Re: Rosaphilla suggests that fnb keep a low profile (Was: Pressrelease: Police arrest 2 Food Not Bom

ROSAPHILIA (rugosa@interport.net)
Mon, 8 Nov 1999 00:18:02 -0500 

no reason ya can't do both.

feeding can *be* the witness, sometimes.

an empty stomach does not make a cause more righteous. and depriving
anyone of the fnb oatmeal cookies is not a movement victory in my book
anytime!
grrrr.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Boland <wgcp@earthlink.net>
To: HOMELESS PEOPLE'S NETWORK list <HPN@aspin.asu.edu>
Date: Sunday, November 07, 1999 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: Rosaphilla suggests that fnb keep a low profile (Was:
Pressrelease: Police arrest 2 Food Not Bombs SF food servers
on11/1/99)


>>On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, ROSAPHILIA wrote:
>>> why not decentralize teh distribution of the food.
>
>"George J.P. Perry" <geoperry@iww.org> replied:
>>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
>
>Well said and reasoned, George.  From reading Roaphilia for 2 years,
I'm
>certain her suggestion that Food Not Bombs feed folks out of the
limelight
>is well intended.
>
>Nonviolently witness injustice in the Marketplace, for all to see.
That
>was Dr. King's tactic, to drag injustice into the light of public
scrutiny,
>via drama and the media.
>
>End the war on the poor.  Speak truth to power. -- Tom B
>
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