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Donya Delsouz SOC 352 Social Change Arizona State
UniversityPhoto retrived from, www.foodnotbombs.net/
THE ISSUE
Billions of Food Waste
Millions Suffer From Hunger
Half of Tax Income Spent on
War and Military
EVOLUTION OF MOVEMENT It will be a great
day when our
schools get all
the money they
need and the air
force has to hold
a bake sale to
buy a bomber
• Food Not Bombs began in 1980 in
Cambridge, Massachusetts by eight young
anti-nuclear activists
• The idea was inspired by this quote:
• Members began by collecting surplus
produce and baked goods from local
grocery stores and would then distribute
it
to shelters and others in need while
simultaneously
marching and protesting against social
issues
• After the arrest of a few volunteers in the
1990’s for public distribution of free food
without a permit, Food Not Bombs
received direct international attention and
media coverage, in which lead to the
exponential growth of its supporters
• Food Not Bombs movement has grown
Information retrieved from, www.foodnotbombs.net/
• The food Not Bombs movement is NOT a
charity: it is solidary. It is using non-violent
direct action to change society so that
food becomes a person’s given right,
rather than a “gift” given through soup
kitchens and food stamps.
• Food Not Bombs is an active movement
where people share free vegetarian food
with the hungry, while simultaneously
protesting war and poverty.
• Food Not Bombs is globally known for
their, “use of non-violent civil-disobedient
direct action to provide an alternative
grassroots response to the destructive
market-driven imperatives of neo-liberal
capitalism.” 1
• Food Not Bombs is non-hierarchical: there
are no leaders.
CURRENT DESCRIPTION OF MOVEMENT
1 Heynen, N. (2010). All other information retrieved from www.foodnotbombs.net/
1. Always vegan or vegetarian
and free to everyone
2. Each chapter is independent
and autonomous and make
decisions using the
consensus process
3. Food not bombs is not a
charity and is dedicated to
nonviolent social change
THREE NOT
BOMBSPRINCIPLES OF FOOD
DESCRIPTION OF MOVEMENT
1. Always free and vegetarian
2. No leaders or directors. All decisions
are made using a process of
consensus.
3. Dedicated to nonviolence as an action
to change society
TYPE OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT
Food Not Bombs falls under a wide array of large social
movements:
• Food Not Bombs began as a Anti-nuclear Movement since it
started with eight anti-nuclear activists who protested in
opposition to nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
• It is also part of the Anti-war Movement, Anti-poverty
Movement, Anti-globalization Movement, and Homeless
Peoples’ Movement. Their main purpose is to highlight the
waste of valuable resources on capital-intensive projects
while many people are suffering from hunger and poverty.
They advocate for more attention to poverty, homelessness,
and hunger, instead of war and military which causes more
death and violence.
Thus, Food Not Bombs falls under the larger category of
Peace and Justice Movement: aim to end war and violent,
through non-violent resistance, support of anti-war political
candidates, and anti-war protests.
• Food Not Bombs is also the leaders of the Free Food
Movement (advocating that food should be available to
everyone as it is our human rights and NOT privilege).Information retrieved from, www.foodnotbombs.net/story.html
TYPE OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTRadical Movement
Food Not Bombs seeks
fundamental change. It
is a radical movement
because Food Not
Bombs believes that
the government system
which is based on
competition and greed
must be replaced by a
new system based on
equitable cooperation
and care for human
needs rather than a
focus on war and
military.
Instrumental Movement
Food Not Bombs,
“seeks to change the
structure of society.”1 It
does this by trying to
change the
government focus on
war and military. It
does this by protesting
to change the tax
dollars being spent on
military expenditures
and war expenses.
Expressive
MovementFood Not Bombs,
“address[es] problems
and needs of individuals
[and] seek[s] to change
the character of
individuals and individual
behavior.”1 By distributing
food in public and visible
areas (all over the world),
Food Not Bombs
attempts to raise
consciousness among
individuals. It aims to
enlighten people of the
prevalence hunger in the
world. It attempt to
change the behavior of
individuals such as
wasting food, eating
meat, and focus
on military.
