Rosaphilla suggests that fnb keep a low profile (Was: Press release: Police arrest 2 Food Not Bombs

George J.P. Perry (geoperry@iww.org)
Sun, 7 Nov 1999 11:55:45 -0800 (PST) 

Perhaps fnb ought to re-organise as "Food" instead of "Food, Not Bombs".  

Overt, publicly demostrative feeding of hungry people serves many useful
ends.  

It feed hungry people.  

It reminds the public that there are hungry people.  

It asserts to hungry, often shelter-less, people that they're Human...
that if The Man will not invest in their humanity, that some people
will... 

... that standing in long lines (in frequently inclement weather), and
eating in hurried confinement is not Their Lot In Life... their Punishment
for Losing the Rat-Race.  

It's a chance for Hungry & Helpful folk to join in Open Conspiracy to
Subvert the God-Damn'd Dominant Paradigm. 

- George Perry:  "Juggler Vain's House of Dung", Frisco Liberation Radio

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, ROSAPHILIA wrote:

> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 01:32:08 -0500
> From: ROSAPHILIA <rugosa@interport.net>
> To: Tom Boland <wgcp@earthlink.net>,
>     HOMELESS PEOPLE'S NETWORK list <HPN@aspin.asu.edu>
> Subject: Re: Press release: Police arrest 2 Food Not Bombs SF food servers on11/1/99
> 
> why not decentralize teh distribution of the food.
> 
> make veggie sandwhiches and pack with fruit and carrot-sticks and
> distribute to ten people who carry about 20 or so bags in a knapsack
> and who give out individually so as not to draw a crowd and busts.
> 
> similarily hot cups of soup in   paper cups with plastic tops on them
> carried in plastic shopping bags and handed out individually on a walk
> thru of a park or whatever one-on-one.
> 
> more cordial that way.
> 
> and less likely to draw a bust. is the point to feed or to draw a
> crowd and thence a bust?
> 
> hrmmm. i miss the nice vegetables in the fine soup and also the
> oatmeal cookies.
> 
> hrmmm.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Boland <wgcp@earthlink.net>
> To: HOMELESS PEOPLE'S NETWORK list <HPN@aspin.asu.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 3:08 AM
> Subject: Press release: Police arrest 2 Food Not Bombs SF food servers
> on11/1/99
> 
> 
> please circulate this post
> PRESS RELEASE
> 
> FWD  Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 23:28:48 -0800
> From: Sasha Vodnik <sashav@sfsu.edu>
> Subject: Press release: Police arrest 2 FNB volunteers on 11/1/99
> Sender: worker-fnb-l@lists.tao.ca
> 
> 
> MEDIA ADVISORY
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 1 November 1999
> 
> Press Contacts:    Sasha Vodnik (415) 567-4014
>                             Food Not Bombs (415) 675-9928
> 
> E-Mail:  sffnb@iww.org
> 
> San Francisco (Monday, 11/1/99)
> 
> At approximately 6:00 PM, two volunteers with the group Food Not Bombs
> were arrested while distributing hot soup and bread to hungry people
> at
> United Nations Plaza in San Francisco’s Civic Center. Those arrested
> included Sister Bernie Galvin, a Catholic nun and coordinator of the
> group Religious Witness with Homeless People. After arresting the
> servers, police also impounded the food, blocking access to food for
> those who hadn’t yet eaten.
> 
> Tonight’s arrests increase to 13 the number of Food Not Bombs
> volunteers
> arrested since October 20, 1999, when the most recent wave of arrests
> began.
> 
> Food Not Bombs (FNB) is a non-violent direct action group that shares
> free food with hungry people around the world.  FNB groups collect
> donated food and prepare meals in volunteers' kitchens.  The meals are
> shared in public spaces to draw attention to the crisis of
> homelessness,
> and to create a community meal in a non-institutionalized setting. Our
> name highlights the fact that people worldwide go hungry, including in
> the United States, while an enormous amount of money and resources are
> devoted to military use.
> 
> In San Francisco, Food Not Bombs has a long history of police
> harassment
> and political repression from the City government.  San Francisco FNB
> has shared hundreds of thousands of vegetarian meals with hungry
> people
> since 1988, while simultaneously creating a community forum to talk
> about the roots of and solutions to our society’s economic disparities
> and rocketing incarceration rates. Over the years we have been
> arrested
> at least 1,000 times.  In the 1995 Mayoral elections, the eventual
> winner, Willie Brown, promised voters that he would cease arresting
> FNB
> members. Homelessness is a central issue in today’s mayoral election;
> with this increasing harassment, Mayor Brown is demonstrating his
> approach.
> 
> Food Not Bombs is continuing to build community support to end the
> political harassment of those who support the homeless community, and
> to
> make criminalization of poor people unacceptable.  FNB will not reduce
> or restrict our servings, and we will not compromise our advocacy of
> the
> people who are under constant attack by the government of San
> Francisco.
> 
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