By Nicholas Johnson of the Leader
Dena Bugel-Shunra compares a boycott to a pebble in your shoe.
"It's a very small thing, but it'll really get you going," she said. "You'll walk different. It'll hurt you. It'll bug you. It's pretty much what a boycott does."
Bugel-Shunra and four others proposed at the July 6 board meeting of the Port Townsend Food Co-op that the Co-op boycott all Israeli products. Since then, more than 40 comments have trickled in to the board. And while 40 may seem insignificant, recent efforts to ban Israeli products in co-ops around the state have garnered powerful community responses.
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