food (foodnotbombsmanila.multiply.com)

indescribable!

Start:

Sep 25, '05 12:00p

lomi standfast style!
same place, same time...

Start:

Sep 4, '05 8:00p

macaroni spaghetti..
absolutely vegan...
absolutely free....

foodnotbombsmanila's next activity...

7AM JULY 23
under the bridge of the LRT Sta Cruz
(still around the Lawton/Post Office Area)

menu:
supreme vegan spaghetti sorpresa!
& sonically sedated pandesal/bread

ingredients:

pasta
vegetables
oil / salt & soy sauce
onion / garlic / spices
tomato sauce/carrots / bell pepper
potatoes / pandesal

we've put a FNB BOX in Radiation Area (tandem, recto). you can drop off any of these ingredients or other foods that you wish to donate. we'll pick it up on April 29 (friday).

for more infos: 0917-9037806

thanks very much for all your help & support!!!
hope to see all of you there!

food not bombs! manila
celebrates 25th anniversary of FOOD NOT BOMBS! worldwide...


June 25, 2005 4PM
venue: lawton grounds / infront of manila post office


menu: ginatan


hope to see all of you there!


if you wish to help ( which we badly need...) ...
pls contact 0917-9037806


or you may drop your donations at the
Radiation Area in Cartimar Recto ...
anything from (recycled) spoon to bowls, rice, noodles
or just about anything that can be cooked...!!!
feel free to bring your own version of ginatan! (hehehe!

FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Spies on 'Food Not Bombs'

As Food Not Bombs Prepares to Celebrate Its 25th Anniversary, the ACLU Releases Documents Confirming the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force Has Targeted Food Not Bombs for Surveillance and Harassment "Since when did feeding the homeless become a terrorist activity? When the FBI and local law enforcement target groups like Food Not Bombs under the guise of fighting terrorism, many Americans who oppose government policies will be discouraged from speaking out and exercising their rights." -- ACLU Legal Director Ann Beeson

(Food Not Bombs, May 24, 2005) Last week, the ACLU reported they received documents that reveal the FBI "is targeting peaceful political activists for harassment and building files on constitutionally-protected political activities and associations that have nothing to do with terrorism or other criminal activity." Apparently, they are particularly interested in Food Not Bombs, a non-violent activist group that opposes the government's prioritization of war and military programs over social programs.

This year, Food Not Bombs is celebrating its 25th anniversary of sharing vegetarian food and organizing for peace. This global movement was started by seven anti-nuclear activists after the May 24, 1980 occupation attempt to stop the construction of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Station 20 miles north of Boston. There is growing evidence that U.S. Intelligence agencies, using the cover of fighting terrorism, have been spying on non-violent legal political movements like Food Not Bombs because of their ability to inspire opposition to war and poverty.

During the past 25 years, Food Not Bombs has grown to hundreds of autonomous chapters all sharing free vegetarian food with hungry people and protesting war and poverty. The movement is active in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Australia. In the past few years, Food Not Bombs groups have been working to end to the occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.

They also support actions against the globalization of the economy, restrictions to the movements of people and the destruction of the earth. Tel Aviv Food Not Bombs is supporting efforts to open the wall between Israel and Palestine. Food Not Bombs groups in Slovakia helped start animal rescue shelters in 24 communities. The Copenhagen chapter won the Danish Peace Award. Food Not Bombs sets up kitchens at many anti-globalization protests and its UnFree Trade Tour of 60 cities in North America (1997) inspired the "Battle of Seattle" in November 1999.

Food Not Bombs is an all-volunteer movement dedicated to non-violent direct action. Food Not Bombs has no formal leaders and strives to include everyone in its decision making process. Each group recovers food that would otherwise be thrown out and makes fresh hot vegetarian meals that are served in city parks or on street corners to anyone without restriction. The groups also serve free vegetarian meals at protests and other events. Thousands of people have experienced the sense of empowerment that comes from participating in this self-directed project (feeding people) that really makes a difference.

Surveillance and harassment of Food Not Bombs in an effort to silence the movement's message has occurred for most of its 25 years. In San Francisco, the volunteers with the local chapter haves been arrested over 1,000 times (with only a handful ever receiving their day in court). One volunteer even faced life in prison on trumped-up charges. As a result, Amnesty International declared it would adopt any Food Not Bombs volunteers that are imprisoned as "Prisoners of Conscience" and will work for their unconditional release. (Please review the websites below.)

