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MMMM! Monday 16 Sept, Movie (Food Coop), Meal & Mingling

MMMM! Monday 16 Sept, Movie (Food Coop), Meal & Mingling

Hi all,

MMMM! Monday Movie, Meal & Mingling is back this Monday 16 Sept

This week we're screening:

Shorts from around 6:30

And then the main feature from around 7pm:

Food Coop (1 hour 37 mins) 2016

We'll have delicious food (a mostly organic) vegan curry from 6ish:

Organic courgette meatballs in tomato sauce
Organic ginger and garlic potatoes with cucumber and mint raita (vegan alternative available)
Organic Masoor dal
Basmati Rice
And salads.

Pre-book to avoid disappointment! 🎟️ 🍲😋 https://ud.coop/foodcoop

Food Coop (1 hour 37 mins) 2016

The Most Successful Supermarket in New York City Has Zero Customers and 17,000 Workers.


Every day in Brooklyn, hundreds of busy New Yorkers walk past Whole Foods or dozens of other grocery stores promoting natural and organic foods to work at a small supermarket that does no marketing and never holds sales—and yet makes more money per square foot than any other grocery store in New York City . The secret of the Park Slope Food Coop’s more than 40 years of success is simple: to shop there, all 17,000 members—rich and poor, old and young, from every culture and race in the city—have to put in three hours a month of work.

“THE FILM THAT MAKES SUPERMARKETS” — El Pais Spain

The result is a virtuous cycle. Lower labour costs let the coop charge lower prices. Lower prices attract more people. More people lead to greater buying power. Greater buying power brings even lower prices, more members, makes happier members—and the cycle continues. Little wonder that Europeans have started to look to the Park Slope Food Coop as a model for a positive, sustainable way to undermine corporate monopolies, unite communities, and increase access to high-quality food while also promoting good food and environmentally responsible consumption.

In his first feature-length documentary, FOOD COOP, American-born, Paris-based director Tom Boothe brings wit, insight, and a critical but passionate eye to the story of an American institution, built on pragmatic idealism, that has become a beacon for Europe.

In the middle of an economic crisis, in the shadow of Wall Street, an institution that represents a less well-known American tradition is booming. The Park Slope Food Coop: a cooperative supermarket where all 17,000 members work 3 hours per months to earn the right to buy the best food in New York at incredibly low prices. The success of this cooperative is a bad new for capitalism and aggro-alimentary business, and an opportunity to change the food production and distribution systems. We will see what has become of the Park Slope Food Coop, now a well-rooted institution in the heart of Brooklyn: the way it functions, its hundreds of rules, the diversity and eccentricity of its members. We'll see how the culture that has been created at the coop gives its members daily visceral lessons in democracy, how this could represent a potential change in mentality for Americans faced with increasingly difficult economic times

We'll also have:

Delicious (mostly) organic vegan curries from Fergus Bradbeer aka Vegie Vortex (who also does the curries at Beach and Barnicott), plus hot and cold drinks. 

Please note:

Our room hire costs £42/ week so if you're able to able to contribute more than the default ticket amount then please do so. 

We also need to ensure enough people come along to make it worthwhile for Fergus to keep coming along to cook up the delicious food - so invite a friend!

Many thanks in advance. Together We Have Everything.

Pre-book to avoid disappointment! 🎟️ 🍲😋 https://ud.coop/foodcoop

United Diversity Bridport

Our goal: get the Bridport bioregion into the Doughnut by making "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society" a reality in our locality.

If you'd like to help out or get more involved: