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*A message from FNB Thursday Chapter
Dear lovely friends and family, due to some developing circumstances between our collective space and the authorities-that-be some updates must be made about our upcoming event.
In order to ensure that Station 40 remain a safe, autonomous, community art/event space for years to come our event structure must make some slight changes.
To keep capacity low and ensure a comfortable experience for everyone we will have to limit the dinner to about 50 people. We plan to start serving dinner at 7pm sharp in order to save time post-dinner for our talented acts, as we may need to stop music relatively early to save us from noise complaints. Post-dinner we will move the tables to create more space and allow more people in, but space will be limited so the earlier the better.
On to the good news!
We have a bunch of fabulous music lined up including the harmonically heart wrenching Fox & Woman!
You gotta see this, Saturday Feb. 5th be there!
January 31, 2011
We had a small FNB meeting this month, with Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday represented. Ellen made really wonderful cupcakes and Alex brought delicious soup!
Notes:
- Report back from East Bay Food Not Bombs FNB principles meeting. It’s proposed that we should hold a Bay Area wide food not bombs picnic this summer!
- General banter about servings, what works, what doesn’t, etc
- Desire to find ways to use excess collected food and better move things around (enthusiastic volunteers welcome to move things)! Folks thought it’d be easier to find people to host servings if we can offer help with food collection.
- Tree picked up a bike cart from a donor for FNB! It’s now at Station 40.
- Sit/Lie – cops are out in force, in civic center, bart, 16th and mission. Bothering homeless and poor folks. A serving / protest in the city’s new parklets? sit/lie action in February. Questions about how they going to enforce sit/lie (enforcement starts tomorrow). Fliers or sidewalk chalking with politician lies? Discuss among groups then bring ideas to the list.
- We have two or three possible cook houses! To get these servings off the ground we need people who are interested in coordinating / bottom-lining
- Email list. Who is still in the moderator / admin spot? Something to look into.
- Let’s make a LED sign! Dana is getting stuff together to do this and we will build it in the next two months. People are excited, time to solder! More screen printing?!?! We can make many designs, patches and shirts, have a combined screen printing LED sign making party — perhaps at Ellens studio.
Meeting Adjourned! 8:51pm
Next Meeting TBA
Come help FNB get sustainable plateware!
**first of all apologies, the email address on the flyer is incorrect! To contact us by email:
sffoodnotbombsthurs@gmail.com**
You are cordially invited to a lovely sit down dinner in support of Food Not Bombs. We currently spend tons of money on eco-damaging disposable cups/plates/sporks for our servings on Thursdays at 16th and mission. With you’re help we can make disposables a thing of the past. So come join us for an evening of fine food/drinks, live music, and service with a smile!
Tickets are limited so we hope to see you there!
WHEN: Saturday February 5th, 6:30pm
WHERE: 3030 B 16th St. “Station 40”
Menu: (all menu items are the both tasty and vegan!)
Simosas
Spring Rolls with slightly spicy peanut sauce
Arugala Asian Pear Salad
Dahl
Curry and Rice
From Scratch Apple, Pear, Raisin Pie
Homemade Chai Latte’s
(we just did a test run of the menu and it was a huge hit!)
Suggested Donation: $10-30 sliding scale
(FREE DRINK with donations over $10)
for more info and/or ticket delivery
email: sffoodnotbombsthurs@gmail.com
FNB voicemail: (415)484-3288
We’re doing an event this Thursday at Station 40 celebrating the birthday of Wolgang Amadeus Mozart.
We’re going to start by playing for Food Not Bombs at the 16th/Mission BART and move into Station 40 at 8pm.
We’ll be bringing out our fans, and I think its going to be a great celebration of life and music and giving and will expose both of our organizations to a wider public.
I’d love it if you can post this event on the site.
Admission for the show is free, with a voluntary donation going to support the musicians.
Here’s a link for the FB event
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184145421615687
Thanks!! ~ Classical Revolution
What: Food Not Bombs January Meeting
Bring a vegan appetizer or dessert to share along with your own utensils/ cup/ plate. I’ll bake cupcakes! Beware my place is tiny!
Where:
Sunday Cookhouse/ Ellen’s Apartment
Leavenworth St (between Washington St & Jackson St)
Email Ellen for details
When:
Monday January 31st 7pm.
How:
Muni: 27, 1.
Bike: My neighborhood is pretty chill, but it may be difficult to find something to lock your bike to because there’s no metered parking. There’s a small nook to store your bike in my lobby if you have issues, in which case bring your bike up to the door.
