The newest campaigns or information about the
Food Not Bombs movement.
Global Days of Action Against BP and
the Corporate Assault on the Earth.
FOOD NOT BOMBS 30TH
ANNIVERSARY GATHERINGS
Think Outside the Bomb
Helsinki Food
Not Bombs Voluntary Service Project - JULY 2O -31, 2010
Mountain
States Peace Conference 2010
National Peace Conference - Albany, New
York, July 23-25, 2010
START A HOMES NOT JAILS CHAPTER - Resist the
foreclosure crisis
2010 G8 Summit Protest - Huntsville, Ontario,
Canada - June 25 -26, 2010
US Social Forum organizing
The 2010
Wild Roots Feral FuturesFood Not Lawns - Seed Sovereignty not Seed
Slavery
These updates made on May 28,
2010
Food-stamp tally in
the United States nears 40 million, sets record
THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF FOOD NOT
BOMBS
Food Not Bombs celebrated our first 30 years in cities all over the
world!
Food Not Bombs
volunteers did a great job organizing free celebrations in communoties
all over the world. Food Not Bombs volunteers met in Monterrey Mexico
and came to consensus on three proposals. Work to obtain more accurate
contact information, call for a global day of action on World Food Day
October 16, 2010 and to organize a world gathering in Monterrey, Mexico
to focus on inter-chapter communocations and actions.
Food Not Bombs
started was started by eight antinuclear activist after the May 24, 1980
Occupation Attempt of Seabrook Nuclear Power Station. Thirty years later
Food Not Bombs is sharing free vegetarian meals and working for peace
and social justice in over 1,000 cities around the world.
CELEBRATE THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY
OF FOOD NOT BOMBS
Celebrating the 30
years of Food Not Bombs from the 14th to 16th of May 2010 in the city of
Monterrey, Mexico.
SOUPSTOCK 2010 - BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Sunday May 23rd from noon to 5:00 PM - Boston Commons
ALL 30th ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATIONS
Time Line of Major Events in the History
of Food Not Bombs
Helsinki Food Not Bombs Voluntary Service
Project - JULY 2O -31, 2010
Food Not Bombs (FNB) is an international grassroots anti-military
movement whose aim is to promote disarmament and social justice. One of
the main activities of Helsinki's FNB group is to cook and serve meals
on the streets and market places in Helsinki. Food is donated by local
shopkeepers. The volunteers will also eat donated food during the camp.
The food will be vegan and/or vegetarian. Travelling will mostly be by
bicycle and travel distances are 5-30 kilometres per day. This workcamp
is part of a united, worldwide "No more war!" Action to commemorate
SCI's 90th Birthday. This action/campaign wants to promote voluntary
peace service as an alternative to military service. W: Volunteers will
take part in six food serving happenings. Work will be cooking and
serving the meals and cleaning up after. Possibly vols can also help
promoting and get food donations and other common things . A: Very basic
floor accomodation. Sleeping bag needed. Not suitable for wheelchairs or
families with young children. S: FNB campaign. X: Extra motivation
letter needed.
REGISTER FOR THE HELSINKI FOOD NOT BOMBS
VOLUNTARY SERVICE PROJECT
Workcamps
in Finland 2010
2010 G8 Summit Protest - Huntsville, Ontario, Canada - June 25 -26,
2010
FNB PTBO and friends will be bottom lining
free meals for demonstrations on Friday June 25th and Saturday June
26th.... these will be among the largest meals to be served on the
weekend and I'd like to make an open invite to FNBers and like to help
create culinary wonders.... I believe FNB GUELPH has signed up for
another shift throughout the week.
If you are planning on coming and
would like to help cooking.... there will be a collective kitchen
running all week and a need to consistently bring in volunteers to make
it happen... We are also hoping that FNBers and such coming to
participate in days of action can do some work in their home communities
to acquire some food... if you can reach out to grocers, gardeners,
farmers and the like.... and bring some supplies in your vehicle....
that would be awesome....
As it is the 30th anniversary of the
Global Food Not Bombs Movement, I hope that many of us will have an
opportunity to meet one another as the Summit unfolds.....
info@
foodnotbombspeterborough.org
foodnotbombspeterborough.org
2010 G8
Summit Ontario, Canada official site - June 25 -26, 2010
RESIST TORONTO G20 SUMMIT 2010
On June 26-27 of 2010, Toronto will host the next summit of the G20, a
group of finance ministers and central bank governors from the world"s
largest economies who meet twice yearly to discuss and coordinate the
international financial system. Around 1,500 delegates, including heads
of state, will be here along with more than 2,000 members of the media,
and thousands of police and security agents tasked with squelching
dissent.
Toronto Police Get 'Sound Cannons' for G20
2010 G8
RESIST TORONTO G20 SUMMIT 2010
Global Days of
Action Against BP and the Corporate Assault on the Earth.
Blockade your local BP Station.
The
environmental crisis caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is only
one of the many assaults on our Earth caused in the interest of
corporate profits and power. Unite for a sustainable future by
organizing an action outside your local BP station. If you can organize
a bike caravan to the gulf shores to help save live along the coastal
waters. End the global exploitation by the banks and corporations. End
cooperation with the system and create our own alternative community.
Take action to stop corporate power.
UPDATES BY NOAA on the size of the oil
slick.
