The Food Not Bombs presentations will inspire your classmates and community
members to take action for a sustanable future. We face greater challenges
of hunger, climate change, political repression and abuse of the earth and
its animals. Over 800 million more people are going with out regualr meals
as a result of the global economic crisis. Data shows the climate is in
crisis. Millions face death and starvation as the environment is stressed
from the exploitation of the earth's resources. Over 20 percent of
public school students in America are homeless. Record forclosures are
sending families to seek meals at Food Not Bombs in communities all over
the globe. Fortunatly, Food Not Bombs is responding to the global
economic and ecological crisis by sharing vegetarian meals every week in
over 1,000 communities, planting community gardens, housing the homeless in
abandoned building, organizing really Really Free Markets and taking
nonviolent direct actions to stop logging, mining and other assults on our
planet. The 30th Anniversary Food Not Bombs Tour includes a number of workshops and presentations.
The principle presentation, 30 Years of Cooking For Peaceincludes details about the history, principles and the current actions taking place in over
1,000 communities around the world. Learn the story of how eight college
students started Food Not Bombs in Boston in 1980. Learn about the
principles of Food Not Bombs and why it is so important for the movement to
have no formal leaders and is able to be so effective because of its
decentralized autonomous structure. The presentation explores Food Not
Bombs dedication to the principles of nonviolence, how decisions are made
by consensus, that why the meals are always free to anyone who wants them
without restriction and why the food is vegetarian or vegan. Your
classmates and community members will be inspired to join your student
group after they attend this exciting presentation. Ask your student
senate to fund this valuable experience.
The presentation also includes
some of these stories about what Food Not Bombs is doing to end hunger and
work for social justice and the environment:
- Food Not Bombs groups
are increasing their response to the global food crisis by starting Food
Not Lawns community gardens, Homes Not Jails squats, organizing Really
really Free Markets and increasing the number of meals we share.
- Food
Not Bombs feeds the protesters in Thiland and striking auto workers in
South Korea.
- Find out more about the Food Not Bombs groups in
Reykjavik, Iceland, Santiago, Chile and Hobart, Tasmania and their work to
feed climate change activists.
- How did Food Not Bombs start animal
rescue shelters in 24 cities in Slovakia.
- Learn more about how Amnesty
International worked to free Food Not Bombs volunteers in the United
States, Philippines, and Mexico.
- Food Not Bombs volunteers plant olive
tress on the West Bank in Palestine.
- Irish groups from all over the
island feed the blockaders at Shannon Air Base.
- Sharing vegetarian meals at the Food Not NATO actions in Turkey.
-
Kiev Food Not Bombs fed the tent city protest outside the Parliament
Building during the Orange Revolution.
- Zagreb and Belgrade Food Not
Bombs share vegan meals at their Anti-McDonalds actions.
- Food Not Bombs
fed thousands of protesters at Cindy Sheehan's Camp Casey outside
Bush's Ranch in Crawford, Texas.
- Food Not Bombs helped organize
America's largest food relief effort, feeding the survivors of Katrina
when the American Red Cross and FEMA failed to respond.
- How did Food Not Bombs start Indymedia, Homes Not Jails, the October
22nd No Police Brutality Day and coined the term "freegan" on the
Rent is Theft Tour?
- How did Food Not Bombs and Indymedia ended
up getting listed on the FBI's Terrorist Watch List.
- Get
literature, books, buttons, stickers, patches, DVDs and other helpful
information about peace and social justice.
- Find out how you can start a Food Not Bombs group or learn how you can
get involved with your local chapter.
- Learn more about how you can
participate in the celebration of thirty years of Food Not Bombs
- Ask
Keith questions about Food Not Bombs.
- View our 15 minute dvd about the
work of Food Not Bombs in Africa.
