More about the presentations with Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry


"Since when did feeding the homeless become a terrorist activity?"asked ACLU Associate Legal Director Ann Beeson. "When the FBI and local law enforcement target groups like Food Not Bombs under the guise of fighting terrorism, many Americans who oppose government policies will be discouraged from speaking out and exercising their rights."

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|  Amnesty International Declares All Food Not Bombs Volunteers Prisoners of Conscience.  |  The Animals Not Bombs Presentation  |  Workshop on Nonviolent resistance  |  The Failure of Domestic Spying to stop Food Not Bombs |  Food Not Bombs Works to End World Hunger and Poverty  |  The Consensus Workshop  | thechangewekneadnow.net  |

THE BAKE SALE POSTER THE INSPIRED FOOD NOT BOMBS


Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry will demonstrate how to prepare solar baked goods while giving a presentation about the history, principles and and Food Not Bombs global campaign for the change we knead now! Volunteers recover, prepare and share vegan meals and groceries in nearly 1,000 communities, feeding the hungry, supporting nonviolent direct actions in resistance to the global economic, political and environmental crisis while implementing a foundation for a sustainable future. Tax payers have spent trillions to bail out the banks and fund wars for corporate domination now ith's time to bail out our communities.

Food Not Bombs started in 1980 when eight college aged activists dressed as generals and started holding bake sales pretending to buy a bomber. Thirty years later Food Not Bombs organized a two month long vigil outside the White House baking bread in a solar oven to build popular support for a conversion from a carbon based war economy to a sustainable solar future.

The Change We Knead Now! Bake Goods Not Bank Bailouts presentation 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 The Change We Knead Now! Bake Goods Not Bank Bailouts Tour includes a number of workshops and presentations.

The The Change We Knead Now! presentation includes a solar baking demonstration 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: