FNB letter - sent out June 5th 2006

Hello fellow prospective and current members of

Food Not Bombs is not a charity. This energetic grassroots movement is active throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Food Not Bombs is organizing for peace and an end to the occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. For over 25 years the movement has worked to end hunger and has supported actions to stop the globalization of the economy, restrictions to the movements of people, end exploitation and the destruction of the earth.

The first group was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1980 by anti-nuclear activists. Food Not Bombs is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to non-violent social change. Food Not Bombs has no formal leaders and strives to include everyone in its decision making process. Each group recovers food that would otherwise be thrown out and makes fresh hot vegetarian meals that are served in outside in public spaces to anyone without restriction. Each independent group also serves free vegetarian meals at protests and other events. (http://foodnotbombs.net/firstindex.html)

Lately in London:

FNB made an appearance at the People’s Alternative Lunch on May 24th to support and feed the demonstrators. This was a fantastic event against the current conservative agenda.

Volunteers:

Two types of support are needed at the present moment. We need you lovely people that are interested in giving some of your time and elbow grease to a cause you see as being worthy. For those of you that may lack the time other means of support are also greatly appreciated. For example the donation of non-perishable items (which are very rarely received by the beautiful establishments that donate with us) are a brilliant addition to any food give-away.

Pre-Existing Volunteers:

To those of you that were previously on the FNB mailing list I would be greatly interested in knowing if you: have any interest in being an ongoing participant, have any feedback based on your previous experiences with FNB London, have a liking for long romantic walks on the beach, and finally … have received an email you’re not interested in and would like to be removed from this mailing list.

The Next Step:

The plan is to have the next cook-out on June 15th 2006, and that means that we will be going out to pick-up donations that day, and will get together to make the delicious food (with an ounce of love in each cup.) The following day/evening (16th ) will be the food give-away. The more people we have out gathering attention, handing out progressive propaganda and helping to feed the hungry the better.

Interesting facts about food: