Hi everyone, Hartford FNB is very much still active! Anyone and everyone can come to Bushnell Park any Sunday around 3:30 by the carousel near the pond. Absolutely no pressure at all but feel free to cook something vegan and bring it to the park. Looking forward to seeing you out there! Check out our About page and FAQ for more info and feel free to call or email if you have any questions! #MutualAid
Food Not Bombs is a global grassroots movement that works to address issues of hunger, poverty, and social inequity. The organization primarily focuses on providing free food to those in need, often using food that would otherwise go to waste. Food Not Bombs is known for its commitment to non-violent direct action and the principles of mutual aid.
Why is there always money for the military and police departments across the nation while many social services face cutbacks?
Founded in 1980 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, by anti-nuclear activists, Food Not Bombs (FNB) emerged amidst heightened nuclear tensions and anti-nuclear protests, reflecting a broader commitment to peace and social justice.
The name “Food Not Bombs” reflects the organization’s emphasis on redirecting resources from military spending and other destructive activities towards meeting basic human needs, particularly the need for food (i.e. there is always government money to fund the military, but not enough to make sure that all citizens to have enough to eat). Volunteers in various communities come together to collect surplus or discarded but safe to eat food from local grocery stores, bakeries, and farms. They then prepare and distribute vegetarian or vegan meals to the community, usually in public spaces.
In addition to addressing immediate hunger, Food Not Bombs aims to raise awareness about social and economic inequality and environmental issues. Throughout its evolution, FNB has supported a range of social movements, from its involvement in anti-globalization protests and various disaster relief efforts, to the Occupy and Black Lives Matter uprisings.
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“Despite our indirect role in its passage, our goal was never the statewide legislative reform which ultimately protected our activities and those of other grassroots anti-hunger activists from state intervention,” the statement reads. “Rather, our commitment has always been the to the elimination of structural inequality of which hunger is but a symptom, the abandonment of militarism and to the emergence of voluntary mutual aid as the essential characteristic of our social interactions.”
(NRDC) Food is simply too good to waste. Even the most sustainably farmed food does us no good if the food is never eaten. Getting food to our tables eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 percent of U.S. land, and swallows 80 percent of freshwater consumed in the United States. Yet, 40 percent of food in the United States today goes uneaten. That is more than 20 pounds of food per person every month. Not only does this mean that Americans are throwing out the equivalent of $165 billion each year, but also 25 percent of all freshwater and huge amounts of unnecessary chemicals, energy, and land. Moreover, almost all of that uneaten food ends up rotting in landfills where it accounts for almost 25 percent of U.S. methane emissions. (full story)
This is such an interesting way to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr’s weekend. Police are seeking to stop Food Not Bombs in Burlington, Vermont and Santa Cruz, California. At the same time a mission in Seattle, Washington has been told to stop sharing food in public. Food Not Bombs has been sharing near the same location in Seattle on and off for over 20 years.
(Hartford) On Saturday July 14th, Join us at the Charter Oak Cultural Center from 2-6 During Indiefest @ the Oak
The Really Really Free Market is like a bizarre bazaar where everything is free. You bring useful items to give away to people who want them or, conversely you take useful items that you want that people are freely giving away…simple really…really simple. No money is exchanged. This will be held in the courtyard of the Charter Oak Cultural Center.
The Really Really Free Market IS NOT a place to bring unwanted items. If you bring an item and no one else wants it, it is still yours. You must take it with you at the end of the day. The idea is to help those in need, not to burden others.
This will be going hand in hand with the Indiefest @ the Oak. There will be acoustical musical performances for your listening enjoyment while you peruse the items. Later in the evening there will be electrical performances in the upstairs gallery. Food will be provided by Hartford Food Not Bombs. http://hartfordfoodnotbombs.org/
To reserve space to display your wares, or for more information contact reallyreallyfreect@gmail.com
(The Stranger) The first self-described anarchist I ever met was a Greek medical technician sticking electrodes to my scalp. I was around 14 at the time, and I’d had a seizure in my parents’ driveway a few days earlier. The doctors wanted to test me for epilepsy, which involved using electrodes to read my brain’s electrical activity while a strobe light flashed in my face.
Somehow, the technician and I started talking about Henry David Thoreau, and he said he admired Thoreau’s anarchist ethics. I said I didn’t know what that meant. As I recall, he explained it roughly like this: There is an inherent tension between autonomy and authority, and authority structures do not hold legitimate moral power over individuals who haven’t helped to create that structure and consented to live by its rules.
I had trouble wrapping my head around that one.
He asked if I had any vote in choosing my school principal. I hadn’t. Well, he explained cheerfully while sticking electrodes to my head, if you’re living by Thoreau’s anarchist principles, you have no ethical duty to obey him. (continue)
We have had some calls and heard about a conflict on NPR about homeless people eating at the Occupations.There seems to be an attempt by the government to pit the occupations against the already homeless. One reason we are participating in the occupations is to change our world so no one becomes homeless.
In most occupations the homeless have been very welcomed by the protesters and invited to eat as the issue of our people being homeless while the 1 percent can’t even count their homes is pretty central to the reason we are sharing the outside with those already outside. It would be great if we made some effort to remind the occupations that it would be strange to keep the hungry away from the food. -Keith McHenry
Hey folks, it’s just about that time of year. We are looking for winter coats, hats, gloves, etc…If you have anything to donate, please feel free to stop by any Sunday around 3pm @ Bushnell Park. If you can’t make it down there but would still like to donate, contact us by phone or email.
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