THE FOOD NOT BOMBS GLOBAL COORDINATION OFFICE

What is this website all about?

The global coordination office of Food Not Bombs helps people start local chapters or connect with their local group. We also provide logistical, legal and political support to Food Not Bombs groups and we help promote and organize tours, gatherings and global days of action. Our volunteers also organize the CHANGE WE KNEAD NOW! Bake Goods Not Bank Bailouts Tour and provide the popular book Food Not Bombs, flyers, buttons, stickers, t-shirts and other materials.

The website www.foodnotbombs.net was started in San Francisco in 1995 at the Food Not Bombs International Gathering, as a way for people to find information about the movement. Because of the informal, all volunteer manner in which 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,literature and other materials. We also support prisoners and their families, responding to letters from prisoners and encourage the creation of Food Not Bombs behind bars. We post details about tours, gatherings and other actions organized by Food Not Bombs chapters.

The collective also plans to produce an electronic Menu. Every Food Not Bombs group can send in fliers, 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 of the Food Not Bombs movement. Co-founder Keith McHenry volunteers with this collective but is in no way to be considered the leader of the collective or the Food Not Bombs movement. 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. Our collective is also happy to post any Food Not Bombs related images or text you wish to provide.

Menu Collective Statistics
We are starting to provide statistics including the number of visits to the website, numbers of orders, financial details and record of the collectives monthy progress. We have hired a book keeper not connected to Food Not Bombs to make sure these figures are verified.

Advisory Board

Leslie Swanson - co-founder of Food Not Bombs
Bobby Castillo - Native American Activist
Alex S. Vitale - Associate Professor Department of Sociology Brooklyn College and former Food Not Bombs volunteer
Emmanuel Rodriguez - Food Not Bombs in Monterrey Mexico

The Food Not Bombs Menu Office

The co-founders of the Food Not Bombs Menu