The Food Not Bombs website states that the movement "works in coalition with groups like Earth First!, The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Anarchist Black Cross, the IWW, Homes Not Jails, Anti Racist Action, In Defense of Animals, the Free Radio Movement and other organizations on the cutting edge of positive social change and resistance to the new global austerity program." One FBI memo claims they are investigating Food Not Bombs because of its connection to the Anarchist Black Cross, a prisoner's rights group. Someone should inform the FBI the right to association in the United States is still protected by the Constitution.

In Tucson, Arizona, the Food Not Bombs collective publishes a website www.foodnotbombs.net. Another hosts FNB News where you can learn more about the Food Not Bombs community. Food Not Bombs Publishing in Takoma Park, Maryland publishes books like On Conflict and Consensus, which has been an important guide for group democracy. They urge everyone to take direct action towards creating a world free from domination, coercion and violence. They believe food is a right, not a privilege. Please visit these links to learn more.


The 25th Anniversary of Food Not Bombs: http://www.foodnotbombs.net/z_25th_anniversary_1.html
Colorado ACLU statement: http://www.aclu-co.org/news/pressrelease/release_JTTF051805.htm
One of the FBI memos about Food Not Bombs: http://www.aclu-co.org/docket/200406/JTTF_file_sarah_bardwell_12-07-04.pdf
1988 Wiretap Memo: http://www.foodnotbombs.net/wiretap1.html
Justice Department letter: http://www.foodnotbombs.net/justice_department_letter.html
Amnesty International letter: http://www.foodnotbombs.net/amnesty_letter.html
Food Not Bombs Publishing: http://www.consensus.net
Food Not Bombs Statement of Non-Violence: http://www.phillyfnb.tk/

ps.
Please support your local FNB groups today...or better yet, create your own group...the more, the merrier...
i hope this article clears certain misconceptions/misinterpretations about a lot of things...
thanks for reading. take care. have a great adventure....

FNB workshop/discussion

Food Not Bombs Manila's planning is up for a less demanding/non-pressured workshop/discussion regarding collectives, consensus, local fnb process, etc.

Food Not Bombs Manila needs your help & COMMITMENT to make this happen! We want to know what skills we can share, what changes would we all like to see, ideas to guide and motivate us all, etc. We're open to hearing from all of you and the more experienced folks....

We still have not discussed these activities vital to our goals:

* help acquiring massive quantities of food
* cooking
* fundraising
* laws / lawyer
* food transportation
* obtaining large-scale cooking equipment
* dynamic / nomadic / mobile vegetarian kitchen
* kitchen utensils gathering
* urban warfare (getting away with it)
* past experiences that can help us all

If you're interested to participate or might want to share something we all can learn...feel free to email us..

...and if you happen to know a venue besides the local park that we're eyeing, please, we beg you please let's communicate..

foodnotbombs! MAY ATTACK!
7AM May 21 saturday

venue: lawton plaza area & everywhere

Start:	Apr 30, '05 2:00a
Location:	lawton - manila area

Food Not Bombs! SUMMER ATTACK! (pre-Mayday Mayhem)7AM April 30, 2005 (saturday)

venue: lawton - manila area
there will be 2 simultaneous feeding
1 in jones bridge area (under the bridge)
1 around the lawton plaza going to cityhall

menu: macaroni spaghetti / pandesal / soup
ingredients:
macaroni / vegetable oil
salt & soy sauce
onion / garlic / spices
tomatoes / tomato sauce
carrots / bell pepper
potatoes / pandesal

we'll be cooking for more or less 200 people including children. pls
bring drums/percussions or any musical instruments for music...
it would also be nice if you can bring prints of FNB logos with signs
saying something like " free food for everyone", "libreng pagkain
para sa lahat", " free food", "libreng pagkain", atbp.

we've put a FNB BOX in Radiation Area (tandem, recto). you can drop
off any of these ingredients or other foods that you wish to donate.
we'll pick it up on April 29 (friday).

thanks very much for all your help & support!!!
hope to see all of you there!