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Food Not Bombs is a loose-knit group of independent collectives, serving free vegan and vegetarian food to others. Food Not Bombs' ideology is that myriad corporate and government priorities are skewed to allow hunger to persist in the midst of abundance. To demonstrate this (and to reduce costs), a large amount of the food served by the group is surplus food from grocery stores, bakeries and markets that would otherwise go to waste. This group exhibits a form of Franchise activism. Food Not Bombs logo This work is copyrighted. ... Food Not Bombs logo This work is copyrighted. ... Hens kept in cramped conditions — the avoidance of animal suffering is the primary motivation of people who become vegans A vegan is a person who avoids the ingestion or use of animal products. ... For animals adapted to eat primarily plants, sometimes referred to as vegetarian animals, see Herbivore. ... For other uses, see Corporation (disambiguation). ... Hunger is a feeling experienced when the glycogen level of the liver falls below a threshold, usually followed by a desire to eat. ... Food Salvage is a term for food gleaning programs that collect surplus food from restaurants and dining fascilities and distribute it to local emergency food programs on a regular basis. ... Franchise activism refers to forms of activism carried out by autonomous individuals or groups in different localities under the same name. ...

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Food Not Bombs is an effort to feed anyone who is hungry. Each chapter collects surplus food that would otherwise go to waste from grocery stores, bakeries and markets, sometimes incorporating dumpster diving, then prepares it into community meals which are served for free to anyone who is hungry. The central beliefs of the group are: Dumpster diving is the practice of rummaging through trash, whether commercial or residential, to find items of use that have been discarded. ...

  • If governments and corporations around the world spent as much time and energy on feeding people as they do on war, no one would go hungry.
  • There is enough food in the world to feed everyone, but so much of it goes to waste needlessly, as a direct result of capitalism and militarism.
  • Vegan food is both healthy and nonviolent.

Food Not Bombs also tries to call attention to poverty and homelessness in society by sharing food in public places and facilitating gatherings of poor, homeless and other disenfranchised people. There are three tenets to the Food Not Bombs philosophy: Capitalism generally refers to an economic system in which the means of production are all or mostly privately[1][2] owned and operated for profit, and in which investments, distribution, income, production and pricing of goods and services are determined through the operation of a free market. ... Militarism or militarist ideology is the doctrinal view of a society as being best served (or more efficient) when it is governed or guided by concepts embodied in the culture, doctrine, system, or people of the military. ... Nonviolence (or non-violence) can be both a political strategy or moral philosophy that rejects the use of violence in efforts to attain social or political change. ... A boy from an East Cipinang trash dump slum in Jakarta, Indonesia shows what he found. ... A homeless person in Paris. ...

Anyone who wants to cook may cook, and anyone who wants to eat may eat. Food Not Bombs strives to include everyone. Consensus decision-making is a decision-making process that not only seeks the agreement of most participants, but also to resolve or mitigate the objections of the minority to achieve the most agreeable decision. ... For plant-eating animals, see Herbivore. ...


History

Food Not Bombs began in the early 1980s in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, a city adjacent to Boston, when a group of anti-nuclear activists, who were protesting the nearby Seabrook power plant, began spray-painting the slogan “Money for food, not for bombs” around the city. The slogan was shortened to “Food Not Bombs”, and it became the name of their group. Soon after, they decided to put their slogan into practice. At a meeting of wealthy bank executives who were financing nuclear projects, the group showed up and started handing out free food outside to a crowd of three hundred homeless people.[citation needed] The action was so successful that the group began doing it on a regular basis, collecting surplus food from grocery stores and preparing it into meals. The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: , Country United States State Massachusetts County Middlesex County Settled 1630 Incorporated 1636 Government  - Type Mayor-council city  - Mayor Kenneth Reeves (D) Area  - City  7. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe)1, Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution, Puritan City, Americas Walking City Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area    - City 232. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ... The Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant, more commonly known as Seabrook Station, is a nuclear power plant located in Seabrook, New Hampshire, approximately 40 mi north of Boston and 10 mi (16 km) south of Portsmouth, NH. Initially two units (reactors) were planned, but the second unit was never completed due...


In the late 1980s, a second chapter of Food Not Bombs was formed in San Francisco. This chapter soon encountered tension with the police and fought two “Soup Wars” with the city's mayors, Art Agnos and Frank Jordan. Agnos initiated the first confrontation by using riot police to shut down a Food Not Bombs serving. The group was persistent, however, and despite its participants being arrested hundreds of times, managed to continue serving food on the street. Their use of the media's coverage of the altercation allowed them to gain community support. The conservative Mayor Jordan succeeded Agnos and tension continued between Food Not Bombs and the Office of the Mayor. Members of the group were routinely beaten and jailed by police.[citation needed] By this time, however, the group had expanded. With crowds of hundreds of people at each serving, police action was difficult. Members of Food Not Bombs began videotaping police action and using the court system to try to stop police abuse. The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... Arthur Christ Agnos (often called Art) (born 1938) is a U.S. political figure. ... Francis M. Frank Jordan (born 1935) is a U.S. politician. ... French mobile gendarmes doing riot control. ... Ths article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ... David Kirkwood on the ground after being struck by police batons Police brutality is a term used to describe the excessive use of physical force, assault, verbal attacks, and threats by police officers and other law enforcement officers. ...


