{"id":1215,"date":"2013-08-01T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2013-08-08T22:40:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T22:40:24","slug":"food-not-bombs-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/food-not-bombs-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Not Bombs Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NOTES BY NORSE:\u00a0 Keith McHenry will be speaking in a phone interview on the stream of Free Radio Santa Cruz Sunday August 7th at a time to be announced on the issues mentioned below.\u00a0\u00a0 Santa Cruz FNB serves every Saturday at 4 PM outside the main Post Office in downtown Santa Cruz.\u00a0\u00a0 The group needs cooks, severs, and other volunteers.\u00a0 Check their facebook page.<\/p>\n
> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 11:12:30 -0600
\n> From: keith@foodnotbombs.net<\/a>
\n> To: menu@foodnotbombs.net<\/a>
\n> Subject: Food Not Bombs thrives even as it faces repression
\n>
\n> The San Francisco Police Department made history on August 15, 1988
\n> when they made the first arrests ever for sharing food with the hungry.
\n> Nine volunteers arrived at the entrance to Golden Gate Park with organic
\n> vegan food prepared to share with the several hundred souls that were
\n> making the dense wooded park their home. A reporter with the San
\n> Francisco Chronicle learned of the the department’s plan to deploy 45
\n> members of the Tactical Squad to Haight and Stanyan to arrest the cooks
\n> and shortly after noon the nine Food Not Bombs volunteers were captured,
\n> cuffed and driven off to jail. The activists sang “we will not be moved”
\n> as the police vans removed them from the scene.
\n>
\n> After spending most of the night in a holding cell at police
\n> headquarters they were released to discover that the Chronicle had
\n> published a huge photo of riot police guarding the food from the hungry
\n> with a headline proclaiming “Nine Volunteers Arrested For Feeding the
\n> Homeless at Golden Gate Park.” The Food Not Bombs answering service on
\n> Polk Street was swamped with calls from people wanting to help. Offers
\n> of food, legal support, help with cooking and even commitments to risk
\n> arrest if necessary flooded in. The August 15, 1988 arrests marked a
\n> change in American societies view of the homeless and sparked a global
\n> movement. The San Francisco Police made over 1,000 arrests for the
\n> “crime” of “making a political statement” by sharing food with the
\n> hungry in public. Remove the Food Not Bombs banner and literature and
\n> provide your meals inside the National Guard Armory on the edge of the
\n> city or be arrested on felony conspiracy charges.
\n>
\n> Twenty five years after the first arrest the act of showing compassion
\n> and effort to encourage the redirection of resources from war to
\n> providing for our community is as threatening to the authorities as it
\n> was in the summer of 1988. In response to the impact of Occupy Wall
\n> Street and other occupations over 50 cities in the United States have
\n> banned or passed laws restricting the sharing of food in public.
\n> Authorities are currently threatening to stop Food Not Bombs meals in
\n> Seattle, Portland, Boulder and Detroit. Yes Detroit, just as the city is
\n> filing for bankruptcy and has unimaginable need to feed its hungry the
\n> authorities are threatening to arrest Detroit Food Not Bombs.
\n>
\n> Hunger and poverty are on the increase yet so is the desire to respond
\n> to the crisis. New Food Not Bombs groups form every week. Volunteers
\n> from Umuahia, Nigeria and New Paltz, New York asked to have their
\n> chapters included on www.foodnotbombs.net<\/a> today. Activists reported that
\n> there are over 100 groups in Indonesia and 30 chapters in the
\n> Philippines with the Davao City chapter posting photos of their 13th
\n> July 5th anniversary celebration on our Facebook last week. A new
\n> chapter started in the southern zone of Mexico City and groups in New
\n> Zealand announced their next Really Really Free Market.
\n>
\n> The impact of the August 15, 1988 arrests continues to this day having
\n> inspired people to start the first wave of Food Not Bombs groups that in
\n> turn inspired others to start a chapter in their own communities so that
\n> there are volunteers recovering food, cooking vegan meals that they
\n> share with the public in over 1,000 cities around the world.
\n>
\n> You can join this inspiring movement. The most important thing you can
\n> do is start or join an already active Food Not Bombs group in your
\n> community. To learn more you can visit www.foodnotbombs.net<\/a> or call us
\n> at 575-770-3377<\/a>.
\n>
\n> You may want to get a copy of our book “Hungry For Peace” to learn more
\n> about Food Not Bombs. You could also participate with the Food Not Bombs
\n> Free Skool in Taos, New Mexico to gain more experience.
\n>
\n> Another great way to make a difference is to invite Food Not Bombs
\n> co-founder Keith McHenry to speak at your school, cafe, book store or
\n> other community space. This is a great way to inspire your friends,
\n> family and classmates to join you in taking action.
\n>
\n> Another way you can build interest is to invite the Autonomous Play
\n> House to perform their puppet show in your community. Their shows are
\n> sure to inspire participation in your community organizing efforts.
\n>
\n> Finally you can help by contributing to the completion of the Food Not
\n> Bombs Free Skool Solar Pump House and support another season of
\n> gardening, education and organizing at the school in Taos, New Mexico.
\n> Check out the cool video about the construction of the solar pump house.
\n> The pump will be powered by a donated solar cell and our showers will be
\n> heated by the sun as will the entire building. We intend to complete our
\n> fundraising drive by the 25th anniversary of the first arrest of Food
\n> Not Bombs on August 15, 2013. Please share this email and ask your
\n> family, friends and classmates to support Food Not Bombs.
\n>
\n> Thanks so much for your interest.
\n> Keith McHenry – co-founder of the Food Not Bombs Movement
\n>
\n>
\n> Food Not Bombs thrives even as it faces repression
\n> http:\/\/blog.foodnotbombs.net\/food-not-bombs-thrives-even-as-it-faces-repression\/<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a>
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\n>
\n> CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMPLETION OF THE SOLAR PUMP HOUSE BY AUGUST 15, 2013
\n> – Thanks!!!
\n> http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/free-skool-solar-pump-house-taos<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a>
\n>
\n> SOLAR PUMP HOUSE PROJECT VIDEO by David Cortez in Taos, New Mexico
\n> http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nJDCmFIhHS8&feature=youtu.be<\/wbr><\/a>
\n>
\n> Invite THE SMASHING HUNGER SQUASHING CAPITALISM TOUR with Food Not
\n> Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry to your community.
\n> http:\/\/www.foodnotbombs.net\/speaker.html<\/wbr><\/a>
\n>
\n> THE AUTONOMOUS PLAYHOUSE
\n> http:\/\/foodnotbombs.net\/autonomous_playhouse_portfolio.php<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a>
\n>
\n> THE FOOD NOT BOMBS FREE SKOOL
\n> http:\/\/fnb-freeskool.org\/free_skool_photos.html<\/wbr><\/a>
\n>
\n> Food Not Bombs
\n> P.O. Box 424
\n> Arroyo Seco, NM 87514 USA
\n> 1-800-884-1136<\/a>
\n> www.foodnotbombs.net<\/a>
\n> http:\/\/foodnotbombs.net\/dollar_for_peace.html<\/wbr><\/a>
\n>
\n> (Email us at menu@foodnotbombs.net<\/a> to be removed from this list.)
\n>
\n>
\n> please forward and post. Thanks\u2026 Keith McHenry<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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