In the run up to May Day, staff from the threatened local blood service were holding stalls in Birmingham City Centre. Food Not Bombs joined forces with Union activists from the National Blood Service (NBS) on Saturday 28th April by serving free food, handing out leaflets and collecting petition signatures. The NBS is planning to shut down local processing centres and replace them with three 'supercentres', in Bristol, Manchester and Colindale. 600 jobs will be lost nationally and lives will be put at risk in this obvious cost cutting exercise. See the IWW leaflet below for more details.
 http://www.iww.org/PDF/iu610/IWW%20Blood%20Service.pdf
and this previous IMC report for more background
 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2007/02/362258.html

As one of these co-incided with Birmingham Food Not Bombs' regular fortnightly events, FnB came along to show solidarity as well as feeding the hungry and curious.

This was part of a busy sequence of events for FnB; following this were stalls at the May Day LMHR rally and Drop Beats not Bombs, followed up with another fortnightly serving this Saturday just gone (pictures coming soon!).

The next serving is scheduled for Saturday 26th May, but we hope to see you beforehand for the FNB benefit gig this coming Saturday, or the meeting on Tuesday.