During the 1990s the Boston chapter of Food Not Bombs also faced some opposition from local police. However, following demonstrations and offers of solidarity from local churches, the potential bad publicity made carrying out of this opposition impractical. For the band, see 1990s (band). ...


In the San Francisco election of 1995, candidate Willie Lewis Brown, Jr. promised to stop the attacks on Food Not Bombs. Brown won the election. Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Willie Lewis Brown, Jr. ...


In part because of the media attention that Food Not Bombs garnered during their struggles in San Francisco, chapters began springing up all over the world. Food Not Bombs continued to gather strength throughout the 1990s, and held four international gatherings: in San Francisco in 1992 and 1995, in Atlanta in 1996, and in Philadelphia in 2005. Chapters of Food Not Bombs were involved in the rise of the Anti-Globalisation Movement in the late 1990s, leading to the APEC resistance in Vancouver in 1997; the June 18, 1999 International Carnival Against Capitalism; and the “Battle of Seattle” later that year, which shut down the World Trade Organisation meetings. For the band, see 1990s (band). ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ... For other uses, see Philadelphia (disambiguation) and Philly. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... “APEC” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Vancouver (disambiguation). ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... is the 169th day of the year (170th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Protest activity surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, which was to be the launch of a new millennial round of trade negotiations, occurred on November 30, 1999, when the World Trade Organization (WTO) convened in Seattle, Washington, USA. The negotiations were quickly overshadowed by massive and controversial street protests... For other uses of the initials WTO, see WTO (disambiguation). ...


Food Not Bombs has also been heavily involved in the anti-war movement which arose in 2002–2003 to oppose the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This article is about protests concerning the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The subject of this article is the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ...


During a presentation to the University of Texas at Austin in 2006, an FBI counter-terrorism official labeled Food Not Bombs and Indymedia as having possible terrorist connections. [1] University of Texas redirects here. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... F.B.I. and FBI redirect here. ... Counter-terrorism refers to the practices, tactics, and strategies that governments, militaries, and other groups adopt in order to fight terrorism. ... The Independent Media Center (aka Indymedia or IMC) is a global network of participatory journalists that reports with a generally left-wing perspective on political and social issues. ...


Today, there are close to 200 chapters of Food Not Bombs all over the world, though most are concentrated in North America. Food Not Bombs has a loose structure: every chapter of Food Not Bombs embraces a few basic principles, and carries out the same sort of action, but every chapter is free to make its own decisions, based on the needs of its community. Likewise, every chapter of Food Not Bombs operates on consensus: everybody does an equal share of work, and has an equal say in making decisions. Besides collecting and distributing food for free, most chapters of Food Not Bombs are involved in community anti-poverty, anti-war and pro-immigrant organising, as well as many other political causes. Because most Food Not Bombs groups share the same values and because they operate in a generally anarchist fashion, Food Not Bombs is sometimes known as a “franchise anarchistic organization”. North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... Anarchist redirects here. ...


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Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

The DIY ethic (do it yourself ethic) refers to the ethic of being self-reliant and doing things yourself as opposed to paying others to do it. ... Freeganism is a lifestyle based around the belief that almost all work and monetary exchanges within a capitalist economy contribute to myriad forms of exploitation - worker abuse, animal exploitation, hunger, ecological destruction, mass incarceration, war, inequitable distribution of resources, commodification of women - almost all issues addressed by social, ecological, and... The Really, Really Free Market (RRFM) movement is a non-hierarchical collective of individuals who form a temporary market based on an alternative gift economy. ... For plant-eating animals, see Herbivore. ... One World Everybody Eats is a cafe and nonprofit community kitchen based in Salt Lake City, Utah. ...

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Food Not Bombs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (951 words)
Food Not Bombs ideology claims that myriad corporate and government priorities are skewed to cause hunger amidst abundance.
Food Not Bombs began in the early 1980s in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, a city adjacent to Boston, when a group of anti-nuclear activists, who were protesting the nearby Seabrook power plant, began spray-painting the slogan "Money for food, not for bombs" around the city.
Chapters of Food Not Bombs were involved in the rise of the Anti-Globalisation Movement in the late 1990s, leading to the APEC resistance in Vancouver in 1997; the June 18, 1999 International Carnival Against Capitalism; and the "Battle in Seattle" later that year, which shut down the World Trade Organisation meetings.
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