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The Food Not Bombs menu office is responsible for helping start new Food Not Bombs groups, supporting existing groups and providing a way for the public to connect with the Food Not Bombs movement. The office has been operating since 1992 helping start many of the hundreds of Food Not Bombs groups active today. It distributes books and literature, maintains a website, organizes presentations, videos, tours, and answers the the toll free phone. We organized four tours of North America, two tours of Europe and the Middle East and two tours of Mexico visiting over 100 cities in all. The office is responsible for writing and publishing the book Food Not Bombs, How to Feed the Hungry and Build Community now in its third English edition, second Italian edition and the second Spanish edition will be published soon. Croation, Polish, Russian and Turkish editions are also being translated and an effort to publish the French edition is in the works. There have been hundreds of interviews for radio, TV and print media in many languages. Today the office is located in Tucson, Arizona in the United States. KATRINA AND AFRICAN RELIEF EFFORTS Food Not Bombs is busy collecting and delivering food and supplies to help the survivors of famine and natural disasters. The collective managing this office is coordinating national campaigns to provide food and supplies to the survivors of Katrina. We have been directing volunteers to the areas in most need. We also help the delivery trucks and buses in their pick-up and deliveries of bulk food, tools and clothing. Our office is assisting our African groups in starting more groups and providing food to the hungry in West Africa. In September 2006 Food Not Bombs will co-host a conference in Lagos, Nigeria to promote the ideas of building a grassroots democracy using Formal Consensus and the development of Food Not Bombs groups and Indymedia collectives across West Africa. FOOD NOT BOMBS BEHIND BARS We get many letters from prisoners. Our collective replys to their questions and send them information inviting them to start a Food Not Bombs group behind bars. We also tell them how their families can get food and support from us. We can not forget the over two million Americans living behind bars. Please consider giving a donation so we can put $10 on a prisoners books. They need our support. TOLL FREE NUMBER We answer the Food Not Bombs toll free 800 number assisting callers with how to locate local chapters and tips on how to collect and cook food, how to start a local chapter, what to do if the police try to stop your group from sharing food and other information about Food Not Bombs. We receive form 5 to 20 calls a day from callers all over North America. Questions range from people looking for their local group o reporters wanting to interview a Food Not Bombs volunteer. WEBSITE We maintain the www.foodnotbombs.net website, updating the contact list and providing links to resources and actions. Our website publishes articles about local Food Not Bombs groups and monthly reports on what each group is doing. We have links to Food Not Bombs flyers to reprint, The Food Not Bombs books in a number of languages, information on how to start a group, vegetarian recipes, the Good Samaritan Law, information on hunger, the environment, human rights, animal rights, the military and wars, how to get out of the military, how to make decisions by consensus, alternative news and a wide variety of information helpful to Food Not Bombs. We also respond to the email requests for information, interviews and local Food Not Bombs contacts. A FOOD NOT BOMBS MENU - NEWS FROM GROUPS TO SHARE WITH MOVEMENT The collective also produces an electronic Menu. Every Food Not Bombs group can send in flyers, magazine articals, court documents, police reports, music covers and any other things you think other Food Not Bombs volunteers might be interested in seeing. Local groups can print a copy for their group and show it to everyone. MEDIA RELATIONS We are interviewed by the media about the Food Not Bombs movement and we connect the media with local groups. We maintain a date base of media contacts and send press relieces to this data base. We write articles about Food Not Bombs for many periodicals. PRESENTATIONS AND TOURS We help organize and participate on tours and movement wide actions. We give talks and show videos about Food Not Bombs at schools and community centers. We assist with the creation of radio and video documentaries. A Food Not Bombs activists would be happy to speak to your school or organization. FILLING BOOK AND BUTTON ORDERS We fill book, button, patch and sticker orders and respond to requests for information about Food Not Bombs. Our office supplies books, buttons, patches and stickers for local Food Not Bombs groups to resell for donation. WRITING, ILLUSTRATING AND EDITING FOOD NOT BOMBS BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS We write and illustrate flyers and books about Food Not Bombs and related issues. We provide photos and illustrations for Food Not Bombs publications produced by local groups. We coordinate the translation of Food Not Bombs publications and provide photos and illustrations. We get camera ready copies of the logo for groups to use on signs and for other publications. We plan to publish a 2006 calendar with trivia of important dates in radical history and photos and drawings of Food Not Bombs from all over the world. We also intend to publish another Spanish edition and we are providing images and art work for the Russian edition. You can get Food Not Bombs clip art on a disk for only $10. STAFF LITERATURE TABLES The office sets up and staffs literature tables at conferences, concerts, protests and on street corners as a way of promoting the movement. We attend conferences and protests all over the world in an effort to reach as many people as possible about Food Not Bombs. we set up our table at each stop of out tour and for example we have set up information tables at the Republican National Conventon in New York, the WTO protests at Cancun, the Europeon Social Forum in Paris . MAILING LIST AND EMAIL ADDRESS BOOK The office has over 5,000 mailing addresses and thousands of email addresses of Food Not Bombs supporters FOOD NOT BOMBS MENU BOARD Jo Swanson - co-founder of Food Not Bombs - Durango, Colorado C.T. Butler - co-founder of Food Not Bombs- Takoma Park, Maryland Keith McHenry -co-founder of Food Not Bombs - Taos, New Mexico Chaz Bufe - See Sharp Press -Tucson, Arizona Jill Rounds - Ojala Studio - Taos, New Mexico Bob Pedersen - Tierra Lucero - Taos, New Mexico OFFICE BUDGET This is the office budget based on the figures from 2006. The office budget changes. Web maintenance - $300 per month Office rent- $450 per month 800 toll free number - $75 per month Phone - $66 per month Web and email - $65 per month Insurance - $120 per month Prisoner support - $200 per month Printing - $500 per month Travel - $500 per month Postage - $300 per month Grants to local chapters $250 each Disaster Relief - $10,000 for Katrina Tours and Gatherings - $5,000 each African Releif - $5,000 a season INCOME Supplies and books - $500 per month Dollars for Peace - $300 per month Grants - $500 per month Presentations - $1,000 per month Catering - $300 per month Send your dollar to: Food Not Bombs P.O. Box 424 Arroyo Seco, NM 87514 USA Or you can click here to send us a dollar by PayPal. (If you'd like to donate more than $1, use this link then make your quantity the amount you want to donate.) |
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Please print out a copy of this A DOLLAR FOR PEACE flyer and pass it around to your friends and family. |
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Visit these sites and see some of the great things your donation will help make a reality!
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Feeding more people in more communities. |
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Starting new Food Not Bombs groups and providing support for the movement. |
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A documentary and book about Food Not Bombs's first quarter-century. |
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Food Not Bombs volunteers tour North America bringing hope for peace and justice. |
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We are still providing food and support the the people effected by Katrina. |
View a pdf of the Food Not Bombs Menu
News from the Food Not Bombs movement. See what other chapters are doing.
PO Box 424, Arroyo Seco, NM 87514 USA
1-800-884-1136
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