Food Not Bombs-inspired projects
Food Not Bombs has inspired a number of otherdo-it-yourself projects. These projects share manyprinciples with Food Not Bombs including a critiqueof the economic system, dedication to collective decision making, and a desire to provide a direct service or perform a task that introduces the public toour philosophies of nonhierarchical, decentralizedsocial organization that encourage self-reliance andindependence from corporations and government. The most widespread projects are Food Not Lawns, Homes Not Jails, Indymedia, Really Really FreeMarkets, and Bikes Not Bombs. - P75
Food Not Lawns
(전략). It starts with volunteer scalling for a work day and party-through word of mouth and flyers-at an abandoned lot, bringing rakes, shovels and other tools and free meals for gardeners and interested neighbors. - P75
Soon Food Not Bombs groups were starting Food Not Lawns gardens, and there are now Food Not Lawns gardens in over 200 cities. Peterborough,
Canada Food Not Bombs started a garden that in-spired a weekly column in the local paper. - P76
Occupy the Farm in Albany, California is agreat example of anarchists uniting with the community to reclaim land that was slated to becomea shopping mall. Thousands of local people occupied property that had been part of the Universityof California‘s agriculture program. - P76
The Really Really Free Market
The first Really Really Free Market was organizedaround 2001 by Food Not Bombs volunteers in NewZealand taking the 1960s Haight Ashbury Free Storeconcept to their local park. - P79
"I shall continue to be an impossible person while those who are now possible remain possible."
-Mikhail Bakunin, Letter to Ogarov, June 14, 1868 - P79
The first Really Really Free Market in the UnitedStates was held during the protests against the FreeTrade of the Americas Agreement summit in Miamiin 2003, providing a unique contrast to the exploit-ative trade policies advanced at the summit. - P79
Really Really Free Markets are great outreachevents, and you and your friends can hold one. Tomake the day even more interesting, ask local bandsto play music and encourage other entertainers to participate. - P79
THE FOOD CRISIS
Food policies may be the most important questionof our time. Food policies impact the climate crisis, civil liberties, trade, poverty, species extinction, public health, civil unrest, migration, hunger, andwar. - P96
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN 2006 report, "Livestock‘s Long Shadow," says
"livestock production is one of the major causes of the world‘s most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, airand water pollution, and loss of biodiversity. - P93
The climate crisis, due in part to animal agri-culture, is the principle cause of unprecedenteddroughts (notably in the Plains States and Califor-nia, America‘s breadbaskets). In addition, animalagriculture uses a disproportionate amount of freshwater. - P93
Consider this: Before food reaches your table, it ishandled by farmers, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers. - P94
Over $100 billion worth of edible food per year is discarded in the United States. The situation is similar in many countries in Europe as well as in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Canada. With theexception of Africa and parts of Asia, where povertyis so great that little edible food is discarded, it ispossible to recover large amounts of wasted food in every community. - P94
It‘s no accident that this is not already happening. We do not have a democratic say in how foodis produced or distributed. - P94
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