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 [...]

Free Food Debate Continues

Andrew Abela - Waterloo Imprint
Over a month has passed since Food not Bombs received a letter from Kitchener city clerk Randy Gosse instructing them to “cease and desist free food distribution at Civic Square.” And since the cease and desist appeal meeting on May 5, UW-based group Food not Bombs has continued debating with downtown [...]

Orlando Food Not Bombs plans more protests of rule against feeding homeless

Mark Schlueb, Orlando Sentinel
Eric Montanez - twice arrested and twice cleared by jurors — vowed Tuesday to continue to fight Orlando’s rules about feeding the homeless.
A jury last week acquitted Montanez and three other homeless advocates of violating the city’s noise ordinance by beating on drums during a protest outside a campaign fundraiser for Mayor [...]

Orlando Food Not Bombs Update

Orlando City Council mum on homeless talks
A closed-door meeting looked at Orlando’s limits on advocates feeding people in public parks.
Mark Schlueb | Sentinel Staff Writer
The Orlando City Council met behind closed doors Monday to discuss whether to repeal controversial restrictions on feeding homeless people in public parks.
The city’s rules are scheduled to go on trial [...]

Kitchener Food Not Bombs Update

Councillors are forcing change along King Street, but the battle for this most public of spaces will not be a quiet one. More than 180 supporters of social justice group Food Not Bombs packed council chambers on Monday. After complaints from a couple of businesses, councillors want Food Not Bombs to move its Saturday food [...]

Kitchener, Ontario Food Not Bombs Told To Stop Feeding Homeless

by Luisa D’Amato-Waterloo Record
A group of volunteers has been told to stop giving out free food beside Kitchener City Hall.
For the past nine years, a group called Food Not Bombs has served free vegetarian soup and given away groceries to anyone who wanted some on Saturday afternoons at Civic Square. It has never received a [...]

Profiles in Forage

(Long, but worth the read. A quite decent piece on healthy eating groups in Detroit, including Food Not Bombs.)
by Micheal Jackmen
Who would have dreamed 10 years ago that food would be as political as it is today? Between genetically modified plants, rising oil costs driving prices skyward, and the glut of processed “foods,” our food [...]

Victoria Mayor Alan Lowe Pokes Fun at Panhandlers

What is it with mayors? At the west of the Capital Region, we have the developer’s best friend, Stew Young, whose reign of terror has included greenlighting and championing every development request that has crossed his desk, the worst being ecocidal projects such as Bear Mountain Resort.
In Victoria proper we have a mayor who refuses [...]

Emergency Food Not Bombs servings attended by media, hassled by police

(Note: this is not a Food Not Bombs email, it is the personal statement of a person involved with Food Not Bombs)

Today, Wednesday, was the fifth Food Not Bombs serving in six days.
Thursday we got word that the Our Place soup kitchen was going to close for 10 days, so on Friday we did an [...]

Food Crisis on the Streets of Victoria

Tonight we received word that one of two soup kitchens that feeds homeless and low-income people in this city will be closing for ten days. Also closing for the same amount of time will be a drop-in centre that gives people a warm place to hang-out as well as coffee, donuts, bread and PB.