The newest campaigns or information about the
Food Not Bombs movement.
These updates
made on JANUARY 28, 2011
EMERGENCY!
ATTENTION ALL THAT LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES - FOR SOME REASON OBAMA IS
RAPIDLY PREPARING FOR MARTIAL LAW
Nationwide NDAA 2012 Congressional Protest
Friday, February 3, 2012 at your local congressional office - Please start organizing now!
ALSO TAKE ACTION TO RESTORE THE U.S.CONSTITUTION MARCH 3, 2012
AT YOUR LOCAL CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE
The NDAA's
Historic Assault on American Liberty
The NDAA will take effect on March 3, 2012. This is the gravest threat
to the freedom of all Americans since the emergency laws during the U.S. Civil War. The
Constitutional right to trial and the end of a century old law banning
the use of the military on U.S. soil will come to an end on March 3,
2012. All Americans are encouraged to hold protests on March 3rd calling
for the return of our Bill of Rights and the restoration of the U.S.
Constitution. The president has awarded the military extraordinary
powers to detain US citizens without trial! This is just one of many new
laws, regulations and plans being rushed into being by the Obama
administration. Not only did he sign the NDAA giving the military the
right to arrest any one even Americans and hold them without trial he
opened U.S. air space to police drones in mid- January allowing New York
City, Houston and Los Angeles to watch the pubic in a host of new ways.
Obama is offering large grants to all local police departments to buy
their own fleet of drones.
His administration also started a program to increase intelligence
cooperation between the Department of Homeland Security and local,
county and state intelligence units. Obama hosted a meeting on January
18th at the White House inviting city police chiefs to coordinate
efforts against domestic radicalization. He also started a secret panel
that can can put Americans on "kill list." On January 26, 2012
Obama announced an FBI program to scrap information from social networks
to build profiles of domestic radicalization which appears to include
participants in the occupation movement. Obama also ordered a strategy
for protecting nation’s supply chain on that same Thursday. Obama also
signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement which sounds fine until
one realizes it can lead to the arrest of people saving seeds in
violation of Monsanto's property rights.
On a more directly Food Not Bombs related level we started to get
emails reporting that the police in several areas of the United States
stopped people from sharing food with the hungry. One woman in Daytona
Beach started a petition drive after she was threatened with six months
in jail for handing our sandwiches. A vegan rights activist was
threatened with arrest in Los Angeles for handing out packaged samples
of vegan food. Food Not Bombs activists in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
were told they would be arrested if they continued their weekly meal.
The city of Chicago passed laws designed to give police more powers
during the NATO/G-8 protests. Obama has not publicly asked his former
chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to respect the rights of those planning to
peacefully protest against the harsh economic and military policies of
those two organizations.
PLEASE REVIEW THESE ARTICLES FOR MORE ON THE RISH TO A POLICE STATE.
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Criminalizing Our
Voices
RAY MCGOVERN BELIEVES THIS RUSH TO MARTIAL LAW IS INSPIRED BY THE POWER OF THE OCCUPATIONS
Domestic terrorism - Police chiefs at White House to discuss domestic radicalization
Bipartisan panel calls for local emphasis in DHS intelligence
Aspen Homeland Security Group (AHSG) announced the release of its first paper, "Homeland Security and
Intelligence: Next Steps in Evolving the Mission"
Secret panel
can put Americans on "kill list"
Idea of civilians using drone aircraft may soon fly with FAA
FBI Wants New App to Wiretap the Internet
Obama Orders Strategy for Protecting Nation's Supply Chain
Twitter Enables Censorship, Boycotts Begin
Mass Demonstrations as EU Countries Sign on to Controversial ACTA Treaty
JOIN THE OCCUPATIONS
Garam Masala - When Bread Becomes Butter for Protests - The Economic
Times of India
The occupation
movement is more active then ever. The corporate media is giving the
impression the the evictions have crushed the movement yet there has
been a wave of actions including Occupy College, Occupy the Caucuses,
Occupy Congress and Occupy Your Homes. Hundreds of people volunteered
their time to keep everyone fed at the occupations. Thank you for your
support.
The post eviction actions effective but we would not
have achieved so much if we had not occupied public space for over two
months. It is easy to see how important the permanent occupations are
when you see how much effort has been made to evict them. Food Not Bombs
has provided food and logistical support to every type of protest over
the past 30 years and the most effective strategy has been the long term
occupation of public space. We suggest a campaign to reclaim that space
again. Maybe we could occupy city councils with the message that
democracy and the well-being of our people is more important than lawns
and pavement. Half of all Americans struggle just to live. The 1 % are
still buying elections, politicians and the policies we are being forced
to pay for. The occupation movement is the most important thing we can
do. Please join us if you are not already involved.
#OCCUPY CHICAGO - MAY 2012
OCCUPY AIPAC - March 2-6 in Washington
DC.
The
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is a major partner in
the campaign for war with Iran. AIPAC activist Jack Lew was just
appointed Obama's chief of staff. It is clear that the United States
could call of the bombing campaign inside Iran if it wanted to. The U.S.
can cut off the billions it donates to Israel if they are responsible.
Israeli military chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz was quoted as telling a
parliamentary panel that 2012 would be a "critical year" for
Iran in part because of "things that happen to it
unnaturally." Britian and the United States are placing additional
ships into the area and the U.S. and Israel are about to hold the
largest joint military action in years. Several hours after it was
announced that Obama would be his parties choice in the 2008 campaign he
spoke to AIPAC claiming total support in the campaign to attack Iran.
War with Iran could cause an economic crisis and lead to a
global Great Depression and as China's military claims spark World War
III.
Iran
crisis: Can conflict be averted?
occupytogether.org
interoccupy.org
occupyourhomes.org
Occupy
the Caucuses
Occupy the Food
System
Occupy Oakland
protesters arrested at foreclosed home
Throwing Down the
Gauntlet: Occupy Vancouvers Enlightened Cost/Benefit Analysis
The Winter of Our
Occupation by Michael Moore
The Future of the
Occupy Movement by Jules Lobel
Photos of the Occupations
Is the World
Spinning Out of Control?
Iran threatens
retaliation after drone shot down
OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION ATTACKS THE OCCUPATIONS - HE MAY HAVE DOOMED HIS
RE-ELECTION BID
Congress
may cut aid to poor as food prices soar
The OCCUPY MOVEMENT seeks to bring real democracy to society and end the
greed of Wall Street and the ONE PERCENT. The cutting Food Stamps at a
time when nearly half of all Americans are struggling to survive adds
urgency to our need to continue to occupy our public space. How can
government leaders claim they need to force an end to the occupations
for safety and health reasons while they propose to cut Food Stamps.
The Politico Report notes "Food costs are now forecast to increase
this year by a stunning 3.5 percent to 4.5 percent, while the food stamp
program that helps more than 44 million Americans is facing a
congressional chopping block.All of this has led policymakers to search
for new ways to curb the rising costs, lawmakers to consider changes to
the food stamp program and regulators to target speculation in the
commodities markets. The annual budget for the Supplemental Nutrition
Assurance Program has doubled since 2007 to $70 billion. And some
lawmakers see runaway spending when the government is trying to trim
more than $1 trillion from its expected debt load. Sen. Jeff Sessions
(R-Ala.) unsuccessfully proposed an amendment last month that would have
tightened eligibility requirements, arguing the explosive growth of the
program over the past decade has most likely led to fraud and misuse.
"
US Congress
Seeks to Cut Food Stamp Program
Washington Lobbyists Crafted
$850,000 Secret Plan For Bank Lobbyists To Undermine Occupy Wall
Street
Van Jones and
Democratic Party Operatives: You Do Not Represent the Occupy
Movement
WE WILL
NOT BE MOVED!
Police pepper spray college students.
Protesters push violent police out of the occupation.
According to Rick Ellis at
the Examiner, a Justice Department official says that the recent
evictions of Occupy movement across the country including Salt Lake
City, Denver, Portland, Oakland, and New York City were "coordinated
with help from Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police
agencies." Food Not Bombs groups may need to move the kitchens off
site but everyone in encouraged to return to the Occupation to keep up
the pressure towards change. WE WILL NOT BE MOVED! 'Occupy'
crackdowns coordinated with federal law enforcement
officials
NEW YORK POLICE ATTACK OCCUPY WALL STREET
PEOPLE PROMISE TO
RETURN
YOU HAVE
TO SEE THIS! Mic Check: Occupy Disrupts US Chamber of Commerce
Luncheon
The Police State Makes Its
Move: Retaining One's Humanity in the Face of Tyranny by Phil
Rockstroh
REMEMBER FOOD
NOT BOMBS ACTIVIST TIMUR KACHARAVA KILLED BY RACIST GANG
Vigil in memory of the punk musician and Food Not Bombs activist Timur
Kacharava, who was murdered by a group of neo-Nazis in central St.
Petersburg, Russia on Nov. 13 six years ago
Twenty-year-old Timur
Kacharava was stabbed to death at about 6.30 p.m. by a group of eight to
10 attackers outside the Bukvoyed bookstore near the busy crossroads of
Ligovsky Prospekt and Nevsky Prospekt.
His friend Max Zgibov
Zgibai, bass player with the punk band Potom Budem Pozdno, was also
stabbed. He was badly injured.
Kacharava, Zgibai and others
were apparently followed from Vladimirskaya Ploshchad, where they had
taken part in a Food Not Bombs campaign event distributing food to the
homeless. Suspected neo-Nazi lookouts were spotted on the square at
around 4 p.m.
Some of the campaigners went into the bookstore
while Kacharava and Zgibai stayed outside to finish a bottle of beer ,
which is when they were attacked. During the attack, which lasted about
a minute, Kacharava was stabbed six times as the killers aimed at his
throat over and over. He died of blood loss on the spot.
VIGIL FOR TIMUR KACHARAVA - The St. Petersburg Times
Here
is a special new addition, a video about the 1989 Occupation in San
Francisco called Across From City Hall.
View Across
from City Hall by Carla Leshne
Homeless are part of the 99 percent
We have had some calls and heard about a conflict on NPR about homeless
people eating at the Occupations.There seems to be an attempt by the
government to pit the occupations against the already homeless. One
reason we are participating in the occupations is to change our world so
no one becomes homeless. The homeless have been very welcomed by the
protesters at most occupations. In a couple of cases reported to our
office those seeking to keep food from the homeless seemed to be
attempting to be disruptive and may have been connected to efforts to
end the occupations.
A number of shootings near occupations in Oakland and a suicide in
Burlingtion are being used to try to shut down our movement. The same
day that there was gun violence near these two occupations there was a
shooting at the White House yet no one suggested that the White House be
closed. The shootings serve to highlight the need for the occupations.
America is becoming a desperate place and if the occupations fail and
the Tea Party ideas become policy we are likely to see much more
violence.
US poverty at new high: 16 percent, or
49.1M
Throw Them
Out With the Trash: Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street
Issue by Barbara Ehrenreich
CALL FOR
GENERAL STRIKE IN US - November 28, 2011
Solidarity with the
occupations! Extend your Thanksgiving weekend by refusing the austerity
measures to be imposed on the vast majority by the corporate, military
and financial oligarchy!
Share or die
Feeding the Hungry as a Political Act
Food Not Bombs Founder Visits USC Nov. 1
Interview on police
disruption and violence by La Mesha and Keith McHenry
Occupy Oakland and News Media Coexist
Uneasily
PROPOSED
99 PERCENT DECLARATION FORM A OCCUPY WALL STREET WORKING GROUP
Please consider sharing this proposal with eveyone at your local
occupation. Suggest that it be included in your general assembly so as
many of the 99 percent can have input. Thanks.
HUNGER AND POVERTY TO SPARK GLOBAL PROTEST - PLEASE VOLUNTEER WITH FOOD
NOT BOMBS
COMPACTING EDIBLE FOOD IS A CRIME
CAMPAIGN TO END THE COMPACTING OF
EDIBLE FOOD STARTS OCTOBER 1, 2011
U.S.
Poverty Rate, at 15 Percent, Is the Highest Since 1993 (N.Y
Times)
On tour this fall semester.
ELECT TO END HUNGER AND POVERTY TOUR (Fall 2011
Spring 2012 )
A presentation on the campaign to end the
criminalizaton of poverty and the global protest against austerity!
Protests called
for NATO and G8 Summits, Chicago May 15 - 22, 2012
An
alliance of Chicago area peace and justice organizations, together with
the United National Antiwar Committee (UNAC), are jointly calling for a
united mass mobilization to protest the NATO and G8 Summits to be held
in Chicago May 15 to 22. Permit applications were submitted for:
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - a national assembly to put the warmakers on trial.
Saturday, May 19, 2012 - a major international demonstration to express broad
outrage at the gathering of war makers wasting trillions of dollars on
war and devastation during a time of enormous economic hardship and
crisis for millions.
Several Chicago area groups have co-sponsored
this call. The initial list is below. To add your group to the list of
endorsers, email UNACpeace@gmail.com.
NATO is the US-commanded and
financed 28-nation military alliance. There will also be a summit of the
G-8 world powers. The meetings are expected to draw heads of state,
generals, and countless others.
Protests called for NATO and G8 Summits, Chicago May 15 - 22, 2012
FREE CHRISTOPHER
DOYON - Commander X
In this
struggle for an end to corporate greed cyber activist have played an
important part of our movement. One such cyber activist is Christopher
Doyon who is now facing 15 years in prison. Commander X came to the aid
of Food Not Bombs disrupting Orlando area websites with a message
calling on an end to the arrests of Food Not Bombs. The FBI and Orlando
Police claim Christopher Doyon is Commander X. he needs your support.
Please donate to his Defense Fund below!
Support
Commander X! facebook site
Free
Christopher Doyon (Commander X)
Orlando police say
47-year-old Christopher Doyon of Mountain View, Calif., is the hacker
known as Commander X who led successful attacks on websites in Orlando
in June and July. Christopher is accused of calling for an end to the
arrests and the crimes of Orlando officials against Food Not Bombs and
the poor. He should be honored not arrested. He is one of the brave
cyber protesters that helped inspire the protest on Wall Street! No one
was harmed in the cyber protest while billions were forced onto poverty
by the banks and their government supporters. FREE CHRISTOPHER DOYON!
