to make deci- 3, 2015 issue] it is written percent of all votes cast. This members. Only a few males the GM because the GM “has sions for the Coop, the GM that: All farmers must use anti-democratic proposal is were called up to speak. The no power to make decisions has always been our “true... USDA-approved slaughter- attempting to undermine the overall effect is to under- for the Coop.” The GM’s only governing body”; the direc- houses. Farmers cannot majority rule in the Bylaws mine democracy at the GM. I function is to advise the tors, as a matter of poli- legally sell meat unless above. call upon the Chair to main- Board of Directors, which is cy and practice, adopt the it has been “harvested” at (2) Joe Holtz: “But the tain the democratic process legally authorized to make “advice” of the GM as deter- an approved “processing Board could vote without the and practice at future GMs. those decisions. According- mined by majority vote. The plant” (otherwise they can members expressing advice Thank you. ly, Joe concluded, the mem- only exception, referenced only eat it themselves or through a General Meeting Mary Buchwald bers are at liberty to “make by both Joe and David, was give it away). vote” and, as an example, PSFC members for BDS rules on how they want the in 1996, and that assertion This is incorrect. The use refers to the Board’s approv- www.psfcbds.wordpress.com Board to interpret advice in of Board independence was of a USDA-approved slaugh- al of the Minutes. the future”—but the Board widely condemned. Thus, terhouse is only required for The Minutes, an admin- would not be under any legal what Joe referred to as the the inter-state sale of meat. istrative function of the ON SUPER obligation to abide by such Board’s “great record of Meat sold intra-state does Secretary, outline the pro- MAJORITY rules. making excellent decisions” not have to be processed at ceedings of the Board of Joe’s analysis is at odds consists precisely in its a USDA-approved slaughter- Directors’ monthly meeting. TO THE EDITOR: with the broad language deferring to the will of the house. With respect to substantive In a letter in the August of the majority vote provi- GM majority. Under these Stop by the Greenmar- matters, the Bylaws state in 20 issue, I argued that sion, and it gives the false circumstances, to hold that ket. You can find chickens Article VI, Meetings, #2: “The Jesse Rosenfeld’s proposal impression that the change the GM is not constrained that the farmers slaughtered membership shall be given to require a super majori- proposed by Jesse Rosenfeld by the majority vote provi- themselves. notice of each such meet- ty for approval of boycotts would be inconsequential. sion of the bylaws would be Don Wiss ing prior to such meeting. would violate the majority The provision states simply problematic. According to The directors shall inform vote provision in the Coop’s that, “[e]xcept as otherwise Joe’s analysis, there is no Editor’s Note: According to the those members who shall bylaws. Responding in the provided, all matters shall be limit to the size of the super Cornell University website, all beef, be present of the nature of same issue, Joe Holtz offered decided by a majority vote of majority that the GM, by a pork and lamb intended for retail sale the business to come before a “clarification” that should those present and voting.” It bare majority vote, could put must be slaughtered at a USDA- the directors and receive the not go unanswered. Accord- is open-ended, with nothing in place to address any num- approved facility. However, farmers advice of the members on ing to Joe, the provision, stated or implied that lim- ber of issues that we cannot can kill up to 1,000 chickens or 250 such matters.” which is found in Article VI, its its applicability to voting currently anticipate. turkeys without going to a USDA- On the Coop website subsection 4, of the bylaws, by the Board and “meetings Winston McIntosh approved slaughterhouse. under General Meeting does not apply to the Gen- of the membership.” Signif- is the statement: “… our eral Meeting (GM), but icant in this regard is the Board’s role doesn’t over- rather is limited to “meet- acknowledgment in subsec- shadow or replace the mem- ings of the membership” tion Article VI, subsection ber initiative, discussion and and of the Board of Direc- 2, that the GM’s advice to the Board may be expressed through a vote. Such a vote is a decision on the issue JOIN THE at hand, albeit legally only a decision on advising the directors, and there is no good reason why the major-

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BONUS PUZZLE! FOOD COOP ICE CREAM Sudoku

Sudoku is a puzzle. You are presented with a 9x9 grid of squares, and that grid is divided into 3x3 zones. You solve the puzzle by filling the empty squares with single-digit numbers so that every zone, column and row Gazette Sudokuuses each of the numbers fromby 1 James to 9. Vasile

rooklyn Bell ice cream held a contest in June at 9 Bthe Park Slope Food Coop. The challenge was to imagine a recipe for a new flavor, exclusively for the Food Coop. We asked members for their ideas. 5 3 2 7 6 We received more than 100 entries from members, and Jana Cunningham’s flavor won out. It’s coffee ice cream with chocolate-covered coffee-bean chips and a hint of maple. It’s called “On Alert!” (get it?) and is on 1 sale now in our ice cream cooler. Thanks to everyone who entered. Try it! 9 8

Interested in Engaging Coop Work? 1 5 4 2 3 7 Disciplinary Committee Seeks NEW Members

SKILLS NEEDED Communication • Problem solving • Conflict resolution 6 4 Dealing with difficult situations and people Investigation • Writing • Research

OUR WORK INCLUDES 2 3 • Applying Coop rules and regulations • Discussing policy issues related to the Committee’s work • Investigating allegations of uncooperative behavior by members and engaging in problem solving 7 2 4 • Daily email contact with the committee members to discuss cases • Participating in mediation, disciplinary hearings, and other conflict resolution methods

REQUIREMENTS 6 9 7 1 In order to be considered for this position, any candidate must: • Be a member for at least a year Puzzle author: James Vasile. For answers, see page 16. • Have a good attendance record • Possess the ability to work on a team • Have good writing skills • Have computer proficiency (excel, word, email)—this is essential COMMUNITY CALENDAR • Attend evening meetings every six weeks We work on average six hours per month, more than the required work shift hours. You will be credited and your hours will be banked Community calendar listings are free. Please submit your event listing in 50 words or less to for future use. [email protected]. Submission deadlines are the same as for classified ads. Please refer to the Coop Calendar in the center of this issue. We recognize the importance of various points of view when considering cases brought to us. We are seeking a candidate pool that reflects the diversity of the Coop’s membership. Ave., Boreum Hill. Fee: $45 plus three of her books: Northeast For- SAT, SEP 19 a $10 materials fee. Register at age, Preserving Everything and The CONTACT 8 p.m. GATHERING TIME: This www.bit.ly/preserveharvestly. Locavore’s Handbook. $20 suggest- Karen: 718.208.7897 or [email protected] head-turning folk-rock harmo- ed donation; information you will Join us to make the Coop the best place it can be for everyone. ny trio is getting “a beehive-full use for a lifetime. Fifth Ave. @ of buzz” on the Northeast folk SAT, SEP 26 Third St. To preregister, contact scene. At People’s Voice Cafe, 12:30 p.m. Park Slope Bluegrass, www.theoldstonehouse.org; Community Church of NY Old Time Jamboree: Concerts, info: theoldstonehouse.org. Unitarian Universalist, 40 E Workshop and more. At the 35th St. Info call 212-787-3903 Brooklyn Society for Ethical Cul- peoplesvoicecafe.org. ture. 53 PPW Brooklyn NY. Info at SUN, OCT 4 www.jamesreams.com. 4 p.m. BPL Chamber Players present: Tara O’Connor, flute; SUN, SEP 20 Randall Ellis, oboe; Alan R. 2 p.m. Preserving the Harvest: TUE, SEP 29 Kay, clarinet; David Jolley, horn; How to Make Sauerkraut and Fer- 5:30 p.m. At the Old Stone Frank Morelli, bassoon at the mented Veggies. In this hands-on House. World-class forage Dr. S. Stevan Dweck Center for class, you will learn everything authority, author, and PSFC Contemporary Culture Central you need to know to confident- member, Leda Meredith offers Library. 10 Grand Army Plaza ly ferment vegetables at home. a garden walk in Washington BKLYN. Admission Free. The Commons, 388 Atlantic Park, a talk and book signing for

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Looking to help new coops form in Brooklyn To Submit Classified or Display Ads: Ads may be placed on behalf of Coop members only. Clas- while getting a tax deduction? sified ads are prepaid at $15 per insertion, display ads at Support the Fund for New Coops—a project of the Park Slope Food Coop. $30. (Classified ads in the “Merchandise–Non-commercial” category are free.) All ads must be written on a submission The Fund for New Coops will make low-interest form. Classified ads may be up to 315 characters and spaces. loans to start-up coops that use the full-member Display ads must be camera-ready and business card size (2” labor model like ours. Loans will be extended x 3.5” horizontal). to qualified start-ups to address problems and Submission forms are available in a wallpocket near the maximize the chances that start-ups will flourish. elevator in the entrance lobby. How can you donate? Use the scannable Fund for New Coops donation cards • available on the shopping floor Donate directly from the Coop’s website, foodcoop.com. Follow the link for • the Fund for New Coops and select the DONATE button Mail a check—made out to the Fund for New Food Coops—to: • FJC, 520 Eighth Ave., 20th Flr., New York, NY 10018 Help nascent coops that want to use our model: Contribute today!

