New Chapter Meeting Agenda - June, 10th 2009

Eastern Long Island Food Not Bombs Meeting Agenda

Introductions: (10 minutes)

• Name, Location, General Interest/Experience, Do you have a car?

Brief Explanation of Consensus: (5 minutes)

Brief History of Food Not Bombs Movement: (5 minutes)

Location Suggestions/Dialogue: (15 minutes)

• Location Suggests: Farmingville, Port Jefferson, Centereach, Coram etc...
• Selection Factors: (issues of social/economic/political oppression), solidarity, sustainability, economic makeup, population density, racial/class/sexual/food segregation, access to food, volunteer locations & LIFNB goals.

Resources:  (20 minutes)

• Food & Transportation: Contacts with health/food stores, health/food stores we could contact, spaces to cook, people for cooking & pickups, cars for pick ups, cars for transport, people for regular urban foraging.
• Materials & Spaces: Printing resources, folding tables, water coolers, table supplies (cups, forks, plates, bags, bowls, etc…), spaces to organize (meetings, workshops, etc...), spaces for shows and events,
• Volunteers: People that can commit for the next year/3 months, individual days free/interest/ability.

Location Section: (20 minutes)

• Town/s Selection: Where can we create the largest and most sustainable difference in relation to the goals of Long Island Food Not Bombs.
• Day/Time in the Week: When is the best time and date to conduct our new Food Share.
• Location Selection: Do we have a (street, neighborhood, block, park, etc...) where we'd like to conduct our Food Share? If not do we create a committee to delegate this task?
• Start Date: What is our general idea for a start date? 
  

Delegation: (10 minutes)

• Contact People: At least 2 people who will upkeep all ties with Food Stores, volunteers and LIFNB lists.
• Pick Up People: At least 2-3 people who are able to conduct large food pick-ups on weekly schedules or throughout the week.
• Cooking People: People interested in cooking vegan meals for Food Shares.
• Flier making & Other Jobs: People interested in making fliers, other ways people can help out.  

Current Tools: (5 minutes)

• Website- How/to: How to use the forums, create content, create accounts.
• Mailing list/Newsletter: LongIslandFNB[at]googlegroups[dot]com / www.LIFNB.com/newsletter
• Text System/ Hotline Number: Hotline- 631.223.4370/ Text System- Text LIFNB to 41411 to receive updates via text.

*Breakdown

General Discussion: (20 minutes)