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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”
On Thursday June 10th, a chapter of Food Not Bombs in the Diablo valley area attempted to serve food at the Concord farmers market in the Todos Santos plaza to the homeless and underprivileged. The Contra Costa Health Department with the assistance of the Concord Police Department ordered the group to cease operations and confiscated all of the group’s food and supplies. Click here for the Indybay story with more info.
Dangerous peace activists safely quarantined by gentile police in an effort to keep hungry park goers from eating disgustingly tasty homemade food
UPDATE: on 6.17.10 a crew of SF FNB people and supporters rode bart down to the Concord serving to show some solidarity and support. Apparently the police showed up again to try to intimidate and shut down the food serving. Fortunately they were too timid to stir up anything with the new numbers of supporters and the serving went through as planned 🙂
My friends! It is nearing that time of year when Food Not Bombs begins to prepare for the Chez Gay Cafe. This is our third year of serving at the Trans March and we want to do something a little different. We are encouraging everyone to bring something for a picnic/potluck style meal. Please bring vegan or veggie stuff to share. We may have even have a grill for veggie burgers. All friendly people are welcome.
Save the date: Trans March, June 25th, Dolores Park, 3pm ish. By the Palm Grove
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Mon ami! C’est le temps de l’année où Food Not Bombs commence à préparer le café Chez Gay. C’est notre troisième année et nous encourageons tout le monde à apporter de la nourriture à partager un pique-nique. S’il vous plaît mettre végétalien ou végétarien alimentaire. Nous pouvons avoir un poêle pour cuire des hamburgers végétariens. Tous les gens sympathiques peuvent assister
Plus de détails à venir. Où: Festival transgenres., le 25 Juin, Dolores Park, 15:00
Keith McHenry, one of the original founders of Food Not Bombs (FNB) returned to SF on April 25th as part of a nation-wide tour to promote the 30th anniversary of Food Not Bombs. Today, people will be celebrating this occasion at Soupstock in Boston, MA.
Kieth McHenry shared many thoughts, ideas, and experiences at the meeting and also showed a video of his work in Nigeria. It was very revitalizing to see how FNB has spread to so many nooks and crannies across the globe.
Some things we talked about that SF FNB could use work on were the following:
- Developing flyers
- Having a literature table (to point people to other local happenings)
- Spreading solidarity among other organizations & groups
- Manage the phone and email
Keith McHenry getting arrested for serving food in the early says of Food Not Bombs
These things were discussed in connection with attracting new volunteers to help support SF FNB. One useful tip he mentioned for literature and flyers was to tie rubber bands around them (to keep them from blowing away).
People are already working on these projects but if you or anyone you know would be interested in helping out, please give us a holler on our email list.
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- contact us:
- wednesdays:
- email sffnbvolunteers@riseup.net
- call/text (415)484-3288
- fridays:
- email fnbsanfrancisco@gmail.com
- call/text (415)890-3184
- wednesdays:
- visit our serving schedule page and email contacts for specific days you are interested in
- serving every week unless stated otherwise via network and social media
- join our email list and post there
- show up at a serving and get directly involved!
- social media
- instagram: @foodnotbombs_sf
- twitter: @sffoodnotbombs
Food Not Bombs is a loose group of people who turn their personal house kitchens into soup kitchens for the public at least once a week.
We’re holding a Vegan Chili Competition Benefit Fund raiser, Complete with a handcarved FNB medal for the honor of the BEST VEGAN CHILI of SF! We’re going to have Shirts/Zines, Dirty South DJ’s, House Chili (Vegan) Cornbread. Throw on your best Flannel print and throwdown your Best Vegan Chili!!!
The Door is FREE and sliding scale $7 to ENTeR into the Contest. Chili Entries close at 4pm Plz cook @ home and bring it here!!! RSVP an entry spot to get in for sure, but if you BRiNG CHili, you can ENTeR @ the place.
GET READY 4 SOME GOoOoOoD CHILI!!!!! chiheee (did I just say that? really?)
| Title: | Vegan Chili Showdown Hoedown SF ¡¡Food Not Bombs!! Cookoff Contest |
| START DATE: | Sunday January 10 |
| TIME: | 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM |
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| 3030B 16th @ mission. Station 40 xxxxxxx Across 16th st. Bart xxxxxx |
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| Event Type: | Fundraiser |
| Contact Name | Theo |
| Email Address | Ginjavitus [at] riseup.net |
SF FNB is going to setup a park near polk and sacremento on parking day, september 18th. Please come join us around noon — -we’ll have a grill, lounge chairs, food, coffee and more!
update: thanks to everyone for coming out to our first parking day! here are some photos (taken by Tami)
Join SF FNB for the second annual Chez Gay Cafe (food support) at Transmarch! We hope to make our event bigger & gayer than ever.
We need lots of help to make it happen, if you’d like to contribute, (1) just show up or (2) email us at sffnbvolunteers@riseup.net to help with with prep and gathering food. This year we will have some turkey fryers and other equipment that will require a little more coordination, but it should make our serving even cooler!
Rumor has it our crew will be sporting tuxedo tshirts, short shorts and skirts, possibly fake french mustaches. We encourage everyone volunteering to dress to impress!
We hope to see many of our fellow queer FNBers at the cafe, though all respectful folks will be welcomed, queers and allies alike; this event is probably one of the most fun of the year, so please come out!
| Date: |
Friday, June 26, 2009
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| Time: |
3:00pm – 6:30pm
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| Location: |
Dolores Park
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| Street: |
Dolores & 19th Street
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| City/Town: |
San Francisco, CA
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San Francisco Food Not Bombs 