Free meals, hygiene, and harm reduction supplies every Sunday, 2 PM, Freimann Square! Food Not Bombs takes direct action to show it is not necessary to waste so much of the food we work so hard to grow and produce by organizing a voluntary system of food recovery and distribution. As a local chapter of a global mission, we reject the need to solve problems through violence, including violence of w
ar, violence of poverty, and violence against animals and earth; and above all, we collectively believe and know to be true: food is a right for everyone, not a privilege. If you are hungry, we serve you. We show by example how we can all work collectively, aside from leaders, to provide essential needs such as food, medical care, housing, and education. These systemic changes happen from the ground up: To organize, we must stop being so afraid to ask our neighbor for a cup of sugar. Our primary goal is to recover edible food that would have been discarded and redistribute it amongst ourselves, the people. We do this by building community relationships with local food providers, picking up any food they can’t sell and vegetables we ourselves have grown, and preparing vegetarian or vegan meals to share weekly. Food Not Bombs provides food to protestors, workers on strike, and people following natural and political crises as best we can as a local chapter. We also collect local resources and distribute them freely. We do not discriminate or have any requirements. Since we provide food wherever and whenever it is needed, we interfere with government and corporate ability to use food for social control. We threaten their ease to manipulate the hungry by giving tangible examples of how to solve this hunger and taking necessary steps to do so. Mutual aid, neighbors sharing, not charity. We ask: when over a billion people go hungry, how can we spend another dollar on war?