To support Christopher Doyon please make your
donations to:
Leiderman Devine LLP
Christopher Doyon Defense Fund
Santa Barbara Bank and Trust
250 South Mills Road
Ventura, Ca 93003
Routing: 122220593
Acct: 0103767224
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OUT OUR FLYER SUPPORTING CHRISTOPHER DOYON FOR YOUR LITERATURE
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Homeless
activist says he is innocent of Santa Cruz County computer hacking
charges
Hackers
attack Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyers campaign website Group may target
Orlando police and Florida politicians
Anonymous hackers declare war on Orlando Websites to be
attacked over arrests of activists handing out food to homeless
people See the video
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THE OCCUPATIONS
We need your
support. Food Not Bombs is helping provide the food at occupations all
over the world. Please visit the kitchen at your local occupation and
ask to help. We also need donations of food, cooking equipment and
money!
SUGGESTED LIST OF
FOOD AND KITCHEN SUPPLIES FOR EACH OCCUPATION
DONATE FUNDS TO HELP FEED THE
OCCUPATIONS
TENS OF
THOUSANDS JOIN THE GLOBAL DAY IN SUPPORT OF THE OCCUPATIONS - SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 15, 2011
The World Is
Revolting Against the US Economic and Business Model: A Call to Action
OCCUPY
COLLEGES
PRINT OUT A FLYER FOR YOUR
OCCUPATION KITCHEN
Occupy Wall Street and Occupy DC actions have inspired what
looks to be the start of an uprising in the United States, something
that the entire world has been dreaming of for decades. Food Not Bombs
is trying to do our part to provide support and food. We are supporting
kitchens at over 200 occupations in North America. If you are trying to
organize a kitchen at your occupation we can help. This is a list of the
items we collected or bought for Occupy DC. Your volume food may be less
at first. This suggested list can provide meals for one week to over 500
occupyers.
SUGGESTED LIST
OF FOOD AND KITCHEN SUPPLIES FOR EACH OCCUPATION
NEWS OF FOOD NOT BOMBS HELPING WITH FOOD AT THE
OCCUPATIONS
Occupy Wall Street: List and map of over 200 U.S.
solidarity events and Facebook pages
OCTOBER 15TH OCCUPATIONS
WORLD WIDE!
Budapest Food Not
Bombs at Occupy Budapest
Food Not Bombs digs into dumpsters to feed Occupy
Toronto
Slideshow: Life at Occupy Portland
Louisville grants
corporate protesters permit to occupy downtown park until New Year's Eve
Amid Oct. protests:
What is it like to live in Freedom Plaza?
A snapshot of Occupy Oakland
Food Not Bombs
Founder Keith McHenry Tours "Occupy Wall Street" Protests (VIDEO)
SFPD raids OccupySF camp, seizes gear,
but protesters remain
Homes Not
Jails To Demonstrate At Civic Center, Take Over Ten Vacant Properties
Across SF
Occupy Portland
OCCUPY OUR FUTURE
People all over
the world are starting to occupy the former centers of power like Wall
Street and Washington D.C. Food Not Bomb has been flooded with calls of
support and requests for information on how to join this movement. If
you are at all able to go to your local Occuation please do. Each
occupation needs food to keep it going. Connect with your local Food Not
Bombs group to help provide meals. As many of those calling have
reported this could be our last chance to turn things around.
MAKING DECISIONS BY CONSENSUS AT THE
ASSEMBLIES
As you may know one core principle of Food Not
Bombs is that we have no leaders and make decisions by consensus, a
process we have practiced for over 30 years. It is wonderful that the
Occupations have adopted this process and even more interesting is the
fact that our process as gain interest of the media.
Occupy Wall Street:
Where Everybody Has A Say In Everything
Food Not Bombs Consensus
Flow Chart
Past
Occupations
Visit our old website calling for an occupation.
OCCUPY WALL STREET
Naomi Klein: The
Stakes Are Too High for Us Not to Make the Absolute Most of This
Moment
occupycincy.org
Occupy Phoenix Busted Up By
Police
The Occupy anti-capitalism protests
spread around the world
Food Not Bombs
Founder Keith McHenry Tours Occupy Wall Street Protests
(VIDEO)
Banker Brutality:
Beyond Tony Bologna
Occupy Washington DC
Occupy San Francisco
Occupy
Boston
Occupy Chicago
Occupy Denver
Occupy LA
Occupy Miami
Occupy
Philadelphia
Occupy
Portland
Occupy Seattle
Occupy Tucson
HUMAN NEEDS NOT CORPORATE GREED - END THE CRININALIZATION OF
POVERY
Food Not Bombs volunteers called for a monthly occupation
of their local city hall in May 2011. This monthly protest is the third
Friday of each month. It is clear that the occupations may be a daily
event as the movement grows.
resist.html
Let Them Eat
Baklava: Food Prices and the Arab Spring
OCCUPY
WALL STREET ACTION CONTINUES - We announced that it would start
September 17, 2011
Occupy Wall Street for DEMOCRACY NOT
CORPORATOCRACY!
Flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents,
kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months.
Once there, we shall incessantly repeat our one simple demand until
Barack Obama capitulates.
OCCUPY WALL
STREET
History is
Knocking: Join the October 2011 Coalition
STARTING OCTOBER 6,
2011 - OCCUPY WASHINGTON D.C.
Redirect military waste and fund
healthcare, education and social services in the United States. We wont
leave until we save America from corporate domination.
Stop the Machine! Create a New World!
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C.
(
Food Not Bombs needs help providing food at this action) To get involved
visit october2011.org
The OCTOBER 2011 COALITION
ISSUED A LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR FOOD NOT BOMBS
The October2011
Coalition supports solidarity with Food Not Bombs.
FOOD
NOT BOMBS WORLD GATHERING
Food Not Bombs
World Gathering in Tampa, Florida - August 2012- All Welcome!
FOOD NOT BOMBS WORLD GATHERING
COST OF
FOOD TO DOUBLE IN NEXT 20 YEARS - Oxfam May 31, 2011
 Ponti Indonesia activists support Orlando group |
 Italy
supports Orlando Food Not Bombs |
 Solidarity in Detroit
after the arrests |
Charges dropped
against Orlando Food Not Bombs arrestees
Citing
Homeless Law, Hackers Turn Sights on Orlando (New York Times)
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FBI Agents Raid
Dorms At UCF In Cyber Bust. Cyber activists supported an end to the
arrests of Orlando Food Not Bombs.
CBS TV's Armen Keteyian speaks
with "Commander X," a member of Anonymous that cyber-attacked
the city of Orlando FL over the city arresting Food Not Bombs volunteers
4 feeding the homeless (Now how do we debate this,
"Cyber_Protesting" issue ? Can we keep it civil ?)
Feeding Resistance: Food Not
Bombs Members Arrested in Orlando for Serving Meals Without a Permit on
democracynow.org
Photos of the arrests of volunteers
sharing meals with the hungry in Florida
Orlando Food Not Bombs
attorney Shayan Elahi makes important statement to the media on June 16,
2011
Anonymous Plans Attack on City of Orlando Website, IRC Chatter
SuggestsJune 16th PC World)
Terrorists Attack
Orlando with WMDVideo T.J. Macarthy
SOLIDARITY
ACTION IN DETROIT(video) Thanks Detroit Underground.
Pancakes, doughnuts and more arrests at
Lake Eola
11th
Circuit Court of Appeals Rules against Food Not Bombs right to free
speech on April 12, 2011. (Full Text of Ruling)
Fort Lauderdale, Sarasota, St. Petersburg and
Orlando Food Not Bombs face repression.
Fort Lauderdale Police arrest two
volunteers for playing capture the flag, raid their cook house and
officials propose large group feeding law.
HUMAN NEEDS NOT CORPORATE GREED
THE CAMPAIGN TO END THE CRIMINALIZATION OF
POVERTY
Tent City Vigil outside your city hall third Friday of each
month
We believe that as humans we are entitled to the basic right to housing,
food, and healthcare. The criminalization of poverty through police
harassment and city ordinances is counter productive towards the effort
to help the displaced and poor that are struggling each day to get back
on their feet.
To further promote equality within our society we
will continue to share food in our communities building solidarity with
the homeless and other organizations seeking a better future.
City
governments are making laws against the homeless and poor at a time when
the economy is failing. Many cities are restricting the ability of the
public to provide free food to the hungry in gross violation of our
international and constitutional rights. Please join us the first of
each month to defend your right to end the criminalization of poverty.
(This campaign adopted at the Florida Food Not Bombs Gathering
May 22, 2011)
MORE ON THE CAMPAIGN TO
END THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY
Walkerville Tent City
outside state house in Madison
FOOD NOT BOMBS TELLS ORLANDO SENTINEL WHY IT PLANS
TO CONTINUE DEFYING NEW LAW. (Video)
MEDIA ON THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY AND EFFORTS TO STOP
FOOD NOT BOMBS
FREE
SPEECH TV REPORTS ON THE ORLANDO FOOD NOT BOMBS CASE
Lake Eola Park homeless activists
defy Orlando's feeding rules, but still no arrests- MAY 25, 2011
Food
Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry takes calls on attempts to
criminalize public feedings on MAY 11, 2011
Fight Against Patriot Act Renewal and
FBI Police-State Tactics Heats Up; Florida Criminalizes Poverty and Cuts
Unemployment Benefits by PETER B. COLLINS on MAY 9, 2011
Lake Eola homeless feedings continue, for now
Food Not Bombs shares food in Orlando to
defy court order.
Battle
Brews Over FBI"s Warrantless GPS Tracking of Food Not Bombs
activist
Kathy Thomas (not her real name) doesn"t
know if the FBI obtained a warrant to place the tracker on her car. But
she said authorities never charged her with any crime. Threat Level
could find no federal case filed against her.