Walk/ Bike Advise: It’s quite a hike up Leavenworth. If it’s not out of the way, go up Polk or Van Ness to Washington and climb those 3-4 smaller hills to Leavenworth.
minutes 12/3/210
•reusable serving containers etc. possible old stash in basement
• FNB doesn’t serve meat. If you do other food distro that does be clear that it’s NOT FNB. cook vegan but can distribute non-vegan food items, such as yogurt and pastry at your discretion.
•google doc financial documents are in order, link needed to edit.
•be sure to maintain serving schedule with 211 311, free eats sheet. this means being diligent with email and phone message
•table at anarchist bookfair
•thursday chapter is really busy, it needs help in any way possible.
•look into solar pots/proposal needed for sponsorship
•where and how to get cups-
*freecycle? other revenues?
•raise funds at servings/events
*thursday requested money for utencils
PASSED, 40 bucks one time, continued equal division of alex’s cup
• sit lie updates: possible actions in pac. heights.
Date it takes effect? appeals?
Next meeting
jan 17th, 330pm at ellens washington+leavenworth
adjourn
FNB is having meetings again — we are now rotating them through FNB kitchens, see below for details:
What:
November/December Food Not Bombs Meeting
Bring a vegan dish or dessert to share. we’ll make a huge pot of pasta and sauce (and garlic bread if we can get a few loaves?).
Bring your own plate (and cup / utensil). We have some paper ones but we’d love to save as many as possible for sharings.
When
Friday, December 3
Eating 7PM, Meeting 7:30PM
Where
Wednesday Cookhouse
Polk & California St
Email for exact APT #
How:
Muni: 1, 19, 47, 49, California St Cable Car
Bike: Please lock your bike on the street. The living room will be tight with so many FNB people, there are a lot of places to lock bikes on California and Polk. Bikes in the area don’t usually get messed with.
Walk: Get to Civic Center, Walk up Polk until you see California (and cable cars).
San Francisco Food Not Bombs has long stood against those who work for the criminalization of poverty, and we proudly stand against the proposed sit lie ordinance.
“the measure’s backers include some of the Bay Area’s wealthiest and most influential players.” — they’ve raised over $270,000 to push their anti-homeless agenda, including over $50,000 from people who don’t even live in San Francisco! Link
find a polling place
Media:
Guerrilla ads go up around town.
“Civil Sidewalks” parody
Food critic/journalist Andrew Zimmern recently filmed a segment profiling the work of San Francisco Food Not Bombs for an upcoming episode of the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods. Irish, a chapter member sent out this email announcement (we will update when we have more details):
They filmed Katie & Margie reclaiming food for 2 nights, then Andrew worked with FNBs volunteers handing out food at the food bank (Arriba Juntos). The made a cash donation to ARRIBA and the food bank people where extremely happy with all the good publicity they received. The final day of filming was difficult. We split the cooking up to 2 kitchens, for security reasons. We filmed at Noise Bridge (tech collective) kitchen with much thanks to MILO. At noise bridge we cooked banana bread, tomato basil soup, rice and a garden salad with Andrew, while the Station 40 kitchen cooked a huge pot of Curry vegetable stir fry. We also had plenty of bread and vitamin water donations on hand. It was are largest SHARING at 16 & Mission in memory (150 plus).
This August 6th-9th, 2010 there will be a Northwest Food Not Bombs gathering in Seattle, Washington. Everyone encouraged to join!
Invtation from Seattle FNB:
“Greetings, Food Not Bombers!
This is an official invitation for your chapter and your friends to attend Cooking for Peace, a Northwest Food Not Bombs gathering August 6-9, 2010 in Seattle, Washington. We are meeting these specific dates in memory of the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan 65 years ago. Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day. Please join us as we remember those lives lost so horribly and as we celebrate our continued struggle for peace and sharing. Specific schedules are still in the works, but here’s what we have planned so far:
Friday August 6th: Welcome to Seattle! Recipe swap and banjoes. Vigil for the victims in Hiroshima.
Saturday August 7th: Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry speaks, workshops, and information tables.
Sunday August 8th: Buffet-style feeding (let’s eat!) and concert. Bands TBA.
Monday August 9th: Direct Action. Vigil for the victims in Nagasaki.
***To ask questions or help get this thing together, you can join the
discussion board by e-mailing FNBSeattle@gmail.com Then accept our
request to join the group and POST AWAY!
Thanks so much to all of you who keep Food Not Bombs alive, and we
hope to see you all in August!
Hearts,
Seattle FNB”
San Francisco Food Not Bombs 