EXPERIENCED REPORTERS Please Apply Workslot Description We have four distinct Linewaiters’ Gazette teams—each producing an issue every eight weeks. You will develop and produce an article about the Coop in cooperation with your team’s editor every eight weeks. ILLUSTRATION BY ETHAN PETTIT For More Information If you would like to speak to an editor or another reporter to learn more about the job, please contact Annette Laskaris in the Membership Office or e-mail her at [email protected]. CLASSIFIEDS To Apply BED & BREAKFAST Please send a letter of application and two writing samples at PIANO LESSONS in Park Slope: least 800 words long (one sample must be a reported interview, LARGE SUNNY ROOM with queen Classical and jazz styles. All ages not a Q&A) to [email protected]. Your letter should bed, private bath, in spacious Pros- and levels. Studio established in state your qualifications, your Coop history, relevant experience pect Heights townhouse full of old North Slope over 20 years. Please and why you would like to report for the Coop. Your application style, charm and modern ameni- call Fiona Bicket: 718-789-2036. will be acknowledged and forwarded to the coordinating editors, ties. Smoke-free, no pets. Close to Joan Minieri and Erik Lewis. Q, B and 2, 3, stations. Short walk to BAM, Park, Gardens. Call Marga- Seeking Diversity on the Gazette Staff ret 718-622-2897. MADISON AVENUE HAIRCUTTER The Gazette is looking for qualified reporters. We are interested in is right around the corner from using this opportunity to diversify our staff. We believe that we can the food coop, so if you would like enrich the quality of the Gazette and serve the membership better a really good haircut at a decent with a reporting and editing staff that more closely resembles the price, please call Maggie at 718- mix of Coop members. 783-2154. I charge $60.

HAIRCUTS HAIRCUTS HAIRCUTS. SERVICES Color, highlights, low lights, hot THE GAZETTE INDEXES AVAILABLE oil treatments in the convenience If you are interested in the history of the Coop or in when and of your home or mine. Kids cuts how particular subjects have been discussed in the Linewaiters’ EXPRESS MOVES. One flat price $20.00-$25.00. Adults $35.00- Gazette... for the entire move! No deceptive $40.00. Call Leonora 718-857-2215. Send an e-mail to Len Neufeld, Gazette indexer, at lenneufeld@ hourly estimates! Careful, expe- verizon.net, to request PDF files of either or both of the following rienced mover. Everything quilt VACATION indexes: CLASSES/GROUPS padded. No extra charge for ward- RENTALS • An alphabetized list of the titles of all articles published in robes and packing tape. Specialist the Gazette from 1995 to the present, with issue dates. VIOLIN LESSONS: Experi- in walkups. Thousands of satisfied SPRING-SUMMER-FALL Studio, • An alphabetized list of all subjects (including people’s names) enced performer teaches clas- customers. Great Coop references. 1- and 2-BR houses in historic West- discussed in Gazette articles from 1995 to the present, with article sical, Celtic and Indian music 718-670-7071. chester cooperative near the Hudson, titles, issue dates, and page numbers (titles and subjects for ear- in Brooklyn Heights studio. All 1 hour from NYC. Dating from 1929, lier years are being added). ages and levels welcome, includ- this 3-season community has pool, Many of the Gazette issues referenced in these indexes are ing artists wishing to learn one tennis,organic garden, social hall available as PDFs on the Coop’s website. (Copies of these and of the genres above or to impro- with internet and social activities. additional issues are also available at Brooklyn’s Central Library, vise. Email Michael at mbraudy@ $25-$98K. www.reynoldshills.org; located at Flatbush Ave. and Eastern Pkwy. on Grand Army Plaza.) mindspring.com or call 718-596- [email protected] 917- 6772. www.michaelbraudy.com 880-5419.

