Seeing hunger in the ranks, several people formed the Food Not Bombs collective and started collecting and cooking food to support demonstrations against the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire.
That was 1980.
As activist tides shifted, Food Not Bombs confronted the issues of hunger, poverty, and homelessness. Some of the original Food Not Bombers started a group in San Francisco in 1988, only to be met with violent repression from the city government and police. SF FNB continues to this day, and their experiences with police and government repression have been repeated in other cities across the world, where people dare to bring the issues of poverty, hunger and homelessness out into the open for all to see.
What began as part of protests of the US government's driving the nuclear arms race has in 2002 turned into a worldwide, grassroots movement working for radical, social change, for a world free from oppression, war, disease, and for a world that uses its resources sustainably, and to support people's real needs...in short, for food, not for bombs.
Street corners and public parks have been the sites of many a Food Not Bombs meal, propaganda distribution, and enlightening conversation. And as long as society as a whole refuses to address the people's everyday needs while concentrating power and wealth in the hands of a faceless, corporate bureaucracy, Food Not Bombs will persevere...