LOCATE YOUR LOCAL BP STATION
The 2010 Wild Roots Feral
Futures
The 2010 Wild Roots Feral Futures will take
place for a seven-day duration, a quarter moon cycle, from June
19th-26th (from the First Quarter Moon on the 19th through the Summer
Solstice on the the 21st to the Full Moon on the 26th) in the foothills
of the mighty and wild San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado.
Think Outside
the Bomb
Think Outside the Bomb initiated this effort in the
summer of 2009 when we held a youth conference attended by over 40 young
people in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In October of 2009 we began strategic
planning, research and alliance-building in New Mexico. We recently held
a training for 40 young activists in Chimayo, New Mexico and have
established a strong and dedicated base to help achieve our goals. We
have a calendar of tactically linked events, a network of devoted
activists, a planned methodology of research and communication, and a
considered, achievable strategy. Now, we need the monetary resources to
get this important work off the ground.
April 30 - May 7:
International Conference and March, Think Outside the Bomb will join an
international coalition of youth in New York City demanding that the UN
nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty fulfill the unrealized promise made in
1970 to end the threat of nuclear weapons.
May -July:
Think Outside the Bomb National Anti-Nuclear Tour: will dramatize this
important political moment with a visual display, literature/zines and
amazing music and performance art. Our organizers will travel around the
country, connecting with young people at various nuclear complex sites
and nearby cities, educating and mobilizing for Disarmament Summer
building a truly national youth nuclear abolition movement.
June - July: New Mexico Youth Organizer Trainings
including work with the Earth Activist Trainings, where we will learn
how to build sustainable permaculture encampments (June 2 -5, Chimayo,
NM), and play with Wise Fool Puppets, where we will learn how to create
beautiful and dramatic protest art!
July 30 - Aug. 9:
Disarmament Summer Encampment: we will build a week-long
permaculture training encampment on San Ildefonso Pueblo land at the
foot of Los Alamos, where will educate, train and create community with
young people from around the country and around the world.
August 6: Commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the bombing of
Hiroshima with a mass Procession and creative nonviolent civil
disobedience. August 1- 9: be part of Strategic Actions Teams, engaging
in creative actions to stop the expansion of Los Alamos and uranium
mining.
www.thinkoutsidethebomb.org
Mountain States
Peace Conference 2010
Albuquerque, New Mexico June 18th, 19th,
20th 2010
Every year there is a national or regional conference to
bring together peace building experts and volunteers to share tools,
strategies and inspiration. This year, the regional conference for the
mountain states/southwest region will be hosted by the New Mexico
Department of Peace Campaign volunteers in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA
US Social Forum
organizing - June 22-26, 2010 -
Detroit
Although we have not been officially sanctioned by the
USSF, we are organizing free foodshares for people coming to Detroit for
the social forum. We are working in partnership with the Detroit IWW's
Wobbly Kitchen and a group called United Peace Relief-Detroit. If Food
Not Bombs groups and individuals are planning to visit Detroit this
summer for the forum, they should contact us at fnbdetroit@fastmail.fm for more
information. Although we are short on resources, we may be able to help
(a little) with food and lodging and would love to work and hang out
with visiting FNBers. We can also offer Detroit safety tips and
information about non-USSF events that would be of interset to
anti-authoritarians and FNB'ers. Much love, Detroit FNB!
Detroit
Food Not Bombs shares meals every week from 3-5 pm on Mondays at Scripps
park (intersection of MLK, Grand River and Trumbull in Detroit). Email
Detroit Food Not Bombs at: fnbdetroit@fastmail.fm
FOOD
Inc.
Food, Inc. exposes America's industrialized food system and
its effect on our environment, health, economy and workers' rights.
National Peace Conference
- Albany, New York, July 23-25, 2010
Join the National Peace Conference
in The United States The purpose of this conference is to bring together
antiwar and social justice activists from across the country to discuss
and decide what we can do together to end the wars, occupations, bombing
attacks, threats and interventions that are taking place in the Middle
East and beyond, which the U.S. government is conducting and promoting.
Attend and voice your opinion on where the antiwar movement is today and
where we go from here.
National Peace
Conference
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
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br> Washington D.C. webiste
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
Free Food Not Bombs cook Eric
McDavid
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
FOOD NOT BOMBS LITERATURE AND FOOD
TABLE
Your 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 LITERATURE TABLE
Food Not Bombs joins Global Action to Stop the War In
Afghanistan
The increase in U.S. troops being
sent to fight in Afghanistan will increase the death and suffeering of
Afghanistan people. Billions of dollars diverted from healthcare,
education and help for Americas growing number of hungry and homeless.
Obama's Vietnam and the end of the American Empire while over a billion
people go hungry. Please organize local actions against the
America"s war against Afghanistan. Contact the other peace and
social justice groups in your community and call for nonviolent direct
action to stop the war.
Obama may unveil
Afghan surge
Hunger Affects 1.02 Billion People
Worldwide
U.S. Land Mine
Policy is Shameful by Jody Williams
Nobel
Peace Prize granted Obama as he failes to sign Land Mine treaty. More about Nonviolent Direct Action to
defend the right to share free vegan meals in the United States -
Albert Einstein Institution
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
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
575-776-3880
1-800-884-1136
menu@foodnotbombs. net
www.foodnotbombs.net
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