Progressive
MovementFood Not Bombs is
focused on the future.
It seeks to improve
the conditions of the
poor people who
cannot afford food.
The purpose is the
change the conditions
of the now towards a
better future with no
poverty,
homelessness,
hunger, war, or
violence in any shape
or form.
1 Harper, C. L., Leicht, K. T. (2011). All other information retrieved from www.foodnotbombs.net/
WHY THIS MOVEMENT IS IMPORTANT
There is enough
food to feed 12
billion people, yet
over 900 million
people don’t have
food.1
We can
annihilate world
hunger: our
government
spends $660 per
year on defense,
whereas $30
billion per year is
needed to
eradicate world
hunger.5
49 million
Americans are
food insecure, in
which 7 million
have extremely
low food
security.2
1 www.humaneresearch.org/content/meat-globalization-and-world-hunger 2 www.worldhunger.org/ 3
www.thinkeatsave.org/index.php/stop-wasting-food4 www.foodfirst.org/fr/node/239 5 www.foodnotbombs.net/foodwasteflyer.pdf
WHY I CHOSE THIS MOVEMENT
I live in the City of Los Angeles. While
L.A. County is known for its glamour
and
glitz, after strolling through the
streets it does not take long for one to
look past the bright lights and realize
the indisputable prevalence of
homelessness and hunger. Seeing
homeless people on a daily basis,
struggling to have enough food to
survive
just another day is a heart clenching
sight. I want to
help put a stop to hunger and
homelessness!
I chose Food Not Bombs because I
have a
similar ideology: I too believe that
the
priorities of government are
skewed to
allow hunger to persist. I too
believe that
food is a right NOT a privilege. I
too believe
After reading Peter Menzel’s book
Hungary Planet 1, I was in shock to see
the
food disparity that is prevalent in our
world.
While many have food in abundance,
others have
struggle to have just enough to survive.
I became
aware of
the need to not
waste food or
buy
groceries in
excess
1 www.menzelphoto.com/books/hp.php
MOVEMENT INVOLVEMENT
1. Active
Participant• Donate
• Support Local
Events
• Volunteer
• Write Letters to the
Political Prisoners
2. Personal
Commitment
4. Share and
Promote
5. Organize
Change
• Responsible Consumerism
• Convert to vegetarianism
• Online
Network
• In-person
Network
• Begin Own
Chapter
3. Educate Self
• Educate Self:
Purchase
book
• Food Not Bombs
Free
• Skool
MOVEMENT INVOLVEMENT: 1. Active Participant
• Make an automatic monthly monetary
contribution by signing up here: Monetary
Donation to Food Not Bombs
• Collect cooking and serving equipment's
and other necessary supplies and donating
it to local Food Not Bombs
Donate
Support Local
Events• Like and join Local events pages such as:
www.facebook.com/pages/Los-Angeles-
Food-Not-Bombs
• Help spread the word for local events by
posting flyers around the event
neighborhood
MOVEMENT INVOLVEMENT: 1. Active Participant
Volunteer
• Volunteer at local Food Not Bombs events
• Volunteer by:
Recovering surplus food/produce from
local stores
Cleaning, cutting, & cooking food to make
vegan foods to share
Set up and distribute the food
Write and design banners, flyers, and
signs
Post flyers at cafes, book stores, schools,
and etc.