Battle Brews Over
FBI"s Warrantless GPS Tracking of Food Not Bombs activist
Food Not Bombs activist
Tatiana Semenishcheva arrested in
Belarus
Trial of Food Not Bombs
activist starts May 18, 2011 in Minsk, Belarus.
On May
18 the trial began on the criminal case against Belarusian anarchists -
Ihar Alinevich, Mikalai Dziadok, Aliaksandar Frantskevich, Maksim Vetkin
and Eugene Silivonchik. They are all young people accused of committing
a series of political actions, in particular, the attack on the Russian
Embassy in Minsk in August 2010. They were charged under articles
"hooliganism" (Part 2 art.339 Criminal Code), 'intentional
destruction or damage to property" (Part 2 and 3 st.218 Criminal
Code) and "computer sabotage" (Part 2 of Art. 351 Criminal
Code). Defendants face up to 12 years imprisonment.
Tatiana
Semenishcheva who volunteers with Minsk Food Not Bombs was arrested in a
round up of local activists and accused of participating in the fire
bombing of the Russian embassy In early September, authorities in the
Belarusian capital Minsk undertook a series of searches and detentions
in the apartments of several anarchists and public activists. Igor
Bogachek, Valeria Khotina, Sergei Slyusar, Nikolai Dedok, Alexei
Zhingerovsky, Alexander Frantskevich, and later, Anton Laptenok ended up
in one of Minsks detention facilities.
All of the seven
detained have been involved in a range of educational, humanitarian, or
charitable undertakings, some are regular participants of peaceful
ecological actions. Following these arrests, two prominent members of
the activist community in Minsk were also detained Vladimir Volodin, a
member of the council of the Belarusian Green Party, and Tatiana
Semenishcheva, who is active in charities working for the homeless and
stray animals.
Defend Tatiana Semenishcheva who
volunteers with Minsk Food Not Bombs was arrested.
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EFFORTS TO STOP MINSK FOOD NOT BOMBS
The Minsk police
declared the distribution of food in the poor 'unsanctioned
action'
On Saturday March 12, in the Mikhajlovsk square
in Minsk the traditional free distribution of food stray, organized by
participants in the initiative 'food instead of the bombs', was
stripped by the colleagues of the police. The colleagues of
law-enforcement agencies calculated the initiative of Minsk activists
'unsanctioned action'. Militiamen warned participants in the
initiative about the responsibility for participation in this
'unsanctioned action', required in those being present documents
for the checking, and also were removed activists on video. No one of
that being present was not delayed or stopped our work.' (Food of
not of bombs) acts throughout the world. Its organizers to the personal
means acquire vegetarian food and give out its to those being requiring.
Meanwhile the Minsk police no longer the first time does not tear away
similar measures of activists of initiative.
POLICE RAID SWAMP HOUSE
and Attack Fort Lauderdale Food Not
Bombs
In the recent five months, tensions between the
Fort Lauderdale Police Department and Food Not Bombs activists have
escalated. Within this time, The FLPD has not only prevented multiple
groups from sharing in Stranahan Park, but has installed a police
surveillance tower in the park amidst repeated verbal assault against
Food Not Bombs activists. On Thursday, February 17th, an FPL electricity
inspection led to the power being turned off at the home of activists
frequently the target of police harassment. The electricity bill had
been paid prior to this. Several hours later, all tenants had left the
house while a few guests remained. During this time, an unwarranted
police raid took place under the premise of
"uninhabitable"living conditions. The house was deemed
"uninhabitable"due to the lack of electricity, which had been
turned off that morning. House guests were pulled from the house and
searched by over a dozen officers, who kicked in unlocked doors and,
with a K-9 unit, searched the house with no specific intent. One female
guest was frisked and inappropriately touched by a male officer. More
troubling still, officers were questioning the political orientation of
the house guests. They asked if the house was a "militant training
camp," and whether or not the guests were 'terrorists'or
affiliated with "black bloc" Before the FLPD left the house,
they threatened to repeat raids weekly.
FEEDING BAN STOPPED IN FT.LAUDERDALE FOR NOW
The Ft. Lauderdale city commission approved the salvation army mobile
kitchen as a fixed feeding unit giving the city the legal green light to
ban feeding in public spaces in the city. This is an ordinance that Food
Not Bombs activist have been fighting since the beginning almost 20
months ago. The arrests in Orlando may have slowed efforts by Ft.
Lauderdale for now but as winter gets cold up north there may be more
pressure to drive the homeless out of sight.
Police Raid Food Not Bombs
House
POLICE RAID SWAMP HOUSE
PLEASE
DONATE TO FT.LAUDERDALE FOOD NOT BOMBS
Help our chapter respond
to the police harrasment. Any amount helps. Thanks for your support
Prohibitions On Sharing
Food With Homeless People
The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty and
the National Coalition for the Homeless jointly released a new report
entitled A Place at the Table: Prohibitions on Sharing Food with People
Experiencing Homelessness.
