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Download the flyer or use the E-Card to get the word out!
thanks to maggie for the flyer & art! invite your friends with the card below.
Sunday December 14th, 2008
Station 40 (3030b 16th St @ Mission, SF, CA)
4:00PM – 8:00PM
FREE and open to everyone who’s interested in FNB!
Come for the dessert …. stay for the meeting!
Join your fellow food not bombs organizers and friends for a night of fun and dessert. Whether you’re an old time volunteer or someone new, this is a great opportunity to learn more about what we do, meet your fellow activists, plan for the coming year and help our movement grow.
There will be dessert, an informal meeting, and fun activities (screen printing, a movie?). We encourage you to bring vegan treats to share potluck style, we will make some homemade soy ice cream!
If you have questions or ideas we’d love to hear them! you are welcome to RSVP, we’d love to have an idea of how many people are coming. you can do this on the FNB facebook page or by emailing us at sffnbvolunteers (a) riseup d0t net
Some ideas on what to bring (recovering/dumpstering/creative reuse are always encouraged):
- dumpstered goodies!
- cookies, cupcakes or brownies
- cakes and pies
- fruit
- gluten and/or sugar free confections
- soy ice cream
- donuts and pastry
- candies, chocolate and miscellaneous treats!
activities (other ideas welcome!):
- screen printing — bring a shirt, fabric or something to screen on! we’ll have the FNB logo and possibly other fun designs!
- movie? — if you’ve got ideas let us know.
informal meeting
- check-ins with various servings
- finding a new cook house for saturday
- reviving the soupstock music festival for spring (see pictures of sleater-kinney/fugazi in soupstock 00!)
- food not bombs and disaster response (what should we do in an earthquake?)
- should we do some skillshares / workshops? (home canning, vegan dessert making, how to start a FNB chapter, etc?)
- ideas for events to serve at (last year we did the anarchist book fair, transmarch, protests, RRFM and others)
- proposal: FNB should buy a turkey fryer (aka high powered gas burner) ~$50 / and a larger, reusable propane tank ($20-$60) for outdoor/mobile events
- add your agenda items!
Local activist and poet Dee Allen was singled out and arrested while participating in the July 30th counter-demonstration against the Minutemen in San Francisco.
Dee is now falsely charged with battery against a police officer, a charge punishable by 6 months in jail or a $2000 fine.
Please support Dee by showing solidarity at his next court appearance, November 14. Please write DeeAllenDefenseCommittee [at] gmail.com for more information.
San Francisco Food Not Bombs and other local organizations have signed on to an open letter to the SF District Attorney’s Office. It was recently published in the SF Bay View
The Anti-War Committee is organizing a national day of action, October 13th, in support of RNC arrestees. They are encouraging calls to St Paul officials to demand that all charges are dropped. Eight St Paul activists now face the ambiguous felony charge of “conspiracy to riot.” Those being prosecuted include independent media and Minneapolis/St Paul Food Not Bombs volunteers.
FoodNotBombs.net is coordinating an action called Cooks Not Terrorists on October 26th, the anniversary of the PATRIOT Act to protest raids, infiltration and harassment of the Food Not Bombs movement in Minneapolis/St Paul and beyond.
Please read below for more details.
Friends and loved ones of will be gathering October 9th in memory of local activist and organizer Kirsten Brydum. The format will be very informal and people will be cooking a little extra at Thursday Food Not Bombs to bring to the memorial. Everyone is welcome to come out and help!
Kirsten Brydum’s Memorial
October 9, Thursday
Art SF – 110 capp st. @ 16th st.,
7-on: sharing space, adding to the altars
8p – on: sharing stories, memories, thoughts, music
in typical Kirsten fashion:
everyone is welcome and appreciated
bring whatever gifts you want to contribute
everything will be done giftluck / potluck style
feel free to bring:
-items to add to the altars
-stories to tell about Kirsten
-instruments to add music to the mix
-food and/or drinks to share with others
-a bowl, cup, and utensils to partake of other’s gifts
-pictures of Kirsten (a projector is likely available too)
-anything else that feels important to share in this time
if out of town feel free to send anything that you want shared to
firebrandart [at] yahoo.com
We are saddened to report that our colleague and friend Kirsten Brydum, long time Food Not Bombs volunteer and SF Really Really Free Market organizer, was found dead this past Saturday in New Orleans. According to reports she was shot several times in the head.
Friends and comrades are planning a celebration of Kirsten at the RRFM on October 25th, Food Not Bombs will likely serve. An alter has been setup in the window of the Million Fishes gallery 2501 Bryant St. @ 23rd St, SF, CA. Kirsten’s father has created a web site where you can leave your thoughts and memories. Additional memorial information and emerging details are over at Indymedia (check under the comments section for the LA upcoming service). There is also a memorial collection of photos put together by friends and family.
Kirsten’s death comes on the heels of another tragedy for the activist community, the rape and murder of Eugene Food Not Bombs volunteer Marcella “Sali” Grace in Oaxaca Mexico.
Kirsten was an activist force to be reckoned with, having proliferated RRFMs around the country and organized the
m for years here in San Francisco. She was also responsible for the Dirty Dove Infoshop, the amazing Access Café, and her newest most ambitious project, the Collective Autonomy Tour. Those that had the privilege of knowing her will remember her as the exuberant, loving, and carefree person that demolished any hint of sadness or cynicism that came into contact with her. She was an overwhelmingly trusting and sincere person that would never hesitate to lend a hand and continually offered herself toward the benefit and friendship of others. The results of her fantastic efforts and love can be seen in the massive amount of loved ones she left behind who are now picking up where she left off to spread that kind of sharing and love of which she had such an abundance of. We will miss her dearly.
San Francisco Food Not Bombs 
