THE FOOD NOT BOMBS STORY

What is this website all about?
The website www.foodnotbombs.net was started in San Francisco in 1995 as a way for people to find information about the movement. Because of the informal all volunteer way Food Not Bombs is organized we learned that people were often frustrated trying to find or start a local chapter. This website is designed to help the community connect with the global Food Not Bombs movement. We are a small, all-volunteer collective that is dedicated to helping people start and maintain local Food Not Bombs groups. Our goal is to encourage people to join us in taking direct action for peace and social justice. We welcome links and text by all Food Not Bombs groups. We also provide a way for groups and individuals to get Food Not Bombs resources such as handbooks, badges, stickers and literature. We also support prisoners and their families, responding to letters from prisoners and encourage the creation of Food Not Bombs behind bars.
The collective also produces an electronic Menu. Every Food Not Bombs group can send in flyers, magazine articles, court documents, police reports, music covers and any other things you think other Food Not Bombs volunteers might be interested in seeing. Local groups can print a copy for their group and show it to everyone.
This site is no more or less official than any other Food Not Bombs website. This website has been made very low tech so that people in areas with bad telephone connections and people who must pay by the minute will be able to get to each page quickly.
Food Not Bombs is made up of hundreds of autonomous groups and has no headquarters or leadership. The members of this collective are not the leaders or officers of the Food Not Bombs movement. Co-founders Keith McHenry and C.T. Lawrence Butler volunteer with this collective but are in no way to be considered leaders. We hope this site will be useful. If you are not able to find what you are looking for please let us know how we can be of help.

The Food Not Bombs Menu Office

The co-founders of the Food Not Bombs Menu