A Place at the Table: Prohibitions
on Sharing Food with People Experiencing Homelessness. (pdf
of study)
ORLANDO FOOD NOT BOMBS TO DEFY FEDERAL APPEALS
COURT
Feeding
Homeless Ban Back In Court
Orlando Lawyers
Fight Group That Provides Homeless Meals
Fight over feeding homeless
goes to court again
MORE NEWS ABOUT THE ISSUES
House Panel
Authorizes Nearly $700 Billion in Defense Spending - May 12, 2011
The Price of
Food is at the Heart of This Wave of Revolutions
$1.2
Trillion: The National Security Figure No One Wants You To See
The Organic
Elite Surrenders to Monsanto
All Food Not Bombs volunteers
are invited to participate in The Millions
Against Monsanto Campaign
Global Food
Prices Hit New Record High
Global food prices have hit a new
record high, amid fears that the escalating cost of bread and meat is
adding to the turmoil in the Middle East. February 4, 2011
How Can We
Feed the World and Still Save the Planet?
RISING FOOD
PRICES AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE
Food
Not Bombs on THE NATION Magazine activism site!
World
Hunger Best Cured by Small-Scale Agriculture: Report
There Won't Be
a Bailout for the Earth
Going
Hungry in the Richest Nation on Earth
Climate
Change and Disease Will Spark New Food Crisis, Says UN
Land of the
Food Insecure: Record Rates of Hunger in US More US households short of
food
Biotechnology
Industry Spends Over Half a Billion Pushing Controversial Projects like
Genetically Engineered (GE) Food Animals
Food Not Bombs: An Interview Pacific Free Press - By
Mickey Z
America&#
39;s War on Food Not Bombs
by Stephen Lendman
Global Food
Crisis Forecast as Prices Reach Record Highs
Malnourished
Children Swell Ranks of World's Hungry
The
Food Crisis is Not About a Shortage of Food
The coming famine: risks and solutions for
global food security
Next Up? A Food Price
Crisis
The End of Oil, and Government
Food Prices to Rise
by Up to 40 percent Over Next Decade, UN Report Warns
Food-stamp tally in
the United States nears 40 million, sets record
Save Organic Seeds - Ban Genetically Engineered
Food
Seed Sovereignty not Seed Slavery -
Genetically Engineered Food is already a leading cause of hunger driving
millions of farmers into bankrupsy.
Vandana Shiva
says to Value Soil, Not Oil Factory farms extending reach of global
hunger crisis, she says.
What We Don't Know
About GE Crops!
Patents Trump
Public Interest in Monsanto's Ag Empire.
Haitian Farmers to Burn Donated Monsanto Seeds
The
Crisis of Genetically Engineered Food
- Please share this
important interview with your friends. Dr. Pang is State Department of
Health, Maui District health officer and one of the worlds leading
experts on Genetically Engineered Food. This audio presentation should
be heard by everyone. He spoke here as a private citizen.
Food Not Lawns
It is time to start getting ready to start your Food Not
Lawns organic community garden. We can free our neigborhoods from
corporate control by reclaiming empty lots and lawns by inviting your
community to join you in starting a Food Not Lawns garden.
Food Not Lawns
Homes Not Jails takes action to resist
housing crisis
Join us in helping American families return home. Start a
Homes Not Jails chapter and help families save their homes or help
people who are homeless find a place to live. Visit Homes Not Jails to learn how you can start
a local chapter.
Facing Foreclosure?
Don't Leave. Squat Marcy Kaptur of Ohio is the longest-serving
Democratic congresswoman in U.S. history criticizes the bailout's
failure to protect homeowners facing foreclosure. Her advice to "squat"
cleverly exploits a legal technicality within the subprime-mortgage
crisis.
ACORN Urges Civil
Disobedience in Foreclosure Evictions
Books on Nonviolent Direct Action -
Albert Einstein Institution
Consider
reading this inspiring book
Waging Nonviolent
Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential by
Gene Sharp. With the global economic, environmental and social emergancy
threatening our future we hope everyone will get involved and join Food
Not Bombs in organizing a campaign of nonviolent direct actions against
corporate power.
Food Not Bombs volunteer
Tristan Anderson Still Needs Your Help
Food Not Bombs
volunteer Tristan Anderson sustained life-threatening injuries March 13,
2009 as he was taking photographs after a regular Friday demonstration
over Israel's West Bank separation barrier. He needs our help.
Justice for Tristan Anderson
FOOD NOT BOMBS PREPARES FOR THE GLOBAL
ECONOMIC CRISIS
Please join Food Not Bombs to provide food and
logistical support for the families displaced by the crisis. Mobilize
Your Community.
