San Francisco Food Not Bombs

San Francisco Food Not Bombs had it’s first meeting in a year. To me, it felt like a good meeting, with serious issues discussed and resolved without anybodies toes being stepped on.
We talked about having meetings monthly, and I hope we do.
One thing that was discussed was making it easier for new volunteers to plug in.
I’m glad to see that the chapter that was once the most active is becoming more active again.
Ethan Davidson

Sunday – Monday – Wens day – Thursday – Friday SFFNBs CHAPTERS
Serena & Ellen are Treasurers of SFFNBs Bank account, Serena is also Thursdays treasurer.
Pick up at RAINBOW- Groups Monday, Wednesday ,Thursday & Friday will pick up for themselves . Please DO NOT take veggies then.
$100 will come from general fund to purchase BIG POTS, up to $200 will come from Thursdays Chapter
Up to $60 will be spent for BIKE CARRIAGE ( KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR ONE ).
SFFNBS Phone we be ACTIVE (again) .
Direct Action on PROP L (Tuesday 1pm station 40 )
DEEP FRYER Direct Action cumming in November

Pot luck for next meeting at possible NOISE BRIDE or someones livingroom. No date yet for NOV meeting

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).

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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 🙂