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Excellent article! A quote from Chris, an FNB organizer: ""It's a form of protesting the fact that there's a bunch of people out there in the streets who are famished, why is there's so much money being spent on food, why is there so much money being spent on other things but not take care of something as basic as feeding the population, the homeless. Governments keep ignoring these types of things and I believe that here in Tijuana, the problem is even more relevant"
Ridiculous to get fined for feeding the hungry, isn't it? Yet there is a growing trend of penalizing those who do so. Many of our brother and sister volunteers have been jailed, sued, fined and ended up with even more ridiculous ongoing issues for keeping food out of landfills and starving people alive. Here's one such FNB volunteer who beat the system. Click pic to read.
Teen Vogue, which is widely read by young people looking to make their mark on the world, a generation marked by a raised social conscience and social justice career aspirations. Our next FNB volunteers!
This is a great and quick-reading casual history of the Food Not Bombs movement with quotes and reflections from the founders.
TV noted that certain hard-hearted people call us "food terrorists", which might sound alarming, but makes us chuckle. If feeding the hungry is terrorism, may we radicalize the earth. Click pic to read.
One of our own, slain in a premeditated act of vehicular manslaughter. Our hearts go out to our Reno siblings as we all feel the deepest frustration over the hardened hearts that perpetrate such violence. Fortunately in Columbia, we have a more liberal, tolerant climate. But that isn't always the case.
According to Biggest Little Food Not Bombs "our unhoused neighbors are disproportionately represented in traffic fatalities and are often targeted in incidents of 'road rage.'"