Design website and share the date and
Write Letters to the Political
Prisoners• Join the monthly Food Not Bombs event of
writing letters to political prisoners to show
support to those who have been unlawfully
arrested for “crime” of feeding the hungry
• Write letters on personal time by visiting
here
MOVEMENT INVOLVEMENT: 2. Personal Commitment
Responsible Consumerism:
Reduce Food Waste • Shop to meet necessity, not in access
• Avoid impulsive buying: use grocery lists
• Don’t be picky about the shape of the produce
• Fill plate to match our capacity instead of in
abundance of choices
• Box leftovers and either share it with someone in
need, or bring it home to eat it for the next meal
• Donate what you won’t use to food banks, shelters,
and soup kitchens
Click For
Helpful Tips
on
Reducing
Food Waste
Convert to
Vegetarianism• Healthier lifestyle choice: less chemicals, cholesterol,
and saturated fat 1
• Dedication to a lifestyle of nonviolence for all beings
including animals
• Protect the environment: prevents global warming,
rainforest destruction,
• and pollution while saving resources such as water 1
• 70% of grain and produce is fed to farm animal in the
US: this could feed
900 million people 1
Click For More
Reasons to
Become
Vegetarian/Veg
an
1 www.foodnotbombs.net/why_vegan.pdf
Purchase Book"This is a self-defense
guide for the
compassionate, a
catering cookbook for
the generous, and a
history of social
change, but above all
it's a hymn to
compassion."
Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved
Click to Purchase
Click for Free Skool
Website
• Learn the history of social change
• Learn how to help end poverty and war with Food Not
Bombs
• Learn how to provide meals for groups of 100 or more
• Learn vegetarian recipes to cook
• Learn how to organize successful campaigns of
nonviolent direct action
Click for Application Link
Go to the Free Skool
Workshop
MOVEMENT INVOLVEMENT: 3. Educate
• Fill out and send in the application to participate
attend the Free Skool in Taos, New Mexico, from May
1st, 2014, to October 1st, 2014
• Join to seek knowledge about social change,
economic justice, a sustainable future and more.
• Take free classes to learn about community
organization, strategies and methods for campaigns
of nonviolent social change, cooking, baking, and
food preservation, and organizing cultural events in
support of social changeBook photo and information retrieved from www.foodnotbombs.net/ Free Skool photo and information retrieved
from www.fnb-freeskool.org
MOVEMENT INVOLVEMENT: 4. Share and Promote the
Movement Online Network
In-Person Network
• Follow, subscribe, like, and join local Food Not
Bombs web pages
• Invite friends and family to join
• Promote the movement by displaying ads for the
Hungry for Peace book (Click here for ads).
• Share links on social media, to the website where
people can purchase Food Not Bombs items (Click
here for link).
• Share on social media the link to make donations
(Click here for link)
• Share local event information on social media
Continuously update followers with current impacts
of the movement
• Share videos, documentaries, and pictures on
social media
• Purchase Food Not Bombs merchandise such as
their T-Shirts and wear it to support and promote
the movement (Click here to purchase)
• Word of mouth: tell family and friends about the
movement
• Print flyers about the work that local Food Not
Bombs is supporting, and post them at any place
where people will read and enjoy them
• Print ads for the Hungry for Peace book and post Information retrieved from www.foodnotbombs.net/
PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT: 5. Organize Change
• I have noticed that Irvine, California, does not yet have a Food
Not Bombs chapter. This is the location where my mother lives
and I would like to eventually start a Food Not Bombs chapter in
this community. I will begin doing so by:
Purchasing a Food Not Bombs Start up kit which includes a full
color banner, a handbook, a DVD, buttons, and flyers.
Following the Seven Steps to Organizing a Local Food Not Bomb.
1. Create a food Not Bombs page on Facebook and MySpace. Post
group and contact information on the pages and on
www.foodnotbombs.net so people can reach this Chapter.
2. Make flyers with contact information followed by time, date and
location of planned meetings. Distribute these flyers digitally and
print form.
Use the sample flyer as a template
3. Arrange to have access to a vehicle.
4. Search for sources of food.
5. Build relationship with other food programs by delivering
collected food to shelter, soup kitchens and food pantries.
6. Set aside a portion of the collected food to prepare meals and
serve it on local streets with literature about Food Not Bombs as
well as current issues.
