FNB's Ongoing Involvement in The Occupy Wall Street Movement
Food Not Bombs groups have been heavily involved in supporting occupation camps across the US during the Occupy Wall Street movement. The use of consensus, supporting urban homeless communities, and mass feedings through donations are all specialties of Food Not Bombs that has now seen an unheralded demand.
In a case of history repeating itself, a Food Not Bombs kitchen was removed in a late night police confrontation with Occupy San Francisco in mid-October.
Co-founder C.T. Lawrence Butler was recently inspired to come back to the Boston activism scene to join Occupy Boston.
Co-founder Keith McHenry, who spent much of the year encouraging the advent of American occupation camps during his touring, has been an enthusiastic participant in many camps even as he has released a new Food Not Bombs handbook.
Plans are also in the works for another International Food Not Bombs Gathering to take place August 20–26, 2012, in Tampa, Florida - the week before the Republican National Convention.
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