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We here at Long Island Food Not Bombs just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out last night for our first summertime benefit. Lulu’s Village Pub was filled with great people; volunteers and new faces interested in learning what exactly Food Not Bombs is about.

The Hempstead Thanksgiving Food Share Bonanza was indeed the largest of all time - both in the scale of people and the sheer volume of what was shared. Within half an hour 10,000’s of pounds of fresh foods made their way into the grocery bags of hundreds of people.

Saturday, November 7th was the one year anniversary of Marcelo Lucero's death. He was murdered by seven Patchogue High School Students for being of a different color. They beat him and they stabbed him during one of their weekly "beaner jumping" outings. Read thoughts about the vigil, racism in Long Island and the strength of the Lucero family.

On Sunday, August 30th Long Island Food Not Bombs shared free food and information with fellow islanders who were helping to clean up our public spaces. BiasHELP and Human Solidarity (an organization located near our Farmingville Food Share) helped organize the event.

Our gardening project at Mirschel Park was a huge success. We planted tens-of-thousands of sunflower seeds across thousands of square feet of the park with the help of nearly a hundred volunteers over a three-day weekend of community direct action.

Check out this article to learn more about what happened, read various perspectives on the event and even throw down some of your own thoughts - we hope you do.

The Long Island Food Not Bombs table had a great time at the Anarchist Book Fair this past Saturday and we'd like to thank all our friends who supported us. We'd also like to give a shout out to all of the awesomely cool people we met at the fair, we hope you stay in touch or come check out a Food Share.