A Word in Closing
Looking over this booklet, we're concerned that an image is created of Food Not Bombs experts from perfectly competent, functional, diverse and democratic groups telling everyone how it's done. Understand that the ideas herein are as or more inspired by our mistakes as they are our successes. Indeed, our advice is motivated by bad habits we've developed over the years that we hope younger groups can avoid from the onset.
Good luck. Stay in touch.
East Bay Food Not Bombs
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Acknowledgements
Thanks to the bunch of East Bay and other Food Not Bombs volunteers that wrote up the first edition of this manual for doing some damn good work. I was inspired to update it, so I set to work. Terri, Charles, Clare, Kerry, Tom, and Jessica gave me amazingly helpful thoughts and opinions, and I made some changes too. The next edition will be even better, as we gain experience and learn from past mistakes. Thanks for reading, and hopefully it was of some use.
Love & solidarity,
-ibm
july seventh, two-thousand and one
[finally put online may, 2002]
p.s. And if you actually made it this far, it's about damn time you went out and got to work, eh? So get to it...
