The newest campaigns or information about the
Food Not Bombs movement.
ONE NATION WORKING TOGETHER - October 2,
2010 Orlando Food Not Bombs to resist Federal Court Ruling
World Food Day Global Action - October 16, 2010
COP 16/CMP6 Global Climate Change Day
of Action - December 4th 2010
Food Not Bombs first meal shared on
March 26, 1981 - Bake Goods Not Bank Bailouts Global Day Of Action March
26, 2011
These updates made on August 28, 2010
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. The report focuses on cities that have
created ordinances, policies and tactics to limit groups from sharing
food with homeless people. Alternative solutions and programs to
penalizing food sharing activities are highlighted in the report.
A Place at the Table: Prohibitions on Sharing Food with People
Experiencing Homelessness. (pdf
of study)
Plunging home sales could sink recovery
Next Up? A Food Price
Crisis
U.S. Military
buys $980 million worth of BP fuel in the current fiscal year.
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
Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950
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.
Peace One Day
Sept 21,
2010!
Support the global ceasefire on September 21st.
Raise awareness of Peace Day and communicates with all sectors of
society globally to encourage the peaceful observance of the day,
particularly through education, music, film, sport and digital
properties. By Peace Day 2007, the United Nations announced that 100
million people were actively engaged in Peace Day activities. Our
primary objective is to institutionalise Peace Day, 21 September, around
the world, making it a day that is self-sustaining.
Accordingly, I warmly invite the active participation of Food Not Bombs
on Peace Day Tuesday 21 September 2010.
www.peaceoneday.org
Raw Spirit Festival
International
Watson Lake Park in Prescott, Arizona at Granite
Dells
Sept 24 - 26, 2010!
Come Join Us at the 6th
Annual Raw Spirit International This THREE DAY EVENT features two main
stages - Lake and Meadow - with mixed musical performers and dynamic
health-eco-peace research presenters amidst stunningly-beautiful natural
backdrops. Additionally, the Sacred Exercise Area, featuring an eclectic
array of yoga, chi kung, tai chi, pranayama, poetry, prayers, meditation
and beyond, is perched atop the lakeside cliff once again with
spectacular vistas of the surreal jagged lake, it's sheer-rock shores
and many islands. Raw Vegan Demos and Tastings are in the Hilltop Pagoda
with sweeping vistas of panoramic mountains.
www.rawspirit.com
ONE
NATION WORKING TOGETHER
October 2, 2010 - Washington
D.C.
We believe everyone deserves the opportunity to
achieve the American Dream - a secure job, a safe home, and a quality
education but banksters and corporate lobbyists have made off with
trillions of public dollars while small businesses can't get loans and
cities are laying off teachers, police, and firefighters.
In this time of economic crisis, it is easy for fear-mongerers to pit
groups against each other and to find convenient scapegoats for the
problems that plague us.
ONE NATION seeks to transcend our superficial differences and bring us
together in a common quest for equal opportunity and justice for all.
2010 Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World
Bank Group
October 9-11, 2010
Food Not Bombs is organizing a kitchen to
provide meals at what is expected to be a large protest against the
policies of the WTO and IMF at their annual meeting in Washington D.C.
We welcome all cooks and servers. Email D.C. Food Not Bombs at: foodnotbombsdcne@gmail.com
Washington D.C. Food Not Bombs website
10/10/10 WORLD HOMELESS DAY
On the 10th of the
10th 2010 millions of people around the world will mark World Homeless
Day in many varied ways and change the lives of homeless people in their
local community.
Food Not Bombs Global
Day of Action
World Food Day - October 16, 2010
Food Not Bombs takes action by sharing
free vegan meals outside local McDonalds Junk Food establishments to
mark World Food Day and protest corporate control of our food.
Food Not Bombs Global
Day of Action also called The International
Day of Action Against McDonald's ( flyers and materials for your local actoion )
World Food Organization website for World Food Day
WASHINGTON
D.C.FOOD NOT BOMBS GATHERING
November 11 - 14, 2010
Mississippi River and East chapters (Minneapolis, St. Louis,
Memphis, New Orleans, and East) and will be in DC during November 11-14,
2010
RSVP For the Mid-Atlantic gathering by August 15th and for the
East of the Mississippi gathering by October 15th.
Email your RSVP
to: dcfnbgathering@gmail.com
dcfnbgathering.wordpress.com
print out a dc gathering
flyer
COP16/CMP6 Climate Change Action
November 29 - December 10, 2010 Cancun,
Mexico
We demand that world leaders take the
urgent and resolute action that is needed to prevent the catastrophic
destabilisation of global climate, so that the entire world can move as
rapidly as possible to a stronger emissions reductions treaty which is
both equitable and effective in minimising dangerous climate change.
We demand that the long-industrialised countries that have
emitted most greenhouse gases currently in the atmosphere take
responsibility for climate change mitigation by immediately reducing
their own emissions as well as investing in a clean energy revolution in
the developing world. Developed countries must take their fair share of
the responsibility to pay for the adaptive measures that have to be
taken, especially by low-emitting countries with limited economic
resources.
Climate change will hit the poorest first and
hardest. All who have the economic means to act, must therefore urgently
and decisively do so.
