Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Park slope food coop

  • Democracy was the word I most often kept hearing at the Park Slope Food Coop's contentious Tuesday night vote on whether to consider a ban on Israeli products.
  • (New York Daily News)
  • "Food and community triumphed. The Coop will continue its mission to provide great food at great prices." "The Coop is a place where people park their politics at the door," it added.
  • (Wall Street Journal)
  • A well-known cooperative grocery store in Brooklyn voted to reject a boycott of Israeli goods.
  • (Forward)
  • The Park Slope Food Coop is gearing up for a meeting tonight that may be the most talked-about Park Slope Food Coop meeting in history.
  • (The AtlanticWire (blog))
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  • (Daily Beast)
  • The Park Slope Food Coop, always good for a laugh about yuppie-hippie culture and over-the-top political correctness, is facing what may be the most troubling problem in their 39-year history.
  • (The AtlanticWire (blog))
  • The Park Slope Food Coop last night voted down a proposed boycott of Israeli products, ending an emotional battle that brought Middle East strife to the doorstep of trendy Brooklyn foodies.
  • (New York Post)
  • Hundreds of members of the Park Slope Food Coop are meeting tonight at Brooklyn Technical HS to decide whether to move ahead with a full-membership vote about boycotting Israeli-made products.
  • (New York Times)
  • The defeat of the referendum in support of the BDS movement's campaign to boycott Israel at the Park Slope Food Coop was a victory for peace.
  • (Patch)

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