7. Once there are enough volunteers, pick a highly visible location
Begin Own
Chapter
Information and photo retrieved from www.foodnotbombs.net/
MY VISION OF THE FUTURE“Nonviolence direct action seeks to create such a crisis and
foster such a tension that a community which has constantly
refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks to
so dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
50% of U.S. citizens income tax goes to pay for war
and military expenditures, while 25,000 people die
because of lack of food.1 I hope this non-violent
movement reaches all people who want to build a
peaceful and just world. With the help of this
movement I hope that in the future people will become
aware of the positive change that tax dollars can
provide, instead of being spent on killing more people
in war. I hope that in the future, all people will be
inspired to join forces and protest against taxes spent
on war and military instead of food to feed the
hungry and ending homelessness. It is then where
we can see my vision of the future, a world of
Peace where, “our schools have all the money
they need, and our air force has to have a
bake-sale to buy a bomber.”
-Robert Fulghum1 www.warresisters.org/pages/2009_piechart-BW.pdf
MY VISION OF THE FUTURE
• If everyone in the U.S. becomes inspired to
participate in strategies that inhibit wasting food,
we will save $43,052,480,000 annually. 1
• The less food we waste, the less food we
purchase: Leads to a lower global demand for
food, decrease in food prices globally, and an
end to the struggle of affording food. 2
• If people in the U.S. become vegetarian, we
could feed 800 million people with the grain
that is fed to livestock. 3
• If people eat a more plant based diet, we can
save many wildlife from becoming extinct, we
can reduce animal suffering, we can reduce
carbon gas emissions, and we can conserve
our rain forests. 3
1 Jones, T. (2005). 2 www.foodnotbombs.net/foodwasteflyer.pdf 3 www.foodnotbombs.net/why_vegan.pdf
MY VISION OF THE FUTURE
With income taxes going towards
human resources, with less food
being wasted, and more plant
based diets, the world could be a
much better place. There
will no longer be anyone suffering
from food shortage and a lack of
nutrition. Hunger, homelessness,
and poverty will become history.
Food will be acknowledged as a
right, not a privilege. Food prices
will decline dramatically. Less of
the Earths energy will be used
up. With less meat consumption,
diseases will sufficiently
decrease. The Earth will have
more available water. There will
be no wars and disputes will be
handled peacefully. In the future I Photo retrieved from: www.foodnotbombs.net
SUSTAIN MOVEMENT IN THE LONG-TERM
Volunteer
Have a Food
Not Bombs
Chapter in
every city in
the world
Taking
necessary
procedures
to prevent
wasting
food
Increased
plant
based diet
Don’t let
anyone
you know
stay
hungry
Continuou
sly spread
the word
and
increase
awareness
Joining
local events
and protest
Video retrieved from, www.foodnotbombs.net/foodnotbombsFINALMIX.mov
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River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Heynen, N. (2010). Cooking up Non-violent Civil-disobedient Direct Action for the Hungry: 'Food Not
Bombs' and the Resurgence of Radical Democracy in the US. Urban Studies Journal, 47(6), 1225-
1240. Retrieved November 25, 2013, from http://
usj.sagepub.com.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/content/47/6/1225.full.pdf+html
Jones, T. (2005). Using Applied Anthropology to Understand Food Loss in the American Food
System. Trade Journals, 46(5), 6-8. Retrieved
November 29, 2013, from
http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/docview/236888023/fulltext?accountid=4485
www.foodfirst.org/fr/node/239
www.foodnotbombs.net/
www.foodnotbombs.net/foodwasteflyer.pdf
www.foodnotbombs.net/why_vegan.pdf
www.humaneresearch.org/content/meat-globalization-and-world-hunger
www.menzelphoto.com/books/hp.php
www.thinkeatsave.org/index.php/stop-wasting-food
www.worldhunger.org/
www.warresisters.org/pages/2009_piechart-BW.pdf