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Pedal to Petal: Sustainable Business Opportunities in Local Backyards
By Steve Carey, Momentum Magazine
In early 2008, Victoria activist Chris Johnson was homeless and looking for work, but he couldn’t find a job that fit his environmental values. At the time, the Capital Regional District was piloting a service where trucks picked up compostable waste and drove [...]

Supreme Court Rules that Trash is Not Private

(While many in Canada wonder what kind of implications this Supreme Court ruling will have on their privacy, scavengers such as myself wonder, can we hold up this ruling the next time police try to charge us with taking food from a dumpster or other junk from the curb? What about recycling in blue boxes?) [...]

Houston Food Not Bombs To Keep Serving, Despite Being Told To Move

The Library’s Patience For The Homeless Apparently Has Expired
By Paul Knight in Spaced City
A Houston police officer confronted some members of Food Not Bombs on Monday night – the group serves food to the homeless outside the library – to tell them to start thinking about another base of operation.
“There were some other cops talking [...]

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Food Not Bombs Under Scrutiny in Petaluma, California

Police to revisit food-provider location
Food Not Bombs volunteers continue to serve day laborers, despite prior warning
By DAN JOHNSON, ARGUS-COURIER
Food Not Bombs volunteers are still serving food to day laborers at Washington and Howard streets on Saturdays, and the Petaluma Police Department intends to again send officers to the location to determine whether or not they [...]

Good People, Food Not Bombs

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SACRAMENTO, CA – In these tough economic times, life can be even harder for those without a place to stay and don’t know when they will eat their next meal. This week’s Good People are a group of local volunteers who make sure that those less fortunate don’t spend their Sundays with an empty stomach.
They [...]

Anarchist Takeover of Civic Infrastructure

by Chris Johnson
What is anarchy? Is it black-clad youth throwing bricks at bank windows? Is it academics writing essays about systematic oppression and abuse of authority? Or is it an pro-active alternative to top-down governance; a practical solution for distant, beurocratic control of the basic functionings of our society?
Pedal to Petal Urban Agriculture Collective is [...]

Victoria’s First Really Really Free Market

Victoria is having it’s first “Really Really Free Market” and we’re looking for you to get involved…
Do you have a skill? A recipe? Seeds? or just old stuff that you want to share? Then contact rrfvictoria@resist.ca or Heather at 858-8370 or come out to the market on July 12th at the Fernwood Community Centre.

Dumpster Diver Court Victory

Food security activists in Victoria declared victory today in a 2 1/2 year old dumpster diving court case.
Charges against four people who were arrested in January of 2006 were stayed after one of the Crown’s witnesses failed to appear.
Dozens of supporters gathered on the courthouse lawn with Food Not Bombs and Homeland Food Security (groups [...]

Group wants deposit on cigarette butts

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 21 (UPI) — Three Canadian men want the province of British Columbia to impose a 10-cent deposit on cigarette butts for safety and to benefit the homeless.