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EXCITING WORKSLOT OPPORTUNITIES ARE YOU A RECEIVING PRODUCE printers, & monitors as well as cleaning the Monday–Friday, 5 to 7:30 a.m. furniture & organizing checkout worker’s BROOKLYN-BASED The Coop is looking for members to tools & supplies. Must arrive on time at work in the produce area. Responsibilities 6AM. Please report to Cynthia Pennycooke FILMMAKER? include : lifting boxes, unloading deliveries, on your first work shift Would you like to stacking boxes in the basement. You should be willing to get or have wet hands while you RECEIVING MAINTENANCE screen your work are working. Boxes usually weigh between Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m. at the Coop? 2-20lbs, a few may weigh up to 50 lbs. The Coop is looking for members to do various light maintenance tasks throughout OFFICE SET-UP the Coop .You will work under the super- Then submit your film Monday–Thursday, 6 to 8:30 a.m. vision of a staff person. Must be willing to for possible inclusion Need an early riser with lots of energy to clean, sort returned bottles, work in the in the Coop’s do a variety of physical tasks including: set- backyard organizing, lifting up to 25 lbs. Friday Film Night ting up tables and chairs, buying food and Screening Series. supplies, labeling and putting away food BATHROOM CLEANING and supplies, recycling, washing dishes and Friday, 12 to 2 p.m. If you’re a Coop member you’ll receive one FTOP making coffee. Sound like your dream come Work with a partner to deep clean the true? This job might be for you. Please speak Coop’s bathrooms. Tasks include scrub- credit for screening and offering a Q+A with your to Adriana in the Membership Office for bing floor tiles, cleaning toilets, mopping film. If you’re not a member, it’s still a chance to more information. floors and stocking the bathrooms. You spread the word about your work and build your fan will work with only natural cleaning prod- base by screening for a local audience. CHECK PROCESSING ucts. This job is perfect for members who Tuesday, 6 to 8:45 p.m. like to clean and are conscientious about We accept documentary and fiction, both features Member needed to collate and organize doing a thorough job. and shorts (we program shorts as a group). vouchers from check run. Attention to detail, accuracy and good attendance a must. Mem- LAUNDRY AND TOY CLEANING PleasePlease e-mail e-mail Faye LedermanGabrielfor Rhodes details at ber must be in good standing and a commit- Saturday, 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. [email protected] detailsor at mail your DVD to: ment of 6 months required. Please speak to This workslot has two responsibilities. [email protected]. Lederman, 2000 Linwood Ave, #9E Renee St Furcy at 718-622-0560 or contact her You will load laundry into dryer, fold it and Fort Lee, NJ 07024 at [email protected] before signing redistribute it around the Coop. While the up for this shift. laundry is washing/drying, you will clean toys in the childcare room. You will be work- Solution to this issue's sudoku puzzle ENTRANCE DESK ing with a partner on these tasks. Please Friday, 5:45 to 8:00 a.m. contact Annette or Jana in the Membership 1 9 7 4 8 5 6 3 2 Supervised by Membership Coordina- Office for further information. tors, you will be staffing the Entrance desk in hours of the weekday before the Coop is open ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES 5 3 2 1 7 6 8 9 4 to shoppers. Primarily you will be check- COMMITTEE – TERRACYCLE ing in working members, informing them of Wednesday, 3:45 to 6:30 p.m. 6 4 8 2 9 3 5 7 1 their member and household status, and Enthusiastic, dedicated workers needed handing out entrance desk slips to members to join our Terracycle Collection Squad. 2 6 4 7 3 9 1 8 5 who need them. Entrance workers provide At least 6 months of Coop Membership an essential member service and must be required prior to signing up. Must be reli- welcoming, polite, able to read and interpret able and willing to work outside in front 9 8 1 5 4 2 3 6 7 information on the entrance desk screen. of the Coop during all seasons. Workers will be trained to sort though acceptable 7 5 3 6 1 8 4 2 9 STORE EQUIPMENT used product packaging for purposes of CLEANING Up-cycling into new products via TerraCycle. 4 1 9 8 6 7 2 5 3 Monday, Friday, 6 to 8 a.m. Please contact Membership Coordinator This job involves meticulous deep clean- Cynthia Pennycooke via phone, Monday - ing of the store’s checkout equipment & fur- Friday, 8 AM to 12:30 PM, or via e-mail at 8 7 5 3 2 1 9 4 6 niture. Workers are required to read & follow [email protected], prior to detailed instructions for cleaning the scales, being assigned to this shift. 3 2 6 9 5 4 7 1 8

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

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