Judged Extremely Uncooperative, Four Members Suspended for One
OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP Established 1973 Volume KK, Number 10 May 12, 2016 Judged Extremely Food Coops: Juicy Fruit Uncooperative, Four Members For Pop Culture Suspended for One Year By Hayley Gorenberg According to witnesses, our longtime Coop mem- by the time the protest Fbers have had their mem- came under control, berships suspended for a year there was no oppor- for derailing the April 2015 tunity for productive General Meeting’s discussion discussion. about carrying products made by Israel-based SodaStream. The four members appeared before the hearing officer com- mittee a year later, at a disci- plinary hearing on April 10, 2016, to face charges of “extremely uncoopera- PHOTO BY GREEN HILL FOOD COOP tive behavior.” An investiga- By Gayle Forman The episode, entitled “Co- tion by the Coop’s n a recent episode of the Op,” was shot at the Greene Disciplinary Com- IComedy Central television Hill Food Co-op in Clinton Hill, mittee had found show Broad City, one of the but it’s pretty clear that it’s the that the four, part of show’s main characters, Ilana Park Slope Food Coop—and the audience on April 28, (played by Ilana Glazer) runs Park Slope culture in general— 2015, during a presentation into trouble at a food coop. being, affectionately, teased. about SodaStream, “disrupt- Six Coop members report- ILLUSTRATION BY NINA FRENKEL After ogling the produce in a There’s the hot, hippie with ed the presentation by getting edly submitted complaints most Ilana-like way, at check- the man-bun refilling the bulk out of their chairs, yelling and after the meeting, and the out she is told she cannot bins, the coop schedule based screaming, and getting up on Disciplinary Committee the proceeding, the Hearing shop because she has not upon “moon cycles,” and per- the stage to prevent the pre- interviewed the complain- Officers Committee mem- worked any of her shifts.
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