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Lets Start a Food Not Bombs chapter in Hackney, London!

fnblondon | 26.11.2009 00:58 | Free Spaces

We want to start a new chapter of Food Not Bombs in Hackney, London. Skipping food, cooking it in a amazing occupied space and giving it for free in the street!

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Have you heard of Food not Bombs?

One of the best idea of the past 30 years! very simple: a bunch of people getting together, getting vegetables and other stuff from bins or donated, cooking it altogether and giving it for free to anyone in the streets!!

How simpler, better and more rewarding could it be? Using waste of capitalism and surplus production to feed people you've never seen before with delicious vegan food :)

There used to be very active Food Not Bombs groups in London but things became less regular now.

A bunch of us would like to get things started again!
We have a great place to cook (an amazing space in Hackney), we've got most of the cooking gear, we've got places where to skip and get food from... all we need is people and energy!

If you're interested, come to the meeting on the 10th of december 8pm, 195 Mare St, Hackney.

Let's try to keep the meeting short!
This is what we thought we could talk about and get on with the real thing:
- What is Food not Bombs for us, why doing it? We're probably interested in the FNB project for a lot of different reasons, and thats great! we just thought that talking about it and knowing where other people stand is a nice way to start.
- What does it mean practically to do FNB? (things like skipping, making sure that the place where we cook is accessible, cooking, serving and very important: the cleaning!!)
- when do we start doing it!?!? and how frequently!?

Bring food to share!!


Examples of london FNB actions in the past:

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/04/366852.html

 http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/462

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2008/05/398367.html

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/10/410568.html

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2008/02/391653.html

 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2008/06/400116.html

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- e-mail: londonfnb..at..lists.riseup.net
- Homepage: http://https://london.indymedia.org.uk/groups/food-not-bombs

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Cleanliness and hygiene and feeding homeless and poor people garbage

26.11.2009 02:27

I hope for your own sake that you people wash your hands before you cook and pass out that food and wear gloves during preparation and distribution. Otherwise you may find yourself fined and arrested for getting a lot of people sick.

It certainly doesn't help that FNB gets most of their foodstuffs and produce from dumpsters and garbage cans. I find it intensely irritating that FNB, which is a bunch of rich, white upper-class kids, targets the homeless and low-income demographic, feeding them food scavenged from the garbage.

With all the money that the faux crusty FNB kids have that their parents give them, you'd think that they could afford to use their allowances to purchase fresh, clean food to feed the homeless and poor populations.

Oh, but wait a minute, then you'd all have to stop wearing those trendy expensive fashions and give up university tuition and stop going to fancy expensive vegan restaurants that no poor person could ever afford, not to mention giving up your luxurious flats that you return to after playing crusty on the streets for awhile.

Sometimes I wonder if FNB is some sick joke that the upper classes play upon the poor and destitute. FNB feeds them garbage outside on the cold streets with filthy, unwashed hands, bad hygiene, and no health oversight.

The moral of the story is this: Promote your local food pantries and soup kitchens, where they food the homeless and low-income people fresh, clean food and gives them a roof over their head.

Health Inspector
- Homepage: http://www.dh.gov.uk/

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great idea

26.11.2009 02:27

yES what a great Idea - we should copy everything the Americans do! Never mind about having ideas of our own - just copy other peoples.

cynic

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troll off

26.11.2009 08:56

about the motivation of cynic/health inspector why to this effort to slag off something positive
what do you do for anyone other than yourself? fuck all and only yanks say dumpster - felt left out in the us did you ahh!

i will be part to this i'm not middle class not a student not even a vege and not a pacifist so watch yr teeth if you chat shit

cynic indeed

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Bizarre how trolls get their kickers in a twist over Food Not Bombs

26.11.2009 09:43

You would think giving out food to people would be uncontroversial. I can't understand the motivation of small-minded jobsworth trolls like "Health Inspector" (yeah right). You've obviously not seen the lack of hygiene that goes on in posh restaurants.

If people aren't happy with the idea of eating skipped food for free, how about this for an idea: Don't fucking eat it! No one is forcing it down anyone's throats.

Maybe we should consider ourselves honoured that we even get US trolls on this site now. Obviously they are underemployed middle class students who have nothing better to do that trawl the internet (on overseas sites, none the less) looking for people to troll!

Good luck to the FNB project.

anon

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no debates please!

26.11.2009 13:12

To the trolls - Indymedia is not here for you to have a debate it is here for us to congratulate each other on how brilliant we all are! So stop complaining and worship us!

eager cultist
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why is everyone so apathetic?

26.11.2009 20:24

Why isn't anyone commenting? People are so apathetic. You'd think a great idea like this would have people piling on to suggest things and talk about ideas. But nobody bothers.

Come on Indymedians, we can do better than this. Get it together for a good cause.

not apathetic

Remember crisis at christmas was started originally by anarchist squatters too.

27.11.2009 10:17

Remember also that homeless charity crisis at christmas was started by anarchist squatters too when it started way back in 1971. But it has long since forgotton its roots and has become a big businesss charity more interested in making money than actually helping the homeless. So many we should start an automous crisis at christmas.
 http://www.crisis.org.uk

Disillusioned with homeless charities

Hells yeah!

27.11.2009 18:12

Sounds like an excellent idea. I'm up for it. See you at the meeting!

Beyonce

Bug???

27.11.2009 18:58

I think there's something wrong with the server, it keeps deleting comments. Mine has gone down the toilet and I think a couple more might have gone too. Hope it's just a bug and not anything more sinister - knowing the attention Indymedia gets from the police state I wouldnt put it past them to hack the site and randomly delete peoples comments.

Anyway I hope someone manages to organise an event despite the hackers or the bug or whatever it is.

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how to see the hidden comments

30.11.2009 21:07

Comments are rarely deleted from Indymedia totally - only if they contain personal details or illegal incitement that could get Indymedia's servers seized.

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