You can help
Food Not Bombs address the problems caused by the collapes of the world
economy. Plans to prepare for this crisis were agreed to at the March
2008 Food Not Bombs Gathering in Nashville. One of the most popular
proposals was the creation of Food Not Lawns Gardens. Over 60 Food Not
Lawns projects started in response to the ideas created at the
gathering. It will be time to start germinating our seeds soon if you
live in the northern hemisphere. Our southern chapters are starting the
harvest. The people attending the gathering are encouraging that each
group try to organize meals every day adding a day as people volunteer.
As the economy crashes we will be called on to provide food, help with
drinking water, electricity, heat and many other basic needs. This is a
time for the Food Not Bombs to show that it is possible to bring our
communities together and address the needs of everyone without violence
or the coersion of the corporations and the state. This crisis gives us
a chance to end consumerism and corporate domination. It is time to
start creating a world of peace, social justice and respect for our
environment.Food Not Bombs groups are taking action against the
failure of capitalism in communities all over the world. The weekly
protests in Iceland take place near Food Not Bombs regular meal.
Websites report "Couple of meters away from the park were the
protests take place, a Food Not Bombs groups has been giving away food
every Saturday for the last two years. Food Not Bombs has for sure had
it's effect of the walking-by Icelanders, who are getting more
curious and interested in alternative solutions to the problems of
capitalism."
MORE ON THE
DIRECT ACTION IN ICELAND
FOOD GOING INTO THE TRASH WHILE BILLIONS GO
HUNGRY
Just
$6bn Will Save a Generation from Starvation, says UN
Americans
Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food - Published on Friday, November 27,
2009 by Live Science
Americans are tossing $100 billion of food a year
Timothy Jones of the University of Arizona reports on how much food
is thrown away. We can recover this food and feed thousands. A community
of well feed people provides an oppertunity to work for a better
world.
Looking For All Food Not Bombs
Songs
We are collecting all the songs about Food Not Bombs for a CD. If
you know of a song that is about food Not Bombs please send us a digital
copy, EP, tape, the liner notes and any images that might be linked to
the song. Our address is Food Not Bombs Menu, P.O. Box 424, Arroyo Seco,
NM 87514 USA. You can email a sound file to menu@foodnotbombs.net.
GREAT BIKE CARTS - Bikes At
Work
Your Food Not Bombs chapter can organize benefit concerts
and other fund raising projects to get a bike cart for your chapter.
MORE CAMPAIGNS Call 1-800-884-1136 of email us at
menu@foodnotbombs.net
 THE FOOD NOT BOMBS STARTUP KIT
Everything you need to
start a local Food Not Bombs group in your community. A full color
banner, on copy of the 126 page Food Not Bombs handbook, a DVD, flyers
you can reprint and buttons. Everything you need to start a
group.
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THE FOOD NOT BOMBS
HANDBOOK
This 126 page book shows you how to cook for 100 people,
has detailed information about starting a Food Not Bombs group.
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FLYERS AND IMAGES TO MAKE
FLYERS
Flyers, graphics, logos, and photos you can use to help
you start your Food Not Bombs group. Please use any of these images on
posters, flyers or on your new website. |
POST THIS FLYER ALL OVER
TOWN
You can start a Food Not Bombs group in you community buy
making copies of this flyer, add your phone number and post it all over
town in cafes, bookstores, schools, and store
windows. |
FOOD NOT BOMBS
MATERIALS
It can be helpful to raise money and awareness to have
Food Not Bombs buttons, stickers and other materials on your table at
events and concerts. Our office provides these materials at half price
to Food Not Bombs chapters. You will attract more volunteers and support
in your community when people see the Food Not Bombs image all over
town. |
CONTACT A FOOD NOT BOMBS
GROUP NEAR YOUBefore you start a group see if one is already active
in your community. If you do find a group in your town try work with
them. Sometimes the contact information is old and the group has stopped
so if you find this has happened then let us know and start a new
chapter. You can also invite a Food Not Bombs group near your community
to help you get started. When you get your group going please email us
the correct contact information and the times, days and locatons of
where you share food. |
FOOD NOT BOMBS PRESENTATION
One great way to help
start a Food Not Bombs group is to invite the co-founder Keith McHenry
to speak to your community. Student activity centers at colleges and
universities will provide funding for a presentation by Keith, helping
with airfare and an honorarium. You can learn more about Keith and
listen to his presentations
here |
YOUR LITERATURE AND FOOD
TABLEYour Food Not Bombs group can have real impact when you include
literature and a banner at every meal. If you set up your table at a
location that is busy with a diversity of people at a time when lots of
pedestrians walk by you will be able to attract more volunteers and
discover new food sourses. You can also meet people who would have never
known about the issues we are working on. Many Food Not Bombs tables are
considered the place to visit for infromation, community as well as
great food. This page shows you how you can have a more effective Food
Not Bombs table. |
Food
Not Bombs
P.O. Box 424, Arroyo Seco, NM 87514 USA
575-770-3377
1-800-884-1136
menu@foodnotbombs.net
www.foodnotbombs.net
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