If you are not able to travel to Cancun
participate or organize a local action on December 4, 2010. To help
build for these demonstrations please visit globalclimatecampaign.org
and click on your country in the column on the left to find a local
contact, or if there is not yet one listed there contact us at
info@globalclimatecampaign.org<
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Global Day of Action -
December 4th 2010
ORLANDO FOOD NOT BOMBS TO DEFY FEDRAL COURT
RULING
11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals July 6 opinion in against
Orlando Food Not Bombs is another example of the Federal Courts
disregard for the public good. The court ruling will not stop Food Not
Bombs from continuing to provide free meals in protest to war and
poverty.
Volunteers plan to resist
federal court ruling by sharing free food and literature in Enola Park,
Orlando
11th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling
FOOD NOT BOMBS DEFIES RULING
Protestors Take Food
Fight To City Hall
Orlando Food Not Bombs needs your support
COME DEFEND THE
HUMAN RIGHT TO FOOD!!!
" We accept that Orlando
Food Not Bombs had the requisite expressive intent, but we believe that
the feedings in this case present at most an ambiguous situation to an
objective reasonable observer... Just feeding people in the park is
conduct too ambiguous to allow us to conclude that a great likelihood
exists that an objective reasonable observer would understand that the
feeders are trying to convey a message."
Eleventh Circuit
Court of Appeals Judges Edmondson, Barkett, and Baldock
Two days after America celebrated Independence Day the 11th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in Atlanta found that the First Amendment of the United
States Constitution does not protect Food Not Bombs and The First
Vagabonds Church of God's right to free expression. The Eleventh
Circuit Court judgement against Food Not Bombs joins the Supreme Court's
Citizens United ruling and the Federal Fifth Circuit ruling against the
six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in showing a disregard for
the public good on behalf of corporate greed.
Food Not Bombs is
not "Just feeding people in the park" but is seeking to express
in the most effective means possible that America should redirect
it's resources from military spending towards food, housing,
education, healthcare and other basic needs. Providing free food to the
hungry in the most visible location possible under the banner Food Not
Bombs is the most effective means of expressing this message. The court
ruling will not stop Food Not Bombs from continuing to provide free
meals in protest to war and poverty.
Free All Food Not Bombs cooks
Eric McDavid is a political prisoner,
currently serving a 20 year sentence in federal prison. He was arrested
in January 2006 (as part of the government's ongoing Green Scare
campaign against environmental and animal rights activists) after being
targeted by an undercover informant who formulated a crime and entrapped
Eric in it. Eric was targeted by the state for his political beliefs,
and his case is important for everyone who dares to stand up. He is
currently appealing his conviction and his sentencing.
Please
send Eric a letter.
Eric McDavid 16209-097
FCI Victorville,
Medium II
Federal Correctional Institution
PO Box 5300
Adelanto, CA 92301
USA
Free Eric
McDavid Eric is one of nearly twenty Food Not Bombs volunteers
framed on terrorism related charges. Food Not Bombs is organizing a
campaign to free all our prisoners. While it is an honor to see that
military contractors and govenment authorities believe the work of Food
Not Bombs could be effective and inspire popular support for a change in
our national priorities we still think our nonviolent volunteers should
not be the target of the global war on terror.
MORE DETAILS OF THE HISTORY OF U.S.
GOVERNMENT DISRUPTION OF FOOD NOT BOMBS
Green is the new Red
Food Not Bombs first meal
shared on March 26, 1981 - Bake Goods Not Bank Bailouts Global Day Of
Action March 26, 2011 (Proposed action)
Food Not Bombs first meal shared on March 26, 1981 - Food
Not Bombs shares food at its first action protesting the interlocking
directors at the Bank of Boston and local nuclear industry by and
dressing as hobos and setting up a soup kitchen outside the stock
holders meeting at South Station with the message that their policies
could cause another Great Depression. At midnight on March 26th two Food
Not Bombs volunteers visited the Pne Street Inn in the South End and
inviting the men to join the First National Bank Project protest outside
the Federal Reserve Bank. The volunteers were surprised when over 50
people came to eat. Homeless men from the Pine Street Inn talked with
business people and stockholders about the policies of the Bank of
Boston while enjoying the vegetarian lunch provided by Food Not Bombs.
The action was such an inspiration that the volunteers agreed to quit
thier jobs so they could dedicate their time to collecting discarded
food and deliver it to people at housing projects, shelters and use what
was left over to prepare meals to share with their street theater
preformances.
BAKE GOODS NOT BANK BAILOUTS, Ask your local group if they would be
interested in participating in a Food Not Bombs global day of action
sharing free vegan meals outside banks on March 26, 2011 to protest the
economic crisis<
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.
Seed Sovereignty not Seed Slavery
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
Food Not Bombs groups in Connecticut make historic change in
state law.
Changes to a Connecticut food
distribution law were approved by the General Assembly as part of the
state budget on Friday. They will soon be signed into law by Governor
Jodi Rell (R), according to a spokeswoman for the governor. The
amendment to the law will allow food cooked in private kitchens to be
distributed via charitable organizations such as soup kitchens. Last
March, the Middletown chapter of Food Not Bombs, which cooks and shares
food with the community, was served a cease and desist order by the
Middletown Health Department for distributing food cooked in unlicensed
kitchens. The citation led to investigations of other local charitable
organizations, the most recent of which was the St. Vincent DePaul soup
kitchen.
Dropping a
Bomb
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 8 or 9 months. 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.
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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