If you look around your community you will find a good location where there are many pedestrians. Figure out the times and days when the most people would walk by. See if there are trees, utility poles or a wall where you can hang your Food Not Bombs banner. Plan to show up for several hours each week.

The Food Not Bombs literature table can have announcements of future protests, factual literature about global warming and the environment, the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine, the globalization of the economy and threats to human rights. You might have a petition for people to sign. Talk with people who walk pass your table inviting them to check out your information or asking them to sign your petition. One on one conversations make a more lasting impression than mass media.

You can add cookies or ice tea to the table and see for yourself how effective the Food Not Bombs literature table can be. You will see new faces at your protests. You will find new volunteers and with a regular table you will make lasting connections with people you might otherwise have never met.

You can also make this your regular meal time and location. Put your food on half the table and literature on th other half. You can even organize two days. One that is your regular meal and another one that is less work where you just provide snacks.

Its simple yet very effective.