Greetings from Nashville! We
are sending out an e-mail to invite all the National Food Not Bombs
chapters to come to Omaha Nebraska August 7th to 9th for a
get-together. Hang out with your fellow FNB comrades, discuss your
experiences, trade ideas, and have a good time. Food will be provided,
of course, and there's enough sleeping room for everyone. A tent and
sleeping bag wouldn't be a bad idea though. As FNB is a collective
of autonomous and independent groups, what happens at the gathering will
be decided by consensus. If you have any issues you would like to be a
part of the gathering, send an e-mail to this address.
omahafnbs@gmail.com
The 29th anniversary of Food Not Bombs May
23 - 25, 2009 in Taos, New Mexico. www.foodnotbombs.net
All Food Not Bombs volunteers are invited to join. Agenda items
welcomed and encouraged. Help cook for the World Peace Week and discuss
plans for the 30th anniversary celebrations of Food Not Bombs.
Encourage participation in this summer's protests and campaigns. Share
skills on cooking, train hopping, tree sitting, community gardening,
squatting and any other ideas. Help organize a Really Really Free
Market. Organize plans to address the global economic crisis. Meet other
Food Not Bombs volunteers.
The Taos chapter of Food Not Bombs is working with The Taos Peace House
to organize World Peace Week. Stay for World Peace Week and participate
this unique conference organized using the principles of consensus.
Call 575-776-3880 or email nyna@foodnotbombs.net to get involved. The
Food Not Bombs gathering is free. Scholarships for World Peace Week for
Food Not Bombs cooks. The National Rainbow Gathering follows World
Peace Week outside of Taos so don't miss our "Summer of Love."
http://taossummeroflove.com
PAST FOOD NOT BOMBS GATHERINGS
FNB groups from Ukraine and Russia call for an International Food Not Bombs Gathering.
It will take place in Ukraine, not far from city Uzhgorod, from the 11th till the 20th of August 2007. This event will happen together with the International No Border Camp against the system of deportation and the policy of 'Fortress Europe' and 'Global Apartheid'.
We hope to bring together FNB divisions from all over the world. Today Eastern Europe experiences an explosion of Food Not Bombs activities. In Russia alone there are about 50 groups that regularly carry out actions. There dozens of groups in Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, etc.
There will be different kinds of workshops, seminars, discussions and trainings: from exchanges of recipes to discussions on political aspects of Food Nor Bombs. How can protest be more visibly expressed at actions (banners, leaflets, music etc.) How to deal with the growing situation of repression (examples of the USA, Belarus, Russia, Philippines etc.) How to combine FNB with other forms of protest? Also activists from different countries will exchange their experience of dealing with cops and other trouble-makers, communication with passers-by etc, creating a community with people whom they feed and so on.
As for the practical side of the Gathering, besides meeting each other and share our experience as FNB groups all over the world (we already know that some FNB activists for instance from the USA and Australia plan to come) we will take care of the food providing for the No Border camp. Also we will probably do some actions in the surrounding area. We will discuss and plan all the details when we meet. Please take into account that Ukraine has cancelled the visa regime for the citizens of the European Union, the USA and some other countries, so if you have a passport of some Western country you probably do not need any visa to join us. Feel free to spread this call-out through your contacts.
We would like to see this gathering based on 'real' democratic principles and call for you all to help us with this. If you think you can organize a workshop or a seminar on a subject you find important feel free to do so and let us now if you need any help. Because the general approach is of course DIY (Do It Yourself) we would appreciate it to bring as many necessary materials for your workshop yourself.
For the realization of this meeting (and the camp in general) we of course call for the support and inspiration from all of you!
For more information or questions contact: fnb-gathering@riseup.net
