We ate dinner for free every night in Portland thanks to the wonderful Food Not Bombs people. Most people are familiar with Food Not Bombs because of participating with finding food, cooking food, or eating food. But if you're not familiar with the idea, Food Not Bombs is a revolutionary, grassroots movement that shares free vegetarian or vegan food with hungry people while protesting food and poverty. Each group recovers food that would otherwise be thrown out and makes fresh hot vegan and vegetarian meals that are served outside in public spaces to anyone without restriction. Each chapter is autonomous, as it is a non-hierarchical dis-organization. There are no leaders, just people working together to feed whoever needs to be fed! There are chapters everywhere, active in the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Look up your closest Food Not Bombs group and participate!
In Portland, we hung out with a group of travel kids, local anarchists and musicians in Colonel Summers Park, waiting for the Food Not Bombs bikes to arrive with the grub around 5:30. Our tummies were super grateful for those who looked for and cooked the food! Thanks FNB!
Food Not Bombs! When I was couchsurfing up in PDX a few months ago (before I moved there) we tried to find the food not bombs location but were unsuccessful. I ate with food not bombs last year in Georgia when I was at this protest/rally, and it was so great.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad your trip is going well! I enjoy reading your blog :)