Keith McHenry - Audio Food Not Bombs presentation

Icon_article Star-blue1 Published: January 14, 2010 23:47 by dissident chickpea

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Keith McHenry, one of the original folks behind Food Not Bombs, talks about the emergence of a group that became a worldwide activist network.

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On 12 January 2010, activist and co-founder Keith McHenry came to the London Action Resource Centre to give a presentation and personal account on the history of Food Not Bombs.

Attached here is a link to the talk. Have a listen.

The London Food Not Bombs group will be cooking and serving food near Hackney Central Station on 23 January. Anyone and everyone is free and welcome to participate and share some good vegan food! So see you there...

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Date correction

Comment Published: January 17, 2010 19:13 by sna

Next FNB is on Sunday 24th, not Saturday 23rd.

See the event page here : http://london.indymedia.org.uk/events/3357

Thursday 4th February 7.00pm

Comment Published: January 30, 2010 11:29 by dunk

Co-founder of Food Not Bombs Keith McHenry is giving a talk about their history, what they do and why, community organising..
Thursday 4th February 7.00pm
at Housing Justice 22-25 Finsbury Square London EC2
please rsvp here or to info@housingjustice.org.uk

Food Not Bombs is an all volunteer global movement sharing vegetarian food with the hungry, and working for peace and social justice. Food Not Bombs groups from Iceland to Chile to Nigeria are busy feeding those displaced by the global economic depression, planting Food Not Lawns community gardens, organising Really Really Free Markets and housing the homeless in abandoned buildings with Homes Not Jails.

Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry is paying a brief visit to London and will share his experiences, including about how to start a Food Not Bombs group, community organising, coalition-building, and the difference between charity and political action.

Food Not Bombs contact info

londonfnb@lists.riseup.net

www.foodnotbombs.net

Location: Housing Justice 22-25 Finsbury Square EC2